Stories about painting, sculpture, architecture, history

 🖌️🎨 Armen Gasparian (born 1966) - artist-surrealist The artist's canvases are a unique universe, where ancient myths cast a solemn and menacing glow on modern images and destinies. Motifs of ancient legends and ghosts of bygone art come to life in Gasparian's paintings, strangely, disturbingly, and festively blending with a contemporary rhythm, while characters are burdened with today's intellectual complexity. The master has found his own artistic language, combining the traditions of classical art with the search for new plastic forms. His works are unique, imbued with deep meaning, and distinctive, which is why they have attracted the interest of art collectors. The artist's paintings are represented in a number of art museums in Europe, and are also held in private collections in Germany, Holland, Finland, the USA, China, Japan, Singapore, Korea, and other countries.  ©️ #painting #art

 "A person who can't be satisfied with themselves will never be satisfied with anything. Intelligence is what generates the right attitude toward life. Intelligence, as we know, comes in different calibers and profiles: practical, scientific, creative, resourceful, "feminine," behavioral, psychological, and so on. But I think the most important type of intelligence is the one that allows a person to have the right attitude toward life. People often fall in love with someone at a glance. We writers are capable of falling in love with a single phrase. That's what happened to me. I fell in love with Lady Montague while working on The Writer and Suicide—precisely with a single phrase. No, don't worry, this lady isn't She committed suicide; she was too smart for that. Mary was the daughter of Count Pierpont, born in 1689. She spent almost her entire childhood in the library of her father's castle, which housed one of the richest book collections in England...

 📸 Argentine photographer Irina Werning has a particular love for vintage photography. She created a nostalgic project called "Back to the Future." In it, she and her "models" recreate their favorite old photos.

  📸🌊 Z ena Holloway - Underwater photographer from London.  The images of Zena are exciting combinations of the brilliant underwater shooting and the author’s extreme creativity. Each picture is permeated with a deep understanding of the environment in which Zena works - water elements.  At the age of 10, Zena already traveled around the world, working as an instructor in the underwater swimming. Her photographs are wonderful and easy, people hover on them as in a fairy tale. Magic is enhanced by processing, finishing vector elements. © ️