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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE ~ EVENING

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Evening
Jakub Schikaneder – circa 1900
 “I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,

The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,

The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily,

And the moon rise and turn them silver.

I shall see

The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;

And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,

I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,

And build me stately palaces by candlelight.”

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

 

Nikolai Pimonenko, Evening

1900

 

 

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ALAIN DE BOTTON ~ A BLEND OF JOY AND MELANCHOLY

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“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

Isaac Levitan (Lithuanian-Russian, 1860–1900)

Fog over Water, c. 1895.

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MARIE KONSTANTINOWNA BASHKIRTSEFF ~ IMAGINATION

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“If we look closely, most things in this world are the results of imagination.”

Maria Konstantinowna Bashkirtseff (1858-1884)

The Umbrella
1883
State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)

Young Woman with Lilacs

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IVAN KRAMSKOY – RUSSIAN PAINTER OF REAL LIFE

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Ivan Kramskoy
Portrait of the Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, 1885

“The meaning and worth of love, as a feeling, is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for ANOTHER the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very centre of our personal life. This is characteristic of every kind of love, but predominantly of sexual love; it is distinguished from other kinds of love by greater intensity, by a more engrossing character, and by the possibility of a more complete overall reciprocity. Only this love can lead to the real and indissoluble union of two lives into one; only of it do the words of Holy Writ say: ‘They shall be one flesh,’ i.e., shall become one real being.”
― Vladimir S. Solovyov, The Meaning of Love

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ALEXANDER RODCHENKO ~ LEVELS

Alexander Rodchenko Levels 1929 Vintage print on Silver gelatin paper Collection Museum Moscow House of Photography / Multimedia Art Museum,

MAKOVSKY ~ GEESE

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Geese
Alexander Vladimirovich Makovsky – 1902

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KANDINSKY ~ ON ABSTRACT ART

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“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with ‘reality,’ next to the ‘real’ world.”

Wassily Kandinksy 1866-1944

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

ILYA REPIN ~ MOONLIGHT

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“Moonlight” by Ilya Repin

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

W. Clement Stone


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MIKHAIL VRUBEL ~ NIGHT

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“Night” 1900 by Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910)

Mikhail Vrubel was a versatile artist who excelled in painting, graphics, sculpture, as well as in monumental and applied arts. His name is routinely associated with Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau and perhaps rightly so.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel was born in 1856 in the city of Omsk in Western Siberia to a family of a military lawyer. His mother died when he was not yet three years old and his father remarried four years later. Vrubel’s stepmother was a good pianist and helped develop Vrubel’s musical sensibilities. In his teen years, he became a fervent theater aficionado. Later in his life, he married a prominent opera singer and was on good terms with composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Many of his mature works were inspired by opera and music.

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