Culture and Art

In the run-up to City days, each of us should identify the dearest and the unique place for the capital city. As they call it, “le point zero” in Paris - the island la Cite. Do we have such a point in Baku?

Rapid, melancholic weather changes pushed me learning black-and-white photography. However, when you are in a nostalgic mood, the French master Robert Doisneau’s real life, reflected in photos could not have come at a better time.

Without vague feeling of uneasiness Paris parks may be called, as creation of landscape art.

With slight warning on possibility of light dizziness, I am just inviting all interested persons to this new digital oasis, hosted in the 11th canton of Paris!

Today I hasten to inform news to real photography connoisseurs. Iconic actresses and fashion models from Elizabeth Taylor and Catherine Deneuve to Linda Evangelista and Cynthia Crawford were in focus of the hero of the day and I‘ll bet, you have already guessed right, this is about Helmut Newton!

I am asking my readers: how and what time of a year would he like to celebrate “a city day” and would he/she like celebrating it at all? What does a city day mean?

One may plunge into the world of art not only by visiting museums, but also by participating at its cost formation, or to be more exact, at auction. Because it is a unique possibility to watch rare pictures and sculptures of favorite masters, frequently, namely of those artists, which are not presented for wide audience in state collections, and also to witness bringing “to the hammer” into the hands of famous collectors or private museums.

Contemporary art gallery has already been open in Baku for inordinate length of time and to my shame, I learned about that just a couple of days ago while visiting new exhibition. If my reader has also missed this new "spot", then I will be pleased to inform him/her about all details of my last visit!

The hero-artist of my today's article was rejected by Titian himself! According to legend, in the heyday of the Renaissance, the great painter Titian Vecellio did not want to keep the young Jacopo Robusti as an apprentice, discovering the boy's extraordinary talent.

"Spiritual enrichment should be fueled with aesthetic meals," I thought, and decided to tell the reader about one of the most famous confectionery houses in France with the gentle angelic name ANGELINA, which celebrates its 115th anniversary this year.