International Artist's Day. Interesting Facts

The women sat on Klim to spin by the window... (Photo: Alexander A. Trofimov, Shutterstock)

Old style date: November 25

On this day the memory of Pope Clement I, one of the apostles of the seventy, is celebrated. In Orthodoxy, he is revered as one of the first Christian preachers in the Russian lands (according to legend, he was exiled from Rome to the area of modern Sevastopol).

There is little historical evidence about Clement. According to the Orthodox life written later, Clement came from a noble Roman family. Soon after the boy was born, his parents and their three sons set off by sea to Athens, but were shipwrecked. All five survived, but lost each other. Having matured, Clement began to look for an answer to the question of what happens to people after death (for he considered his relatives dead), and so he came to Christianity. After baptism, the young man managed to find his brothers, father and mother.

“On Klima, winter knocks out a wedge with a wedge”, - our ancestors said and prepared for severe cold. There were several specific sayings for this day: “The frost poured white roses on Clement”; “Clement drives away a man’s tears with frost”. However, if the roosters crowed early on this day, it foreshadowed an imminent thaw.

On Klimentyev's Day, any important work was supposed to begin only on an empty stomach. This custom was associated with the continuation of threshing: it was inconvenient to do this work on a full stomach, movements became heavy and constrained. The women on Klim sat down to spin by the window - the white snow made the hut lighter.

A special belief was associated with people born on this day. They said that wolves gathered at the hut of the one born on Klim. Therefore, such a person tried not to leave the house again, especially after dark.

Name day on this day

Alexander, Andrey, Vasily, Varlaam, Victor, Gregory, Ivan, Hilarion, Clement, Kuzma, Nikolai, Pavel, Peter, Semyon, Seraphim, Yaroslav

International Artist Day

December 8th is celebrated International Artist Day, which was established in 2007 by the International Association “Art of the Peoples of the World”.

This is not the only date associated with the artist’s profession. Ukraine celebrates this day in October, and in Russia it is celebrated in certain regions on different days - the Kursk region celebrates Artist's Day on August 9, and the Lipetsk region on December 25.

Some creative associations propose holding the holiday on October 25, the birthday of Pablo Picasso, whom masters and art experts consider the greatest artist of the 20th century.

So there is no consensus on the date in the professional community yet. But we are not against it: let there be more reasons to congratulate those who bring the beauty of art into our lives.

Artist's Day is a holiday not only for professionals and art lovers. Creativity preserves in a person the ability to enjoy the world and love it. Therefore, today’s holiday is for all lovers of beauty.

Drawing “Everyone is waiting for his tram”

The artist's profession has been around for thousands of years - even ancient people created rock paintings. In Ancient Egypt, artists were highly respected. The painted images were believed to have a magical effect. In the Middle Ages, the main areas of art were icon painting, frescoes and mosaics. During the Renaissance, the portrait genre developed, which remains relevant today.

Here's what artists say about their profession:

“The artist has freed himself from all ideas, images and ideas and the objects arising from them; such is the philosophy of Suprematism, which brings art to itself.”(Kazimir Malevich)

“The artist is not an intellectual, when he depicts a naked woman, he leaves in our minds the idea that she is going to immediately get dressed.”(Odilon Redon)

“It’s good for an artist to deal with boring work from time to time.”(Auguste Renoir)

“Whoever wants to know about me as an artist should carefully study my paintings and try to find out from them who I am and what I wanted.”(Gustav Klimt)

“I’m a pervert, a voyeur, but for an artist this is completely normal”(Salvador Dali)

“I believe that there is nothing more difficult for an artist than to paint a rose, but he can create his own rose only by forgetting about all the roses painted before him.”(Henri Matisse)

“Every child is an artist, the difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood”(Pablo Picasso)

This holiday is another reason to remember the artists and creators of history. Through their eyes we see the world of Ancient Greece, imagine the life of Medieval Europe, and realize how beautiful our world is.

Getting to know the fine arts allows you not only to expand your knowledge and horizons, but also to join this wonderful world. We all once tried our hand at picking up a pencil and brushes for the first time...

Day of formation of the Russian Treasury

December 8, 1992 President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin signed Decree No. 1556 “On the Federal Treasury,” according to which a system of bodies of the Federal Treasury of Russia was created. This date is considered Day of formation of the Russian Treasury.

The history of the Treasury is inseparable from the history of the development of the Russian state as a whole.. And the origin of this service occurred back in the days of Ancient Rus', when the position of treasurer appeared at the princely and boyar courts - the custodian of material assets (i.e., the treasury). In connection with the unification of the Russian principalities into one state and, accordingly, the expansion of its borders, the volume of valuables and the requirements for their safety have changed. Thus, in the 15th century, during the reign of Ivan III, state courts appeared.

