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Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Ben Heine Exhibitions in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Omsk, Arkhangelsk and Tyumen
In 2015 and 2016, Ben Heine had a major itinerant exhibition in Russia, which started in June at Moscow Planetarium and moved every 3 months to Arkhangelsk, Omsk, Saint Petersburg and then Tyumen. The show featured over 30 large size Pencil Vs Camera signed canvases along with eight interactive installations, which enabled the visitors to literally travel inside Heine's world. Heine also made a public Flesh and Acrylic live performance for the opening of the exhibition at Moscow Planetarium. Ben Heine music was also broadcasted for the first time in public during these events.
Ben Heine Art and Music in the Russian Media
In 2015 and 2016, Ben Heine had a major itinerant exhibition in Russia, which started in June at Moscow Planetarium and moved to Arkhangelsk and then Tyumen in Siberia. The show featured over 30 large size Pencil Vs Camera signed canvases along with eight interactive installations, which enabled the visitors to literally travel inside Heine's world. Heine also made a public Flesh and Acrylic live performance for the opening of the exhibition at Moscow Planetarium. The colorful backdrop was then exhibited in the other cities. Ben Heine music was also broadcasted for the first time in public during these events.
The exhibitions were divided into thematic areas: "city", "zoo" and "Life of Remarkable People". It was designed for a large public to please families and children with games and attractive experiences about optical illusions and binocular vision. The exhibition had lounges, cafes, a cinema area featuring Heine's music, documentaries and animated works along with hourly workshops sessions and master classes on drawing and painting in the style of Heine and gifts shops. Heine has created one special Pencil Vs Camera featuring St Basil Cathedral. Heine said "St Basil Cathedral is an exceptional building, it is the symbol of Russian architecture, religion and spirit, I added a cute angel in my sketch because Russian people are very friendly, open-minded and loving in contrast to what's constantly said in the Western European news" (source).
For the first time, Heine's Pencil Vs Camera artworks were printed and exhibited as 2 separate layers , one for the drawing and one for the photo, this brought an even stronger 3D effects for the visitors. Representatives of the Belgian Embassy in Russia attended and supported the exhibition (source). The event gathered fifty thousand visitors. After Moscow Planetarium, the event moved to Gostiny Dvor National Museum of Arkhangelsk. Many schools and students visited the exhibition (source). The organizers there said they have created a space in a positive, unpredictable and multi-faceted way. The exhibition then moved to the Fine Art Museum of Tyumen (Siberia) in January 2016.
Interview for Russian Photo (*)
.jpg "Ben Heine portrait by Thomas David - 2013") |
| Ben Heine at Tour de France Photo © Thomas David 2013 |
Russian Photo: How long have you been taking pictures?
Ben Heine: I started drawing 20 years ago and started taking photos some 10 years ago.
Did you study photography professionally?
Not really, but during my Journalism studies, I did have to manipulate cameras and learn a bit of analog and digital photography.
What is your profession?
Now, I'm doing creative projects as a freelance artist and selling prints during exhibitions etc... This is my main source of income right now, but I'm planning to find another job soon because it's hard to make a decent living in the art industry.
You create truly unique pictures. How come such ideas?
I've been working on graphic projects for many years. Mixing drawing and photography really came naturally.
You are called the master of photo manipulation. Do you agree with this?
No, I don't, I think there are plenty of better people doing photo manipulations. I'm doing something different. I'm better at finding ideas and concepts and I love mixing mediums. Spending days on the same image (drawing or photo) to improve it and making it look good can be really annoying, I'm doing this only because there is nobody else that could do it exactly the way I want. I generally prefer the first steps of the creation process: finding ideas...
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| Pencil Vs Camera 64 - No More Routine |
How much time does it take to create one work?
Several days or several weeks, depending on the image complexity.
How difficult is it to combine photos and sketches?
It's easy for me, I'm working like a robot, seeing pixels, lines and shadows instead of the whole drawing or photo. some of my pictures look like drawings because I like to edit them this way (view some before and after versions).
Which brands of photo cameras do you use? Do you teach master classes?
I currently use Canon and Samsung cameras. I don't teach master classes, but I do some workshops and conferences from time to time.
Is it possible to combine originality and professionalism?
Originality is the most important for me, then if people like it, I try to make a business out of it.
