Mucha placed an advertisement with the text "For five guilders at the Lion's Hotel," and next to it a hand-painted portrait of the local doctor's wife.

Everyone makes mistakes, but it is too revealing in terms of psychology and attitude to their work. The picture is reminiscent of modern war serials - you look at it and can't believe your eyes.

Он писал по велению души, что в итоге и позволило выработать свой стиль, совершенно неповторимый и легко узнаваемый. При работе над картинами Шагал раздевался практически догола, чтобы не заляпать одежду красками.

Paintings that failed to find recognition in his homeland were sought after abroad. “I got fed up with stupid people on the river and boats for the rest of my life and realized that I only wanted to be an artist.”

Человек он самолюбивый, целиком поглощён своими страстями, а богатая одежда лишь подчёркивает некоторую порочность его натуры. Тяжело дожидаться казни в таком возрасте, когда перед тобой открыты все двери и доступны все удовольствия.

He has lived in the provinces for many years and knows for sure that people there are different. And so it has been all his life, endlessly repeating this artwork-drinking cycle. This is not a slur on Russian people, but a desire to make them better

Дейнеке удивительно удавалось передавать динамику движения. Он был истинным лидером, которому хотелось быть всегда впереди всех. Назови Дейнека картину иначе — то весь смысл потерялся бы.

And he began to paint after that incident, as if the icon had given him a piece of some divine talent. His painting "Cabbage Girl" made a sensation, he was awarded a medal and allowed to go to Italy and France. The divine miracle in his childhood was not for nothing at all.

He is considered the classic "court painter" of the top Soviet leadership. He painted his famous painting "Lenin on the rostrum". But for the soul he painted quite other pictures, which the official authorities did not advertise.

The artist's attention to detail was thorough, and if it is a fantasy on a free theme, it is very convincing. Jerome loved and knew how to paint nudes, but did so under the “fig leaf” of academism.

He hurriedly bid farewell to the ladies and said to Tenisheva: "and this one here, never bring her again". Also sincerely sympathized with the common people, otherwise he would not have painted his best paintings. Nordman still managed to give 15 happy years to Repin.

He was mostly brought up in the courtyard, so he firmly followed courtyard notions. He became a prominent member of the underground crowd, a witness to all the significant events in the life of the artistic underground. Kalinin's paintings are often colorful, satirical, theatrical.