Forwarded from Vault of Secrets - Unpopular History (David K)
Vault of Secrets - Unpopular History
"An uninvited guest is worse than a Tatar" (1916) - Vladimir Taburin. Taburin was a well-known St. Petersburg artist and illustrator at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. He illustrated magazines with editions of Gogol, Pushkin and Turgenev. At the height…
Vladimir Taburin
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"The Battle of the Negroes in the Cave at Night" (1882) - Paul Billaud.
Unveiled in 1915, Malevich's "Black Square" revolutionized painting. But it turns out that this was not the first monochrome-black work. The humorists of the "Salon des Inconsequences" from France presented today's work as a joke on academic art in 1882.
Like many works by members of this club, the painting was long considered lost. But in 2021, in one of the private houses of Ile-de-France was found a chest, which contained 17 paintings, painted a century and a half ago. And among them is "The Battle of the Negroes in a Cave at Night"!
Billaud's idea was picked up by Allee. And in continuation of the theme she wrote "Harvesting tomatoes on the Red Sea coast by apoplectic cardinals" and "Anemic maidens going to the first communion in the snowy season". There is probably no need to name the colors of these paintings. 🤣
Unveiled in 1915, Malevich's "Black Square" revolutionized painting. But it turns out that this was not the first monochrome-black work. The humorists of the "Salon des Inconsequences" from France presented today's work as a joke on academic art in 1882.
Like many works by members of this club, the painting was long considered lost. But in 2021, in one of the private houses of Ile-de-France was found a chest, which contained 17 paintings, painted a century and a half ago. And among them is "The Battle of the Negroes in a Cave at Night"!
Billaud's idea was picked up by Allee. And in continuation of the theme she wrote "Harvesting tomatoes on the Red Sea coast by apoplectic cardinals" and "Anemic maidens going to the first communion in the snowy season". There is probably no need to name the colors of these paintings. 🤣
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