What can you advise to beginners who are looking for your style?
Don't try to imitate any style, your creations should be a complete reflection of yourself only. With experience, you'll learn who you really are and you'll then be able to express what you really want.
What is the secret of your popularity?
I'm not sure I'm popular. But I know that I'm always trying to be sincere with other people and true with myself. I'm also always trying to give the best I can and to be be innovative and generous in my art. I want to share love and energy. Hopefully the persons who view my works can feel it.
Have you visited Russia? Are you planning to visit our country?
Not yet, but I love Russia and Russian culture. I've learned Russian language several years ago (see a small hand written note here below). I hope I can visit your country soon and organize an art event or exhibition!
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| Ben Heine autograph in Cyrillic alphabet for "Russian Photo" |
(*) Russian Photo is a 10 year old magazine dedicated to photography. It gives information about art events and exhibitions, interviews of masters, photo tutorials, camera reviews and trends. Read the above interview on Russian Photo website at this link.
Tell us about your childhood, family and friends.
I was born in Ivory Coast in 1983, I lived there 7 years along with my parents and 3 sisters. We all moved to Brussels, Belgium in 1990. My father was a commercial engineer; my mother is a Modern jazz dance teacher. My little sister became a lawyer, one of my older sisters became a psychologist and the other one a political scientist.
Can you share with us some moments of your life that you can’t forget?
All my travels abroad and some specific shootings such as my “Flesh and Acrylic” projects which are very particular and spectacular.
When did you start taking photographs?
During my studies in Journalism (around 2005). I first started taking press photos and then I became more interested in conceptual and artistic pictures.
What was the first photo you took?
The first artistic shooting I made was the portrait of a bodybuilder near the place where I lived at that time. I made several collages based on the photos of this man. These works are part of my early experimental sketchbooks. I should share them online soon but it’s not yet time to show them.
What was your very first camera?
It was one of these old Canon analog cameras. They look like dinosaurs now.
Do you remember your first love story?
My first love… woaw, I remember very well. It was a platonic and spiritual relationship with a girl when I was a teenager. I was really a romantic and diplomatic guy, I should have been more explicit about my feelings. Things have changed now; I’m not the same.
Who are the people that influenced you in your life?
Many professors, my parents, some extraordinary persons who took part in important events in History. Also, more simply, the people following my work. Each time I get a message or an email from one of them, it always stimulates me and gives me fresh ideas.
What is the kind of photography and art you like?
I like surrealism and I also like simplicity. I like clean pictures, possibly with no dust, bugs or strange elements.
Does the Internet have an impact on your work?
Social networks and online artists platforms such as deviantART and Flickr have helped me a lot to "spread" my creative works. I use them for this purpose mainly and also to meet amazing people. Our generation of artists (and younger ones even more) uses a lot the Internet to get recognition. That’s how it works nowadays if you’re not the son of a super famous person.
Are you happy?
I’m happy to be alive. Each morning when I wake up, I’m realizing that I’m lucky to be healthy and that I’m able to do what I like.
What is the best place in the world for you?
I would say an isolated house in the middle of a forest in a warm country.
What is the most important principle of life for you?
Respect for others.
What are your current dreams?
I am always hopeful that tomorrow will be a better day for all of us. I hope that there will be less injustice and discrimination in the world. I’m too small and don’t have enough power to change things but I do what I can in my own field to bring joy and surprise for the people who follow my work.
What about your future?
I have many projects in stock. Too many may be. I’m not sure I will be able to manage everything in a lifetime. I have to fix my priorities and make sure to know where are my real goals.
What tips can you share for young photographers from a famous photographer?
If you don’t have enough ideas or inspiration, go visit exhibitions, talk with interesting people, keep shooting as much as you can. It’s not the software, the computer or even the camera you use that will make your photos look good, it’s only your point of view, your originality and the quantity of work spent behind each image that will give some value to your work.
What is your favorite quote?
“Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth” (Oscar Wilde)
(*) iFamous is an online interactive magazine talking about cultural news and lifestyle. iFamous headquarters are based in Russia.
I was born in Ivory Coast in 1983, I lived there 7 years along with my parents and 3 sisters. We all moved to Brussels, Belgium in 1990. My father was a commercial engineer; my mother is a Modern jazz dance teacher. My little sister became a lawyer, one of my older sisters became a psychologist and the other one a political scientist.
