In 2007 in Paris through the efforts of the Museum d'Orsay was issued weighty volume, which
Unfortunately, only now appeared in my hands. This "From Cezanne to
Picasso. Masterpieces gallery Vollara »(De Cézanne à Picasso. Chefs-d'oeuvre
de la galerie Vollard. - Paris, 2007. - 351 p.). The name may introduce
misleading: it is not the album of paintings originating from the gallery A. Vollara
(1866 - 1939). Paintings, of course, in this publication are...

Kadyevo, where I visited in mid-August, was lost in the woods Meshchora, in the flood plain lazy current Klyazma. This is a village in two dozen homes. From her side of the river, among its numerous oxbow lakes, spread the field, now almost never used. They are interspersed with wooded hills and ravines, woods, oak woods, marshes and meadows, astonishingly grasses, colorful. In the hills of moraine origin to protect against spring floods, is a bush villages - Val Kolokolnitsy, Arbuzov (the former...

Workshop of the Moscow sculptor Maxim Malashenko is
in the house where once lived and worked I. Levitan. This area
Solyanka in an old Moscow yard, quiet and patriarchal
which could not help wonder, accustomed to the modern
rhythm of life. For grown into
ground and covered with a cracked structure, cutting off the corner of the house,
hangs a huge darkened bronze memorial plaque.
Hangs on the rarity of successful, giving the plain-looking...

Recently visited the studio of artist NE Baranchuk. Who loves
art and visiting artists in their studios, knows how
remembered those visits and how long to keep thrills
head - even sorry that no one with whom to share them. I love
floral still life, and in this artist's found what he was looking for.
Flowers - the image of paradise, only they had escaped the fall and saved
fragrance incorruptibility.
All my life N. Baranchuk wrote flowers....

August 12, 2009 in Vladimir has opened a joint exhibition
Artists twin cities of Erlangen (Germany) and Vladimir (Russia).

This is a response to the exhibition of Vladimir artists in Erlangen
autumn 2008, the past is extremely unsuccessful due to political events
the Caucasus and inept preparation. They say that the Germans had not visited
the exhibition, repeating hearsay, that the Russian art - "backward"
and "uninteresting."
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