Alessandro Magnasco. The artist who impressed Eisenstein

"Just as unexpectedly in Odessa I met Magnasco. Who brought here these two small dark canvases from the life of monks?" CM. Eisenstein The avant-garde artist Eisenstein, the author of the film "Battleship Potemkin", devoted several inspired pages to him in his memoirs and, in particular, admitted that Magnasco's compositions from the life of monks served as a prototype for many scenes of "Ivan the Terrible". “In moments, this is no longer the movement of a figure captured by a brush, but an arbitrarily mannered movement of a hand, hastily disguised by the bones and flabby body of ascetics, outstretched hands, exquisitely folded palms with long fingers,” Sergei Eisenstein notes in his memoirs about these paintings. “Even more often it seems that these are florid and pretentious flourishes of signatures, spread out in monastic vestments to warm their scattered tails, loops, knots and intersections around the hearth.” Let's talk about this on the already traditional Monday with Ostrovsky in the living room on Preobrazhenskaya, 11. Registration link: https://forms.gle/KKhdHbQ1AcupDmBe6 When: 30 November 19:00 Where: Preobrazhenskaya, 11 How much (prepayment to the bank card is required): 480 UAH per person (drinks and treats included)