Art and Faith

Thursday, 31 July 2008

Mikhail Dakirev. Metropolitan St Peter of Moscow the Wonderworker. 1901

Metropolitan St Peter of Moscow the Wonderworker (Mikhail Dakirev, 1901)

An icon as executed by an early-20th century secular artist. It strays a bit from “Byzantine” (I hate this word… it is of western provenance, it is so off-beam it isn’t funny!) models, but, that is no sin. At least the saint doesn’t look like he’s sucking on a lemon, as the depictions found in “pure” works do all too often. 

Genrikh Manizer. Anna Karenina (From the Novel by Lev Tolstoy). 1904

Filed under: Russian, domestic, early modern, fine art, human study, portrait — 01varvara @ 1330

Anna Karenina (From the Novel by Lev Tolstoy) (Genrikh Manizer, 1904)

Nikolai Ovchinnikov. Motherhood. 1970

Filed under: Impressionist, Russian, Soviet period, domestic, fine art, human study — 01varvara @ 1330

Motherhood (Nikolai Ovchinnikov, 1970)

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