Can a person who is weak or insufficiently versed in the arts, be it ideology? The answer may seem surprising and paradoxical: not only can, but must. Many people know that he is good coach who did not play for the national team, because it does not interfere with the many prejudices of the former star.

There is a Taoist proverb. The Emperor was a passionate lover of racehorses. A deal with the selection of horses old groom. Once the groom came to the emperor and said that he was...

I saw the Crimea without covers,
He was like a dry spring.
Though the sun warmed the mountain,
But sorrow was wafted from them ...
Boris Chichibabin.

When we talk about the art of the Crimea, we often mention the "Cimmerians" - Aivazovsky, Bogaevsky, Voloshin - with their bizarre romance of the sea, Cimmerian cliffs and hills, valleys and deserted beaches, with their epic triumph of the elements and almost no rights. We can also say about the "impressionist"...

It's hard not to recognize the success of a man who owns a book publishing house, selling a book every 3 seconds. Benedikt Taschen, also called the King of coffee tables, is now a millionaire and owner of one of the most powerful publishing houses in the world.
  
At the age of 15 years, through the sale of comic books, he learned to make themselves and managed to gain financial independence. It is not surprising that in the 18 years he was able to open his own shop. Already in the...

In the history of Surrealist art there are many more pure or blank pages. Even greater uncertainty shrouded era, which could be called the time protosyurrealizma. Although this trend taken to date 1924-70-ymi years, its roots artists of surrealism have searched in the masters' works far away in space and time: such as Bosch or Goya.

In 1527 in Milan, birthplace of the great painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Breaking all laws of his time painting, Arcimboldo worked in a completely unique...

Most of these photos from somewhere familiar to us. Somewhere we saw them. With this edition, we can learn more about the circumstances of their origin, their fate and their related stories. It's like a family album with his own saga transmitted friends and family from generation to generation. Since the only difference being that the story of this album is familiar to us all and operates a code understandable not only a close circle of relatives. Simply put, this history of the last hundred and...