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Artist Olga Akasi. Days and Nights of Our Wanderings. 2006-08. Oil on canvas. 133×92. (Private collection, Kiev)

Artist Olga Akasi – spirit of eternity
An unsurpassed master of her own, Olga Akasi has her independent style – thin subtle spirit of eternity. According to the artist, art is based primarily on feeling, not on mind. That’s why in her paintings she makes the emphasis on feeling. Contemporary art often consciously or unconsciously, departs from this principle. When Olga was five years old the first time she felt, not quite clear, a mysterious force that will later be recognized as the will to perfect.
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Scarlet Sails celebration in St. Petersburg

Scarlet Sails celebration in St. Petersburg
“Scarlet Sails” is one of the biggest, most exciting, most beautiful and at the same time, the most technically demanding event in our country. Scarlet Sails has become a traditional holiday for the top graduates, it enters the biggest and most interesting events of the world. The preparation to the next show lasts for many months, and installation of all structures, light and pyrotechnics – more than 2 weeks. Photos by Marina Lystseva.
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Beautiful American actress Karen Black (July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) in Burnt Offerings, Marian Rolf

Beautiful American actress Karen Black
Born Karen Blanche Ziegler on July 1, 1939, in Park Ridge, Illinois, Karen Black was also a screenwriter, singer and songwriter. Also, she was two-time winner of the award “Golden Globe” and nominee for “Oscar”. In 1959, she made her debut in the film. Her surname Black she took from her husband, Charles Black, whom she married in 1960.
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Beautiful meteorite photographs by Jeff Barton

Beautiful meteorite photographs by Jeff Barton
These psychedelic images look like looking through trees at the sky. In fact they are photographs of the colorful interiors of meteorites. The space rocks are usually known for their dull exterior, but 66-year-old scientist from Texas Jeff Barton has shown the dazzling world beneath the grey surface. He has photographed hundreds of 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites by using a standard SLR camera and a powerful microscope to zoom in on fragments of the rocks.
According to Jeff Barton, he began studying thin sections of rocks and meteorites in 2004. He taught himself how to identify minerals in thin sections by measuring index of refraction with a microscope. Now he uses a spectrograph and computer software, and he started taking photographs of the colorful bits in the meteorites. ‘Variations in optical glass and in mounting lenses can alter the polarization of light passing through the lenses. “Making the photographs takes a matter of seconds to minutes, depending on how thoroughly you want to document the section and what you are trying to learn from it”, says Jeff Barton.
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Svetlana Khodchenkova Hollywood debut

Svetlana Khodchenkova Hollywood debut
Long-awaited continuation of mutant X-Men adventures – “Wolverine: The Immortal” appeared on July 25 on the world screen. The film is bound to succeed in Russia, because the lead female role is played by beautiful Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova. A truly historic event for all Russians, despite the fact that our beauty had to be reincarnated as an evil bitch, nicknamed “The Viper“.
Russian film and theater actress Svetlana Khodchenkova was born on January 21, 1983 in Zheleznodorozhny, a small town about 6 miles east of Moscow. Svetlana is a Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and the Hollywood Actors Guild. The most sexy blonde of Russian cinema, in the opinion of some, and the most anorexic of Russian actresses, according to others.
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Hyperrealistic still life by Faberge. 1905

Hyperrealistic still life by Faberge. Unique still life “gentleman’s set” with vodka and herring from Faberge (1905) was bought for 800 thousand dollars at Russian art auction in London. This is one of the most interesting works ever made by Faberge. Nothing like this by Faberge is ever found, apparently, it captured the avant-garde movements and the revolutionary spirit of those years. This avant-garde work was bought from a Parisian collector for 800,000 euros. This only masterpiece is able to change our usual idea of ​​the style of Faberge works and, perhaps, even our understanding of the Russian avant-garde in general. Faberge Museum in Baden-Baden added to its collection a unique work of the famous factory of Carl Faberge.
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19800 masterpiece. Antique jewelry watches

Antique jewelry watches

Time is one of the most surprising and incomprehensible concepts in the world. For many centuries, people have tried to find the best way to measure small intervals of time. First a simple device for measuring time was the sundial invented about 3.5 thousand years ago. Time in such watches could be learned only in the afternoon, so it was replaced by sand-glass. Hourglass appeared about a thousand years ago. History has some more lost time indicators, but only allowed the development of glass-blowing skills to create a relatively precise instrument. However, with hourglass only a small period of time could be measured. Mechanical clock appeared in Europe in the XV century. It is curious that instead of the numbers on the dial there were letters.
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Blue bird of happinness. Surrealistic ceramic by Roman Khalilov

Surrealistic ceramic by Roman Khalilov
born on 28 October 1980 in Zaporozhye, Ukraine, Roman Khalilov is a talented and handsome artist. His beautiful gallery of ceramic sculptures of animals and people is filled with fabulous mystery like ancient pottery objects of lost civilizations. Indeed, pottery has been known since ancient times and is perhaps the first man made material. These colorful sculptures of animals, fish, folk characters passed through the prism of the author’s imagination, which made them original and dream provoking. Roman Khalilov’s clay figurines, panels – shaped, decorated by painting, carving, hardened in fire become the real piece of art. The sculptor exhibited his surrealistic clay works in Ukraine and abroad – Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia. Roman Khalilov is currently working in the studio “Art pottery KERAMUS” in Ukraine.
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Portrait of Jacqueline Roque, 1954. Last muse of Picasso Jacqueline Roque

Last muse of Picasso Jacqueline Roque was the seventh muse of a great Spanish artist. Jacqueline Roque (February 24, 1927 – October 15, 1986) became the second wife of Pablo Picasso. For 11 years of their marriage he created more than 400 portraits of her. Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline Roque met the year Francoise had left Picasso. Jacqueline actually saved him from loneliness and old age. When they first met, she was 26, he was – over 70. She was a young divorced woman with a young daughter Catherine.
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