He spent a lot of money on the redemption of able serfs young artists, however, once he was bailed out by Emperor Alexander I himself, buying the painting "Threshing Ground".

For artists it was more important to show an intelligent and thinking man, deeply concerned about what is happening in Russia, staying in thought about the search for the meaning of life and the special path of our people and here excessive colorfulness would only harm the whole image.

Artists, as representatives of the creative intelligentsia are often people who are finely sensitive and emotional - with a cold heart would not have been able to write many of their masterpieces, and therefore often fell into various love stories, often quite unpleasant for themselves.

Передвижничество продержалось вплоть до 1922 года, за это время было проведено 47 выставок и сложно переоценить вклад этого художественного объединения в развитие русской живописи.

Deyneka is multifaceted, versatile, sincerely admired youth, enthusiasm, energy and assertiveness, they are felt in almost every one of his paintings. He lived a good life, wrote many excellent paintings and the main thing is that he always believed in what he was doing, as it is impossible to create like this without sincerity.

Already at the age of 50 Kramskoi looked like a tired, exhausted old man. He began to have serious heart problems, and in order to relieve the pain on the recommendation of the doctors of the time actively used morphine and continued to paint portraits for 5-6 hours a day.

Работы Малевича были источником вдохновения многих современных художников, архитекторов и дизайнеров одежды. Современная культура была бы иной, не придумай Малевич свой супрематизм и в этом его главная заслуга.

После революции 1917 года в России возникла потребность в новом искусстве, которое бы соответствовало политическим задачам социализма. Потому и мно...

Benois, of course, is partly right - everything in the painting is too beautiful and theatrical. But that is the only reason it is beautiful - if Briullov had painted it as it really was, it would not be a work of art that belongs in a museum, but a frame of a documentary chronicle from the scene of the catastrophe. There are many of them now, but hardly any of them evokes feelings other than horror and general negative perception.

Последняя любовь Марка Шагала — Валентина Бродская. Её вновь нашла Ида, которой не терпелось обустроить личную жизнь отца — прекрасно понимала, что без любви он жить не может. Валентину очень не любили многие искусствоведы, считали, что она деспотична и влияет на его творчество, рассорила со многими друзьями.

Многие выдающиеся произведения искусства часто не устраивали цензоров и власти, а потому оказывались под запретом. Причины всегда находились — то с...

Kustodiev was a very strong-willed and strong-willed man, fully devoted to creativity - otherwise he would have long ago instead of painting succumbed to despair and drunkenness. The Soviet government allocated money for the treatment of the artist, expensive surgery in Germany - but Kustodiev did not live to see it.

Modigliani had almost no real friends, sometimes beat his girlfriend, but still treated Jeanne with tenderness and love. By the way, Modigliani painted many portraits in the Nude style, but none of them had Jeanne.

Вначале своего творческого пути Архипов писал жанровые сцены из жизни крестьян своей родной деревни, потом, приехав на русский север, проникся невзрачной красотой северных пейзажей, а после 1914 года пишет русских крестьянок в яркой, красочной манере

Perhaps, already in adulthood, Rene sketched his teenage nightmares, reinterpreted them into similar images, and these paintings were needed more by the artist himself, in order to express on canvas everything that he felt on that March day in 1912 on the bank of that very river and somehow come to terms with it, to calm and ease the mental pain.

But since 1760 the rococo style was recognized as definitively outdated, and Boucher is subjected to merciless criticism. He even contemplated moving to Russia, where Catherine II would surely have welcomed him with open arms, as she was a great admirer of his art...

At the age of about 90, his incomparable Gala dies. For Dali it was the loss of a lifetime, he moves to live in her castle, a gift from him, and slowly fades from longing for his eternal muse.

Primitive art, sweet sentimentality - these are just the most innocuous words that Bouguereau heard about his paintings. Bouguereau experienced this attitude, but he could not and did not want to paint differently. He died in the arms of his wife, who became his support and support in life in 1905.

His artwork was revolutionary but surprisingly very much in demand, perhaps because it was understood by his contemporaries. The combination of healthy conservatism and innovative techniques of painting the elements appealed to critics and viewers alike. The sea in Turner's paintings could be calm or stormy, but inevitably exciting and beautiful.

В молодости Левитану пришлось пережить очень многое — голод, нищету, унижение по национальному признаку. Иногда он не ел несколько дней кряду, и у него кружилась голова, если кто-то из учеников начинал перекусывать хлебом. Про Левитана в училище ходили полуправдивые жалобные рассказы, говорили, что ему негде ночевать, и он прятался в заброшенном доме Юшковых.