Word: shishkin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although Soviet museums have lent their exhibitions to U.S. galleries before, "this one is a novelty because the works are done by Russian artists, such as Ripin, Shishkin and Kandinsky, whereas every other exchange consisted of European artists' work exhibited in Russian galleries," she said...
Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
...spokesman, and Edward Djerejian, a deputy press secretary, were rankled. Soviet propagandists spouted on U.S. television. Gorbachev's TIME interview saturated the media. Speakes and Djerejian, trying to find a way to get Reagan equal time, prepared a letter suggesting a Reagan interview. They pressed it on Gennadiy Shishkin of TASS when he came by the White House in September. He read it on the spot and did not reject the idea. The world was changing...
...raise production. Said Avrutin: "Seven hours for a canvas of 57 by 84 centimeters [22 in. by 43 in.]? There is no need to waste so much time." Avrutin turned for an example to the task of copying Morning in the Pine Forest, a 19th century favorite by Ivan Shishkin. "The depth of the forest takes two hours; one more hour for the broken trees; for the pink sky, one additional hour. The four bears require not more than 15 minutes each. For general touching up, one hour more. The total," he finished, "makes six hours. This will...
...according to Soviet Culture, a young artist stood up. How, he wanted to know, can you paint a little bear in 15 minutes and still make him lovable? The director replied sharply: "Quantity transforms itself into quality...Take Zvezdin. For more than eight years the man has painted only Shishkin's Morning in the Pine Forest. Wake him up at any time in the night, and he will do the job better than Shishkin himself...