Classical painting and drawing did not appeal to him and seemed hopelessly outdated. The painting ‘Old Friend’ shows a touching story of friendship between a fisherman and a water dragon.

Historian Budnitsky and Sinyavskaya: "all of Rabichev's information does not correspond to reality, and is only recognised to denigrate the feat of Soviet soldiers". But there is another opinion...

Gubarev himself says that "misplaced irony" is solely the opinion of some officials who are simply afraid. This is not a fetish of the artist, just a desire to show that "a woman should be feminine".

He became a staff artist there, together with Victor Balabas, constantly responding with his witty and topical cartoons to all the events of those years. Without unnecessary vulgarity and blackness, and when it is impossible to do without them, to do it as delicately as possible.

After the wedding, it was time for the wedding night, and Francesca found a complete stranger in the bedroom instead of Paolo. And the most amazing thing is that in Dante's Divine Comedy, Paolo and Francesca's souls ended up in hell.

Became a reflection - naive, somewhat ridiculous, constantly criticized and subjected to ridicule from essentially good people. Degas himself knew about the paintings and approached Henri with the words: "I have seen, I saw your, with permission to say, painting, very original".

One of the main temptations was the temptation of sensuality and the need for abstinence, which at 18 is understandably akin to a real feat.

And for some reason, the artist decided to depict the current clock. To the work of Dali can be treated differently, but some landscape in the style of realism, probably soon forgotten and dissolve into memory among dozens of similar paintings. It is believed that the current clock is an artistic embodiment of Einstein's theory of relativity.

At the age of 22, Serov, together with the Mamontov brothers, went to Vienna and, impressed by the beauty of St. Stephen's Cathedral, began to draw it on paper, making sketches. Police officers approached them and urged them to go to the station

Luis was seriously interested in science, though his parents wanted their son to follow a military path and someday restore their family to its former splendor. His parents were not too happy that their son had become known for his "obscene pictures," but Falero could no longer imagine life without art.

Renoir was a very shy guy, and remained so throughout his life. Renoir was not interested in politics at all and was sincerely convinced that “the crowd has no brains”.

His cartoons were favorably distinguished by brevity, topicality, good drawing, the ability to express the essence, without being distracted by unnecessary details. But in June 1940, Rotov's house was searched, and then charged that he worked for German intelligence, and at the same time and denigrated the Soviet system in his cartoons.

The girl went for mushrooms with her little brother, but suddenly found the clouds and is about to break out a summer thunderstorm. But the girl was less lucky - she caught a cold, now she is lying at home, sick, she has a fever.

Such energy impressed all the artist's guests, who would have been happy to go to bed, but the irrepressible Repin did not give rest. But Repin was probably happy with her, because she matched his temperament and shared his passion for painting, music and dancing.

The newly rich decided that they could look down on everyone else and treat them in a boorishly dismissive manner. Perov received the title of Academician of Painting for this painting when he showed it at an exhibition at the Academy of Arts.

It was after the trip to Ravenna that the “Golden Period” in Klimt's work began, when he actively used gold. In the painting, the moment of the kiss, not the kiss itself, but its anticipation, is surprisingly well chosen.

And how to refuse a conversation with intelligent and educated people in a cozy and rich living room of the artist, a good treat with expensive wine and interesting amusements. This is a kind of "glamorous" excursion into history, where everything ugly is forgotten.

He was remarkably accurate in combining humor and tragedy, and could joke about things that were not to be joked about at all. In general, this is not a portrait, but an unconcealed mockery, although it is possible that even such an ugly duchess may well have a husband.

She conquered many with her gentle character, incomparable beauty and natural charm. With her meekness and humility, she resembles the image of the Madonna. But in that picture there are more differences than similarities.

It was as if he had photographed a piece of river scenery with an expensive professional camera. It is precisely this inordinate precision that became one of the principles enunciated by the Pre-Raphaelites.