Today, I met up with Lena again after not seeing her for three days. This doesn't sound like a long time, but we'd been meeting up almost every day, so it was a pretty big deal that we hadn't hung out for a while. Especially since she's leaving. She's for sure going to the Netherlands on October 1. And she'll be gone for two months. I'm going to make her a stocking hat and see if I can find her a Tarkovsky movie with English subtitles for going-away podarki.
We finally made it to the Filonov exhibit at the Russian Museum. Let me just say again how much I love having a student card in Russia. I went to the Russian Museum, one of the best museums in Russia, for 30 rubles. This is roughly $1.15 US. I can go to movies for $2. Awesome.
But the Filonov exhibit was really awesome. I'm not a huge fan of Filonov, but it's always cool to go and actually see for yourself all these paintings that you've seen in books. They had all the Filonov stuff in a couple of dark rooms with the walls painted black, with the paintings spotlighted in white light. There was also "futuristic" music playing in the background; some kinda clanging boinking stuff that made me feel like I was either in space or in a 1920s Soviet factory. Both work. Maybe I'm a heathen and have no taste, but I actually liked most of Filonov's sketches or drawings with pencil and watercolors better than his larger paintings. They were very crisp and looked like the were torn out the pages of some kinda bizarre comic book. Anyway, very cool. I'll see if I can find some pictures on the net. I also found one painting of his that I really really like a lot. I would tell you what it's called, but it's Untitled. I'm going to see if they make prints, but probably not. That's just the way my life works. This is not the painting, but this is an example of Filonov's style:
We stayed in the Russian Museum until it was just about time for the militsia to kick us out and then we went and got food at a cafeteria and hung out in the park until it got cold. Then I went home, did homework while watching tv, and went to bed. I realized recently that the tv has looked so weird lately because they fixed the color tube and everything is now no longer green. And it took me a couple days to figure this out. Wow.
We finally made it to the Filonov exhibit at the Russian Museum. Let me just say again how much I love having a student card in Russia. I went to the Russian Museum, one of the best museums in Russia, for 30 rubles. This is roughly $1.15 US. I can go to movies for $2. Awesome.
But the Filonov exhibit was really awesome. I'm not a huge fan of Filonov, but it's always cool to go and actually see for yourself all these paintings that you've seen in books. They had all the Filonov stuff in a couple of dark rooms with the walls painted black, with the paintings spotlighted in white light. There was also "futuristic" music playing in the background; some kinda clanging boinking stuff that made me feel like I was either in space or in a 1920s Soviet factory. Both work. Maybe I'm a heathen and have no taste, but I actually liked most of Filonov's sketches or drawings with pencil and watercolors better than his larger paintings. They were very crisp and looked like the were torn out the pages of some kinda bizarre comic book. Anyway, very cool. I'll see if I can find some pictures on the net. I also found one painting of his that I really really like a lot. I would tell you what it's called, but it's Untitled. I'm going to see if they make prints, but probably not. That's just the way my life works. This is not the painting, but this is an example of Filonov's style:
We stayed in the Russian Museum until it was just about time for the militsia to kick us out and then we went and got food at a cafeteria and hung out in the park until it got cold. Then I went home, did homework while watching tv, and went to bed. I realized recently that the tv has looked so weird lately because they fixed the color tube and everything is now no longer green. And it took me a couple days to figure this out. Wow.
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