MetaFilter posts tagged with Russia and art

Comrade Draper, we have a new account from Acme Caviar.

grumblebee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:23:47 -0800

Mad Men: Soviet Style. Beautiful advertising posters from the USSR.

Anna Skladmann's Little Adults

chunking express — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:26:59 -0800

Anna Skladmann's Little Adults. Photographs of the children of the ultra-rich in Russia.

The Art of Onfim: Medieval Novgorod Through the Eyes of a Child

sidartha — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:37:42 -0800

Amazing collection of sketches and doodles, drawn on birch bark, created by a child in Medieval Novgorod.

Russian sausage culture

wretched_rhapsody — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:57:35 -0800

Six Russian artists have created reproductions of world-famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh and Picasso entirely out of sausage, earning a Guiness record certificate . This exhibition of perfectly edible art pieces took place a few weeks ago in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to celebrate the centennary of a local meat-processing factory. Close-up photos of the pieces at English Russia. Sausage, or kolbasa (not to be confused with the polish "kielbasa") is a staple of Russian cuisine and culture. Every Russian grocery store will have dozens of varieties for discerning customers to choose from. Over the years, it has made its way into Russian vocabulary and humor (go to the Sherlock Holmes section). A peek at Russia's processed meat industry. For a different kind of sausage art, check out Banksy's current installation in New York City (discussed previously on MeFi).

An extraordinary work of art

pyramid termite — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:38:46 -0800

Eufrosinia Antonovna Kersnovskaya was a Russian woman who spent 12 years in Gulag camps and wrote her memoirs in 12 notebooks, 2,200,000 characters, accompanied with 680 pictures. How Much Is a Person Worth? has all 12 notebooks online, in Russian, some images NSFW and disturbing. (Just click on no 1 to 12 to see thumbnails of notebooks.)

Lemon Ades You?

interrobang — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:56:49 -0800

Soviet Lemonade Labels

...in my sobriety, behind the old facade

Wolfdog — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:08:03 -0800

Art Deliverance - Alex Klochkov's gallery of abandonment from the Soviet Union. There's next to no explanation of the photos, unfortunately. Indirectly via Retrospectacle's post about the brain lab.

Cool art russian artists found on livejournal

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:07:47 -0800

The livejournal group ru_graphic has been showcasing great artists for years, such as soamo, desmonych, floksystar, malli-ly, olliwander, omie-yomie, zuza1, ya-ya, varka, solntsev-gleb, adul and names.

Motherland

sgt.serenity — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:23:09 -0800

Motherland - a photo essay of Russia by Simon Roberts. (via conscientious)

Soviet Era Art

jonson — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:39:35 -0800

Metafilter's own Fake, Dan Reetz, recently spent several months in the former Soviet Union; while there he managed to round up this great selection of Soviet Movie posters from 1921-1973, as well as this interesting 1952 set of food drawings from the government produced book "Tasty & Healthy Eating." Finally, bonus content for anyone jonesing for more soviet content, this Russian Winnie the Pooh cartoon from the 1970s is fantastic. (via)

Printed Ephemera

jonson — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:42:13 -0800

Civil War Posters, Soviet Children's Books, 19th Century Shipping Posters, and much, much more are all part of this Flickr user's amazing collection of printed ephemera.

Hey, I can see my... wait, what's Waldo doing on my sofa!?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:35:07 -0800

Everyone loves pixel art.

tolls the bells and hampers work

tellurian — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:43:38 -0800

Stalin

Enough With The Pickles Already, Chewbacca

Gator — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:02:35 -0800

Andrey Kuznetsov makes delightful lubki (sing. lubok), a form of Russian folk art, out of some well-known modern movies. Some information (in English) about the medium and its origins with many examples can be seen here (warning: Java). Shamelessly ganked from AskMe. Thanks jonson!

A life at high altitudes

nickyskye — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:36:16 -0800

The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City, houses paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian artist, who spent most of his life on the Indian-Tibetan border, creating evocative images of night and day in the Himalayan Mountains. (more inside)

"Perspectives of Russian Art"

hortense — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:53:34 -0800

Perspectives of Russian Art Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 Americans had limited opportunities to view Russian art of the 20th century. The political pressures of the Cold War era resulted in the mutual cultural isolation of Russia from western Europe and the United States that also created an atmosphere of aesthetic mystery regarding Russian art . .

Faberge Mice

dirtynumbangelboy — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:28:49 -0800

Because everybody needs a beautiful mouse.

Aleksandr Sokurov's "The Sun"

matteo — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:54:32 -0800

The Emperor's Bunker. "The Japanese, with sadness and irony, stressed that Hirohito couldn't even speak properly. This was partly to do with the fact that he didn't have to speak - people spoke in his name and he was isolated from real life". "The Sun", the third part in Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov's 'Men of Power' tetralogy after the gloom of Moloch (1999), about Hitler and Eva Braun, and the despairing tones of "Taurus" (2001), focused on the wheelchair-bound Lenin in his death throes, "The Sun" seems almost upbeat. This, after all, is a film about reconciliation. More inside.

a nice counterpiece to abandoned Russian buildings

iconomy — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:07:26 -0800

Buildings that never were: Unrealized Moscow - grand scale architectural projects from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s.

The Amber Room

dhruva — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:26:46 -0800

The Amber Room : [flash] Stolen by the Nazis in WWII from the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Amber Room remains one of the greatest missing treasures of Europe. The room has now been reconstructed, and the search for the original may have come to an unhappy end .

Traditional Russian fairytales

gregb1007 — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:57:22 -0800

Traditional Russian fairytales with beautiful illustrations depicting scenes from the stories.

Colors of the Past

buriednexttoyou — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:28:17 -0800

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii took three b&w photos of his subjects using red, green, and blue filters. Now, they've been digitally composited, and we have stunning, authentic color photographs of Russia in the early 1900's.

A Caravan of Camels in the Eye of a Needle

By The Grace of God — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 05:58:11 -0800

Vladimir Aniskin, by day a farm equipment researcher (pdf), makes gorgeous Faberge-like creations, haunting and whimsical metaphors of war and peace, and more in extreme miniature. Moscow reporters have entered him in a competition (Russian-language page) for the strangest hobby practiced in Russia. Via the ever-brilliant aldaily.com.

Sheremey's Gallery

plep — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:03:27 -0800

Sheremey's Gallery. Russian artists and photographers.

motherland/vodka

JohnR — Mon, 05 May 2003 13:38:19 -0800

Fatherland or Motherland.I was wondering why people say Motherland for Russia and Fatherland for Germany.I googled and didn't find an answer but did find an artistamp exhibit that artistically tried to answer the question.1,2,3,4.And at the same site found a collection of other cool artistamps.1,2,3,4. And also found a neat gallery of cigarette packages from around the world.But my question still remains to be answered.(Oh,who cares,Motherland is where the vodka is.)