The essence of the concept "poem" is analyzed in context origins this genre. characteristic features studied genre are clarified not only from literary standpoint, but also standpoint musical-instrumental relevance study highlighted as a type flute musical work. Its uniqueness and significance repertoire among diverse works confirmed. Two same by American Ukrainian composers, who representative...

This article concludes with some reflections on the state of the discipline of evaluation, reflections which synthesize a number of considerations. In this respect it is like many evaluations which close with an overview-a synthesis of preceding sub-conclusions-but it is unlike them in that its content consists of a discussion of the methodology of the last synthesis step in an evaluation-of wh...

The article discusses the evolution of R. P. Kumov, one largest Don writers Silver Age, perceived by modern critics as "Don Chekhov". This was facilitated lyrical beginning his style, subtle psychologism in depiction characters, for most part people clergy – from a novice to bishop. At career, he openly focuses on plots Chekhov's famous works, uses techniques poetics,...

In explanatory dictionaries, “post” is interpreted either as a prefix that has the same meaning word “after” (the most obvious and well-known examples from social sphere are post-imperialist or post-colonial (world), post-Soviet (period), post-socialist (countries), etc.), first part of compound words, denoting what exists/happens based on second (post-impressionism, postmodernism, post-industr...

This article discusses Elizabeth Workman’s collection in the context of early reception Impressionism by women artists Britain and USA. In 1920s Russell Workman (1874–1962) was recognized as one most enlightened collectors her generation Britain; Percy Wyndham Lewis described ‘one only people England to understand French painting’. She began collecting well before more prominent such Samuel Cou...

ly referred to as L.S. Lowry, is remembered for being enigmatic and mischievous. Lowry, who rejected 5 different honors during his lifetime—including an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1955 and knighthood in 1968—holds the record for the most rejected British honors. Born in 1887, Lowry lived an upscale area of south Manchester, UK, until financial difficulties forc...

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) is considered the 'father' of Impressionism and even of XXth century modern art. Manet's genius involved getting away from the classical narrative or historical topics and replacing them by the banality of daily life. Technically, he erased volumes into flat two-dimensional coloured planes, and distorted conventional perspective with often gross brushstrokes intentiona...

" Until then I knew only naturalist and, to tell the truth, almost exclusively Russian naturalist art…I believed that no one had the right to paint so imprecisely. I vaguely felt that the object (the subject) was missing in this work. But with astonishment and confusion, I observed that not only did it surprise, but it imprinted itself indelibly in the memory and that before your eyes it recomp...

figure of a woman, is lining up a billiard shot, while the figure of a man…stands dreaming in a doorway, " writes artist-printmaker Peter Milton (b. 1930). He is describing the photograph by Gertrude Kasebier in 1908, which inspired his print Mary's Turn. " …it was the drama of the purposeful woman and the pensive man which established the direction Mary's Turn was to take " (1). The pensive ma...