Impeccable in technique, with some symbolic understatement and very decorative paintings by Bussières deservedly attracted the attention of many art lovers.
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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.
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.
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.
