Waterhouse achieved success and wealth during his lifetime, and his work was highly sought after. Waterhouse's best paintings are ancient myths embodied on canvas, and his heroines were very popular in Victorian England, where women actively fought for equality with men and for the first time were able to vote and go to the polls.

He drew inspiration from the artwork of Italian Mannerist painters. He entered the Paris School of Fine Arts. However, only 6 years after the Paris exhibition, his painting was awarded first place. And in 1899 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor - the highest state award of France.

And such work better reflected the mindset of ordinary Flemish people. The complex light and shade in his paintings, as well as the construction of plots and composition largely come from the artwork of the Italian master. When Rubens died, it was Jordaens who became the chief painter in Antwerp.

Napoleon III, upon seeing it, struck it with the whip he held in his hand. Even Courbet's friends, particularly Eugène Delacroix, criticized it, hinting at the “blatant vulgarity of the forms”. The painting is painted with broad strokes, the background is almost not drawn, and it does not distract from the main thing - the beauty of the girl.

The attitude to what was acceptable in nudes also changed. Female nudity was considered aesthetically pleasing and acceptable, no one had any questions, which artists actively used. But male nudity was more difficult.

He was not afraid to change his life abruptly. Today he could do translations, tomorrow he could quit the academy and make copies of popular stories. Open-minded, characterized by sincerity and impulsiveness, with a touch of fearlessness. Dante did not accept criticism, even tried to take his own life.

But with Somov's personal life, everything was complicated. Like Russian wonderful actor Yuri Bogatyryov Somov was a representative of non-traditional orientation. He had an affair with the sitter Methodius Lukyanov, and it lasted until his death

Был везунчиком и выходил целым и невредимым из самых опасных ситуаций. Скафандр в открытом космосе раздулся и войти в тесный шлюз было невозможно. Пришлось скидывать давление в скафандре, заходить не как положено.

But there is no absolute certainty that none of Giger's dark fantasies will ever be realized in the future, even if not in such an artistic form.

After the amazing early paintings were followed by monotypical and boring late ones, and visitors had the feeling that the artist simply wrote out, stopped trying and went to outright hackwork.

The style and taste of the artist was formed under the influence of Flemish and German painting of the XV century, she was inspired by Italian Mannerism. Lifetime retrospectives of Leonore's artwork appeared in Japan, Belgium, Paris and Italian cities. But in the mid-1990s, after the artist's death, her work was forgotten.

Потом он познакомился с владелицей кафе. Та охотно брала картины, а расплачивалась едой или иногда присылала ему цветы — не для того, чтобы выразить восхищение, а просто чтобы художник, восхитившись их многоцветьем и красотой,