Russia
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 6
From the ST. JOSEPH NEWS-PRESS, August 4, 1924
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 19, 2021 -
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Category: Crime, Death, 1920s, Russia
The Bear Facts
Anti-communist fable presented as a kid's book.More pictures and discussion here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 02, 2021 -
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Category: Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Children, Books, Fantasy, 1940s, Russia
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 35
The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 27, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1920s, Russia
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 31
Love Jan Zrzavý's look!His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 04, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Europe, Russia, Twentieth Century
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 29
"Carpenter," 1927, Kazimir Malevich.
The artist's Wikipedia page.
His complete works here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 18, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1920s, Russia
The Hyper-realistic Dolls of Michael Zajkov
Many more photos here, with link to the creator's Instagram page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 14, 2020 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Russia, Dolls and Stuffed Animals
The Snow Beauty of Yakutia
Part of our series on odd beauty contests.The first (?) contest was apparently held in 2017.
Read about it here.
What appears to be the home page has lots of pix and even videos of the 2018 contest. But I cannot find reference to competitions for 2019 or 2020.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 06, 2020 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Ethnic Groupings, Nature, Natural Resources, Russia
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Tatiana Glebova, 1927.
In "Prision," of which there is a preparatory drawing, the painter depicts a world of multiple orientations through diverse interconnected viewpoints, and shows various heads with their musculature visible as if to reveal to us their interminable growth process. Glebova devoutly believed Filonov’s theories on the “universal flowering” and, like him, held that painting should reflect a growth process of the world similar to that of plants, according to which it was permanently active as an independent being.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 27, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body Modifications, 1920s, Russia
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 25
"King Solomon" was the last sculpture that Alexander Archipenko made and the only one that he conceived as a monumental sculpture. Throughout his career, Archipenko experimented with positive and negative space in his sculptures, often using voids or holes to suggest form. In King Solomon, he placed abstract shapes together to create the vague shape of a figure. The tall prongs at the top evoke a crown, and the intersecting triangles suggest an imposing archaic costume. Archipenko captured a dramatic sense of scale, and it is easy to imagine how formidable this figure would be if enlarged to the sixty-foot-tall version that the artist envisioned.
Source.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 11, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body, Criticism and Reviews, Russia, Twentieth Century
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 04, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1930s, Russia
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