Weird picture of the day: 'Death' by Nicholas Kalmakoff, 1913.
#weird #weirdart #RussianArt #artsky

A black baseball cap embroidered with unhinged bilingual text about fleeing American humiliation and demanding gay hockey TV shows, held up like a cursed artifact that needs to be returned to the museum it escaped from

This hat is offsides and I'm calling the ref

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Nope. Not a hope!

Weird picture of the day: something very, very weird by Leonid Purygin.
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"No Flood, Only Snow or The Absurd Ark" (Adox Silvermax 100) Mazay stands steady, hares argue about rescue - the accordion laughs. A direct line from Nekrasov to the park: Ded Mazay in his coat is more than a poem’s hero — he’s an archetype of the Russian people, calm and steady. The boat is crowded with hares of character: two on the bow parody Titanic, one plays the accordion, another the balalaika, one clutches a carrot, one naps, the rest gossip about weather and fate. In this scene folkloric kindness meets domestic irony; absurdity becomes a metaphor for endurance, self‑mockery, and the public theatre. The sculpture is not merely a depiction but a question: who rescues whom, and what do we call “the people” in a moment of trial. Shot on Olympus μ[mju:]-II, film Adox Silvermax 100, scanned Epson Stylus Photo RX500 in “as is” mode. At the time of shooting (06/02/2016) the composition was installed in Muzeon Art Park, Moscow. Title: “Ded Mazay and the Hares” Authors: Alexander M. Taratynov and Glafira Taratynova Artist credentials: Alexander Taratynov — Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation; the work was created in collaboration with his daughter. Year: 1999 Material and technique: artistic casting; principal elements cast in bronze (metal alloy), with possible armature and mixed‑material pedestal; monumental sculpture, casting and finishing. Subject: inspired by N. A. Nekrasov’s poem “Grandfather Mazay and the Hares,” combining folklore, pop‑culture references and a humorous treatment of the hares. Exhibition history: long exhibited in Muzeon Art Park (Moscow); suffered vandalism requiring restoration (including re‑casting of some figures); moved between storage and exhibition sites; after restoration parts of the composition were installed in Nekrasovsky Garden, Saint Petersburg (2020). Note: at the time of shooting (06/02/2016) the composition was installed in Muzeon Art Park, Moscow.

«When the Boat Sailed into a Dream, or the Bronze Hares Dissolved into the Mist of Memory» Camera fell asleep Hares melt into silver mist Where is reality? There... Sometimes technology fails to give birth to art. The Olympus μ[mju:]-II froze at the most inappropriate moment — or the most appropriate one? And instead of a clear copy of the previous shot, something else was born: ghostly, dreamy. The bronze boat sailed from reality into the realm of blurred forms and elusive meanings. Grandpa Mazay and his hares are no longer standing still — they move, dissolve, disappear. Like a childhood memory. Like Nekrasov’s poem read many years ago. Like the spring of 2016 itself, which is no more. This shot is about how reality turns into a dream — how memory erases details, leaving only vague outlines — how everything material will one day become ghostly. A technical defect became a philosophical statement: a camera glitch, a metaphor for time — and blurriness, the poetry of oblivion. Sometimes what we consider a mistake turns out to be the most honest shot of all. 📍 About the shot: An accidental blurred version of the previous photograph 🎨 Location: Muzeon Art Park, Moscow 📅 Date: 06.02.2016 📷 Camera: Olympus μ[mju:]-II ️ Film: Adox Silvermax 100 🔧 Feature: The camera "froze" during shooting, creating an unintentional artistic blur effect ️ Scan: Epson Stylus Photo RX500 (as-is, no corrections) Philosophy of defect: A technical camera error turned a documentary shot into an abstract-surrealistic image where reality dissolves into a silvery mist. Sometimes a glitch is not the end, but the beginning of a new vision.

“Two Truths of One Spring or A Dream About Rescue”
(Adox Silvermax 100 + Olympus μ[mju:]-II)

Camera held its breath,
a boat dissolves into the snow -
hares sing, soft and slow.

