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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Repin's painting “Sailing” was not painted by Repin at all. What is this painting and who is its real author?
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...
Gained fame as the author of immodest drawings, although he considered them “empty”. The Gallant Age and not only in Konstantin Somov's artwork.
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.
What is the hidden meaning of the world's most popular print, “The Great Wave at Kanagawa”?
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.
Village women and girls in positive nude paintings by Andrei Averyanov
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.
Он изобразил всех знаменитых философов из Греции, великих мыслителей. Моделью для Мадонны, по мнению некоторых искусствоведов, была любовница Рафаэля Маргарита Лути. Облака на картине символизируют ещё не родившиеся души. Талант виден даже в ранних картинах.
Как на самом деле называлась «Мона Лиза» Леонардо да Винчи и другие факты об этой незаурядной картине.
Зануды могут говорить «Портрет госпожи Лизы Джокондо», но прижилось сокращённое название. Лиза Джокондо просто саркастически ухмыляется, увидев своё изображение на картине, она очень любит мучное, потому и страдает от повышенного холестерина.
Japanese obscene “spring pictures” shunga - beauty, sensuality and defiant vulgarity.
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.
Zinaida Serebryakova's most famous nude and family portraits.
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.
Two girls and a guy. John Diaz's funny and slightly explicit comics about the lives of hipsters and gamers.
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.
Obscene drawings to the masses. What was it like before?
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.
Why did Rubens paint full women in his paintings and how did he manage to create so many of them?
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.
The devil is hidden in the details. Unusual “Easters” on frescoes and paintings of famous medieval artists
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?