Chapter 2: Culture

Спорт в русском изобразительном искусстве

Een verzameling kunst over sport. Het Russisch museum in St Petersburg maakt ook virtuele tentoonstellingen en dit is er één van.

http://www.virtualrm.spb.ru/ru/resources/galleries/sport

Leuk om door te bladeren.

Москва - Бенуа - Царское Село

The curse of the net: I got some info from Maxima Hotel Moscow about Anna Mons. Became interested in the painter Benois, and landed in Tsarskoye Selo. Nice!

...where are some really nice piano's (not only royals!)

Челябинск (Дзюдо)

 Yes, I know: JUDO, not wrestling. And I really like judo, (also did some, once upon a time...) but in my drawings I only use cotton as pepper on the meat, to enhance, not to hide.

Чемпионат мира по лёгкой атлетике 2013

And this athlete is of course also nr 17

in my "shirt" series

Летняя Универсиада 2013 КАЗАНЬ

Today: 10 m platform. Phew!

(btw: this is meant to be a wet event... look at the weather outside!)

29-5-1913

RIOT AT THE RITE

See this at least three times! 

Чемпионат Европы

Don't miss the stunning performances of the artists/athletes in Moskow this weekend!

Фабержé...?

No: Елена, and she really is a master with paper and scissors!

Сталин

From "Russia in War", pen and ink, by Feliks Topolski

Скаут Русский 1914 г.

Bad picture, good scout, helping the old woman back in 1914 Russia.

Украïна

Yes, I know, this is about going to Irkutsk. But while Jeroen was testing his Еликон in France, I was "wrestling" with Алексей Голобородко on my draw-blog, not very successfully so every now and then I had a little "intermezzo", and this girl from Украïна was number six (drawing!)

Very peaceful.

http://sportzeichnung.blogspot.com/  for the Russian and Italian drawings.

Бандура

 I did promise you some really Russian music, but you'll have to wait a bit, my music-store has a problem.
But: I received some film from Украiна, and that's not Russia of course, but better than Lehar (below).
On the stamps a Bandoura, never heard of it, looks like a Zither to me. The band is called Дзвiнга (Swing!)(?)
and look what Luciano Carvari's photographer did to her!