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Pavel Tretyakov
Tretyakov, Pavel (b Moscow, 27 Dec. 1832; d Moscow, 16 Dec. 1898). Russian businessman and art collector. He made a fortune in the textile industry and devoted much of it to his passion for art. Initially he bought Western works, but he soon came to specialize in Russian art and by 1860 he had... Read more |
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Fine Arts
Fine ArtsI. ART AND SOCIETYFrancis HaskellBIBLIOGRAPHYII THE RECRUITMENT AND SOCIALIZATION OF ARTISTSMason GriffParental attitudesPreparation for a career in artArt and advertisingBIBLIOGRAPHYI ART AND SOCIETYSocieties of all kinds and of all periods have given birth to what can today be classified... Read more |
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Arts Theatre
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conceptual art
conceptual art art movement that began in the 1960s and stresses the artist's concept rather than the art object itself. Growing out of minimalism , conceptual art turned the artist's thoughts and ideas themselves into the primary artistic medium, appealing to the spectator's intellect instead of... Read more |
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Art Brut
Art Brut (French: ‘Raw Art'). Term coined by Jean Dubuffet for the art produced by people outside the established art world—people such as solitaries, the maladjusted, patients in psychiatric hospitals, prisoners, and fringe-dwellers of all kinds. In English the term ‘Outsider... Read more |
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Art therapy
Art therapy Definition Art therapy, sometimes called creative arts therapy or expressive arts therapy, encourages people to express and understand emotions through artistic expression and through the creative process. Origins Humans have expressed themselves with symbols throughout history.... Read more |
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degenerate art
degenerate art (entartete Kunst). Term applied by the Nazis to all contemporary art that did not correspond to their ideology (see NATIONAL SOCIALIST ART). Such art, which included most avant-garde work, was systematically defamed and suppressed in Germany throughout the period when the Nazi Party... Read more |
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Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , 1859-1943, Russian stage director, cofounder and director of the Moscow Art Theater . Prior to his historical meeting with Constantin Stanislavsky in 1897, he was an actor, war correspondent, novelist, music and drama critic, and playwright. After publication of... Read more |
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
...Pavlovich (1860–1904), Russian dramatist, the one best known...the newly founded Moscow Art Theatre revive The Seagull...Orchard (1904), in all of which Chekhov's wife...the celebrated ‘All Russia is our garden...Ivanov by Elisaveta Fen. All ... |
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ballet
...the role.)As with art and music, the nineteenth...choreographer for the Imperial Russian Ballet in St Petersburg from 1862, sought, above all, sculpted perfection...more expressive works of Russian choreographer Michael...twentieth century, after the ... |
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Trenev, Konstantin Andreivich
...was staged by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1925. In 1926...productions of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1937. The...between love for her White Russian husband and loyalty to...ideals, it became popular all over the USSR and is still...character is the famous ... |
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Dance
...ballet, modern, and jazz. All forms spotlight highly energized...into its own in the 1930s, when Russian‐born George Balanchine (1903...1878–1927) by ancient Greek art and musical visualizations...on content to concentrate on art materials. Merce ... |
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Gorky, Maxim
...Pyeshkov] (1868–1936), Russian dramatist, the only one to...in 1902 persuaded the Moscow Art Theatre to stage his first...followed by many lesser plays, all dealing with the class struggle...trilogy on the decay of the Russian bourgeoisie; of this only two... |
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Stoppard Tom
...Joyce and Lenin, on the justification for art. Produced in London by the National Theatre...NY, 1977), ran for four years at the Arts Theatre, and after a ‘music-drama...1988), a spy thriller about a defecting Russian nuclear physicist, includes expositions...Havel's Largo ... |
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Cambridge
...Ruggle's Ignoramus.All this activity was of course...for the British Council all the plays of Shakespeare...Maynard Keynes built the Arts Theatre at his own expense...that of his wife, the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova...Company, financed by the ... |
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Chekhov, Anton (Pavlovich)
...1904), playwright. The great Russian writer of stories and plays...States were generally given in Russian by small groups of émigré artists...Seagull a year later. Almost all of these productions were failures...bourgeoisie. The visits of the Moscow Art ... |
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Paley, William
...CBS).Born in Chicago to Russian immigrants, Paley first became...sixty‐five, mandatory for all CBS employees, and after the...combined an interest in the fine arts (he was a long‐time supporter...New York's Museum of Modern Art) and enjoyment of high ... |
