Firebird Suite | Igor Stravinsky | Fantasia 2000
The Tale of the Firebird – Gennady Spirin translated by Tatiana Popova Art Passions, the website, focuses primarily on late 19th century and Golden Age illustrators. However, I sometimes run …
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Lately I’m in a very Russian mood, probably due to the changes in weather. Winter is fast approaching, the streets are cold and the indoors are barely better; life is hard. And lonely. Life …
Het Mercedes-Benz model dat later zou worden erkend als een totale off-road unit, kwam in 1979 op de markt met een keuze uit twee wielbases. Beiden waren verkrijgbaar met een verscheidenheid van carrosserie stijlen, waar de cabrio alleen als 3-deurs versie leverbaar was.
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The Enchanted Forest: Marc Chagall's model for the curtain in the first act of The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, 1945, collage on paper. Dallas Morning News feature (paywall) Associated Press story CultureMap story DMA Uncrated blog: 'Installing Chagall' The Dallas Museum of Art's new exhibition, Chagall: Beyond Color, might be more effectively titled The Chagall You Didn't Know. The exhibition's argument, made by DMA senior curator Olivier Meslay, is that most people have already slotted (and either celebrated or dismissed) the painter. Think deep pigments, Russian-Jewish nostalgia, easy sentiment and whimsy, fiddler on the roof. Then Picasso's quote about Chagall's understanding what color truly is gets trotted out, and we're done. Chagall became widely popular partly because he's unconventionally modern but safely so. He synthesized a half-dozen streams from the early 20th-century avant-garde in a richly-colored, folk-art manner that's easy to swallow. His surrealism is surrealism
Another treasure discovered in a second-hand bookshop: The Firebird illustrated by Luděk Maňásek. I could find out very little about him apart from the fact that he studied in Prague. I guess t…
