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Posts Tagged ‘sculpture’

Pushkin in Africa — Pushkin

By Michael • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: Multiple Photos

Russian sculptor Grigory Pototsky, who can be seen in the bottom picture, presented a bust of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin to the Ambassador of Ghana at the Ghanaian embassy in Moscow. Why? Pushkin is a great son of Africa. He is the great-grandson of Abram Gannibal, an Ethiopian noble in the court of Peter the [...]



African-Type Dolls

By Michael • Apr 22nd, 2009 • Category: Multiple Photos

These hand crafted doll sculptures by Inga Butina (site seems to be inoperative) were recently for sale as objects of art at the Moscow Fine Art Fair in the Central House of Artists. From the artist’s statement: “Hard times penetrate the soul with the sounds of African ethnicity.  Truth stiflingly weeps tears of  timelessness,  covered [...]