Some Russian artists think that there should be some unique, Russian style in depicting Russian beauty, for example mixing it with fairy-tales. You can see in this gallery drawings of Nikolay Fomin and his view on Russian beauty and Russian fairy tales:
Russian Sauna Bathing. Spot the underwater girl, swimming under the ice. Especially her eyes.
Love with a Russian Bear. That’s really scary.
Hair coloured like Russian Raven wing. Seems that author loves animals a lot.
“Russian Girl is dancing”. I can’t figure out why they splash water on her while she’s dancing.
Pregnancy and the Burden. You see the cows on the backscene? Also it’s hard to understand why the author has chosen the word “pregnant” to the title of this drawing, probably those girls are already pregnant.
Russian Flax is blooming. Have you seen flax blooming before?
“The Dawn”. The horse seemed to be scared.
“If you see a hare while dreaming, then you’ll get pregnant soon”. That’s probably Russian proverb or popular belief. Here The hares are pretty real.
“The Mirror”. Seems like everything on this picture is upside down.
“Centaurus”. Those are real monsters.
“The Fern”. Looks like some withces have got a victim.
“Gotcha” I can’t stand the faces of people in those art collection. The scenery is nice, the animals are ok, but people’s faces are sometimes scary.
But hope you liked today’s introduction to Russian modern art, and to its slightly erotic aspect.
“Pregnancy and the Burden. You see the cows on the backscene? Also it’s hard to understand why the author has chosen the word “pregnant” to the title of this drawing, probably those girls are already pregnant.”
I think the title refers to the cow and the bull. She is going to be pregnant (or so it seems) and he will carry the burden.
Russian art…something new to discover every day…!
lol. I like this very much. Can someone give a link to author`s website?
Why is that girl sucking on a key? and the other girl licking a lock?
is that supposed to be symbolism? because if it is,… well, yeah, i understand.
“the Fern” is not the witches about. You see a Ivan Kupala day. Notice girl on background, she jumping over a fire. Its a festival including jumping over fires, dances, macing diadems from flowers and a lot of sex… that was firs Hippies =)
Very Pagan and symbolic stuff. Spilt milk in the “hare” drawing, for example. Isn’t that also horseradish in the foreground of the “pregnancy and burden” drawing? I guess only someone who speaks Russian would get that analogy.
Those r the most erotic pictures i can imagine seeing. Wow!!! The girl licking the lock has her hand in front of her modestly, except her hand looks exactly like female anyway. Sexy Russian
Good work on the web sight. Very informative and learning more about your wonderful country everyday I spend on this sight. Viewers have lots of thoughts about the gallery drawings of Nikolay Fomin. Wonderful expression of beauty, life and nature poetically mixed together. Keep up the good work.
You can see actual gallery drawings of Nikolay Fomin, and his view on Russian beauty and Russian fairy tales. http://inrussia.org/harmony/index_english.htm
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The mirror is very cool.
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thanks.
very good
You really should do some research if you’re going to make commentary… But the pictures are absolutely fantastic. =) The raven one especially
that is just really gay and sick
and VERY disturbing!!!!!!!
It seems gays are afraid of this kind of russian feminism…
Isn’t that bear a cunning linguist, tho?
That bear appears to be quite a cunning linguist, huh?
In “The Dawn”, the horse is typically seen as a symbol of penetration and virility. This is especially evident in “The Nightmare” by Henry Fuseli. (if not immediate penetration, then at least -hinting- that there will be)
Sorry, I really have to bash you for your lack of knowledge in art history, because there are a lot of symbols that you’re missing.
In “Pregnancy and the Burden” you can see one girl licking the lock while the other has the key in her mouth. The lock and key together is a symbol of sex, while apart they’re typically seen as male and female ‘parts’.
Do your research. Please.
Why are they throwing water on her? I’ll tell you why..she just got raped by a friggin bear!
“Author?” Don’t you mean “artist?” All of your commentary sounds really, really ignorant. I hate to be a pretentious art kid…but. Oh wait. I am.
I enjoyed these drawings, the ink work is lovely. I agree with A, do some stinkin’ research!
