Once, my good acquaintance – a well-educated woman, a pianist – came around for a chat. We were talking about music and then about art in general. I started to tell her about the impressionist works I had seen in…
I am very fond of jewels. I like not earrings and rings with them but gemstones themselves. It is a real pleasure to touch a gem and know that its exquisite beauty is destined for a long – almost eternal…
There are several stages in understanding Degas’ oeuvre. At first, you think he was a connoisseur of delicate beauty (otherwise why did he constantly paint ballerinas?) Then you find different reproductions of his pictures, scrutinize them, and wonder: his ballerinas…
The ballet we’ll watch today is known by two names – The Swan and The Dying Swan. The second title seems to be more expressive, and more accurate; nevertheless, it has failed to displace the first one. There are good…
“I died for beauty, but was scarce” conjures up pictures linked with the macabre physicality of death – the narrator is a decaying corpse. This poem should be frightening and unpleasant… It attracts, even comforts the reader though.