The real masters managed to maintain a competent balance between piquancy and decency, so vulgarity in their paintings is not much, rather a graphic embodiment of ideal male ideas of beauty.

Movements and emotions were more important to him than tedious copying of plaster casts, when the resulting paintings became lifeless, monotonous and boring.

After his death, he was forgotten for many centuries, but when Impressionism became popular, it turned out that the paintings of Rokotov surprisingly correspond to this direction.

Thanks to many years of work, he managed to become famous and recognizable. His paintings were filled with light, embodied the joy of life, the very spirit of a serene existence

Models who were connected to the artist not only by professional interest often visited there. Gray hair in the head - the devil in the ribs: this is exactly about Derain.

His paintings are so heavily influenced by the strong Italian tradition that they seem to have been painted by a native Italian who grew up admiring Renaissance art.