to be watched in conjunction with Marianne Faithful singing the same
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to be watched in conjunction with Marianne Faithful singing the...
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This is for you, Stephen. Wish I could find a dubbed or at...
This is for you, Stephen. Wish I could find a dubbed or at least an English sub-titled version. But I suspect you’ll get the gist of it.
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tuckadapierce: Drawing- Peter Paul Rubens
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poboh: Hortense Breast Feeding Paul, Paul Cezanne. French...
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androphilia: Lia Crowe
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Makovsky, Vladmir (1846-1920) - Evening Company Oil on...
Makovsky, Vladmir (1846-1920) - Evening Company
Oil on canvas.
Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky was a Russian painter, art collector, and teacher. He was the son of collector, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky, who was one of the founders of the Moscow Art School. Vladimir had two brothers, Nikolai Makovsky and Konstantin Makovsky, and one sister, Alexandra Makovsky, all of whom were famous painters. Vladimir studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. He finished his studies in 1869 and the following year became one of the founding members of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions, where his many years of prolific work brought him to a leading position.
Makovsky’s work was defined by a perpetual humor as well as blatant irony and scorn. During the seventies his paintings dealt primarily with small-town folk. His pictures, “The Grape-juice Seller” (1879), “Fruit-Preserving” (1876) and “The Congratulator” (1878) depict various scenes where the mood is finely conceived and almost laughter-inducing. Other works of his, such as “The Benefactor” (1874) and “The Convict” (1878) are profoundly socially-conscious. In them, Makovsky either criticizes the false sympathy of the aristocracy towards the poor, or draws attention to the oppression and persecution by the tsarist gendarmerie. In 1878, he became an academician.
In the eighties, during the time of Russian “democratic” painting, Makovsky produced some of his most valued works. In 1882, he was made professor at the Moscow Art School after the death of Vasili Perov. Some of Makovsky’s greatest works of this period include “In the Ante-room of the Court of Conciliation” (1880), “The Released Prisoner” (1882), and “The Collapse of the Bank” (1881). From the end of the 1880s, Makovsky began to produce more gloomy works. Quintessential works of this period include “You Shall Not Go” (1892), and “On the Boulevard” (1888).
In 1894, Makovsky became Rector of the Preparatory school of the Academy of Art. After the First Russian Revolution, he painted “January 9, 1905, on Vasilyev Island” in which he depicts the armed police firing at defenseless people. In another painting “The Sacrifices on the Khodyn Field” in which a thousand people lost their lives during the coronation ceremony in 1896 of Nicholas II, he again stood uncompromisingly on the side of the oppressed people. After the 1917 October Revolution, Makovsky helped carry over the realist traditions to the early stages of Socialist Realism.
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androphilia: Iraq anarchy ‘part of the plan’ | RT April 4,...
Iraq anarchy ‘part of the plan’ | RT
April 4, 2012
A bitter dispute over oil revenues between Baghdad and Kurdish authorities highlights the escalating tensions that could split war-torn Iraq apart. However, anti-war activist Mike Raddie says the chaos is ‘all part of the plan.’
Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region halted oil deliveries to Baghdad on Monday, claiming the central government owed it $1.5 billion. The region’s Ministry of Natural Resources said that despite exporting 50,000 barrels per day, “there have been no payments for 10 months, nor any indication from federal authorities that payments are forthcoming.”
Baghdad shot back, saying they have incurred $6.65 billion in lost revenue over the past few years after Kurdish authorities short-changed them on crude exports. The central government has further accused Kurdistan of smuggling oil through Iran.
Mike Raddie from Democracy Village told RT the latest dispute highlights the degradation of the Iraqi economy following decades of sanctions and war.
“So the oil producers in the north, which is actually the easiest oil to extract in the country, are not getting paid. The southern oil fields, which are still in disarray after the US/UK invasion, need hundreds of billions of [British] pounds of infrastructure improvements to be able to extract that readily. That doesn’t seem to be forthcoming from the Western oil companies like BP, like Chevron, like Total, that have got contracts in there,” Raddie said.
