Her wonderful shimmering voice, expressive, wide-set eyes, in which you can drown, flexible stance and charming smile. “Don't look into her eyes - she'll bewitch you” - so some critics said.

But Repin never painted in this style - funny and somewhat ironic. This painting is rather closer to the work of Vasily Perov or Illarion Pryanishnikov. So there was confusion - people came to see the masterpieces of the famous capital master, and see...

They thought about a new art, where there would be no emasculated and hardened traditions of academism. After the revolution, Somov lay low, tried not to show himself in any way and went abroad at the first opportunity.

In fact, not all of the 5,000 prints have survived to this day. Hokusai's prints became a source of inspiration for the early Impressionists and later Modernists. Man is only part of the eternal movement of nature.

Averyanov was born in 1948 and was deaf-mute from childhood. He began painting in the style of primitivism in which Gubarev, Jerich and many others work.

Most Europeans did not become familiar with Japanese art, including shunga, until the 19th century. But by the ninth century they had evolved into an art for newlyweds. The Japanese did not advertise them, they were part of intimate life.

However, there were Serebryakaya and nude, which now seem completely reprehensible. Willingly wrote and all sorts of ballerinas in the dressing room and before performances. Bather in the picture Serebryakova absolutely natural, there is not a drop of tension and shyness.

Diaz's main audience is older people who have a critical and sensible outlook on life, but who are not yet completely disillusioned with it. Diaz perfectly manages to ironize the irrepressible desire of some girls to show themselves in the most favorable light in photos on social networks.

The churchmen themselves were happy to order nudes for themselves and the needs of the church, but it was one thing for pious fathers and another for ordinary people far from holiness. For sailors there were many simpler products, but the theme was usually the same - all kinds of nude goddesses and naiads, but certainly not ordinary people.

Rubens could do everything himself, but took for such work twice the price. But rich and noble customers were not afraid of the price. This is how the "pulsing of blood" appeared - the most natural and vivid image.

Even the great Michelangelo Buonarotti himself wasn't shy about hooligan jokes. It's all about the vantage point. Parishioners and priests in Giotto's time saw only clouds on the fresco. And what could it be - the appearance of angels or an unusual natural phenomenon like ball lightning?

He was not afraid of anything and did not expect to live long, as he knew from childhood that he had tuberculosis. He had a lot of stubbornness and willpower, and once he made up his mind to become an illustrator, he never left that path.