art
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Academic Painters: Tradition and Canon in Art
European academicism in painting: its origins in the royal art academies, its golden age, and its eventual eclipse by Realism and Impressionism.
Hyperrealism and Its Development in the USSR
A detailed article on hyperrealism, an art movement of the 1970s-80s, and its development in the USSR. History, key figures, the features of Soviet…
Mezzo-Soprano, or Half-Soprano
Mezzo-soprano, the female voice type between soprano and contralto, with examples from opera and pop music.
On Reproduction and Replication
The philosophical distinction the novel leans on: a reproduction is an approximate copy, a replica is the same original person existing in more than…
Pablo Picasso and Cubism
Pablo Picasso and Cubism: the history of this revolutionary art movement, its main developmental periods, the principles of geometrizing form, and…
Tapestry: the Art of Woven Stories
A tapestry is a hand-woven wall hanging with a pictorial or ornamental design, created by weaving weft threads. The art form flourished in the…
The Gagarin Monument: the titanium idol Roman turns away from on his happy morning walk
The 42.5-meter titanium monument to Yuri Gagarin on Leninsky Prospekt, the first large-scale monument ever cast entirely in titanium.