Publications by tag: james whistler

Anna Matilda Whistler - that's her name. One might think that Anna may have been a quiet  woman, diminutive and restrained, if you judge her only by the portrait of her son. You might opine that she made primly tea, prayed daily, dressed only in black and did not notice her son's mistresses. But you’d be wrong. Anna Whistler was the wife of a brilliant engineer; she crossed the Atlantic several…

Paintings look good not only on the walls of galleries, but also on the silver screen. Sometimes they are used simply to decorate the interior, but sometimes the entire plot develops around them, and these are works of art that help us better understand the characters or even predict the ending. The titles of such paintings should appear in the credits, next to the names of superstars. Sounds…

Vilhelm Hammershøi (15 May 1864, Copenhagen – 13 February 1916, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter known for his poetic, melancholic and implicit interiors, in which light and time appear motionless. Due to the artist's use of composition, light, and perspective he was dubbed “the Danish Vermeer.”

The turning point from classical to modern in Russian art took place in long-forgotten past that is covered with fluffy archival dust. But at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, this was the most acute confrontation with ad hominem attacks. The miriskusniki destroyed reputations and overthrew the former idols from their pedestals. Outraged by such barbarism, Repin defended “those thrown…