Well, here in Anapa we have even French artists visiting us from time to time. Last Sunday there was here a special performance organized by the Charitable Foundation “De Boni Arte” . This performance was combining a silent movie show with an organ concert. Jean-Philippe Le Trévou, the famous French organist from Paris, was improvising and adding sound to the silent film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”. That was a fascinating evening! Imagine, you are watching live a silent movie produced 1923! Almost one hundred years ago! One of the first movies in the world! In several decades that will be history! And second, a live organ improvisation by a great maestro doubles this excitement!

Some months ago I was very lucky to visit an exhibition of wonderful oil paintings by Lina Kovalenko. The exhibition was organized by the art gallery “Art-Anapa” that specializes in a contemporary Russian art. 

I got so impressed by Lina’s painting style! In my opinion, her paintings have a great mixture between Realist style and Impressionist style. If you look at her paintings, you will see well-known images from real life, like harbour, boats, mountains, animals, people. But all these images are made in such a picturesque, delightfully vibrant, playful way that you stop at every picture and say to yourself: “Oh my god, that’s fascinating! I wanna paint like her.”