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Works of contemporary Ukrainian artists will be exhibited for the first time at the London world famous auction house Sotheby’s.

At the auction June 9th, 2009 will display 20 works of Ukrainian artists, including paintings by Vasily Tsagolova, Oleg Tistol, Ilya Chichkan, Igor Gusev, Maxim Mamsikova, Victor Pokidantsa, Alexandra Roytburda, Alexandra Gnilitskiy, Vlad Ralko, Arsen Savadov, Marina Skugarevoy, Paul Macovei, Oksana Mas, Nicholas Matsenko.
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The painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Ukrainian harvest ” in 1857, cost 510 - 650 thousand dollars (350 - 450 thousand pounds), was the most expensive lot in London on 9 June auction of Russian painting and decorative art house Christie’s. It will be put up for auction 199 lots.
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It turns out that not only the cinema can borrow some of the quality of the fine arts, and vice versa. The exhibition at the National Center for Contemporary Art will show works of modern art (except painting, designated in the title, it will include photographs, objects and installations) that have different ways to tranfre cinema motives in the language of statics. In the works of Vladimir Yankylevsky, Erik Bulatov, Timur Novikov, Boris Mikhailov, and a number of other Russian and foreign artists «kino-reality» is changing in the spirit of pop art, surrealism, conceptualism, or New veyv.

In St. Petersburg on Monday will be open days of Latin America, said the press service of the city administration, transmit “Interfax”.

In St. Petersburg Union of Artists Exhibition of contemporary Chilean paintings and Mexican masks. On the same day in the House of Cinema will open II-th International Festival of Contemporary Cinema of Latin America. ”
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David Hockney, 71-year-old British painter, classic of pop-art, recognized that he uses iPhone for sketches and small works. “I like to paint bouquets on iPhone, and then send it to friends for they had fresh flowers. And they do not wilt,” - quoted the AFP artist. Daily Mail Newspaper also notes that Hockney also sends to his friends illustrated lectures on art.
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