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He wrote her enthusiastic, chaotic and passionate letters, where he confessed his love. Repin tried to forget Zvantseva, and therefore forced Tenisheva to pose to the point of exhaustion, trying to get closer and closer to the unattainable ideal.
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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"
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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.
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Genius artists and not-so-good people. Is it possible to justify bad character?
Do you think an artist's personal qualities are important, or is it only the artist's work that matters?
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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.....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The unsightly truth about our life. Anti-Soviet pictures that will leave no one indifferent.
Miserable goods - rows of canned "Breakfast of a Tourist" and apple juice. Just depicting the surrounding reality as it really was.
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After a stormy night. About Botticelli's most immodest painting.
The situation with Venus is different - although she is relaxed, she is not exhausted. Botticelli simply replaced the gods with satyrs and added more comedy to the situation. But only history has put everything in its place
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Vasnetsov, but not that one. About the younger brother of the famous artist.
He made up for the lack of academic education by talking and arguing, Repin, Kramskoi and Polenov explained to him the basics of painting. His landscapes are in good standing, some of them were acquired by Tretyakov himself.
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An opportunist or a victim of circumstances? Who was really "Stalin's favorite artist" Alexander Gerasimov?
This is a competently created image, not documentary evidence, and for this he was later accused of wanting to indulge the authorities and called "Stalin's court painter". But Gerasimov had no other choice.
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A real lucky man. Alphonse Mucha and his stunning Art Nouveau paintings.
For twenty years, Mucha painted these pictures, so in tune with his Slavic soul. They reflected significant historical events taking place in Bohemia and other Slavic countries.
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If a painting shows full naked women doing who knows what - it's not vulgarity, it's Rubens! About the famous painter.
But it was not a fetish, but a representation of the ideal of beauty, which corresponded to the concepts of the time. Picasso believed that "Rubens wasted his talent for vulgarity. Rubens knew six languages, had impeccable manners.
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Hid all his life the shameful truth about his relationship. The author of "American Gothic," Grant Wood.
Grant Wood was not too happy about this popularity and generally tried to talk less about himself and his personal life. He was not a typical farmer, not too fond of small, dreary American towns. There was an unspoken rule of "don't ask, don't tell".
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Anti-Soviet paintings by famous artists that make a very strong impression
But the memory of my father, unjustly shot at the infamous Butovo polygon, did not give rest. And it is impossible not to understand and forgive all those involved,
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He painted ceremonial portraits of Stalin, but became famous for his anti-Soviet paintings. Diverse creativity of Yuri Kugach
He sincerely believed that the artist should capture the beauty of native nature. Kugach quite objectively looked at everything that was happening in the Soviet Union. The decision had already been made in advance, and the plan for the raskulachivaniya must be carried out.
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Little-known paintings of Russian itinerant artists, which will definitely not show in school textbooks.
In poor families it was widely practiced to give their young children to be apprentices. And they are completely defenseless against a healthy man, who in a drunken rage is capable of anything. The artist raised the problem of corporal punishment.
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Criticized for "naked lubok", but he became famous for quite different paintings. "Donetsk Klimt" by Viktor Zaretsky.
He went to herbalists and psychics, even believing in his own paranormal abilities. He married human rights activist and artist Alla Gorskaya and became his own in the bohemian crowd. More and more he tried to imitate Gustav Klimt, openly copying his paintings.
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