It was a lot to take in. There were no basic necessities: food and firewood. His wife Yulia Kustodieva went to work as a day laborer sawing wood, which she received as payment instead of money.

Philjames, though he went to Sunday school as a child, is an atheist. However, it is good for him that he exhibited such a painting in Sydney

Zichy willingly befriended Russian artists, was a guest at the famous “Thursdays” Kramskoi of Kramskoi. This allowed him to experience real, not court life.

The artist brings his light, opens his soul to the viewer, helps us understand how to live on.

Oilism is a movement in the visual arts in which artists use pure petroleum or its impurities as the base material

The real success came to Beksiński in the 1980s. But in his personal life he had to endure a lot of tragedies. His guardian's 20-year-old son Robert stabbed the artist 17 times for some reason.

Fortunately, justice prevailed: Pimonenko won the case, and Shustov had to withdraw all bottles with incorrect labels from sale.

The painting was considered lost, only reproductions of it have survived. But in 2020, it was unexpectedly put up for auction.

It seems at first glance that the young peasants decided to rest in the hayloft, but they were caught by a boy with a rake, and judging by his snide smile, he understood perfectly well what they were doing here.

Tired of battle scenes, Kovalevsky found an outlet in genre paintings, which he wrote more for himself, depicting his view of some of the customs of the time, including the education of children.

But it was in this manner of execution that many critics noticed a special charm: the paintings resembled a kind of exquisite fantasy, a revived play of imagination

It seemed indecent to the Commission that a half-naked guy and a girl were so simply socializing on the beach. His brushwork is light and dynamic, and the landscape seems to be painted by chance, as in the best Impressionist artwork.