Natalia Goncharova Between East and West exhibition

Natalia Goncharova Between East and West exhibition

The exhibition, devoted to the work of one of the major figures in the Russian avant-garde – Natalia Goncharova, opened in The State Tretyakov Gallery October 16, 2013. The exhibition, with the support of VOGUE, presents the works created between 1907-1959 and features different periods of Goncharova: Russian, French, and a period devoted to experimenting with new art forms (cubism, Rayonism, futurism, abstract composition). Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) – one of the most famous representatives of the Russian avant-garde, as well as the most expensive Russian artist.
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Bad art Museum. Mana Lisa by Anonymous. A cross-gender interpretation of the da Vinci classic

Bad art Museum permanent collection includes about 500 works of art, which are too bad to be ignored. American private Museum of bad art (MOBA) was founded 20 years ago, in the fall of 1993, by the antique dealer Scott Wilson. Once he showed a painting found in the piles of rubbish, and some of his friends offered to build a collection. The museum statement is “to celebrate the works of the artists whose work has not been evaluated in any other museum”. MOBA presented its first show in March 1994, and the response was overwhelming. Since then, MOBA’s collection and ambitions have grown exponentially. Initially, MOBA was housed in the basement of a private home in Boston. Now it has three offices, one in Dedham (suburb to the north-west of Boston), Massachusetts, the other in a nearby Somerville, a suburb north of Boston, and the third branch in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Vladimir Kolesnikov fabulous sculptures of concrete

Vladimir Kolesnikov fabulous sculptures of concrete.
The talented Soviet sculptor and painter Vladimir Kolesnikov has created a series of beautiful sculptural compositions and small architectural forms in different parts of Russia and Ukraine. Fairy-tale characters made of concrete, adorn the parks and gardens of cities and towns, parks and public gardens, private homes and cottages. Artworks by 57-year-old artist Kolesnikov radiate positive energy, pleasing to the eye of visitors and passers-by, giving joy and aesthetic pleasure to all who see his work. Kolesnikov has extensive experience in sculpture. Even as a 14-year-old teenager, he tried his hand in wood carving, and the passion for sculpting has never stopped since then. At the age of 23, Vladimir Kolesnikov founded his small business “Centaurus”. Wizards led by Kolesnikov ae engaged in landscape design, small architecture, decorating children’s parks and gardens, villas and houses with fabulous and funny characters. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Kolesnikov established his family business “Kolesnikov workshop”, where he works today. Vladimir Kolesnikov now lives in the Ukraine, often working in Russia.
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Figure of fear, the flask shows a human face wearing a peacock headdress. Beyond El Dorado exhibition in the British Museum

Beyond El Dorado exhibition
Held 17 October 2013 – 23 March 2014 in the British Museum, the spectacular collection features power and gold of ancient Colombia. Colombian treasures include dramatic and technically sophisticated works of art, which can be found nowhere else in the world. The collections of the Museo del Oro in Bogota contain 150 gold masterpieces, including tiny votive figures, decorative nose rings, vessels, pectorals and masks. The legend of the lost city of gold fascinated European explorers for over two centuries. Spiritual leaders used gold objects for healing, divination and guidance in the dangerous mystical ‘soul journey’. The importance of gold marks the threshold between the living and the dead; and the legacy of pre-Hispanic traditions in the northern Andes.
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Hair & Jewel recreation. Graff Diamonds jewelry hairstyle

Graff Diamonds jewelry

The famous British jeweler and founder of Graff Diamonds jewelry brand Laurence Graff introduced to fans the most expensive luxury “jewelry” hairstyle in the world. The unique creation of hair stylists and jewelers of Graff Diamonds house called «Hair & Jewel» is worth $ 500 million. On his 60-year anniversary in the career of a goldsmith, he had chosen to recreate the legendary image of Hair and Jewelry (Hair and Jewel) of the 70s. Represented by a model with an ornate hairstyle of diamonds and other precious stones, it valued at $ 1 million. This time the 75-year-old jeweler has created a hairstyle with diamonds and precious stones worth 500 million dollars.
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The waist plate. Saka culture, V-IV centuries BC. Ancient Siberian jewelry

Ancient Siberian jewelry
Undoubtedly, ancient Culture is incomprehensible and attractive. Secrets of ancient arts and culture continue to be of great interest, surprise and delight for our contemporaries. Works of art and material culture reflect the spiritual culture of the people, who didn’t have written language, but managed to bring their world, the understanding of the world in the “animal style” art, which affected the living world around them and the nature of the animal “kingdom” in the dynamics of combat, hunting, battles. The first information about the excavations of burial mounds (“bumps”) in Siberia appeared in 1669: “Around the Iset and in circumference thereof Russian Tatar people dig gold and silver objects and utensils out of the graves or cemeteries.”
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Vintage Hattie Carnegie jewelry, 1955

Hattie Carnegie jewelry.

Successful American jewelry and fashion designer in the 1920s-1950s Hattie Carnegie was born Henrietta Kanengeiser on March 15, 1889 in Vienna, Austria (died 22 February 1956 in New York). Henrietta was born the second of seven children of Isaac Kanengeiser and his wife Helen Kranczer. In 1900 their family emigrated to the United States of America. The 16-year-old Henrietta worked as a secretary in the Macy’s Store, one of the famous New York department stores. It was her father, Jewish tailor, who had introduced her to the world of fashion. Elegant and beautiful Henrietta designed her own clothes and accessories. Henrietta adopted the name Hattie Carnegie after she had met the local dressmaker Rose Ruth Purchaser. In 1909 Hattie Carnegie and Rose Ruth opened their own fashion business on East 49th Street in New York. Nine years later she founded the Hattie Carnegie, Inc.
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Pink flowers. Beautiful still life painting by Spanish artist Jose Escofet

Spanish artist Jose Escofet
Born in 1930 in Terrassa (Province of Barcelona), Spain, Jose Escofet had worked as a free lance graphic artist in Barcelona for 25 years. However, he moved to England in 1979. Currently, the artist lives with his English wife and 3 children in England. During his long artistic career he had experimented with different media including Pumice, Latex and Marble dust, through expressionism and abstraction, and later returned to figurative painting. The main inspiration for the artist is nature with its flowers, landscapes, and every living creature. Jose Escofet has always admired the Dutch and Spanish Schools of Still Life painting. Flowers are at the core of his paintings, and he likes to play with proportions and create strange morphing of plants and creatures. Jose Escofet admits that he is trying to express his belief that in nature we are all interconnected and of equal importance – be it a plant, an insect or a human being.
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Beautiful enamel flowers by Russian Enamelist jeweler Nikolay Suslov

Russian Enamelist jeweler Nikolay Suslov is a child of the war, deaf and dumb from birth. Born September 25, 1941 in Kostroma, he was the son of students of Kostroma Textile Institute. Then it was impossible to predict that he would be a Honorary Citizen of his native city of Kostroma. Nikolay Suslov has served the fatherland about 20 years as a rector of his Alma Mater. He is a creator of a dynasty, which has given about 100 years of excellent service to the university. Passion for creativity woke up in Nikolay Suslov quite early. For him, who was born deaf and disabled, classes in drawing and painting were successful adaptation. Children’s Art Classes at the school contributed to the development of creative abilities. Boarding school for deaf children, in which he studied, paid much attention to the crafts lessons. Natural hard work, wise parents and teachers helped to develop the sensitive artistic ability and the right choice of profession.
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