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Majestic Theatre
...in 1935 it housed Michael Chekhov and his Moscow Art Players in a series of Russian plays, and it was also used for several thrillers...later the same year. Further musicals included the all-Black The Wiz (1975), based on The Wizard of... |
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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (Andreyevich)
...etc. His editing of 100 Russian Folk-Songs, 1876...Korsakov excelled them all in the art of clear and colourful...can be discerned above all in The Firebird. Wrote textbooks on harmony and...6); Overture on 3 Russian Themes (1866, rev. ... |
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Georgia
...USA 1. Georgia (Sak'art'velo) since 1998. Previously...Georgia), and 1864 the Russians annexed the Georgian kingdoms...Georgian name, Sak'art'velo, means the ‘Land...Mingrelians and Svans, all of whom live in Georgia...coast. The name ... |
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Peter
...the best-known of all Christ's apostles...him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona...explicitly, ‘Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona ... thou art Peter, and upon...Italian: Pietro, Piero. Russian: Pyotr. Polish: Piotr... |
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Poland
...Protestantism, and achievement in the arts and sciences. The 16th century...administration but with the Russian emperor Alexander I as king...repression followed in both Russian and Prussian Poland. This did...and round-table talks with all groups |
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Prokofiev, Sergey (Sergeyevich)
...sonatas and first two pf. concs., all of which were condemned by the critics...doctrine of ‘socialist realism’ in the arts had just been propounded. He found an outlet for his...narr., orch., Op.67 (1936); Russian Overture, Op.72 (1936); Suite, 1941... |
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The Russian Arts Enjoy Newfound Freedom of Expression
...of next month's Russian election. The parliamentary...is happening to the arts in this post- Soviet...what happens to art when censorship and...gatekeepers of the arts - a gallery director...has happened now in arts, I mean, before...found ... |
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RUSSIAN ARTS FINDING WAYS TO ENDURE IN GRAVE NEW WORLD.(Commentary /...
...communism, the classical arts have begun to fade...its successors. Major arts institutions have wild...second rate) charge Russians about $6; others pay...110. At a state-run art museum, a Russian pays 50 cents, a non...when they are paid at ... |
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Soviet Ambassador to visit Louisville to attend Russian Arts Festival. (Yuri...
...VISIT LOUISVILLE TO ATTEND RUSSIAN ARTS FESTIVAL LOUISVILLE...which is exploring "The Arts and Russia in Revolution...Louisville Fund for the Arts. The Ambassador's visit...Louisville Fund for the Arts, which oversees the festival...Cinzano" ... |
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Russian arts enjoy a summer on the Hudson
...Czechs, this year the Russians. Just in its second...Bard College a summer arts festival built around...Czechs flocked in from all over. This year, the...hundreds of thousands of Russian speakers, is on Dmitri...has raged in Soviet and ... |
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The rebirth of Russian art: a decade after the fall of the Communist regime,...
...celebrate 300 years of Russian visual arts and culture...of Russian Avant Garde Art, Art of the Ballet Russes...of contemporary Russian art, to performances of Russian...cultural capital to ... |
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COMMENTARY; Russian art, American dealing; The businessman who founded...
...Writer The Museum of Russian Art, which opened this fall...showcase Soviet-era Russian realist painting that...Susan. They depict Russians reading, on picnics...projections.) "Not all realism is great art...elephant poop. ... |
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Out of Russia; A museum that showcases Soviet- era Russian art has a spacious...
...St. Petersburg art studios back in...000 to 14,000 Russian paintings that were...deftly executed, all testify to the extensive...the diversity of Russian art in the 20th century...specialized field of Russian ... |
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New Minneapolis home for some of finest Soviet-era Russian art
...as 23 from The Museum of Russian Art's own collection.The...swirling waters, which some art historians see as a prophetic...you know something about Russian art you might want to come...orgCopyright 2005, AP News All Rights ... |
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Russian Art Loan to London in Doubt
Russian authorities have...authorities could seize the art to settle private...20th century Russian art patrons and collectors...Royal Academy of Arts initially expressed...20th century Russian art patrons and ... |
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Museum of Russian Art now open.(Museum: MATTERS)(In the Russian Tradition: A...
...new Museum of Russian Art announces its grand opening...preservation and exhibition of Russian art created during the...have been retained on all levels, as well as architectural...aesthetically important Russian ... |