Даже работая в таком легкомысленном жанре как пин-ап, можно стать всемирно известным художником, просто нужно относиться к своему творчеству предельно серьёзно
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Creativity in a drug-fueled frenzy. Extravagant paintings by Jean Michel Basquiat, now worth millions of dollars.
His life was really strange and resembled a movie where they gave too much freedom to the scriptwriter. He never studied anywhere else and learned the basics of painting and art on his own.
Betrayal of her fiancé and a stroke. How did the fate of Kramsky's daughter, with whom he wrote his famous “Unknown”, turn out?
Sofia Kramskaya was accused of aiding “hostile counter-revolutionary elements” and exiled to Siberia for three years. But it was the shock that caused fifty-year-old Sofya to have a stroke
“Lie Down Policeman” is a non-banal and funny comic strip by Dave Coverley with a 30-year history.
Coverley's humor is international, understandable to all more or less educated people all over the world. Coverley says that his artwork is a kind of humorous cartoon.
A lady with a tainted reputation. Who was Karl Brullov's muse Julia Samoilova, whom he immortalized in his paintings?
Bryullov, and Samoilova did not consider it necessary to be faithful to each other, and as Julia said: “I will not jump into the Volga because of my love for Bryullov”.
Joseph Nowak's unobvious and slightly “blackish” caricatures.
His creative method is to take a funny situation, bring it to the point of absurdity, add a dash of black humor, but without any unnecessary cruel details. “The main thing in my artwork is funny ideas, they are often like insights.”
John Millais' most defiant painting, daring to challenge the morality of the Victorian period
The Pre-Raphaelites first began to portray women who could feel and experience passion, who wanted to take fate into their own hands, to take charge of their own lives and their own bodies, to be individuals.
Humor for the ages. A lesson to all cartoonists from the master of his craft, Herluf Bidstrup.
“I drew on everything I could and even on what I couldn't.” His political caricatures of fascists became a kind of stigma, they ridiculed all negative phenomena.
“Girl with a Pearl Earring” - and what was that earring actually made of and what is so special about this painting?
What is more important is the original composition, facial expressions and non-standard details - there is plenty of this in Vermeer's painting, but the main element of the painting is the pearl earring, which has caused a lot of controversy.
“He spoiled all exhibitions with his vulgar pictures”. About Konstantin Makovsky and his paintings, which will not be shown in school textbooks.
It came to the absurd: for the painting “Slavic composers” Makovsky asked 25 thousand rubles, and Repin agreed to write for 1.5 thousand Makovsky shamelessly used the gullibility of “rich simpletons.
