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Modern Renaissance is not to be found in any Encyclopedia of Art. Today's Fine Arts students wouldn't recognize it as an artistic movement. Even the most sophisticated theoreticians of Art may feel nonplussed when asked to define this phenomenon. Yet, Modern Renaissance is a fresh and viable spirit of our time that would leave nobody indifferent. Ekaterina Sorokina and Nicholas Shaplyko, just like their spiritual ancestors of Renaissance Italy, see human beings as the measure of all things. Unlike the latter, however, they live in today's world with all its technological advancement and spiritual narrowness. It is the human being that needs to be revived as the Art's solely important addressee. It is only love and beauty and inexhaustible optimism that will cure the sores of Modernity. It is Modern Renaissance that adopted the eclecticism of our life and creatively transformed it into its ideal counterpart, where mythological creatures peacefully converse with flowers, and fairy-tale landscapes harmonically incorporate complicated geometrical ornaments. It may be the key to many secrets of existence.

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	Modern Renaissance is not to be found in any Encyclopedia of Art. Today's Fine Arts students wouldn't recognize it as an artistic movement. Even the most sophisticated theoreticians of Art may feel nonplussed when asked to define this phenomenon. Yet, Modern Renaissance is a fresh and viable spirit of our time that would leave nobody indifferent. Ekaterina Sorokina and Nicholas Shaplyko, just like their spiritual ancestors of Renaissance Italy, see human beings as the measure of all things. Unlike the latter, however, they live in today's world with all its technological advancement and spiritual narrowness. It is the human being that needs to be revived as the Art's solely important addressee. It is only love and beauty and inexhaustible optimism that will cure the sores of Modernity. It is Modern Renaissance that adopted the eclecticism of our life and creatively transformed it into its ideal counterpart, where mythological creatures peacefully converse with flowers, and fairy-tale landscapes harmonically incorporate complicated geometrical ornaments. It may be the key to many secrets of existence.
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