Here is an Official Postcrossing card I received from Russia! This cute postcard is a work by Leonid Gamart, an artist/illustrator whose work I would describe as contemporary, bright and charming (I know this design here wouldn’t exactly be considered “bright”, but this adjective more so pertains to his other […]
This is an Official Postcrossing card from Japan! This is a GORGEOUS ukiyo-e print of Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine located in Tokyo. This shrine was built in the mid-1800s as a memorial to those who had died in war, which number at approximately 2.5 million. Near the shrine there […]
This Official Postcrossing card is from Germany! The sender, who wrote in their message to me that they love to color, took the time to color this crustaceous delight for me! When it takes me on average 7-15 minutes to choose, write and decorate a postcard for a recipient, this […]
I received this Official Postcrossing card from Russia! This is a scene from the Russian bylina known as “Sadko”. A bylina is a type of Russian poetry dating back over a millennium ago that was conveyed as a sort of heroic narrative. These poems would be orally presented (a lot […]
This Official Postcrossing card is from Russia! This work of art was painted by Klavdy Lebedev, a Russian realist painter of the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was a member of The Wanderers, which was a group of realist painters in Russia who formed to oppose academic restrictions in […]
I got this Official Postcrossing card from Wisconsin! At first I thought this was a standard painting card and anticipated trying to find the original painter. Turns out it’s actually from a set of cards featuring pulp magazine covers! Pulp magazines are fiction magazines that were printed on cheap pulp […]
Here is an Official Postcrossing card from Russia! This is a work of art featured at The State Museum of the History of Religion, located in Saint Petersburg. This museum was opened in 1932 and contains around 200,000-250,000 exhibition pieces, dating as far back as ancient times. The focus of […]
This Official Postcrossing postcard is from Wisconsin! This features a painting by Michael Sowa, a German painter and illustrator born in 1945. Sowa is known for his surreal, kind of cartoon-like style, and has done works for things like books, magazine covers, and musical album covers. For some reason the […]
This one is a postcard I received from India! This is titled “A Lady Reading Letter”, and letters are the topic of today’s post! Letter-writing is something that goes back to ancient times, in areas such as India, Egypt, China, Mesopotamia (the world’s earliest known civilization), and spots in modern-day […]
This is an Official Postcrossing card from Poland! I can’t be 100% certain (my life in general is a lack of certainty… but that’s another story…), but I believe this is a promotional card for a painting exhibition held at Między Nami Café, based on what I read from the […]