Can you share with us some moments of your life that you can’t forget?
All my travels abroad and some specific shootings such as my “Flesh and Acrylic” projects which are very particular and spectacular.
When did you start taking photographs?
During my studies in Journalism (around 2005). I first started taking press photos and then I became more interested in conceptual and artistic pictures.
What was the first photo you took?
The first artistic shooting I made was the portrait of a bodybuilder near the place where I lived at that time. I made several collages based on the photos of this man. These works are part of my early experimental sketchbooks. I should share them online soon but it’s not yet time to show them.
What was your very first camera?
It was one of these old Canon analog cameras. They look like dinosaurs now.
Do you remember your first love story?
My first love… woaw, I remember very well. It was a platonic and spiritual relationship with a girl when I was a teenager. I was really a romantic and diplomatic guy, I should have been more explicit about my feelings. Things have changed now; I’m not the same.
Who are the people that influenced you in your life?
Many professors, my parents, some extraordinary persons who took part in important events in History. Also, more simply, the people following my work. Each time I get a message or an email from one of them, it always stimulates me and gives me fresh ideas.
What is the kind of photography and art you like?
I like surrealism and I also like simplicity. I like clean pictures, possibly with no dust, bugs or strange elements.
Does the Internet have an impact on your work?
Social networks and online artists platforms such as deviantART and Flickr have helped me a lot to "spread" my creative works. I use them for this purpose mainly and also to meet amazing people. Our generation of artists (and younger ones even more) uses a lot the Internet to get recognition. That’s how it works nowadays if you’re not the son of a super famous person.
Are you happy?
I’m happy to be alive. Each morning when I wake up, I’m realizing that I’m lucky to be healthy and that I’m able to do what I like.
What is the best place in the world for you?
I would say an isolated house in the middle of a forest in a warm country.
What is the most important principle of life for you?
Respect for others.
What are your current dreams?
I am always hopeful that tomorrow will be a better day for all of us. I hope that there will be less injustice and discrimination in the world. I’m too small and don’t have enough power to change things but I do what I can in my own field to bring joy and surprise for the people who follow my work.
What about your future?
I have many projects in stock. Too many may be. I’m not sure I will be able to manage everything in a lifetime. I have to fix my priorities and make sure to know where are my real goals.
What tips can you share for young photographers from a famous photographer?
If you don’t have enough ideas or inspiration, go visit exhibitions, talk with interesting people, keep shooting as much as you can. It’s not the software, the computer or even the camera you use that will make your photos look good, it’s only your point of view, your originality and the quantity of work spent behind each image that will give some value to your work.
What is your favorite quote?
“Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth” (Oscar Wilde)
(*) iFamous is an online interactive magazine talking about cultural news and lifestyle. iFamous headquarters are based in Russia.
Wings Magazine - Russia (2011)
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.Linda - The Netherlands (2011)
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.BLVD MAN Magazine - The Netherlands (2011)
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Dmitry Medvedev,
Vladimir Putin's Puppet?
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Vladimir Putin's Puppet?
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Change You Cannot Believe In
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Russia's new boss; same as the old boss
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By Reuben F. Johnson
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The election of a new Russian president should not be mistaken for a democratic transition. Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, ran almost unopposed, and there was little doubt as to the outcome. But Medvedev will now be the beneficiary of the most energetic Moscow PR campaign since KGB thug Yuri Andropov was reinvented as a Scotch-sipping, jazz-fancying liberal a quarter of a century ago. The goal will be to portray Medvedev as likely to make significant changes from the policies of the Putin years.
During the almost pantomime election campaign, Medvedev minimized interviews, taking only a token number of questions, and these only from a hand-picked pool of journalists who are, you might say, "in the tank-ski." They write tub-thumping stories about how Russia's future will be better and brighter under the new president.
For his part, Medvedev's statements have been laced with ambiguous platitudes and flowery rhetoric that make him sound like the ultimate civil libertarian. "We're talking about freedom in all its forms--personal freedom, economic freedom and, in the end, the freedom of self-expression," he said in a campaign speech. "One of the key elements in our work in the next four years will be ensuring the independence of the legal system from the executive and legislative branches of power."
