This is one of my favorite Russian artists, Leon Bakst. He painted this as one of his costume designs for the ballet Firebird in 1910. He was also Marc Chagall's teacher. I love the colors, the gestures, the twirls, the elongated bodies. Bakst left St. Petersburg to live in Paris because as a jew, he could only live in the Pale of Settlement of Russia. A zone created by Catherine the Great, to ghettoize my peeps, the jews. Despite getting pushed around, we produced some amazing art.

Here's Bakst's portrait of the Russian poet Zinaida Gippius. Gender Bender lesbo of 1906 who also ran away from St. Pete.



Cave of Hands was spray painted on a cave wall in Argentina over 9,000 years ago.