Japanese actress of Soviet cinema Komaki Kurihara

Japanese actress of Soviet cinema Komaki Kurihara has been and remains the most famous and favorite Japanese actress in Russia. Fragile actress has become the the epitome of grace and beauty of Japanese women. Her partners recall – she was always in a good mood, was exceptionally hardworking. The actress became known to Russian audience after her participation in Soviet films “Moscow, My Love” (1974), Melodies of the White Night (1976), Air Crew (1979), Step (Live vaccine) 1988 film. She repeatedly visited the USSRS, played Russian classical repertoire (Lady Macbeth, Nina, Anna Karenina, Ranevskaya, Katyusha Maslova, Vassa Zheleznova). Komaki Kurihara was awarded “Golden Taiga” for her contribution to cinema (2006, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, the festival “Spirit of Fire”). In 2013 she was awarded the Prize of the Governor of the Primorsky Territory at the XI International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries “Pacific Meridian” in Vladivostok.
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French impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895)

She was the first female impressionist. Her artistic heritage consists of about 400 paintings. Her life was bright, but quite short. It’s about Berthe Morisot. French impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was born in the French town of Bourges, in a very cultural and wealthy family. Since childhood, Bertha and her sister Edma showed ability to draw. First, with the artists worked Guichard, who also noticed an artistic talent in both sisters, and yet expressed concern about their future. After all, it was doubtful that a girl from a respectable bourgeois family could become a painter. But soon Bertha outgrown her teacher.
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Russian artist Yulia Selina

The Scarlet Flower by Yulia Selina. Russian artist Yulia Selina (Lia Selina) lives in Ramenskoe, Moscow region. Young and beautiful artist likes fairy tales and trees, purple color and witch hats, fairies and beetles, and she loves illustrating books. She began to draw as a child, like all children – painted houses in albums, then in copybooks, using gouache on Whatman paper, oil on plywood. Yulia Selina is a self-taught illustrator, and sometimes she regrets about it. Her first job while studying at the University of Management was as a designer in one of the printers of her small town. Safely received the diploma of the prestigious university, she realized that does not want to work where her ability to draw is not needed.
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Beautiful woman, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the second woman President (after Isabel Peron) and the first woman – elected Argentine President. Cristina Fernandez was born 19 February 1953 in La Plata, Buenos Aires province. Her parents – Eduardo Fernandez and Ofelia Esther Wilhelm. Eduardo Fernandez, the son of Spanish immigrants, worked as a bus driver and was a shareholder of transport company. Ofelia Esther Wilhelm – the daughter of a native of Germany Karl Wilhelm – was born in the town of Tolosa. Ophelia was pregnant when she was engaged to Eduardo Fernandez. At that time it was a scandal, but the couple decided to formalize their status only after the fifth anniversary of their daughter. Christine has a younger sister Giselle, who is two years younger, and she is a doctor in La Plata.
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Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst in ‘Interview with the Vampire’. Pencil drawings by Natasha Kinaru, Russian artist Natalia Miley

Pencil drawings by Natasha Kinaru
Born 6 March 1993 in Voronezh, Russia, Natasha Kinaru (Natalia Miley) is a beautiful young artist. 21-year-old Natasha has created a series of pencil and pastel drawings of celebrities. And they are so realistic that the viewrs can easily confuse them with a good retouch of a photo. Natasha is often asked how the idea to draw faces of famous people came to her. According to the girl, the main idea was ​​improving the skill on drawing faces. Her teacher for the visual arts has always insisted on the perfect picture performance. And what else can manifest the quality, if not a complete similarity with a recognizable figure? If you are even the slightest deviation from the original, people will notice it. So Natasha has checked herself.
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The goddess of flowers and spring, Flora. Painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Floral passion fashion

Floral passion fashion
Botticelli’s Primavera (c. 1478) is one of the most puzzling as well as one of the most beautiful paintings of the Renaissance. The 16th-century art historian Giorgio Vasari described the subject as ‘Venus as a symbol of spring (Primavera in Italian) adorned with flowers by the Graces’, but scholars have continued to debate the exact meaning of the various figures. (Uffizi, Florence). Flowers is always beautiful. But in the spring, they are perceived with some special tenderness. You want to surround yourself with flowers everywhere – you decorate houses with bouquets, plant them in pots, wear flower brooch pinned to an elegant jacket, or wear a beautiful dress with bright floral patterns. And even this is not enough. Floral passion seizes you. Let us remember the designer collections in which designers showered their models with flowers from head to toe, as a Botticelli Flora.
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American beauty Christie Brinkley

American beauty Christie Brinkley looks phenomenal if you accept the fact that she is 60 years old. In fact, Christie Brinkley is the embodiment of eternal beauty, proving that women are not aging anymore. Even if she had botox, and some other enhancement done to her face, she wouldn’t have this youthful appearance without good genes given to her by nature. In addition to good genes Christie Brinkley lives a healthy lifestyle, she is a long time vegetarian and activist for animal rights and the environment. Christie Brinkley believes its time to change our reaction to the numbers as we age. Indeed, There are 30-year olds that are a lot older than many 60 year olds. “I don’t think we should judge our age by the number of wrinkles we have, or how many grey hairs ….but by our spirit”.
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Vintage beauty, Gittel Enoyce, American British actress Binnie Barnes (25 May 1913 – 27 July 1998)

American British actress Binnie Barnes
Born in Islington, the district of London, Gertrude Maud Barnes’s father George Barnes was Jewish, a policeman, and her mother Rosa Enoyce, Italian. Prior to her debut in the movie, Binnie Barnes sang in the women’s choir, worked as a nurse, a dancer and participated in vaudeville.
Her acting career began in 1923 and continued until her last role in 1973 in the film “40 carat”. The most famous with her participation was the 1933 film “The Private Life of Henry VIII», where she played Catherine Howard, and the main role in the film played Charles Laughton. After the success of this film Barnes moved to the United States, where she continued her career in the movie, but only in supporting roles.
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Beautiful South Korean figure skater Kim Yuna (Kim Yun-a)

South Korean figure skater Kim Yuna (Kim Yun-a) is the first representative of South Korea, who has achieved much success in figure skating in the international arena, as well as the first skater possessed all the highest titles she won at the Olympic Games, World Championship, four continents and the Grand Prix Final. Beautiful ice dancer Kim Yuna, as one of the best female figure skaters in the world, is nicknamed “Queen Yuna”. Currently, she is the most privileged athlete and media figure in South Korea.
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