This may earn Medvedev a fawning assessment from U.K. banks (looking to fill their coffers with the squirreledaway gains of senior Kremlin officials) and the Economist, but former Yukos Oil chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for one, is probably asking just what planet this freedom-spouting Russian president-elect has arrived from. The imprisoned Yukos boss sits rotting in a Siberian cell after a case in which it was clear to anyone not on the Kremlin payroll that the state controlled the judiciary's every move, dictated the verdict ahead of time, and engineered the rejection of his appeal in the fastest judicial decision in the history of Russia.
Independence of the legal system from the executive and legislative branches? This is like asking for a Moscow bureaucracy in which no one takes bribes and streets where drivers obey the traffic laws. To make a slight variation on the theme of Barack Obama's campaign, this is change that you cannot possibly believe in.
So the "Andropov is a closet liberal"-style charm offensive continues apace. "The university, with all its traditions, is his cradle," gushed Igor Bunin, the head of Moscow's Center for Political Technologies, in the Washington Post. Medvedev's "challenge is to lead Russia into the group of civilized countries. This idea is more important to Medvedev than the greatness of the country alone."
Other observers of Medvedev are a bit more objective. "After the campaign, I can say I know nothing about who he is," Georgy Bovt, the editor of Russia's Profil magazine was quoted in the Post as saying. "He is intelligent, well-bred, educated--that's all I can say. How is he going to manage the country? We don't know."
But the truth behind the selection of Medvedev by Putin and what to expect in the future can be heard from only a tiny handful of commentators. "Medvedev will be the glove on the hand of Putin's group," Dmitry Oreshkin, a Moscow-based political analyst, told the Post's Peter Finn. "The parliament is loyal to Putin. The security services are loyal to Putin. The mass media is Putin's. Any independent step by Medvedev will be considered a declaration of war on the current elite, and they will strike back."
Underlying this institutional control by the siloviki--the cabal of intelligence, military, and law enforcement officials who are in charge of the Kremlin--are two aspects of Russian power that have not changed since the Soviet era, or since the czars for that matter. One is that the struggle to succeed the man in charge does not begin when he steps aside (as Boris Yeltsin did at the tail end of 1999) or dies (which was usually the case in Soviet times). The top dogs are constantly jockeying for position, building their alliances and determining how to position themselves to take over long before an actual resignation, death, or election. Once the new man has taken over, his adversaries continue trying to block his moves, frustrate his initiatives, and otherwise keep him from taking actions not in their interests.
The other tendency is the one that perhaps best explains why Putin went outside of the inner circle of the siloviki and picked Medvedev, a St. Petersburg lawyer with no known ties to the intelligence services. Sergei Ivanov, a long-term KGB colleague of Putin's, had been seen as the favorite to succeed Putin for some time. He and -others of the siloviki are not pleased with Medvedev's appointment. But this suits Putin just fine. By turning his back on his own and elevating Medvedev, he encourages strife and internecine warfare. Both sides will then ask him to intercede. Like any good dictator, he realizes that his unique power to broker settlements will keep him pulling strings in the background.
Besides, the soon-to-be-former president has telegraphed his intentions with his statement about what his role will be when Medvedev appoints him prime minister--a position with no term limitations. "The cabinet, headed by the prime minister, is the highest executive authority in the country," Putin stated, which makes it clear that he will still be the man in charge no matter who occupies the president's office. As all government offices in Russia have a photo of the president hanging on the wall, this prompted the half-joke/half-query in Moscow: "Will Putin have a portrait of Medvedev on the wall in his office?" The question was put to Putin at a press conference, who called it trivial but said, no, he wouldn't.
Whether Medvedev really is a closet liberal or closet civil libertarian does not appear to matter. His own plans for changing Russia, if they exist, are more than likely to remain in the closet as well.
During the almost pantomime election campaign, Medvedev minimized interviews, taking only a token number of questions, and these only from a hand-picked pool of journalists who are, you might say, "in the tank-ski." They write tub-thumping stories about how Russia's future will be better and brighter under the new president.
For his part, Medvedev's statements have been laced with ambiguous platitudes and flowery rhetoric that make him sound like the ultimate civil libertarian. "We're talking about freedom in all its forms--personal freedom, economic freedom and, in the end, the freedom of self-expression," he said in a campaign speech. "One of the key elements in our work in the next four years will be ensuring the independence of the legal system from the executive and legislative branches of power."
