Publications by tag: джеймс уистлер

Creative work is something personal, even intimate. However, in art history, there were quite a number of instances when artists did not only work in co-operation, but lived side by side. Arthive will give an overview of some European art colonies where painters and sculptors admired beautiful landscapes, drank, debated, and in the meantime, created masterpieces, styles, and artistic movements.

The turning point from classical to modern in Russian art took place in long-forgotten past that is covered with fluffy archival dust. But at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, this was the most acute confrontation with ad hominem attacks. The miriskusniki destroyed reputations and overthrew the former idols from their pedestals. Outraged by such barbarism, Repin defended “those thrown…

Anna Matilda Whistler - that's her name. One might think that Anna may have been a quiet  woman, diminutive and restrained, if you judge her only by the portrait of her son. You might opine that she made primly tea, prayed daily, dressed only in black and did not notice her son's mistresses. But you’d be wrong. Anna Whistler was the wife of a brilliant engineer; she crossed the Atlantic several…