The artist has a Wikipedia page dedicated to him, and his work has been exhibited at numerous exhibitions. His caricatures for 20 years have consistently maintained the brand of dark, but witty humor.
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Blatant unreliability. What mistakes did the Pre-Raphaelite artists make in their paintings?
The artist Edmund Blair Leighton painted a picture inspired by the beautiful and romantic process of allocade, i.e. knighting. Except that he got the knight's armor a bit mixed up.
Vicious demonesses and the evil spirit of Santa Claus in Gerald Brom's memorable drawings
The boy was forced to change schools frequently, often did not have time to make friends and was always in the position of a newcomer. Brom's work is quite dark, although interesting. He often writes on behalf of the "bad guy", a negative character, often quite creepy.
Why are the people in Fernando Botero's paintings so fat? The artist's own answer.
Botero has been married three times, and his current spouse Greek sculptor Sofia Vari can well give a head start to many mannequins. In many interviews he tries to prove that he is not obsessed with overweight women.
A toilet bowl made of gold and a human skull for 100 million dollars. The most controversial works of contemporary art
The toilet was stolen when it was placed in the toilet of Blenheim Palace. At least the gold cube was left behind as further proof that it is better to invest in tangible assets
Charming fat women in all their glory in the paintings of famous artists from antiquity to the present day
But gradually the standards changed, and fullness was seen as something morbid, as opposed to a healthy diet and lifestyle. And Mesolithic people valued wide hips and large breasts - the main signs that a woman could give birth to and nurture healthy children.
Provocative sculpture and hooliganism at auction. Does such contemporary art have the right to exist?
Have concepts changed so much, and do sculptors now show the beautiful and the good through gross anatomy? At some point, "ordinary" art no longer evokes any special feelings and emotions. There is too much monotonous beauty...
The most sensual and obscene painting of the Renaissance. We tell you about its hidden meanings
Francis I himself was a great lover of women and lovemaking. One wife and a few pretty minions were not enough for him. If you look closely, you can see that a pink thorn has pierced his heel, but he doesn't notice it at all.
"French Aivazovsky" Éugene Boudin, whose paintings are much more than meets the eye
Boudin favored work on the plein air: "two strokes of the brush in nature are more important than two days spent in a stuffy studio. However, Boudin painted people as God would have it - for him it was purely technical work.
Five of the most immodest and attractive heroines of Soviet and Disney cartoons, who became characters of boys' dreams.
The princess flaunted in semi-transparent pants and a frivolous top, revealing her belly. Even blushed charmingly, demonstrating how a girl should react to not too modest compliments and proposals.
How to come to terms with contemporary art and how is it better than classical art? We tell you by way of an illustrative example
Even though there is a minimum of innovation, and all the subjects have already been used by artists many times, but what a technique. I had to convey my creative ideas through images, often abstract or not quite realistic.
Famous Picasso paintings that all cultured people should know.
It was not customary for decent ladies at that time to drink absinthe alone, or even to consume this drink at all. Absinthe can be called a special phenomenon in culture, and its use was praised by Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Rimbaud. And many impressionist painters.
Immodest red-haired beauties in the paintings of Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Soon added problems with the spine, accompanied by pain, which Elizabeth and tried to treat with the miracle remedy laudanum. Rossetti grieved, and the painting "Blessed Beatrice" became a kind of tribute.
Strange and not always decent images in paintings in the style of magical realism by artist Albin Brunovsky.
Brunovsky's works are characterized by excellent detail, so you can look at them for a long time and always find something new, and a magnifying glass will be very useful here.
Famous throughout Venice for his love affairs and lived to the age of 99. Titian and his stunning paintings
He was recognized as the best Venetian painter with all the privileges that entailed. The fame of Titian's love affairs spread throughout Venice and husbands were afraid to let their wives go to the artist's studio.
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"
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.
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?
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.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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