Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso were already at loggerheads when Gertrude Stein introduced them in 1906, and their challenge of opposites—played out at Stein’s
In her list of portraits done in Russia Vigée Le Brun counts forty-five works but, gathered from catalogues, letters and memoirs, her Russian portraits amount to
A biographical account of Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Koba, the Man of Steel, or Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953
The Quiet German The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world.
Head (1910) A sublime 20th century expressionist portrait by the Russian Alexei von Jawlensky (1864-1941). Museum of Modern Art, New York. Portrait Art (2,500 BCE
Princess Sophia’s man, a devout German Lutheran, opposed his teen’s conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy. Despite his objection, on 28 June 1744 the Russian
Reprinted from the Gazette des Beaux Arts, July-August 1967. The Russian Portraits Of Madame Vigée Le Brun BY Lada Nikolenko . Vigée Le Brun’s Home Page | Index to
* Oversaw Partition of Poland * Defeated Ottoman Empire – led to Russian expansion into Black Sea and Crimea * Expanded Eastwards to Siberia and founded first
B. Looking within the frame – alternatively you could have your subject looking at something (or someone) within the frame. A looking at a ball, a woman
Portrait Person Inventions Image; Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949) Russian Empire Soviet Union: first self-loading carbine, Degtyaryov-series firearms, co-developer of