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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Strange and not always decent images in paintings in the style of magical realism by artist Albin Brunovsky.
Brunovsky's works are characterized by excellent detail, so you can look at them for a long time and always find something new, and a magnifying glass will be very useful here.
Famous throughout Venice for his love affairs and lived to the age of 99. Titian and his stunning paintings
He was recognized as the best Venetian painter with all the privileges that entailed. The fame of Titian's love affairs spread throughout Venice and husbands were afraid to let their wives go to the artist's studio.
Famous artists you were better off staying away from
Even powerful patrons and customers, notably Pope Leo X declared, "he is terrible, it is better not to have any dealings with him and to stay away from him"
About children and childhood paintings of famous artists, bringing awe-inspiring memories.
Picasso's drawing does not resemble children's scribbles at all, but his talent is visible to the naked eye. At the age of 8, Boris first visited the exhibition of the Itinerant artists and firmly decided to become an artist. The German artist Paul Klee even stated that he drew his best works at the age of 3 to 9 years.
The Virgin of Orleans and the sins of the English court in the paintings of the academician Paul Delaroche
But the noble feudal lords did not recognize her as a queen and revolted. Even her tender age - only 16 years old - did not prevent her from being tortured, after which she was blinded and executed. This tragic moment Delaroche depicted in the painting.....
Against the decency of society. Courtesans and nude models in the paintings of Federico Zandomeneghi.
Zandomeneghi focused more on moral issues and willingly portrayed uninhibited girls - keepers, courtesans, or even ordinary street "priestesses of love". He focused on the practice of ballerinas becoming kept women, which was common at the time.
Banned paintings by one of the best children's illustrators of the Soviet era. Viktor Pivovarov and his Moscow Conceptualism.
At the age of five, out of sheer boredom, he created his first "work of art" there. Pivovarov's works are a kind of rebuses written in the style of surrealism with elements of book illustration and a good share of absurdity.
He painted nude beauties and dreamed of revealing the soul of the Jewish people. The artist Yudel Pan, without whom we would not know about Marc Chagall.
He selected on the basis of artistic ability, and accepted the poorest of the poor. He fell in love with the governor's daughter, painted a dozen portraits of her, but that was the end of it. Pan was truly devoted to painting, and more than anyone else.
Fooled everyone. What secret did the Louvre management hide when they exhibited the famous Venus of Milos statue?
The statue arrived at the Louvre sealed in several boxes - the largest contained Venus of Milos herself, and the others smaller ones contained her hands, pedestal and fragments. The Louvre management wanted to have in the museum an unqualified masterpiece created by the famous ancient Greek sculptor.
With a pretty villager in the hayloft. Scenes of village life in the paintings of English artist George Clausen
In England at that time, Victorian morality was no less severe than Soviet morality in the 1930s. There was even more naturalism in his paintings - the peasants did not resemble the ancient gods at all.