The following reforms in this area took place already under Peter I, by whose decree in 1710 an Accounting or Treasury Office was created to control tax revenues to the state treasury (which existed until 1742). The continuator of the reforms in the country's financial system was Catherine II, by whose order in 1775 state chambers were created in each province, whose functions included collecting taxes and other revenues locally and ensuring their safety (which, by the way, had already become a matter of national importance ).

The next stage in the development of the treasury was the manifesto of Alexander I on the establishment of ministries in 1802, according to which financial management was distributed between three departments - the Ministry of Finance, the State Treasury and the State Comptroller. Subsequently, after a series of structural changes in 1821, the State Treasury Department was created within the Ministry of Finance, which became the core of the entire treasury service system of Russia.

It was from this time that in tsarist Russia a clear mechanism for the activities of treasuries from the central one - the State Treasury Department - to local treasuries was finally developed and subsequently improved and debugged. Even then, the state economy was centralized and budget unity was introduced. All this led to the strengthening of the place of the treasury in the financial system of the state, which began to fully maintain accounting records of state revenues and expenses.

Due to the change in the political situation in the country after the October Revolution of 1917, the structure of government bodies also changed. In 1918, the Treasury was disbanded, and its functions were acquired by new financial structures - the People's Commissariat of Finance and the People's Bank of the RSFSR, and then - the Ministry of Finance of the USSR and Union Republics, the State Bank of the USSR and its territorial bodies.

And by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 8, 1992 and the Decree of the Government of Russia of August 27, 1993, it was decided to create the Federal Treasury within the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. From that moment on, the revival of the treasury in Russia began. And today, after the revival of such a complex financial institution has been completed, we can say that the created system not only started working, but works effectively.

After all, the treasury system ensures transparency of budget expenditures, which was extremely important in the turbulent 90s of the last century and has not lost its relevance today. The efficiency of the financial system, both of the state as a whole and of individual regions, largely depends on the development of the treasury.

Today Federal Treasury (Treasury of Russia) is a federal executive body that, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, carries out law enforcement functions to ensure the execution of the federal budget, cash services for the execution of budgets of the country's budget system, preliminary and current control over the conduct of transactions with federal budget funds by managers and recipients of federal budget funds. The department includes 83 departments and 2254 branches, and it itself is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Currently, the Federal Treasury Department is demonstrating all the advantages of the treasury system of budget execution. The Department’s team of specialists successfully fulfills its duties and does everything possible to ensure: control over compliance with budget legislation by participants in the budget process, cash services for the execution of budgets of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local budgets, timely passage of budget funds coming from the federal center to the regions, and timely and high-quality reporting on the execution of the federal budget.

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary

Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, the cult of which is very popular in Catholicism, is one of the main holidays dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In all European churches, solemn services are held on this day.

The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (lat. Immaculata conceptio) is a Catholic dogma, according to which the Virgin Mary was conceived from ordinary parents, but original sin did not pass onto Her. The dogma is rejected by Orthodoxy (the immaculate conception of Mary, but not her virginity), Protestantism and smaller Christian movements.

The biblical basis for Mary's virginity was contained in the Old Testament prophecy of Isaiah (7:14), which the Gospel of Matthew attributed to Mary: “Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin will be with child and give birth to a Son...”. But the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary should not be confused with the Immaculate Conception of Jesus Christ. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God does not assert that she was conceived in a seedless manner, but only emphasizes the removal of original sin from the Virgin Mary by the Divine will.

In the ancient church tradition there was no version about the conception of Mary without sin by her mother Anna. The version of the Immaculate Conception was officially enshrined in the dogma of Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854, although back in 1476 the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December 8) was introduced by Pope Sixtus IV.

Art, despite its many varieties, is associated primarily with painting. This is not surprising, since the profession of artist has existed for a very long time. By and large, the prerequisites for its emergence began in ancient times, when people more or less learned to depict the world around them using improvised means. Painters today have their own professional holiday, celebrated by masters on December 8 - International Artist Day.

Information about the holiday International Artist Day

International Artist's Day was introduced into the calendar of socially significant events on a global scale in 2007. The initiative to establish a professional holiday for painters 10 years ago was taken by representatives of the International Association “Art of the Peoples of the World”. In addition to this universal celebration for the inhabitants of the planet, there are also national dates dedicated to the creative profession. For example, in our country, Artist Day is celebrated in Lipetsk (December 25) and Kursk regions (August 9). And in neighboring Ukraine, local painters are traditionally honored in the second month of autumn.

Despite the fact that the organizers of the annual creative event with the exact date of International Artist Day seem to have long ago decided, and this year is an anniversary in this regard, there are still associations that insist on changing the day of the celebration to a professional celebration for masters of brushes and paints. The lion's share of them agree that it is necessary to move the creative date from December 8 to October 25. They motivate by the fact that on the specified day the great artist of the last century, Pablo Picasso, was born.

