In the “Account of the Week” we talk about Elena Solomentseva’s telegraph channel Let’s art – about renaissance art, the Russian avant-garde and medieval painting.

Who

Elena Solomentseva is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow Daily News and a trained journalist. She makes art popular on social networks and in the future sees herself as a writer. Elena has been interested in art since childhood – at the age of 10 she knew by heart the Tretyakov Gallery guide.

He talks about himself on Instagram*. Like many bloggers, Elena chose Telegram as her platform for self-expression:

It was announced on the channel.

Screenshot from Let’s art telegram channel

About what

Now 1.3 thousand people have subscribed to Elena’s Telegram channel Let’s art. The author of the Telegram channel writes:

Elena teaches her subscribers about Sumerian ziggurats, Greek sculpture, Byzantine iconography and French Gothic. Sometimes an interactive feature appears on the blog, and you can try to guess why the Pre-Raphaelites preferred to depict red-haired girls, or what kind of Gothic the cathedral belongs to.

The author of the blog tells not only the technique of painting, but also the historical context of the creation of works, the fate of the artists, the meanings and inconspicuous details of the paintings. It describes not only works of art, but also where to look for them and where it is better to go for “cultural enrichment”.

Elena writes.

For whom

For anyone who has an interest in painting and wants to learn new topics from art history every day:

Screenshot from Let’s art telegram channel