Art Kaleidoscope

Fabric relief illustration by Salley Mavor

Fabric relief illustrations by Salley Mavor will take you back to a time in your childhood when it was still possible to be an independent, imaginative child who roamed the neighborhood and woods with abandon. There is a magic in childhood and Salley captures it in the most enchanting manner with her beautiful works. American artist of applied art has had a life-long fascination with little things and needlework. Studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, she rediscovered her childhood delight in sewing and creating miniature scenes. The craftswoman herself named her technique Fabric Relief 35 years ago. She works in her home studio on Cape Cod, in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
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Dream of Aphrodite. Painting by Russian artist Alexei Antonov

The talented Russian painter Alexei Antonov has created a stunning collection of still life paintings that embody hyper realism and classic work of Renaissance masters. Alexei Antonov was born in Russia in 1957. Antonov was literally born an artist, began to draw, as he remembers – since the age of three. The first drawings were made by mom’s lipstick, right on the wallpaper. While at school, he didn’t show much success in subjects, except singing lessons and drawing. In 1972, Alexei Antonov entered the State Art University in Baku, where he was taught painting in all possible genres, except … classic. In 1976 he began working at the Research Institute in Moscow and worked as a graphic artist and illustrator for magazines published by the Agency “News.” Antonov also designed posters for rock bands.
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1931 Painting by Salvador Daliю The Persistence of Memory hidden symbols

The Persistence of Memory hidden symbols
In early August 1929 a young Dali met his future wife and muse Gala. Their union was the key to the incredible success of the artist, and influenced all his subsequent work, including his iconic painting “The Persistence of Memory.” Salvador Dali painted it in 1931. Since 1934 “The Persistence of Memory” has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
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Ape. Stefan Zsaitsits. Pencil on paper

Stefan Zsaitsits painting metaphorical thoughts
Austrian artist Stefan Zsaitsits has created a series of unique surreal pencil and oil portraits. His favorite characters are children. Their heads and faces reflecting their metaphorical thoughts, and the entire caricature scenes unfold their feelings and fears. Through these creepy images the artist tried to vividly portray how varied and sometimes frightening thoughts may be burdening in the head of not only children, but also adult people.
Born in 1981 in Austria, Zsaitsits graduated from the University of applied Arts Vienna in 2006. While studying at the University he took part in numerous solo and group art exhibitions from 2002 in Vienna (annually), Prague in 2004, Germany in 2005, France in 2012. In 2014 Stefan Zsaitsits got Art Austria Award.
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Feathered Hanging (detail), 7th–8th century. Peru. Wari. Feathers on cotton, camelid hair. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Ancient Peru feather art collection of twelve colorful feather panels was first exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1979. Spectacular well preserved panels were made by the Wari peoples of southern Peru between about 6th and 10th centuries. About ancient feather art became known In February 1943, when local newspapers in Arequipa (southern Peru) reported that villagers had discovered an ancient “burial ground”. The site with findings became known as Corral Redondonot. The feather panels rank among the most luxurious and unusual works created by textile artists in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest in 1532.
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Blackthorn. William Morris. Manufacturer Morris & Company, designed 1892. Medium – Block-printed wallpaper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has held William Morris Textiles and Wallpaper exhibition since February 3 (through July 20), 2014. English textile designer William Morris (1834–1896) was the leader of the British Arts and Crafts movement of the second half of the 19th century. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional textile arts and methods of production in Britain. His enterprise, originally founded as Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, in 1861, became Morris & Company in 1875. They produced a variety of decorative arts, with textiles and wallpapers comprising a large portion of their artistic output. In 1923, the Metropolitan acquired the institution’s first examples from the oeuvre of Morris & Company, and a selection of these are shown in the exhibition.
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St. Sergius of Radonezh and Scenes from His Life. Pall. 1671. Detail. Donated by Anna Ivanovna Stroganova

Russian Medieval Embroidery art of the I5th – I7th centuries have unsurpassed historic and artistic value. The collection of Sergiev Posad Museum, which is in the old city of Sergiyev Posad in Moscow region, founded in 15th century, presents various figurative and ornamental compositions embroidered in multicolored silks, gold and silver thread and pearls. It acquaints with an original sphere of Russian medieval art, which had much in common with icon-painting and folk art. The embroidered items were greatly appreciated and carefully preserved: icon-cloths, palls and shrouds, icons, ancient books and church vessels of precious metals.
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