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byliny [Rus.,=what has happened], Russian scholarly term first applied in the 1840s to a great body of narrative and heroic poems. They are called by the folk stariny [Rus.,=what is old]. Most byliny are loosely connected with historical events dating from the 11th to the 16th cent., particularly the era of the tatar yoke and have been handed down by word of mouth by folk reciters. The poems were first collected and studied in the late 18th cent. The largest of the byliny cycles is that from Kiev concerning Prince Vladimir, the Little Sun, and the warrior Ilya of Murom. Of importance also is the Novgorod cycle, concerning the adventures of the merchant prince Sadko and Vasily Buslayevich. A third cycle of Older Heroes relates tales of the strong plowman Mikula. The characters of the byliny all possess hyperbolic powers. Though modified by elements of Scandinavian, Byzantine, and Central Asian folk tales, byliny are strikingly Russian and have had an enriching influence on Russian literature, music, and art (www.encyclopedia.com....yliny.html)
Artists with roots in the Peel community are given special emphasis at the Gallery including notable artists such as William Ronald and Ronald Bloore who both gained national recognition for their pioneering work in abstraction, as well as David Urban and Sadko Hadzihasanovic who are rising stars on the contemporary scene. Paintings of Peel's historical and present-day landscape are another important component of the Gallery's holdings, as well as its collection of over 500 prints by early twentieth century artists Caroline and Frank Armington. (www.region.peel.on.ca....t-gallery/)
i nearly strayed off course when i hit the cooper hewitt design museum in the old vanderbilt estate; am adding to the cultural to-do list an afternoon perusing their drawings, prints graphic design collection for little gems like this costume design for the opera "sadko " by rimsky-korsakov . no, i have no idea what that means either, but that is one killer squid. (quarterlifecome....gspot.com/)
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