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Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 28
Tatiana Glebova, 1927.
In "Prision," of which there is a preparatory drawing, the painter depicts a world of multiple orientations through diverse interconnected viewpoints, and shows various heads with their musculature visible as if to reveal to us their interminable growth process. Glebova devoutly believed Filonov’s theories on the “universal flowering” and, like him, held that painting should reflect a growth process of the world similar to that of plants, according to which it was permanently active as an independent being.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 27, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body Modifications, 1920s, Russia
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"King Solomon" was the last sculpture that Alexander Archipenko made and the only one that he conceived as a monumental sculpture. Throughout his career, Archipenko experimented with positive and negative space in his sculptures, often using voids or holes to suggest form. In King Solomon, he placed abstract shapes together to create the vague shape of a figure. The tall prongs at the top evoke a crown, and the intersecting triangles suggest an imposing archaic costume. Archipenko captured a dramatic sense of scale, and it is easy to imagine how formidable this figure would be if enlarged to the sixty-foot-tall version that the artist envisioned.
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His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 11, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body, Criticism and Reviews, Russia, Twentieth Century
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 23
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 04, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1930s, Russia
Nicholas Zoueff, Boy War Hero
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 19, 2019 -
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Category: War, Children, Asia, Russia, Twentieth Century
Phyl and Mikhy
Background info here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 25, 2019 -
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Category: Games, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Sports, Television, Foreign Customs, 1980s, Russia
I Dreamt I Saw Khrushchev (in a Pink Cadillac)
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 15, 2019 -
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Category: Humor, Music, Politics, 1960s, Russia, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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The avant garde that irked Khrushchev flourished in Japan also, as we learn in this article.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 26, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Art, Avant Garde, 1920s, Asia, Russia
Nuking the Moon
Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. If the explosive device detonated on the surface, not in a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on Earth with their naked eye, a show of force resulting in a possible boosting of domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States, a boost that was needed after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race and was also working on a similar project.
The project was never carried out, being cancelled primarily out of a fear of a negative public reaction, with the potential militarization of space that it would also have signified, and because a Moon landing would undoubtedly be a more popular achievement in the eyes of the American and international public alike. A similar project by the Soviet Union also never came to fruition.
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 10, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Explosives, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Government, Mad Scientists, Evil Geniuses, Insane Villains, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s, North America, Russia
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Khrushchev definitely would not have approved of this filthy exhibitionism!
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 13, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1920s, Russia
Follies of the Madmen #420
Commies were a useful foil to sell things.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 28, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Appliances, Historical Figure, 1950s, Russia
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