Antonina Rzhevskaya (Russian, 1861-1934)

Music, 1903

Antonina Rzhevskaya - Orphans (1893)

Music - Antonina Rzhevskaya // Lie To Me - 5 Seconds of Summer

Antonina Rzhevskaya, Music (1902-1903)

Antonina Leonardovna Rzhevskaya (née Popova; Russian: Антонина Леонардовна Ржевская; 1861– 15 July 1934) also known by masculine pseudonym A. L. Rzhevsky, was a Russian painter, primarily of domestic genre scenes. She was one of the only two women who worked with the Peredvizhniki. Via Wikipedia

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"Maybe it's because after all this time I think that really good songs--or really good anything--they're hard to find," i said. "Like if you listen to the radio for a while hour, there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage. But back then I never thought about it, and it was great just listening. Didn't matter what it was. I was a kid. I was in love. And when you're a kid you can relate to anything, even it it's silly. Am I making sense to you?"

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"For her, loneliness is something you have others remove for you. And once it's gone, everything's okay. Doesn't go any further. I can't live that way."

- Dance Dance Dance | Haruki Murakami

“The music”

By Antonina Rzhevskaya

Antonina Leonardov Rzhevskaya

Antonina Rzhevskaya

Antonina Leonardov Rzhevskaya, Music “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Leo Tolstoy

(Art: 'Music', 1903 by Antonina Leonardov Rzhevskaya)

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Why is some music so much deeper and more beautiful than other music? It is because form, in music, is expressive–expressive to some strange subconscious regions of our minds. The sounds of music do not refer to serfs or city-states, but they do trigger clouds of emotion in our innermost selves; in that sense musical meaning IS dependent on intangible links from symbols to things in the world–those 'things', in this case, being secret software structures in our minds. 

~Douglas Hofstadter

[Philo Thoughts] (Book: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid)

Antonina Rzhevskaya, A Merry Moment (1897).

Antonina Leonardov Rzhevskaya

Antonina Rzhevskaya - Music (1902-1903)

Excerpt from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Antonina Rzhevskaya 1902-3 The Music, oil on canvas, Nizhniy Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

Orphans (1893). Antonina Rzhevskaya (Russian, 1861-1934). Oil on canvas. Sevastopol Art Museum.

In 1897, Rzhevskaya exhibited with the Peredvizhniki at their twenty-fifth exposition. At this time, she was concerned about gender bias and signed her paintings as "A.L. Rzhevsky." In 1899, she officially became a member of the Peredvizhniki; only the second (and last) woman to be so accepted. The first was Emiliya Shanks. She later resigned, however, due to disagreements with their program.