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Что здесь вообще происходит?! Перед нами разворачивается гибель целой цивилизации, господа. И сложно сопоставить такую драму с именем одного из культовых театральных декораторов, модельера с мировым именем, задававшем тренды всем it girl Парижа рубежа веков. Да, да. Лев Бакст - автор этой вещи. Эта работа - результат поездки художника в Грецию и активного увлечения античной культурой. Сейчас мы разберемся, что здесь творится вместе с профессиональным искусствоведом, автором канала «Беллини и Бернини», автором книги «Главные шедевры мировой архитектуры» Дианой Трошиной. Без занудных академических опусов, с юмором и «по делу» о действительно важных вещах. Итак, это одна из самых знаменитых живописных работ Бакста - «Древний ужас», 1908 года. Полотно простреливают молнии, бушует морская стихия, готовая уничтожить все следы великой культуры. Но самое пронзительное и жуткое - это застывшая улыбка на губах античной архаической статуи…улыбка знания о неизбежности конца и, одновременно, абсолютного спокойствия перед этим. Но посыл этой вещи гораздо более вдохновляющий, чем может показаться на первый взгляд. Бакст утверждает силу настоящего искусства. Оно остается неподвластным времени и разрушению, друзья. Давайте вместе смотреть на прекрасное! Это тренирует взгляд и формирует вкус❤️

"Father." "Well, what is it?" "It says here, 'A man is known by the company he keeps.' Is that so, Father?" "Yes, yes, yes." "Well, Father, if a good man keeps company with a bad man, is the good man bad because he keeps company with the bad man, and is the bad man good because he keeps company with the good man?"—Punch. 🇬🇧 @one_story | Культурные каналы 👇 Дарите звёзды

FREE THOUGHT TOMMY—"Pop, what is a freethinker?" POP—"A freethinker, my son, is any man who isn't married." 🇬🇧 @one_story | Культурные каналы 👇 Дарите звёзды

One Fourth of July night in London, the Empire Music Hall advertised special attractions to American visitors. All over the auditorium the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes enfolded one another, and at the interludes were heard "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail Columbia," while a quartette sang "Down upon the Swanee River." It was an occasion to swell the heart of an exiled patriot. Finally came the turn of the Human Encyclopedia, who advanced to the front of the stage and announced himself ready to answer, sight unseen, all questions the audience might propound. A volley of queries was fired at him, and the Encyclopedia breathlessly told the distance of the earth from Mars, the number of bones in the human skeleton, of square miles in the British Empire, and other equally important facts. There was a brief pause, in which an American stood up. "What great event took place July 4, 1776?" he propounded in a loud glad voice. The Human Encyclopedia glared at him. "Th' hincident you speak of, sir, was a hinfamous houtrage!" 🇬🇧 @one_story | Культурные каналы 👇 Дарите звёзды

FOURTH OF JULY "You are in favor of a safe and sane Fourth of July?" "Yes," replied Mr. Growcher. "We ought to have that kind of a day at least once a year."

"Percy" asks if we know anything which will change the color of the fingers when they have become yellow from cigarette smoking. He might try using one of the inferior makes of fountain pens.

FOUNTAIN PENS "Fust time you've ever milked a cow, is it?" said Uncle Josh to his visiting nephew. "Wal, y' do it a durn sight better'n most city fellers do." "It seems to come natural somehow," said the youth, flushing with pleasure. "I've had a good deal of practice with a fountain pen." 🇬🇧 @one_story | Культурные каналы 👇 Дарите звёзды

"Yes," said the old man to his young visitor, "I am proud of my girls, and would like to see them comfortably married, and as I have made a little money they will not go penniless to their husbands. There is Mary, twenty-five years old, and a really good girl. I shall give her $1,000 when she marries. Then comes Bet, who won't see thirty-five again, and I shall give her $3,000, and the man who takes Eliza, who is forty, will have $5,000 with her." The young man reflected for a moment and then inquired: "You haven't one about fifty, have you?"

MAUDE—"I've just heard of a case where a man married a girl on his deathbed so she could have his millions when he was gone. Could you love a girl like that?" JACK—"That's just the kind of a girl I could love. What's her address?"

HE—"I'd like to meet Miss Bond." SHE—"Why?" "I hear she has thirty thousand a year and no incumbrance." "Is she looking for one?"—Life.

"I would die for you," said the rich suitor. "How soon?" asked the practical girl.

The London consul of a continental kingdom was informed by his government that one of his countrywomen, supposed to be living in Great Britain, had been left a large fortune. After advertising without result, he applied to the police, and a smart young detective was set to work. A few weeks later his chief asked how he was getting on. "I've found the lady, sir." "Good! Where is she?" "At my place. I married her yesterday."

FORTUNE HUNTERS HER FATHER—"So my daughter has consented to become your wife. Have you fixed the day of the wedding?" SUITOR—"I will leave that to my fiancée." H.F.—"Will you have a church or a private wedding?" S.—"Her mother can decide that, sir." H.F.—"What have you to live on?" S.—"I will leave that entirely to you, sir." 🇬🇧 @one_story | Культурные каналы 👇 Дарите звёзды

"Mike, I wish I knew where I was goin' to die. I'd give a thousand dollars to know the place where I'm goin' to die." "Well, Pat, what good would it do if yez knew?" "Lots," said Pat. "Shure I'd never go near that place."

FORESIGHT "They tell me you're working 'ard night an' day, Sarah?" her bosom friend Ann said. "Yes," returned Sarah. "I'm under bonds to keep the peace for pullin' the whiskers out of that old scoundrel of a husban' of mine, and the Magistrate said that if I come afore 'im ag'in, or laid me 'ands on the old man, he'd fine me forty shillin's!" "And so you're working 'ard to keep out of mischief?" "Not much; I'm workin' 'ard to save up the fine!"