“The deal was they would get the contracts and they would build the infrastructure. None of the infrastructure, as it happens, would actually benefit the Iraqi people in any case, but the Iraqi people will be left with the bill,” he continued.
Holding the fifth-largest oil exports in the world, Iraq has issued 15 energy licenses since 2003, and global oil giants are preparing for a new licensing round come May.
Raddie argues that it is this competition for access to the country’s resources that has led to “the chaos which is the post-war plan for Iraq.”
“It’s the most laissez-faire economy on the planet and it’s exactly what corporations want – political disputes amongst the regions. But no one is actually looking at the bigger picture, which is the pillage of Iraq by Western private corporations.”
Copyright © 2012 Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”. All rights reserved.
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missfolly: Salvador Dali: Port of Cadaques (Night) (1919)
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ryaznova/Gryaznova/Minusinsk Possibly the northern most reach...
ryaznova/Gryaznova/Minusinsk
Possibly the northern most reach of scythian art
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Nara DaibutsuNara Big BuddhaConstructed 752 AD Birushana Buddha...
Nara Daibutsu
Nara Big Buddha
Constructed 752 AD
Birushana Buddha (Nyorai)
Located at Tōdaiji Temple 東大寺 in Nara, this bronze statue embodies Birushana Nyorai. Over the centuries, the statue (first cast in 752) has been damaged in various fires, natural disasters, and civil disturbances, but it has always been restored. Its appearance today, however, may not accurately represent its earlier magnificence. In the 9th century, an earthquake knocked off its head. In 1180 and again in 1567, its right hand was melted in accidental fires. The body of the statue was reconstructed in 1185, and the head rebuilt in 1692. At 15 meters (without pedestal) and weighing 250 tons, it is reportedly the largest gilt-bronze effigy in the world. The wooden structure that houses the statue — the Daibutsuden 大仏殿 (Great Buddha Hall) — is supposedly the world’s largest wooden building. The present-day hall dates to the early 18th century and is only 66% of its former size. Its rebuilding was completed in 1708 but the repair and replacement of its damaged interior statues was still underway in the 1750s.
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divination: russians are an optimistic race
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signorcasaubon:christianicon: Rare images of The Holy...
Rare images of The Holy Trinity
This depiction of the Holy Trinity is also popular among the Latin Christians. I’ve seen versions of it in Spanish, Italian, and Latin American iconographic traditions.
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geovanni-ceretti: Alessandro Magnasco - Prayer of the Penitent...
Alessandro Magnasco - Prayer of the Penitent Monks.
The tension between their penitence of spirit and the surrounding darkness of the world is very engaging; Magnasco is one of my favorite painters, although he may not have the precise finesse of Jacques-Louis or Caravaggio, his mastery of drama and contrast compensates.
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Tyche. Getty villa
Tyche. Getty villa
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Musing of an Orthodox Brit.: Reading Bar Saliba's 'Against the Melchites.'
Musing of an Orthodox Brit.: Reading Bar Saliba's 'Against the Melchites.' :
His discussion on the sign of the cross is fascinating. As many may know, the Oriental Orthodox traditionally make the sign of the cross from left to right, as is also the practice of Rome, rather than right to left.
Bar Salibi, a 12th Century Assyrian writer, discourses with a young Assyrian who…
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centuriespast: The CreatorARTIST:Artist Unknown,...
The Creator
ARTIST:Artist Unknown, JapaneseDATE:13th-14th centuryThe Minneapolis Institute of Arts
I don’t understand where epithets like “the creator”, “the arbiter of death” come from.
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poboh: Blues Brothers, Karin Jurick
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ghostorballoon: costume sketches for a court masque by Inigo...
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Fidel Gudin. 19th century orientalist painter. Couldn’t...
Fidel Gudin. 19th century orientalist painter. Couldn’t find any further info….
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