Raspberries. Drops of blood.

Whatever I've been thinking

I am thinking of the drops of blood 

in Ukraine

 —

 

Ruins.

 #Anichkin хроники #covid chronicles

This was a free interpretation of the theme of 'ruins' in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

Портрет А.Аничкина, холст масло 

Portrait of Alexander Anichkin,

oil on canvas

38 х 32 см

October / октябрь 2021

Unknown author, school of fauvistes / Неизвестный автор, школа фовистов

In private collection / В частной коллекции

NB: #язык "Портрет жены художника" - я никогда не мог понять, кто кого рисовал, жена художника или художник жену? 

Portrait d'A. Anitchkine,

toile, huile

38x32cm

octobre 2021

Auteur inconnu, école fauvistes

Dans une collection privée

"Portrait de la femme de l'artiste" - Je n'ai jamais pu comprendre qui dessinait qui, la femme peignait l'artiste, ou l'artiste peignait sa femme ? 

©A.Anichkin/M.Ingram

Nue. Automne.

Nue. Automne.
Installation. Bois, des pommes. ©A.Anichkin

Eve, after Eric Gill.

This is my copy of the famous 'Eve' by Eric Gill (1926).

I haven't quite finished it but decided to publish it here as an aid to the blog post about making pictures in Pages, a popular programme by Apple, that comes preinstalled on Macintosh computers.  

Nu mince / Thin Nude.

The public criticised my work 'Pink Nude' based on a drawing by Amedeo Modigliani.

Members of the public were especially shocked by her healthy, well-rounded forms. I have trawled through other nudes by Modigliani but couldn't find one single thin one.

In desperation I am turning to Marcel Duchamp in the hope that this work will be received more favourably.

'Nu mince, pensant à l'éternité', ©A.Anichkin, 2017, digital photography, industrial plastic, plywood.

Britannia.

'Britannia',
Drawing by Adolphe Braun, 1916,
from 'Hieroglyphic, or Greek Method of Life Drawing'.

Model is said to be Miss Dorothy Lees,
from here.

This drawing was accompanying the articles related to Britain on my blog 'Tetradki' until Google changed advertising rules that don't allow nudity.

More on Britannia as the national symbol on Wikipedia here and on life drawing here.

Europe. Girl Carrying a Bull.

A wonderful drawing by the Belorussian artist Vladimir Fokanov (Minsk). He titled it "Girl Carrying a Bull" (Computer graphics, 2009). Of course, we can see the inverted interpretation of the legend of Zeus abducting Europe.

The composition evokes the famous sculpture of the Titan holding the Earth on his shoulders in front of the Rockefeller Center in New York.

I had used this picture as an icon for my blogs on Europe/EU until Google introduced restrictions on nudity as far as its AdSense advertising programme is concerned. I have removed the image from the blogs where AdSense is applied but here you can still enjoy it.

Republished with the kind permission of the author. See Fokanov's work in his gallery here.

Европа — "Девушка, несущая быка". Рисунок белорусского художника Владимира Фоканова, компьютерная графика, 2009 г.