This may earn Medvedev a fawning assessment from U.K. banks (looking to fill their coffers with the squirreledaway gains of senior Kremlin officials) and the Economist, but former Yukos Oil chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for one, is probably asking just what planet this freedom-spouting Russian president-elect has arrived from. The imprisoned Yukos boss sits rotting in a Siberian cell after a case in which it was clear to anyone not on the Kremlin payroll that the state controlled the judiciary's every move, dictated the verdict ahead of time, and engineered the rejection of his appeal in the fastest judicial decision in the history of Russia.
Independence of the legal system from the executive and legislative branches? This is like asking for a Moscow bureaucracy in which no one takes bribes and streets where drivers obey the traffic laws. To make a slight variation on the theme of Barack Obama's campaign, this is change that you cannot possibly believe in.
So the "Andropov is a closet liberal"-style charm offensive continues apace. "The university, with all its traditions, is his cradle," gushed Igor Bunin, the head of Moscow's Center for Political Technologies, in the Washington Post. Medvedev's "challenge is to lead Russia into the group of civilized countries. This idea is more important to Medvedev than the greatness of the country alone."
Other observers of Medvedev are a bit more objective. "After the campaign, I can say I know nothing about who he is," Georgy Bovt, the editor of Russia's Profil magazine was quoted in the Post as saying. "He is intelligent, well-bred, educated--that's all I can say. How is he going to manage the country? We don't know."
But the truth behind the selection of Medvedev by Putin and what to expect in the future can be heard from only a tiny handful of commentators. "Medvedev will be the glove on the hand of Putin's group," Dmitry Oreshkin, a Moscow-based political analyst, told the Post's Peter Finn. "The parliament is loyal to Putin. The security services are loyal to Putin. The mass media is Putin's. Any independent step by Medvedev will be considered a declaration of war on the current elite, and they will strike back."
Underlying this institutional control by the siloviki--the cabal of intelligence, military, and law enforcement officials who are in charge of the Kremlin--are two aspects of Russian power that have not changed since the Soviet era, or since the czars for that matter. One is that the struggle to succeed the man in charge does not begin when he steps aside (as Boris Yeltsin did at the tail end of 1999) or dies (which was usually the case in Soviet times). The top dogs are constantly jockeying for position, building their alliances and determining how to position themselves to take over long before an actual resignation, death, or election. Once the new man has taken over, his adversaries continue trying to block his moves, frustrate his initiatives, and otherwise keep him from taking actions not in their interests.
The other tendency is the one that perhaps best explains why Putin went outside of the inner circle of the siloviki and picked Medvedev, a St. Petersburg lawyer with no known ties to the intelligence services. Sergei Ivanov, a long-term KGB colleague of Putin's, had been seen as the favorite to succeed Putin for some time. He and -others of the siloviki are not pleased with Medvedev's appointment. But this suits Putin just fine. By turning his back on his own and elevating Medvedev, he encourages strife and internecine warfare. Both sides will then ask him to intercede. Like any good dictator, he realizes that his unique power to broker settlements will keep him pulling strings in the background.
Besides, the soon-to-be-former president has telegraphed his intentions with his statement about what his role will be when Medvedev appoints him prime minister--a position with no term limitations. "The cabinet, headed by the prime minister, is the highest executive authority in the country," Putin stated, which makes it clear that he will still be the man in charge no matter who occupies the president's office. As all government offices in Russia have a photo of the president hanging on the wall, this prompted the half-joke/half-query in Moscow: "Will Putin have a portrait of Medvedev on the wall in his office?" The question was put to Putin at a press conference, who called it trivial but said, no, he wouldn't.
Whether Medvedev really is a closet liberal or closet civil libertarian does not appear to matter. His own plans for changing Russia, if they exist, are more than likely to remain in the closet as well.
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--> This opinion appeared on the Weeklystandard.com
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Mikhail M. Zlatkovsky
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Poster by Anadolu Universitesi
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Exhibition of the Work of Mikhail M. ZLATKOVSKY
at the Anadolu University Museum of Cartoon Art
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Poster by Anadolu Universitesi.
