Culture
30-07-2023
20 incredibly beautiful artifacts of the past
If you think that old things, it's something artisanal and ugly, something very wrong. As for beauty, elegance and other aspects of ...
30-07-2023
What do the grandchildren of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, ...
Great stars like Elvis Presley, Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin have left this world forever, but have left a bright mark on ...
30-07-2023
The author asks you to hold your breath. Unreal designs of coins
With a certain skill, putting one coin on the edge of another is quite simple. Try to add another one — and everything will ...
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30-07-2023
How did the offensive word "freak" appear, and who ...
The word "freak" is taken as a serious insult these days. But in ancient Rus', oddly enough, it had an extremely ...
29-07-2023
The Muse of the Belle Epoque: the inimitable Cleo de Merode
The end of the XIX century in France was the beginning of a Beautiful era — the time of aesthetics and elegance. Beautiful women, ...
29-07-2023
Sex in the Victorian era: slow, sad and rare
The long reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled Great Britain from 1832 to 1901, was very controversial in terms of sexuality. Along ...
28-07-2023
The elusive Dolce Vita: Italy in the photo classic by Gianni ...
Gianni Berengo Gardin is a world-famous photographer, a documentary filmmaker with a poetic look, a master who was admired by Henri ...
28-07-2023
Power in Motion — Spanish photographer turns street ...
We present to you a completely new genre of street art — graffiti! Spanish photographer A.L. Crego transforms street art into ...
28-07-2023
The Gypsy court — how does it differ from the secular one
Gypsies came to Europe in the XV century, and from the first years they showed their independence. Back in 1432, the Holy Roman ...
27-07-2023
The strangest beauty contests in the history of mankind
Once we talked about a flash mob of unshaven armpits and hairy legs that accidentally started online. But unlike him, those beauty ...
27-07-2023
How the god Perun, alien to them, was imposed on the Eastern ...
Many are sure that Perun is a primordially Russian pagan deity, who was worshiped by our ancestors from time immemorial. In fact, ...
26-07-2023
Japanese Christian icons: the images in the interpretation
Christianity in Japan has got quite a long time — in the 16th century with the Portuguese merchants. The first Catholic ...
26-07-2023
Model Marta Gromova is frank and at the same time mysterious
Most often, the life of popular fashion models takes place in full view of everyone. Journalists or the girls themselves tell about ...
25-07-2023
The charm of everyday life in the warm watercolor ...
Bulgarian artist and Illustrator Clementine Petrova (Petrova Clementine) paints long as he can remember. Now she moved to London, ...
25-07-2023
Hilarious album covers of Soviet musicians
Music album covers are a specific genre of fine art of the last century, moreover, relatively young. Only in the late 1970s did ...
23-07-2023
What is lacrimatory and why it is better to do without it
The word lacrimatory (lacrymatory) comes from the Latin word "lacrima" — tears. It is a miniature oblong vessel made of glass or ...
23-07-2023
A former Mormon schoolgirl has become the most unusual sword ...
Meet Heather Holliday, one of the most unusual sword swallowers in the world. Heather grew up in New York as a follower of ...
23-07-2023
"I invented language so people could see": the life and death ...
Francesca Woodman was only 22 years old when she voluntarily passed away. But the young photographer left behind such a number of ...
23-07-2023
Super beautiful tattoos drawn in one line
Tattoo artist Mo Ganji creates simple yet powerful images. The tattoo artist, who was born in Iran and lives in Berlin, makes ...
22-07-2023
Paris syndrome – a mental disorder caused by frustration
Paris is a whole world of romance! Having visited the capital of France, every traveler is delighted with the sights he has seen. ...
22-07-2023
Comic artist Andy Brace and his dark concept art and ...
Is there a desire to "tickle the nerves", to look into the eyes of the most secret fears? In this case, these gloomy concept arts ...
22-07-2023
Nude for everyone: the splendor of the female body without a ...
The enlightened audience knows the Moscow photographer Mikhail Sudakov, who works in the nude genre, as Mecuro B Cotto. His ...
22-07-2023
Jose de Ribera is a maniac artist, acquitted after 400 years
Finding the fine line between genius and madness is very difficult. It is especially difficult to understand the worldview and ...
22-07-2023
Japanese artist Atsushi Suwa and his ultra-realistic girls
The works of hyperrealist artists have always amazed the imagination with their photographic authenticity. But even among these ...
22-07-2023
The artist Franz Anton Hoeger: a hard-boiled realist European ...
German artist Anton Franz Jugera (Franz Anton Hoeger) is considered one of the most unusual painters of Europe. In his paintings, ...
21-07-2023
A photographer took a picture of baby mice hiding in tulips, ...
British photographer Miles Herbert owns the Captivelight photo studio in Bournemouth. Herbert teaches lessons for everyone on how ...