The paintings of the German-Greek artist Aris Kalaizis occupy the space between fiction and fact, motion and inertia. With a masterly brush, he creates scenarios where the subjects play enigmatically entwined roles and the world of shadows lives in defiant coexistence with light. Kalaizis's creative process follows more that of a screenplay writer, where a landscape or setting, as captured concisely by a photograph, provides the spark for a gradually evolving script. The inextricable intimacy between setting and characters climaxes precisely at the moment rendered by the artist, which he...
The paintings of the German-Greek artist Aris Kalaizis occupy the space between fiction and fact, motion and inertia. With a masterly brush, he cre...
English summary: Triggered by the October Revolution and by government-imposed atheism, religious art in Russia abruptly saw the legs knocked out from underneath it in 1917. In Palekh, an ancient center of icon painting, artists turned to lacquer miniatures in search for a livelihood and new artistic direction. After tentative beginnings under the influence of Art Deco, the transformation of religious motives and of a traditional style vocabulary became part of young Soviet art. In the center of this movement stood the painter Ivan Golikov, who together with six other former icon artists in...
English summary: Triggered by the October Revolution and by government-imposed atheism, religious art in Russia abruptly saw the legs knocked out from...
The Museum of Lacquer Art in Munster houses the most extensive collection of Russian lacquer art outside of the Russian Federation. Dating from the early nineteenth-century to the 1950s, the lacquer miniatures in the museum s collection highlight an extraordinary diversity of decorative techniques and provide a comprehensive overview of the local development of lacquer art. Although the origins of lacquer art in Russia can be traced to Peter the Great, who came to appreciate the art during his travels in Western Europe throughout the eighteenth century, it reached its peak in the early...
The Museum of Lacquer Art in Munster houses the most extensive collection of Russian lacquer art outside of the Russian Federation. Dating from the ea...
Ein bislang unbekanntes Lackkabinett aus der 1687 gegründeten Berliner Hofwerkstatt wird in Konstruktion, Lackdekor und Beschlagwerk vorgestellt und in das Werk Gérard Daglys eingeordnet. Im Kontext der berühmten Münzschränke entstanden zählt es zu den frühesten Arbeiten dieses genialen Lackkünstlers des Barock.
Ein bislang unbekanntes Lackkabinett aus der 1687 gegründeten Berliner Hofwerkstatt wird in Konstruktion, Lackdekor und Beschlagwerk vorgestellt und ...