Exhibition of the Work of Mikhail M. ZLATKOVSKY
at the Anadolu University Museum of Cartoon Art
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Since its founding, the Museum of Cartoon Art has been bringing together the famous faces of world and Turkish cartoons, together with the art lovers of Eskisehir. Now the museum is putting on an exhibition of the work of Mikhail M. Zlatkovsky.
Born in 1944, Russian artist Mikhail M. Zlatkovsky is a famous cartoonist whose cartoons have been widely published in the newspapers and magazines of his homeland and world as well as being shown in personal and combined exhibitions.
The upcoming exhibition in Eskisehir will contain over 60 colour cartoons. It will open on September 26 and close on Oktober 22
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CV Mikhail M. Zlatkovsky
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He was born in August, 21, 1944 at village of St.Christopher, Tambov region in a family of The Red Army officers. The family legend says that Russian branch of Zlatkovskies is from a Polish nobility traced back to the end of XII century. After suppression of Kostyushko' rebellion, (end of XVIII century), the great-great-grandfather of the artist was banished to Russia. All men in the family were a sort of priests: before 1831 - Catholics, after - orthodox priests in the Oryol province, European part of Russia.
The grandfather, Kozma Mikolajevitch, did not accept "Sergijanski's heresy" and served secretly as a priest of Russian Cave Church for fourteen years. He was executed on November, 26, 1937. The father, Michael Kuzmitch, a colonel, a professor, and a doctor of the military sciences. Being 7 years old, he has officially refused from his father, then from his son at his 72.
Mikhail Zlatkovsky was graduated from Moscow Engineering-Physical Institute (Nuclear Physics Dept.) in 1967 with major in Accelerators of Elementary Particles and worked as the physicist-researcher for 5 years.
In 1971 throw out physics and became a free-lance artist. Worked as the Chief-Art-Designer in several leading newspapers and magazines. In 1993-98 used to live in the USA, where was Chief-art director of newspapers.
Now the Editorial Cartoonist of the daily all-state newspaper "New Messages ".Primary activity: political cartoons and caricature, books and magazines illustration, posters.The basic direction in creativity: "sense art, "problems graphics".
Art-research scientist of the State Institute of Art, where has prepared the thesis for a doctor's degree "The History of the Russian Cartoon", and wrote text books "The Theory and Practice of Images Creation".
During 1999-2001 term took the professor position at The Moscow State University, department of the art journalism. He was secretary of the Russian Journalists Union.
During 18 years (till 2001) his collection of the art awards was the biggest all over the world – 211 prizes of the international and national competitions of cartoons, animations, posters, designs, illustrations, among its there are about 50 Grand prizes - "Gold Esope " of Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Grand prix of Montreal, Canada, "the Gold Hat " of Knokke-Hiest, Belgium, (twice), the First prize in Istanbul, Turkey, Grand prix in South Korea, "Gold Date " of Bordighery, Italy, "the Gold Egg" of Kroushoutem, Belgium, "the Gold Pencil "of "Satyricon", Poland, and others.
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The most important art achievements are:
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- In 1992, was awarded as "The Best Artist in a Cartooning" after international Peers interrogation,
- “Gold pen”- the highest Russian professional artist award. 2003,
- “The Best artist of the world”,- Grand prix of the XVI Amadora International cartoons festival, Portugal, 2005.
- Personal exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, (twice), in Malta, Poland, (twice), Russia, Switzerland, USA.
- Founder and the President of the Russian Union of Cartoonists.
- President of The Russian division of FECO
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- “Gold pen”- the highest Russian professional artist award. 2003,
- “The Best artist of the world”,- Grand prix of the XVI Amadora International cartoons festival, Portugal, 2005.
- Personal exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, (twice), in Malta, Poland, (twice), Russia, Switzerland, USA.
- Founder and the President of the Russian Union of Cartoonists.
- President of The Russian division of FECO
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--> Source : Anadolu.edu.tr
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Tell it, if You can
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Can we suppress the old Remorse
Who bends our heart beneath his stroke,
Who feeds, as worms feed on the corse,
Or as the acorn on the oak?
Can we suppress the old Remorse?
Ah, in what philtre, wine, or spell,
May we drown this our ancient foe,
Destructive glutton, gorging well,
Patient as the ants, and slow?
What wine, what philtre, or what spell?
