(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Wed Jul 7 16:52:03 PDT 2010


Excellent wikipasting.

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
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> In 1923 he emigrated to the United States and landed in New York. He was
> already well known in the States from canvases sent to American and
> European exhibitions. In fact, it was his American friends and patrons
> that helped him leave Russia. His portraits were in demand immediately and
> he won the first prize at the Academy in New York in 1924 and a medal at
> the 1926 International Exposition in Philadelphia.
>
> Fechin became well-known for his powerful portraits that always seemed to
> radiate from the eyes of the subject. Some of his more renowned subjects
> are Nikolai Lenin, Karl Marx, Frieda Lawrence and Lillian Gish. At an
> early age he had learned carving and produced impressionistic sculpture
> primarily from wood. At the Academy he used other materials but he was
> impatient about the necessary construction of armatures and had no care
> for the seemingly endless casting processes, while the creative process
> became the lesser part. With wood he could begin creating immediately.
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>> Are you very, very sure about that?
>>
>> In Russia in the late nineteenth century, a Byzantine system of
>> recruitment was, you think, unlikely to survive?
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>>> Because Wolfe told us how people become curators. Because that system
>>> did not exist in the early 20th century.
>>>
>>> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
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>>>> Why is it important?
>>>>
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>>>>> You did. But were you finished?
>>>>> How did Rudesind become a curator?
>>>>>
>>>>> --- On Wed, 7/7/10, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned
>>>>> by
>>>>> Rudesind
>>>>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>>>>> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 4:42 PM
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>>>>>> true...
>>>>>> So, does someone have a theory he'd like to share?
>>>>>>
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>>>>> I thought I'd mentioned Fechin = our Fechin already, and Rudesind was
>>>>> collected along with the paintings of that era to care for them.
>>>>>
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