Joy of beautiful paintings

[alexandral]

Art of Mikhail VrubelOne of my most beloved painters, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel, was born in my home city, Omsk, Siberia in 1856. His manner of painting is wonderfully unique and influenced by Late Byzantine style, though he is considered to belong to Art Nouveau wave

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[jenlev]

wow, these are incredible. and i wonder if they'd sometimes light the rooms these are in with candles so we could see them the way he did....even though the patina on the bronze would still shift the look. athough as i type this....i really haven't a clue if that's true. ;)

[alexandral]

I think you are definitely right - there must be a difference for different lighting conditions and candles add particular eerie feel to old paintings because the light of the candles shift and makes them look "alive". Though I suspect that the bronze powder has completely darkened now and may be adds some greenish tint.

[jenlev]

it's too bad, because i'm thinking he wasn't going for the green look. ;)

things like this make me wonder how people would feel about this technological world if they came forward in time.

[alexandral]

things like this make me wonder how people would feel about this technological world if they came forward in time.

This what I think A LOT recently. To think of, even take myself 8 years ago. If I just went 8 years forward and saw how I will chat with the people all around the globe and watch all things I never had an access to at that time (like Asian dramas) and read Russian books and newspapers on-line!! I wounder what I would have thought.

[jenlev]

true...amazing how the internet has changed *everything*. i lurked in lj for over a year before i got a journal. i was totally scared about the whole thing. i look back on that now and giggle.

growing up reading scifi i wished for some of the things we can now do so easily, but i didn't expect it would come true in my lifetime. there's some very cool stuff out there. terrifying stuff too though. meep.

[alexandral]

growing up reading scifi i wished for some of the things we can now do so easily, but i didn't expect it would come true in my lifetime. there's some very cool stuff out there. terrifying stuff too though. meep.

This is so true. In fact if I had a vision of myself in 20 years time at the moment I was 20 ( ** cough cough **, I am disclosing my age here) I would have not believed it, so much things changed in more then one way and amazingly, for better. :D

terrifying stuff too though.

I don't worry too much, I guess it is until something really happens.

[jenlev]

yes, indeedy. and i'm always trying to remember how many things have gotten better. and i remember being eleven and looking forward to what the year 2001 would bring. er...that was after seeing the movie. :)

all in all, i'm glad i live now versus some time in the past. for so many reasons including penicillin, electricity, and the invention of electric guitar. ;)

[alexandral]

So true :D

[jenlev]

;)