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The skeleton cosmonaut. The skeleton diver. Two images by Bradley Wright and Tobias Roetsch. The suit goes on giving the appearance of life when its human is only bones. #faustianfriday #NasaPerseverance #rover #scicomm #postsoviet
'Son of Russia' is a book with Palekh miniatures about Yuri Gagarin. It mythologizes the life of the cosmonaut through the painting style which was initially reserved for icons. After the revolution the icon artists started making lacquer boxes with new motifs. #Folklorethursday
Makharbek Tuganov loved to paint the great complex crowd scenes and the horse warriors in action
Let's be entertained by Boris Messerer. Dragonet was the fool in Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte D'Arthur'. Perhaps the the tales are all the the tellings of minstrels. 'Yes, I am minstrel for this evening hour" #fairytaleTuesdays
Mesmerising candy wrapper 'Parsifal' from 1927. Some artists were still working in symbolist / Art Nouveau style in #Soviet 1920s. #FairyTaleTuesday #sovietart
'Arthur of Albion' written by John Matthews and illustrated by Belorussian artist Pavel Tatarnikov in 2009. Pavel is specialised in medieval illustration which you can notice in his minute attention to detail. Dreamy atmosphere... #FairyTaleTuesday #postsoviet
'The Lost Little song, Folktales of People of the North' beautifully illustrated by Kirill Ovchinnikov in 1977. Amazing details of the costumes and a little tent (could that be an urasa?) #soviet #sovietart
#BookIllustrationoftheDay3 #sovietart 'The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino' was Alexei Tolstoy's version of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio. These are luxurious illustrations from 1984 by Aleksandr Koshkin.
1950's black market of photomontage romantic cards from #Soviet Russia. #sovietart #FolkloreThursday
'Ruslan and Ludmila' written by A.Pushkin in 1820 and illustrated in 1964 by Palekh painters B.Parilov and V. Dudorov. #soviet #sovietart