History of the specialty

International Artist's Day is a great occasion to look at a page of history.

An artist is a creative profession. It has a thousand-year history, because drawing skills were not alien to the ancient ancestors of earthlings, who lived according to the laws of the primitive communal system. These people created rock paintings that were a reflection of their life and everyday existence. With the advent of the first civilizations, the profession of an artist began to improve and enjoy greater respect. The ancient Egyptians, for example, using artistic skills, invested a special sacred meaning in their drawings, because the main characters of their paintings were the gods worshiped by the inhabitants of the Nile Valley. During the times of not only the ancient Egyptians, but also the Sumerians and other famous civilizations, there was an opinion that the ability to create an image was a magical ability. Accordingly, the very result of creative work had a magical effect.

Fine art reached a special flourishing during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The first was distinguished by the emergence of icon painting, the skill of creating mosaic compositions and frescoes. The main theme here was the religious one. The Renaissance gave the world many names of the greatest artists, such as Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, etc. The emphasis in those days in the visual arts was not only on the themes of God and saints, but also on demonstrating the beauty of the human body and the inner world of the individual, subjects and heroes of the mythical epic. It was during the Renaissance that the portrait genre was formed, which is very popular in our century.

Over time, many new genres have appeared in the visual arts. This includes still life, landscape painting, abstraction, and surrealism. In the last few years, a branch such as the creation of three-dimensional images has been gaining momentum. Moreover, artists working in 3D format often use the most unexpected materials as the basis for their drawings: asphalt road surfaces, house walls, notebook sheets - and not at all a boring classic canvas.

Features of the specialty

On International Artists Day, let's talk about who artists are?

The name of the creative profession comes from the Old Slavonic word “hǫdogъ”. It is translated as “skillful”. An artist is a person who does not just draw and receives moral and aesthetic pleasure from it. This is an individual who earns money using his skill. In addition, any artist makes the world around him more beautiful and makes a certain contribution to the aesthetic and cultural development of society. He allows anyone to look into his own inner world, as he transfers personal experiences, emotions, feelings, joys and life dramas onto the canvas.

To become a painter, you must have artistic talent. This is given to only a few - this cannot be denied. However, if you have certain creative inclinations, you can also master the profession of an artist. You need to study long and hard: master the rules of composition, plastic arts, drawing techniques, working with paints, mixing them, develop color perception and a sense of beauty. But having a base of knowledge and skills behind you is not enough - a real artist also needs instinct, inspiration, thanks to which a professional, in principle, will be able to create.

A person who has mastered the profession of an artist can work in different fields. The most common and popular directions:

Restoration. Within its framework, a specialist gives a second life to historical works of art that have lost their proper appearance.
Artistic and educational. The main task of a specialist in this field is to develop in society a sense of taste, a sense of beauty, correct perception of works of art, etc.
Artistic and creative. The masters who create the images work directly in this direction.
Pedagogical. The path is for those who feel the need and willingness to teach the basics of painting to others, and have the necessary skills and theoretical knowledge base for this.
Research. Work for scrupulous specialists interested in scientific research on the topic of fine art, the life and work of popular and little-known artists. Such masters show the results of their work to the world in the form of articles, reports and their own developments.

The profession of an artist has both advantages and a number of disadvantages. The advantages of this line of work include the opportunity to fully realize one’s creative potential, to work not only for the purpose of earning money, but also, above all, for the soul; moreover, following the call of inspiration - a specialist of this kind, as a rule, has a free work schedule. But the most important advantage of the profession is the opportunity to work for yourself, that is, independence from the employer.

There are many more disadvantages to creative activities in the field of fine arts. The profession of an artist, unfortunately, is not in demand these days; this entails an unstable and irregular income. Moreover, the size of a painter’s earnings does not directly depend on how talented the artist is - these days, being on the same wavelength with the consumer and the ability to sell one’s own creations is of great importance. In moments of economic crisis, an artist risks completely losing the opportunity to receive at least some money for his work, because during such periods the majority of people think exclusively about their daily bread, and not at all about art.

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Today, December 8, the whole world celebrates International Artist Day, which was established in 2007 by the International Association “Art of the Peoples of the World”.

However, this is not the only date when masters of the brush are honored; sometimes individual regions independently choose the date of celebration. Thus, Ukraine celebrates Artist's Day on October 9, and some creative associations in other countries propose holding the holiday on October 25, the birthday of Pablo Picasso, whom masters and art experts consider the greatest artist of the 20th century. So there is no consensus yet on the date of the celebration in the professional community.

Interesting: The artist's profession has been around for thousands of years - even ancient people created rock paintings. In Ancient Egypt, artists were highly respected. The painted images were believed to have a magical effect. In the Middle Ages, the main areas of art were icon painting, frescoes and mosaics. During the Renaissance, the portrait genre developed, which remains relevant today.

