Avant-garde a la Russe

Today mine and Leo's destination was Helsinki Art Museum in Tennispalatsi in the Helsinki downtown, the exhibition of Russian avant-garde painters brought from Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Chagall, Kandinsky and some other less known ones). There were only some 3 Chagalls: The Wedding, The Window in the Country  and the triptych: Drama, Literature and Dance.

"The Wedding" and "The Window in the Country":

I love Chagall's naive 2D style which is also somewhat realistically sad. The Wedding is definitely a star of the exhibition. Strangely enough, they also had Vrubel's "Lilacs", though I would have never thought of it as an avant-garde work. Very sensitive and romantic, impressionistic painting.

Kandinsky's brights and Chagalls realism made me associate their art to Gotan Project's music - new interpretation of tango music with in a rebel and fashionable way). It was playing on my iPod on the way back. Here the sample of their piece Differente.





Our day was not all that bohemian. Leo needs his new passport and we dropped at a central photoshop to shoot a pic of him (trial #3) and it was a successful effort though with an incredibly ridiculous result. I really could not help laughing when I reviewed his photo in a coffee shop. Well, he looks like a good fellow who appreciates art, doesn't he?

Unfortunately, the reader will notice my weakness for impulse high street buys, especially from Zara and today it was a belt that I plan to wear "with everything, of course". Well, isnt it quite a heavy doze of Chanel chic,ha?