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ART HISTORY: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. EARLY CHRISTIAN ANATOLIAN FRESCOES: Armenian frescoes were never fully explored and honestly appreciated by the world. It is understandable. Armenia was a confined country behind the iron curtain. Few foreigners visited Armenia during the Soviet regime. And much more less during world war two. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

18.FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE, BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. GAY PARIS IN THE 20s and 30s: Background, People, Places, Personalities, Hospitality, Restaurants, Food, Wine, Pleasure, Style, Fashion, Arts, Poetry, Music and Adventure. According to Maximillien de Lafayette. Mon Dieu! To be and live in Paris during "Les annees folles", between the end of 1917 and 1934, especially if you were an eccentric artist, an intellectual adventurer, a frou-frou femme fatale, a genius or an independently wealthy American, willing to spend a lot of money on arts, dating and women. Ask Madonna, Paulette Attie, Penelope de Vassy and Louise de Chambertin. Really "real" America's la crème de la crème was there. The "real" American high society, the privileged class, the snobs (Although it was too early for the Americans to know how to be a snob), les bourgeois, wealth filthy characters, the hustlers with a style, the scandalous adventurous women, the schmoozer and the cruisers, the handsome gigolos, the champagne, the caviar, the kisses and the misses, sex, the drama and all the "chic" pleasures of the era. Hemingway was here. Paramour Stein too. Why Paris - what made everybody want to come here and create, and drink, and dance, and paint, and write stories or invent them? Women? obnoxious, over-cultured and over-sophisticated Frenchmen? Bubbly champagne? Sinfully good wine? Nice plat de fromage? A nostalgia? A fantasy? A new social, political and artistic era? A modern Parisian revolution? Yes! Yes! All of the above! WORLD HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE

MODERN ART IN IRAQ: LEADING FIGURES AND INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITIES, BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. No country will ever survive if its art dies. it the proper time to talk about Iraqi modern art amidst the turbulent Iraq passage toward new political and social metamorphoses? Absolutely, for nations were initially born through the original expressions of individual and shared feelings, ideas, concepts and ideologies transmitted and illustrated through the medium of art. Equally true is the survival of nations and the preservation of their heritage, history and national pride through art in all its forms and styles. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

WORLD CULTURE, ART AND CIVILIZATION. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CIVILIZATION, ART, CULTURE AND HISTORY OF IRAQ? WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

112-128. CUBISM: THE FOUNDERS OF RUSSIAN ABSTRACT ART: BIOGRAPHIES AND ARTWORKS. DID THE RUSSIAN PAINTERS INVENT ABSTRACT ART AND CUBISM LONG TIME BEFORE PICASSO AND BRAQUES? Cubism (a name suggested by Henri Matisse in 1909) is a non-objective approach to painting developed originally in France by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906. The early, "pre-Cubist" period (to 1906) is characterized by emphasizing the process of construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and converting the represented forms into the essential geometric shapes: the cube, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. Between 1909 and 1911, the analysis of human forms and still lifes (hence the name -- Analytical Cubism) led to the creation of a new stylistic system which allowed the artists to transpose...ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

ART OF VANISHED CIVILIZATIONS: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.

THE GREAT ART OF THE KINGDOM OF URARTU: A FORMIDABLE ANCIENT EMPIRE AND A CIVILIZATION CRADLE. In the early twentieth century, a long forgotten magnificent kingdom and a cradle of civilization was rediscovered in the Anatolian highlands of Asia Minor. Not until 1936 was the first systematic and scientific excavation of an edifice or a fortress of that lost civilization begun. And that was, the ancient Kingdom of Urartu (a name created by the Assyrians) which was centered around Lake Van. Sometimes, historians refer to Urartu as the kingdom of Van. The first Uraturians were called Nairi by the Assyrians and inhabitants of Asia Minor and their homeland was frequently called Urartu, while the Uraturians referred to their nation as the Land of Biani. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

254. THE CILICIAN STYLE: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. FROM ITS GLORIOUS DAYS, ITS ORIGIN, ITS RISE, ITS GLORY TO ITS FALL AND DEATH ON THE HAND OF THE MAMLUKS. The second style of the early Armenian manuscripts painting is the Cilician style. A very beautiful, colorful, rich, vibrant, humanistic and detailed brighter and happier art. Tens of thousands of illuminated manuscripts were produced in the times of medieval Armenia. Unfortunately many perished. ART & STYLE MAGAZINE

JUDAICA: THE BEST OF JUDAIC ART: HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT AND STYLES, by MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE. Defining what Jewish art is and who is a Jewish artist is more problematic and subjective than defining art itself. Jewish artists from all eras and various nations contributed ad infinitum to various and multiple schools, styles, genres and aspects of classical, abstract and modern art. In many instances, no Judaic or Hebraic artistic creativity was ever associated with the nature, the theme and message of their work. Add to the fact that, many non Jewish artists from all centuries mirrored and depicted memorable events from the history of Israel, the Bible and modern Jewish conflicts around the globe. For instance, the famous “Jewish Polish Village Series” which depicted destroyed wooden synagogues in Eastern Europe was done by a non-Jewish artist Frank Stella...P.301 - 305 STARS ILLUSTRATED

BEST ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN ARTISTS. By MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE.

ESSENCE OF ART AND ABSTRACT ART IN TWO DIFFERENT CAMPS AND LIFE’S GALLERIES: THE ART OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE,

This article reveals truth, reality, unaltered dimensions, feelings, talents and major work of leading Arab and Israeli artists living in the Near East, Middle East and spread around the world. There are a lot of pros and cons opinions expressed herewith. They are NOT ours. Those opinions were deemed indispensable to be included in our article, because they constitute the very fabric of similarities and differences in way of life, politics, social structure and substructure, artistic ideologies and accomplishments, social and artistic struggles, genius, visions of today and tomorrow. This article should prove extremely informative and educational. We have included and encompassed several articles and statements issued by all parties. In addition, we have carefully selected the work of featured Arab and Israeli artists for obvious reasons. We are NOT in the politics business. P.311 - 324 STARS ILLUSTRATED

WORLD CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. COMPARATIVE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DEITIES, GODDESSES, GODS, WOMEN AND MEN ART OF FASHION AND DRESS-MAKING FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO EARLY 20th CENTURY. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL

ART, METAPHYSICS AND THE HEALING POWERS OF RELIGIOUS ART: THE KATCHKARS BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. The most recognizable Armenian art is the traditional stone carving. The carving of Khatchkars is an artistic Armenian tradition. An Armenian trademark and monopoly. Khatchkar, literally means "cross-stone"; khatch means cross and “kar” means stone. It refers to an upright basalt stone resting on a rectangular base with its back facing eastward. It is a slab of stone incorporating various patterns of carved crosses with inscriptions and different designs pertaining to various epochs. WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL