Picto Diary - 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 April 2024 - Springville Art Museum Russian Collection
Above: LSDM Friday Colloquium. Wasatch Bagel. 19 April 2024.
Topics:
Utah 3 Pub Primary. Bishop predicts Herrod and Curtis. Dem opponent Glenn Wright concurs.
Biggest PC goofs: Turndown four lane 248. Bonanza Park.
Jimmy doing well. Skiing with Actuary on Sun.
Sundance out? Negotiating ploy?
'Sup with antisemitism at PCHS?
Oly visit feedback on Roger's show.
Film recommendation: The Zone of Interest.
Above: Miners Camp restaurant. Park City Mountain. 19 April 2024.
Still skiing ski geezers. Larry the Legend, Pipe, Title, Espresso, TWO3.
My last day skiing this year. Fifty-one ski outings, most at Deer Valley... a half dozen here at Park City. Circa 500K vertical feet, my lowest vertical output in the last fifteen years. Today more international trips and time in Ivins crowd out additional ski days. Not complaining. Just saying.
Above: Park City Mountain. 19 April 2024.
Angel, Espresso, and Bishop. Today, Angel is skiing his 145th day this season. Angel, a successful Park City businessman, is a self-taught, excellent skier. He's a far cry from the guy I saw, panic stricken, straight lining down Prospector fifteen years ago.
Above: Tulips. Chez Dara. Cottonwood Bottoms, Utah. 20 April 2024.
Spring has sprung.
Above: Shunde Fruit Market. Springville Art Museum. Bryan Mark Taylor. 20 April 2024.
The artworks on this wall represent a partnership between the Springville Museum of Art and the Art Renewal Center, a premier exhibition venue for artists working in the classical tradition. Each year, one Utah artist is selected from their juried competition to be featured on this wall in an effort to support and celebrate traditional Utah artists. Bryan Mark Taylor's work (above) was the winner of this year's competition.
Above: My Wife Nadya, Nikolai Borisovich Terpsikhorov, 1944. Springville Art Museum, 20 April 2024.
The above painting is part of the acclaimed Springville Art Museums Russian Collection holdings. A description of the Soviet and Russian Collection can be found here: Incredible Springville and Its Art — Palouse Heritage
I loved the painting, My Wife Nadya, shown above. The scene may be more idealistic than it should have been considering Stalin's crackdown on the kulaks (private farmers with land holdings), and the resultant famines in the late 1930's. But then, such a seeming pastoral scene in 1944 (the date of the painting), might be expected considering the painting was accomplished two years after the Russians had rebuffed the Germans at Stalingrad during WWII. Check out the blowup photographs of Stalin and Lenin on the wall.
It seems strange, notwithstanding Russia's success in WWII at the time of the painting, that Stalin wouldn't be better known to peasants as the instigator in the killing of the millions of Russians in the 1930's famines than for his leadership in WWII. OK. Maybe the peasants realized Stalin's perfidy but had no choice, under Stalin's regime of fear, than to show their fealty to him by hanging his photo on the wall. But then, in 2014, while motorcycling through Chechnya, our group stopped at a rural schoolhouse. Inside, we noted a photograph Stalin, similar to the one in Terpsikhorov's painting, displayed prominently on a classroom wall. There seemed to be no pressure for a Russian to hang a Stalin image in 2014. Notwithstanding, a world class killer seems to remain revered by numerous Russians.
Above: Diehard skiers. Miner's Camp restaurant. Park City Mountain. 21 April 2023.
Pipe, TWO3, Prosthetic, and Espresso. Penultimate day of season. Image by Prosthetic's husband, Guzzi. As they sit here, I'm in Ivins. Wish I could have been there, but also happy where I am. Ivins will serve up time to unwind from the three-week India trip.
Above: Ivins, UT. 22 April 2024.
TIMDT on way to spa. Still jet lagged from India trip. Taking it easy and sleeping on demand.