XIII Moscow International Exhibition ART OF THE PUPPET 9-11 December 2022 Gostiny Dvor, 4 Ilyinka Str. The exhibition is organized by the Cultural Foundation "WORLD CUPPETS" Website: artkukly.rf The universe of archaic and the archaic meta-universe. The exhibition of 2022 will go down in history as an event of a planetary scale - the demonstration to the general public of the world's first neural network puppets! Why is this presentation unique and super-sensational? We are all ...

Julien Martinez is a contemporary French artist, a graduate of the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts, specialising in sculpture, miniature, design and incarnation of Blythe, Pullip, Dal, Toffee, BJD and antique dolls. The Bordeaux-born artist has a knack for creating melancholy characters with red eyes, disheveled hair and decadent clothing; blending aristocratic and country life in 19th century France to reflect the loneliness of human ...

Jack in the box ("Jack in the box", also in Russian "poppypunchik") is a children's toy. It looks like a box with a handle that plays a melody. At some point, the box suddenly opens its lid and a figure (usually a clown or a jester) pops out of it. The tune played is often "Pop Goes the Weasel", with Jack popping out at the spot where ...

Irina Cherepanova, a talented master and creator of the "Kingdom of White Nights and Lingonberry Fields", is a guest of The Daily Doll. Irina travels the world with her works and decorates many international exhibitions and festivals of author's dolls. Her dolls are amazing! Magic characters immerse us in a fairy-tale world, where each character has its own story. Today Irina will tell us ...

Forest Rogers is an unrivalled master of Fantasy&Horror dolls. Her figurative sculptures seem incredibly realistic and evoke contradictory feelings. The sculptor has brought back wonderful memories from her childhood: for example, about how at the age of two or three she moulded a frog figure out of sand with her mother (there is even a photo of this moment on Rogers' official website). Or about the house ...

Robots-automatons of the Pierre Jaquet-Droz family The creator of the first robot-automaton Pierre Jaquet-Droz (Jaquet Droz), was born exactly three hundred years ago, in 1721, on a small farm Sur-le-Pont, located in the vicinity of the city of La Chaux-de -Background (Switzerland). Representatives of the older generation of the family: Brant de Grieren, Sandoz, Robert, instilled in young Pierre an interest in high-precision mechanics and watchmaking, which grew into a real passion. Mid 18th century! ...

Continuing the conversation about alternative dolls, let's get acquainted with the work of the charismatic master Denise Bledsoe Denise Bledsoe calls her works “funny, harmless and bizarre”. The artist lives and works in Southern California (USA) Denise writes about himself: I have been doing art since childhood. As soon as I began to realize myself, I did not spend a single day without pencils, a pen and ...

Meet the eternal Halloween or Delightfully Spooky Dolls by the French author. Continuing the conversation about alternative dolls, let's take a look at the work of an eccentric craftsman. JULIEN MARTINEZ, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, was born in 1970 in France. In 1996, he presented his dolls for the first time at the international exhibition "Paris-Creation", where he achieved immediate success. Julian is in ...

Continuation of the Scary Dolls theme. The word Ugliness has several meanings. Now I rather mean hooliganism, a game, and not Ugliness. The dolls of the authors presented here are beautiful! For me, of course, there is no dispute about tastes. We buy dolls emotionally. After all, they touch something in the heart, we begin to empathize and sympathize. You had such that you look at ...

Wood, fire and ancient folklore. Continuing the story about the authors of "Alternative Puppets", I want to elaborate on the work of the British master - Tach Pollard. The artist creates surrealistic characters, stylized beings - "Spirits of Nature", as the author himself calls them. Once you see Pollard's works it's impossible to forget them. Looking at the faces, the figures of characters, you are struck by the exotic imagery. But...