International Artist Day

Artist's Day is a holiday not only
the professionals of this art themselves,
but also art lovers

Happy holiday to all art lovers!

December 8 is the International Artist's Day, which was established in 2007 by the International Association "Art of the Peoples of the World".

Some creative associations propose holding the holiday on October 25, the birthday of Pablo Picasso, whom masters and art experts consider the greatest artist of the 20th century.

So there is no consensus on the date in the professional community yet. But we are not against it: let there be more reasons to congratulate those who bring the beauty of art into our lives.

Drawing “Everyone is waiting for his tram”

Here's what artists say about their profession:

“The artist has freed himself from all ideas, images and ideas and the objects arising from them; such is the philosophy of Suprematism, which brings art to itself.”
(Kazimir Malevich)

“The artist is not an intellectual, when he depicts a naked woman, he leaves in our minds the idea that she is going to immediately get dressed.”
(Odilon Redon)

“It’s good for an artist to deal with boring work from time to time.”
(Auguste Renoir)

“Whoever wants to know about me as an artist should carefully study my paintings and try to find out from them who I am and what I wanted.”
(Gustav Klimt)

“I’m a pervert, a voyeur, but for an artist this is completely normal”
(Salvador Dali)

“I believe that there is nothing more difficult for an artist than to paint a rose, but he can create his own rose only by forgetting about all the roses painted before him.”
(Henri Matisse)

“Every child is an artist, the difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood”
(Pablo Picasso)

Today, in honor of the holiday, many different events are held (plein airs, master classes, installations and performances) and thematic exhibitions in cultural institutions, museums, galleries... Go to a museum!

The editors of the “Calendar of Events” project congratulate all artists on their professional and creative holiday and wish bright colors of life, inexhaustible inspiration, success, recognition and creative fulfillment.

As everyone knows, there are many different holidays. Some are celebrated everywhere, while others, such as professional ones, most people may not even know about. Artist's Day is one of these holidays. It really exists and is celebrated among representatives of this profession. It is worth getting to know this holiday in more detail and considering when and how it is celebrated.

A little about the holiday

As mentioned above, there are many professional holidays, for example, Programmer’s Day or Such professions are quite widespread, so sometimes you can hear about the existence of their “personal” holidays. We meet artists much less often in everyday life, and therefore few people know that Artist Day exists. We can congratulate all the true masters of their craft on this occasion, as this is sometimes difficult work.

So, now it’s worth talking about when Artist’s Day is celebrated in Russia. The date of this holiday is December 8. Let us note that this day is significant not only in Russia. December 8 is International Artist's Day. In honor of him, many different events are held in cultural institutions, museums, galleries and other places that are definitely worth visiting for any educated person.

History of the artist's profession

Of course, touching on the topic (in our case it is Artist’s Day), it is worth talking separately about the profession of an artist. First, you need to consider the definition of such an interesting specialty.

An artist is a specialist who deals with fine arts, as well as other types of art. This profession appeared a long time ago; even ancient people created various images on stones. Scientists also find a large amount of other evidence that even ancient people had a need for fine art.

After some time, with the development of civilization and the emergence of states, the activities of artists expanded noticeably, since they were needed to decorate houses and various household items. Interestingly, in Ancient Egypt, artists were highly respected because it was believed that images could have a magical effect.

In the Middle Ages, the main areas of art became icon painting, the creation of frescoes and mosaics. With the advent of the Renaissance, the portrait genre gradually developed, which does not lose relevance today.

Artist's Day in Russia: where can you go?

So, we have reviewed the basic information about the artist’s profession. We also noted the date on which Artist's Day is celebrated. The date of its holding, as mentioned above, is December 8. This day is worth celebrating not only for professional artists, but also for everyone who is interested in art and culture. On the holiday dedicated to the servants of art, you can go to many galleries and museums and get acquainted with the exhibition in detail. Sometimes this is simply necessary to do, because getting to know the fine arts allows you not only to expand your knowledge and horizons, but also to join this wonderful world. Sometimes you just need to take a break from your own affairs and devote a little time to internal development. Often, on the professional holiday celebrated by artists, various thematic exhibitions are held. Visiting one of these will be very interesting and informative for representatives of any specialty.

Artist's profession today

Many people ask the question: is the profession of an artist relevant today? The answer, of course, will be yes. Most likely, it will be relevant at all times. This is explained by the fact that at different times fine art takes different forms. For example, painting itself used to be the most popular. Undoubtedly, now it is also in demand, but much less.

Nowadays, the most popular areas are graphics and design, as they are used in the design of printed materials, books and various other publications. Of course, decorative and applied art also always remains popular and never loses its relevance.