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Mozart's Fairy Tale Singspiel Opera - The Magic Flute - On The Wings Of Imagination

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THE MAGIC FLUTE - ON THE WINGS OF IMAGINATION By Anastasia Elena Baranoff | Egg Tempera Movement The year was 1791. Austrian audiences were smitten with singspiels and their imaginative story lines. An ancestor of the Broadway musical, a singspiel cleverly merged spoken word with memorable singing numbers. Peppered with showy effects, like flying machines, blazing flames, roaring thunderclaps, the genuine crowd-pleasers dazzled. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart found himself enthusiastically composing an enchanting score for the Theater auf der Wieden. Joining forces with fellow Masonic brother Emanuel Schikaneder, the dream team concocted a production supreme. The Magic Flute - On The Wings Of Imagination | Close-Up | Copyright © Anastasia Elena Baranoff   An ultimate showman and influential impresario, Schikaneder penned the fantastical libretto of what was to be known as The Magic Flute . Set ...
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The Nutcracker - An Everlasting Star - A Christmas Favorite Inspiring The Arts

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THE NUTCRACKER - AN EVERLASTING STAR By Anastasia Elena Baranoff | Egg Tempera Movement On thrilling silver screens and radio airwaves, in bustling cafés and shops, the iridescent Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the prestissimo Trepak, sound the arrival of the holiday season. A dear tradition, these magical melodies accompany us through the years, as does a curious, vivid character. This finely crafted German star of Christmas festivities was fated to become a prominent cultural figure. Indeed, the Nussknacker / Nutcracker sparked a centuries-long surge of artistic creativity in its various forms.   The Nutcracker – Christmas Eve Is Here At Last By Elena Vladimir Baranoff | Close-Up | Copyright © Elena Vladimir Baranoff | 2005               In late autumn of 1816, all-embracing Renaissance man E.T.A. Hoffmann authored the whimsical Nussknacker und Mauseköni...
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A Stirring Renaissance - Egg Tempera Movement - Making Art History

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One fine London summer’s day, while great white pelicans basked in sunlight on the lake, we originated a restoration of the legendary egg tempera art medium, sitting on a St. James’s Park bench. Exploring the ancient fine art technique of egg tempera and focusing on the inception of Egg Tempera Movement, “Egg Tempera: Mixing Past and Future”, a feature story written by egg tempera master fine artist Elena Vladimir Baranoff, starred in Artists On Art Magazine and Realism Today, a leading publication celebrating American artists trained in traditional methods. Dry Pigment For Egg Tempera, Brush & Egg Shell EGG TEMPERA: MIXING PAST AND FUTURE Selected Excerpts Everyone knows Florentine masters Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Fra Filippo Lippi, and deeply admires their astounding art, the brilliant, velvety colors of their paintings – that is egg tempera, one of the most historic fine art techniques known to mankind…. The expression “Greatness...
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Genuine Egg Tempera - An Enigmatic Amalgam

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Variety of a single color and its tones, the transition from one pronounced shade to the next, in degrees of saturation and density, are the foundation of a painting’s palette. The unique relationship between hues, harmoniously united in an artwork, is ruled by the auteur vision and individual style of the artist. GENUINE EGG TEMPERA: AN ENIGMATIC AMALGAM , a feature article written by genuine egg tempera master fine artists Elena Vladimir Baranoff and Anastasia Elena Baranoff, looks at the way color plays in a fine art composition and focuses on the exceptional pigment Lapis Lazuli. The Brush Of Genuine Egg Tempera Master Fine Artist Elena Vladimir Baranoff | Lapis Lazuli & Gold GENUINE EGG TEMPERA: AN ENIGMATIC AMALGAM Selected Excerpts The myriad of tones help to uncover the meaning and inner content of images, infuse originality into action and mood, showing the world in its diversity, aesthetically affecting the viewer …. Derived from natural so...
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