After "The Poet and the Muse", by Auguste Rodin, 1905. Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Model: Darina
The image of the muse in this sculpture group is one of Rodin’s favorite motifs, best known as the “Toilet of Venus”. But the figure of the poet next to Venus-Muse exists only in the Hermitage sculpture, making it unique among Rodin's works. Probably it was added to the composition at the request of the Russian financier and philanthropist Sergey Eliseev, who commissioned this work for his collection.
Este serie se ha inspirado en hermosas estatuas de mármol. Está latente la piedra fría y el cuerpo vivo que dan un nuevo sentido a la belleza. Cada obra de esta serie se generó a partir de dos fotografías: una realizada en el museo y la otra en el estudio.
Nikolai Endegor es un fotógrafo ruso radicado en París. Como fotógrafo es capaz de disparar foto-retrato muy inspiradores y tiene una gran habilidad para la fotografía de arquitectura, entre otros temas como se puede apreciar en esta entrega.
El glamur (del francés glamour) es el encanto natural que fascina. Originalmente se refería a un hechizo mágico u oculto que afectaba la percepción visual de una persona, mostrando los objetos percibidos de una manera diferente de la real y presentándolos de una manera atractiva, magnífica o glorificada. En el siglo XIX, glamur se redujo simplemente como un término que describía la belleza y la elegancia que conformaban las características de un objeto, de una manera ilusiva o romántica. La palabra "glamur" se utiliza frecuentemente en la moda para designar las características atractivas de la forma de vestir de determinada época y mercado, el estilo y la belleza intrínseca; marcando la estética, el exceso, la vanidad, la atracción sexual y diversos aspectos de la cultura popular.
After "Sleeping Hermaphrodite", Roman statue, 2d century AD. Louvre, Paris.
Model: Ivin
Hermaphroditos, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, had rejected the advances of the nymph Salmacis. Unable to resign herself to this rejection, Salmacis persuaded Zeus to merge their two bodies forever, hence the strange union producing one bisexual being with male organs and the voluptuous curves of a woman.
After "Woman bitten by a serpent" by Auguste Clesinger, 1847. Musee d'Orsay, ParisModel: ElinaThe statue of Clesinger, exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1847, caused a scandal: the public was struck by the unprecedented eroticism of the statue, which was also made using a plaster cast of the body of the courtesan Apollonia Sabatier. A year later, Clesinger created another similar statue, which he called "Bacchante." This name seems to me the most appropriate, so I used the shape of a wine amphora in the composition.
After "Bacchante" by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, 1863. Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Model: Darina
The images of Dionysus-Bacchus and the accompanying Bacchantes were very popular in the art of the 19th century. The cheerful sculpture of Carrier-Belleuse, presented in the Paris Salon of 1863, was purchased by Emperor Napoleon III for his personal collection. From 1872 to 1984 it was exposed in the Tuileries Garden, from where it was later transferred to the Musee d'Orsay.
After "Three Graces", by Jean-Jacques Pradier. 1831, Louvre, Paris
Model: Vera Lavender (all characters)
In this work I wanted to show an imaginary dialogue of three beautiful Graces with other "Three Graces".
After "Dirce" by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1834. Louvre, Paris
Model: Kira
The Theban Queen Dirce (Dirka) was a Bacchante - an admirer of the god Dionysus/Bacchus. During the festivities, Bacchantes carried daggers, thyres (conical rod of Bacchus) and snakes in their hands.
After "Andromeda" by Auguste Rodin, 1886. Rodin Museum, Paris
Model: Vera Lavender
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia boasts that Andromeda is more beautiful than sea nymphs Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster to ravage the kingdom as divine punishment. Andromeda was chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster. Perseus killed the sea monster and set Andromeda free, and then married her.
After "La jeune Tarentine" by A.Schoenewerk, 1871. Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Model: Darina
The statue was created after the poem by Andre Chenier. It tells a story of a young girl, carried away by the sea waves from a boat on the eve of her wedding.
After "Aurore" by Denys Puech, 1900, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Model: Liza
In mythology, Aurora (Eos among the Greeks) is the goddess of the morning dawn, bringing daylight to the gods and people. Every morning she rises from her home at the edge of the Oceanus and opens the gates of heaven to the sun. Poets, starting with Homer, described the beauty and splendor of the goddess, calling her rosy-fingered, because before sunrise the pink stripes appear in the sky, reminiscent of fingers.
