Chinese art Art

Bridge, river and flowers 

 

Winter Birds.

FB-swap -Birds

 

Art by Mira Mallius (Finnish)

Received on Oct, 2020

Sent by Tuovi (Tampere, Finland)

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"Come with me to elves' country" by Daniela Drescher

Received on 8 Dec, 2015

Sent by Lisa (München, Germany)

Isokoskelo, Storskrake, Goosande (Mergus  merganser) on ice

Sent by me to my sister on 12 Feb, 1974

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Winter birds, Chinese art

Received on 26 Jun, 2017

Sent by Mlia (Guangzhou, China) 

City cats

Momi  Café

Momi Café is a coffee house located in Pingjiang Road in Suzhou, China.  Specially, it is well known by its handmade milk tea called Siwa milk tea. The cafe also sells books, magazines. 

What is worth mentioning is the postcards there. There is a wall named "Mail to Future". There are 365 small cells on this wall, and each cell stands for one day in a year. Everyone can choose a postcard, write down the receiver’s name, the address, the zip code, and then put it into any cell and the postcard will be sent off on that day. This wall is treasure of the market town and it’s also known as the only one around China. What’s more, all the postcards are designed by the shopkeepers. With the help of many friends, there are almost 300 different kinds of postcards has come out and most of them are related to Suzhou.

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travel time 47 days

distance travelled 7,365 km

sent by Jely, Suzhou, China

Spring
 Illustration Andrei Arinouchkinem, Belarusian artist

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travel time 7 days
distance travelled 1,028 km
sent by Alexey, Minsk, Belarus

Le Chat Noir
The Black Cat in Paris by Fernando de Cunha

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travel time 27 days
distance travelled 1,686 km
sent by Claire, Brussels, Belgium

Paris Cats on the Roof - Colette Bruneliere

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travel time 43 days

distance travelled 7,194 km

sent by Otayori, Hakodate, Japan

Portraits of Men

Petr Brandl (1668-1735) 

Portrait of a Mining Official , about 1728 

The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

My postcard collection - Baroque painting in Bohemia

Petr Brandl was one of the main representatives of the Baroque in Bohemia.

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 Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Portrait of an old man, 1654

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 1,183 km

sent by Irina from Moscow

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was  one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish: 1577 - 1640)

Head of a Franciscan Friar Circa 1615

 Rubens, Paintings from the Hermitage Collection

 Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist. He is considered the most influential artist of Flemish Baroque tradition.

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Orest Kiprensky. (1782-1836)

Portrait of Alexander Pushkin.  1827

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 2,369 km

sent by Anastasia from Chelyabinsk

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me".

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The Huanghe River (part#1)
Li Zijian (1954-) China
travel time 17 days
distance travelled 8,018 km
sent by Emily from Taipei