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“Silence Carrying Itself” Stone exhales its dusk, the cross grinds against the sky — wind speaks by staying still. Sculpture: “The Way of the Cross” (2000) Artist: Alexey S. Grigoriev (1949–2002) Material: limestone; carving and polishing Dimensions: 255 × 174 × 110 cm Location: Muzeon Art Park, Moscow Collection: Gorky Park Museum Collection The work is part of the “White Stone Sculpture Hall” and symbolizes the path of trials, spiritual endurance, and the inner movement of a human being. 📷 Technical Credits Camera: Olympus μ[mju:]-II Film: Adox Silvermax 100 Date: February 6, 2016 Location: Muzeon Art Park, Moscow Scan: Epson Stylus Photo RX500, “as is” mode

“Silence Carrying Itself”
(Adox Silvermax 100 + Olympus μ[mju:]-II)

Stone exhales its dusk,
the cross grinds against the sky -
wind speaks by staying still.

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A LARGE PAIR OF WHITE OPALINE GLASS AND POLYCHROME ENAMEL VASES IN THE ‘ETRUSCAN’ STYLE

Carlton Hobbs LLC, Inv. No. 11232

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This pastel portrait depicts Nadezhda Yuryevna Stanyukovich (Надежда Юрьевна Станюкович), who, according to the Tretyakov Gallery, was the “muse” of Russian artist Viktor Borisov-Musatov (Виктор Эльпидифорович Борисов-Мусатов). The young woman is seated front-facing but turned slightly to our left, her gaze lowered as if listening or thinking. She has fair, softly modeled skin and dark brown hair gathered up, with long ringlets falling beside her cheeks. Her expression is calm and distant with eyelids half lowered for the feeling of quiet concentration. She wears a historical, bronze-gold dress with a fitted bodice and full skirt. Pale lace trims the neckline and bands across the chest, and a small jewel-like ornament fastens at the center. Over the dress lies a cool silvery blue shawl, brushed with hints of pink and blue that catch the light like worn silk. Her hands rest gently in her lap, fingers relaxed, holding a thin cord that drops toward the hem. Behind her, a large wall tapestry shows a dreamlike park of bluish trees and misty architecture, plus a white swan at the right edge. The whole surface is velvety and grainy, as if the figure and the landscape are woven from the same soft dust of color. Her gown is not simply decorative. Nadezhda wears an inherited “great-grandmother” outfit, and the artist wrote with delight that she “posed wonderfully in her great-grandmother’s costume.” The backdrop is equally intentional because Borisov-Musatov turns the painting into a portrait-within-a-tapestry, letting the paper’s ribbed texture hold pastel pigment like threads held in cloth, so the image feels stitched rather than painted. The swan and distant estate are symbols of longing and fragile beauty, while her downward gaze makes the scene tender, private, and time-suspended. The portrait’s sense of luminous, fleeting presence feels even deeper learning Nadezhda tragically died in a wartime hospital during the Russo-Japanese War less than 2 years later in 1905.

“Дама у гобелена (Lady at the Tapestry)” by Viktor Borisov-Musatov (Russian) - Pastel on paper / 1903 - State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) #WomenInArt #ViktorBorisovMusatov #ВикторБорисовМусатов #BorisovMusatov #TretyakovGallery #art #artText #Третьяковскаягалерея #RussianArt #RussianArtist

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Russian Revolution In 1917 Russian workers and women marched for bread and equality, catalyzing the end of czarist rule. A radical group, the Bolsheviks, had seized power in their name. What started as a dream of democr...

Russian revolution revisited. #russianhistory #russianart

Russian artist Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Михаил Александрович Врубель) completed this work in 1900 while immersed in stage design for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan,” adapted from Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale. The Swan Princess’s part was created for Vrubel’s wife, the celebrated singer Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabela-Vrubel (Надежда Ивановна Забела-Врубель), and the painting carries the aura of performance including costume, spotlight, and spell without becoming a straightforward portrait. The pale-skinned young Nadezhda with a soft, feminine presentation turns to look back over her shoulder, meeting us with large, luminous gray-blue eyes. Dark hair frames her face beneath an extravagant crown-like kokoshnik encrusted with pearls and blue-green stones. A sheer veil and silvery embroidered fabric wrap her head and shoulders as one hand gathers the gauze at her neck in a protective, almost private gesture. Around her, enormous swan wings billow and fold like a living cape in layered strokes of white, gray, and blush-pink that are feathers and facets at the same time. The wings fill most of the canvas, curving forward so she seems both sheltered and enclosed by her own transformation. Behind her stretches a cool, dusk-blue shoreline and water, with a thin band of light on the horizon and a dark, rocky form at the edge. Vrubel’s paint alternates between misty, softened passages and crisp, mosaic-like planes, so jewels sparkle, lace glints, and feathers feel air-light yet weighty. The overall mood is hushed and watchful like a suspended moment between human and bird where wonder and caution share the same gaze. The wings act like a threshold of protection and power as well as tenderness and distance at the instant of metamorphosis. Soon after completion, this painting was acquired by collector Mikhail Morozov and was gifted in 1917 by Margarita Morozova to the Tretyakov Gallery (Государственная Третьяковская галерея).

