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Dmitry Zhilinsky often manifested his creative aspirations in portraiture. One of the idiosyncrasies of his art was his habit of depicting in the concrete not the fleeting, but the most important element of a man’s personality. Zhilinsky preferred clear, collected and intellectual images. He was inspired by the art of the Old Masters, particularly the early Italian Renaissance and Old Russian pai...
1 января 1970 года, к столетию со дня рождения вождя мирового пролетариата, в СССР выпущена серия почтовых марок. На одной из них (Michel № 3726) фантастический рисунок, а справа от него приведена со...
Timur Novikov often painted urbanscapes of Leningrad in his early period and this haunting image of the River Moika is filled wiith profound and poetic feelings. The uninhabited canal is seen through...
Timur Novikov often painted urbanscapes of Leningrad in his early period and this haunting image of the River Fontanka is filled wiith profound and poetic feelings. The uninhabited canal is seen thro...