Mar 12, 2018 · Kelly Grovier looks at how the colour black has illuminated and concealed, from early cave drawings to the square that hid a racist message. Black is where art begins. From the moment mankind...

May 11, 2013 · Russian icon with Archangel Michael by unknown painter, tempera on panel, 15th.

Feb 1, 2024 · Russian-US museum partnerships have been suspended since 2010 due to a dispute over the Schneerson Library of Jewish texts. The trend mirrors the African art boom of recent years in Europe and...

Black Square (Russian: Чёрный квадрат) is a 1915 oil on linen canvas painting by the Russian avant-garde artist and theorist Kazimir Malevich. [1] There are four painted versions, the first of which was completed in 1915 and described by the artist as his breakthrough work and the inception of his Suprematist art movement (1915 ...

Most distinguished within this relatively new art form are the intricate Palekh miniature paintings on a black lacquer background. Many Russian icons were destroyed, or sold abroad, by agents of the Soviet government; some were hidden to avoid …

The Pushkin Museum has put together a rare collection of 130 religious icons dating from the 14th to 16th centuries of religious art in Russia. Message to the 12 tribes scattered abroad across...

Feb 16, 2021 · Lavishly illustrated, multi-volume publications, such as the Image of the Black in Western Art, L’Art et La Race, and The Orient in Western Art, have yielded invaluable insights into the politics and poetics of Western visualizations of race from antiquity to the present day. Typically, Russia is left out of these accounts.

Nov 23, 2022 · You can discover the whole spectrum of Russian icons of different times and regions, and the two-tier Greek icon wall. Besides traditional museum halls, there is an Old-Believers chapel, an icon-painting workroom and even an exotic section devoted to …

This article focuses on a series of both iconic and little-known paintings, examining the diverse ways in which some of Russia's most prominent nineteenth-century artists such as Karl Briullov, Vasilii Polenov, and Il΄ia Repin depicted Black subjects.

Apr 28, 2021 · In Russia, the slow dismantling of the reign of Socialist Realism and its counterpart propaganda left ample material and a ready-made canvas for ironic art. Sots-Art subverted Russian propaganda, Socialist Realism and other forms of government repression.