After "Satyr and Bacchante" by Jean-Jacque Pradier, 1834. Louvre, Paris
Model: Vera Lavender
The sculpture of Pradier aroused indignation among the audience of the Paris Salon of 1834. Contemporaries noted that the characters are similar to the sculptor himself and his former mistress, actress and courtesan Juliette Drouet.
After "Nymph with a Scorpion" by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1845. Louvre, Paris
Model: Ivin
The statue was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1845 to great acclaim. With his Nymph, Bartolini imbues his restrained classicism with a naturalism seen particularly in the girl's slight grimace and contorted pose, provoked by the scorpion's sting.
After "Psyche" by Jean-Jaques Pradier. 1824. Louvre, Paris
Model: Karen
In Greek mythology, Psyche is the personification of the soul and breath. She often is represented as a girl holding a butterfly. There is the myth about Eros (Cupid) and Psyche, according to which the earthly girl Psyche receives immortality from Zeus for her love and faithfulness to Eros.
After "Dirce" by Lorenzo Bartolini. 1834. Louvre, Paris
Model: Kira
The Theban Queen Dirce (Dirka) was a Bacchante - an admirer of the god Dionysus/Bacchus. During the festivities, Bacchantes carried daggers, thyres (conical rod of Bacchus) and snakes in their hands.
After "Diana with a Stag" attributed to Jean Goujon, near 1550. Louvre, Paris
Model: Karen
Diana belongs to a host of twelve Olympic gods. The huntress is a virgin, she lives among wildlife and animals.
The sculpture is considered a portrait of the Duchess Diane de Poitiers, the favorite mistress of King Henry II of France.
After "Secret" by Francois Jouffroy. 1839. Louvre, Paris
Model: Kira
The original name of this statue is "Premier secret confié à Vénus" - the first secret entrusted to Venus. A young girl shares with the goddess the secret of her love.
After "Three graces", Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. 2nd century AD. Louvre, Paris
Model: Alise
Graces, also known as Charites in Greek mythology, are goddesses of nature. They came to be generally considered as companions of Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of Love and Beauty. According to poetic and literary tradition, the Graces were three in number.
After "La Toilette d'Atalante" by Jean-Jacques Pradier, 1850. Louvre, ParisModel: KiraIn Greek mythology, Atalanta was a famous runner. She agreed to marry only the applicant whom she could not catch up. Only Hippomenus could defeat her: Aphrodite gave him three golden apples, so that he would dropped them on the run and thereby.
The Cretan sculptor Pygmalion was so passionate about his work that he did not pay attention to women. Enraged by this, the goddess of love Aphrodite made him fall in love with the statue of the young girl Galatea, which he himself created, and doomed him to the torment of unrequited love. But Pygmalion's passion turned out to be so deep that Aphrodite took pity and breathed life into the statue. The revived Galatea became Pygmalion's wife.
After "The Nymph Echo" by Paul Lemoyne, 1821. Louvre, Paris
Model: Alise
The nymph Echo was punished by the wife of Zeus Hera for talkativeness, as she deliberately distracted Hera with conversations while Zeus cheated on his wife with other nymphs. Hera deprived Echo of the gift of independent speech: she could only repeat the last words spoken by others. This punishment proved fatal for Echo. Having fallen in love with the beautiful Narcissus, she could not admit it to him. Suffering from unrequited love, the nymph withered, and only a voice remained from her.
En el vibrante tapiz urbano de París, donde cada callejón y edificio cuenta una historia, Nikolai Endegor ha encontrado su lienzo. Nacido en la sombra de la Leningrado soviética, Endegor migró de la rigidez de las ciencias a la libertad expresiva de la fotografía, capturando la esencia de la Ciudad de la Luz con una lente matizada por su formación técnica. No es solo un observador, sino un narrador visual que teje la complejidad de París y sus habitantes en una tapestría de luz, sombra y tiempo suspendido.
Con cada disparo, Endegor desafía las convenciones, jugando con la dualidad de lo moderno y lo atemporal, lo animado y lo inanimado. Sus imágenes son puzles visuales que bailan en la frontera entre la realidad percibida y la imaginación, invitando a los espectadores a una interpretación personal. Sus logros y reconocimientos globales no son más que el reflejo de una carrera dedicada a explorar la profundidad de la vida urbana y la belleza escondida en la cotidianidad, haciendo de su obra un testimonio perdurable de la intersección entre tecnología y arte. (F)
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