Friday, June 07, 2002

"This car belongs to the Pakistani ambassador"

I have a book of Soviet Art which was the Catalogue to an exhibition. Near the front, there are a couple of paintings by Zinaida Yevgeniyevna Serebryakova one of which is a 1922 self-portrait. There was a 1909 self-portrait by her in the paper a few years ago and I forgot to keep it to show the comparison with the 1922 self-portrait. I have the later picture on the partition here and have just searched for the artist again. Here is a page which has both the pictures. Compare and note the before and after revolution affect.
I don't want to make any suggestion that life for ordinary Russians was better or worse before the revolution but this fits with our dour images of Russia under the Soviets.

Go below to compare and contrast

Serebryakova's Room

An addition to the found photographs stuff. Autoportraits by Martin Parr is a collection of photographs of Martin Parr himself taken by professional photographers all around the world. There were a few of the pictures in one of the weekeend supplements and as the reveiewer at Amazon says, it is hard to believe that all the pictures are of the same person.

"Hope in a darkened heart"

Watch the running water come down from a thundery cloud. A bit of a 1980s Martin Stephenson / Virginia Astley day today. How do you feel? With Martin and Virginia you will feel better - even when David Sylvian takes over, you will feel better. Be happy AND on the edge of tears. This is a hazy town but "Rain" (especially for Virginia Astley) will remove all troubles from your life. Between lightnin' and thunder three seconds the gap. Don't time fly? Life just skips on by. Just a foretaste of The Lunchtime Ulysses.

I keep doing it myself but I have noticed that loads of people do it when writing internet stuff and especially blogs. They use semi-colons instead of apostrophes. Mine are purely mistypes but are some of them to do with strange keyboard configurations?




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