“Царевна-Лебедь (The Swan Princess)” by Михаил Врубель / Mikhail Vrubel (Russian) - Oil on canvas / 1900 - State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) #WomenInArt #MikhailVrubel #МихаилВрубель #Vrubel #TretyakovGallery #Третьяковскаягалерея #RussianArt #art #artText #artwork #DanceArt #RussianArtist

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Elena Andreevna Kiseleva (Russian, 1878-1974) -- Portrait de femme -- Oil on canvas -- 88.3 x 106cm -- Inscribed in Cyrillic 'Belgrad' (upper right)

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While I will be sharing more images in upcoming posts, I highly recommend visiting the show in person. The exhibition in Norman, Oklahoma runs until April 5, 2026.

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This Labas reminds me of LS Lowry, his contemporary, and whose work Alexander obviously didn’t know
The train is coming, 1929, The State Russian Museum
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Aside from a few patches of vivid green or turquoise to represent grass or water, the colour scheme of this painting is almost entirely given over to oranges and reds. Flames are flickering from the cracked surface of the earth and in a billowing cloud of orange smoke there stands an angel, with wings, a halo and holding a spear. He/she too is depicted in orange and red.

'The Last Angel' by Nicholas Roerich, 1912.
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Painted in 1767, this is among the rare 18th-century Russian portraits to individualize an enslaved/serf child of non-Russian, Oirat–Kalmyk origin. Annushka was a pupil and protégée of Countess Varvara Sheremeteva. The Russian artist Ivan Petrovich Argunov himself was a serf of the Sheremetev household, so the work stages a remarkable “serf painting a serf” moment inside aristocratic culture. A young Kalmyk woman sits slightly turned in a carved chair, returning our look with a composed, almost adult self-possession. Her skin is a warm beige tone, eyes dark and almond-shaped, hair smoothed back with a ribboned bow under a bonnet. She wears a crimson silk dress edged in gold braid, over a white lace chemise and fine jewelry that speak to courtly education rather than steppe life. With both hands she carefully presents a small gilt-framed portrait of a white Russian noblewoman (her patron) so that we cannot see her without also seeing the woman who owned and shaped her future. The olive-brown background and close cropping keep all attention on her face and on the tension between childlike body and ceremonial pose. The girl’s luxurious dress and the picture of her benefactress proclaim her incorporation into an elite, Orthodox, Russified world, even as her features make visible the empire’s reach across Central Asian peoples. Argunov’s satin surfaces, precise lace, and calm light echo his portraits of the Sheremetevs, granting Annushka the same dignity as an 18th-century assertion that social dependence did not erase personhood, memory, or cultural difference. Argunov was one of the founders of Russian secular portraiture, working inside the Sheremetev estate system at the very moment Catherine II was promoting a more European, aristocratic visual culture. In the 1760s, Argunov was already an established master in the household, supervising work so that he understood the representational needs of the elite and the lived realities of dependence.

"Portrait of a Kalmyk Girl, Annushka" by Ivan Petrovich Argunov (Russian) - Oil on canvas / 1767 - Museum of Ceramics and the Kuskovo Estate (Moscow, Russia) #WomenInArt #PortraitofaWoman #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #arte #IvanArgunov #Argunov #KalmykHistory #youth #18thCenturyArt #RussianArt

'Five Masks' by Oleg Tselkov, 1960s.
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Artwork by "Repin Academy of Fine Arts Margunov"

The Russian artist had worked on his techniques for 30 years before working on this art piece.

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Simon Faibisovich
One More Glance at the Black Sea

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"Firebird", Sergey Chekhonin

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