Tell it, enchantress, if you can,
Tell me, with anguish overcast,
Wounded, as a dying man,
Beneath the swift hoofs hurrying past.
Tell it, enchantress, if you can,
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To him the wolf already tears
Who sees the carrion pinions wave,
This broken warrior who despairs
To have a cross above his grave
This wretch the wolf already tears.
Can one illume a leaden sky,
Or tear apart the shadowy veil
Thicker than pitch, no star on high,
Not one funereal glimmer pale
Can one illume a leaden sky?
Hope lit the windows of the
But now that shining flame is dead;
And how shall martyred pilgrims win
Along the moonless road they tread?
Satan has darkened all the
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Say, do you know, the reprobate?
Know you Remorse, whose venomed darts
Make souls the targets of their hate?
Witch, do you know accursed hearts?
The Might-have-been with tooth accursed
Gnaws at the piteous souls of men,
The deep foundations suffer first,
And all the structure crumbles then
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed.
Often, when seated at the play,
And sonorous music lights the stage,
I see the frail hand of a Fay
With magic dawn illume the rage
Of the dark sky. Oft at the play
A being made of gauze and fire
Casts to the earth a Demon great.
And my heart, whence all hopes expire,
Is like a stage where I await,
In vain, the Fay with wings of fire!
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.--> The person represented in the drawings is Ejenia Spasskaja, a Moscovite artist.
--> See Ejenia's paintings on DeviantART
--> See Ejenia's photos on DeviantART
--> Poems’ source : poetry-archive
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Ejenia Spasskaja
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(Ben Heine © Cartoons).
My Spirit
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By Konstantin Batyushkov
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O memory of the heart! You are stronger
than the sad memories of reason.
And often from a far-off country,
you bewitch me with your sweetness.
I remember the loved voice sounding.
I remember the eyes of azure.
I remember the careless
curling strands of golden hair.
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My shepherdess, without a rival,
I remember her simplicity of dress,
the unforgotten, the dear image
that stays beside me everywhere.
My guardian spirit – granted me by love
to bring me solace in separation:
do I sleep? Bending over my pillow,
it will ease my saddened rest.
.My shepherdess, without a rival,
I remember her simplicity of dress,
the unforgotten, the dear image
that stays beside me everywhere.
My guardian spirit – granted me by love
to bring me solace in separation:
do I sleep? Bending over my pillow,
it will ease my saddened rest.
The above image is the portrait of Ejenia Spasskaja, an incredible and unconventional Russian woman. Ejenia is a talented painter and a brilliant photographer. A few weeks ago, I posted on this Blog a sketch of Ejenia, that was a prelude of the above portrait. Below is a variation.
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(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
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Silentium
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By Fedor Tyutchev
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your feelings and your dreams –
let them rise and set once more
in the abyss of your spirit,
silent, white stars in the night –
wonder at them – and be silent.
.
By Fedor Tyutchev
.
your feelings and your dreams –
let them rise and set once more
in the abyss of your spirit,
silent, white stars in the night –
wonder at them – and be silent.
How can another know
Will they see what you live by?
A thought once spoken is a lie:
troubling the streams, you cloud them –
drink from them – and be silent.
Know how to live deep inside –
there’s a universe in your mind
of mysterious thoughts, enchantments:
they’ll be drowned by World outside
they’ll be driven off by daylight –
hear them singing – and be silent! …
.
there’s a universe in your mind
of mysterious thoughts, enchantments:
they’ll be drowned by World outside
they’ll be driven off by daylight –
hear them singing – and be silent! …
.
Below is the initial black and white drawing of Ejenia's portrait
(Ben Heine © Cartoons).
Intimacy
.By Anna Akhmatova
.
In human intimacy there’s a secret border:
love’s being, love’s passion, cannot pass –
though lips are sealed together in sacred silence,
though the heart breaks in two with longing.
.By Anna Akhmatova
.
In human intimacy there’s a secret border:
love’s being, love’s passion, cannot pass –
though lips are sealed together in sacred silence,
though the heart breaks in two with longing.
of sublime flame-filled happiness
when the soul itself is free, and has no
knowledge of slow languid sensuality.
and those who have – are filled with anguish.
Now you know why it is my heart
does not beat beneath your hand.
--> Ejenia's paintings on DeviantART
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--> Source of the poems : Tonykline.
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