"The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL" - the special edition to the 72nd current issue of the Tretyakov Gallery magazine
We present the special edition to the new issue of the "Tretyakov Gallery" magazine - #3 (72)/2021 - "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL". It will soon be available in stores of Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Subscribe our magazine here.
Cover:
Mikhail VRUBEL
Pearl. 1904
Pastel, gouache, charcoal
on cardboard. 35 × 43.7 cm
© Tretyakov Gallery
Detail
Special edition to the issue #3 (72)/2021
Content
Olga Davydova
The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL
One could begin a conversation on Mikhail Vrubel’s decorative and ornamental philosophy with the phrase “Flowers live in honeycombs, their petals picked out by sunset rays.” It is a verbal transposition summarising the images created by the artist, and also a distant echo that introduces a metaphor belonging to Charles Baudelaire into our train of thought, a metaphor that reveals, by chance, the universal nature of art: “Des fleurs se pâment dans un coin.” [“Flowers swoon in a corner.”]
Attention!
The special edition to the new issue #3 (72)/2021 is available in the mobile app of The Tretyakov Gallery magazine.
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