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Illustration of various legends and traditions was also a favorite theme. However, the Japanese themselves did not consider ukiyo-e prints to be works of art. Colors did not appear in ukiyo-e prints right away. The first prints were black and white and were a kind of book.
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Stars and naked girls in the unremarkable paintings of Louis Falero. who became the founder of modern "adult fantasy".
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.
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Loved to paint in the nude style. What was the artist Auguste Renoir in ordinary life and his stunning paintings.
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”.
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Sentenced to 8 years for an unsuccessful cartoon and accused of espionage. Konstantin Rotov, the legend of Krokodil.
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.
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The accident that led Makovsky to create the painting “Children Running from a Thunderstorm”.
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.
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Ai da Ilya Repin, ai da son of a .... How Repin was in ordinary life and his little-known paintings, which will definitely not show in school.
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.
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The most immodest painting by Vasily Perov, which leaves a lot of room for imagination.
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.
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Never missed a model and knew all about love. The insatiable Gustav Klimt and his brilliant “The Kiss”.
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.
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An immodest custom that Konstantin Makovsky depicted in his painting "Boyar Wedding Feast in the XVII century"
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.
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Like a good tragicomedy. Famous pictures in which from scary to funny is only one step.
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.
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