I know that there’s a holiday in spring in Hungary where they splash or squirt young women with water. Maybe that dancing one is referencing something similar.
I hope you were trying to be funny and just failed miserably. If not, your lack of basic intelligence makes me sick.
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Hello!
What a surprise to discover my works and the commens here. That is really interesting to read everybody’s opinion but I guess I should better put my own explanations to each work to give you an idea about what and why I wanted to depict. It takes some time but I do this if nobody will mind.
I bring my apologies for my English.
Hello!
What a surprise to discover my works and the comments here. That is really interesting to read everybody’s opinion but I guess I should better put my own explanations to each work to give you an idea about what and why I wanted to depict. It takes some time but I do this if nobody will mind.
I bring my apologies for my English.
In the one called “Russian Girl is dancing” they splash water on the girl for a reason. it’s an old custom to splash a young girl with water when is drought. It’s called “paparuda” in Romania, where i live. But the custom is almost forgotten, the people only remember it in the countryside.
Reading your comments under drawings I understand that
You don’t understand Russian culture, or
you are not Russian at all.
I find your art fascinating and beautiful, although I don’t quite understand the fairytales behind them. The art itself is well crafted and lovely
These are obvious if you are interested in Slavic mythology. Nice pics, Zorza approves
Your critique of these images is really annoying. A lot of these pictures are really pretty, and all of them are drawn beautifully. I agree that the ones with random animals having sex/inter-species sex are a little weird, but I don’t think most of these deserve such ignorant comments.
These are interesting drawings. I’m particularly fond of The Mirror. Where did these images come from specifically?
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塑料托盘基础设施建设，打造整体物仓储笼流服务平台。
南京海佩货架公司将积极推行物流仓储笼业标准化战略，建立健全仓储物流铁托盘服务标准化体系，加快推进物流
铁托盘装备设施、信息系统、经营管理、服务提供等的标准化，打造最
先进的仓储设备交易数码港，争取成为国内物流业标准化建设的典范。
近年来，我国物流业发展迅速，物流塑料托盘业增加值持续上升，已成为推动国家经济持续发展的重点产业。与此同时，物流仓储笼业面临运输和仓储钢托盘成本高昂、产业形态相互割裂等问题，亟需推行标准化战略，以降低成本，
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铁托盘模数体系、
集装箱的基本尺寸、物流钢托盘用语、物流仓储笼设施的设备基准、输送用包装塑料托盘的系列尺术、包装用语、钢托盘大型集装箱、
塑料托盘用箱、平托盘、仓储笼，卡车车厢内壁尺寸，
铁托盘等。
The first picture “sauna” (banya) is a great drawing it is so customary. My father went to Russia in the 70s to help with Russian children hospital and his hosts thought they were playing a trick on him by inviting him to the banya. They were in the sauna drinking, naked, men, women and then suddenly everyone gets up runs outside with screams and laughter to jump in the water during a full moon in January. Dad was right with them and afterwards they gave him an a coin on a chain and toasted him for being a comrade, after that night he was like a family member to his hosts. Little did they know that we had the same practice in Wisconsin. We would play the same trick on people from other states. Is there a particular Russian story this drawing represents? Or is this a common scene in many stories. A full moon, a profile of the horse head a hot house, a freshly openned hole at least three maidens, three different kinds of fish, three actions running, plunging and swimming and three upstairs windows of the main house. Then there is the past activity of the banya, and the cutting of the hole. There is so much to notice and you get to view it all from an impossible perspective. This truely a wonderful drawing so completely open and free and joyful a bonding experience better than any modern amusement park ride.
I don’t trust you either.
I enjoyed reading your interesting yet very informative insights. I just love reading anything about eye-catching articles. Thank you for sharing and I am looking forward to reading your newest and most recent masterpieces!!! – Fairy
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These are interesting drawings. I like this!
I appreciate stuff like this!
I am in the 3rd month of my pregnancy and am loving it! Being pregnant is really a remarkable experience. There’s gonna be not one thing more treasured in this entire world than holding my new born baby in my arms for the 1st time. I can’t wait to meet her! My dreams of parenthood is actually finally coming true.
Amazing collection, was blown away.