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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Master of obscene paintings under the fig leaf of antiquity. Mannerism of Bartholomeus Spranger.
He copied Parmigianino's engravings, and then, after a short stay in Paris and Lyon, moved to Italy. But often they were just a screen for displaying intricately intertwined nude characters. His paintings were a peculiar mix of eroticism and allegory.
Venus Before the Mirror by Diego Velázquez. What mystery does the painting hide and who is really depicted in it?
In Spain, more than in any other European country, the Inquisition was rampant. And if Cupid were not in the picture, it could well be mistaken for an ordinary nude portrait. No wonder he had an affair with a local beauty.
Nude goddesses in the paintings of academician Alexandre Cabanel. When beauty decides everything
Everything changed - his paintings were recognized as "glossy consumer goods". There was no shortage of customers, moreover, Napoleon Bonaparte himself liked his paintings. He taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he taught students the basics of academic painting.
Exquisite nude bathers and naiads in paintings by Herbert Draper.
It was considered indecent to depict nudes associated with real life. Dripper painted them according to all the canons - hence the perfect bodies, the mannered, refined poses. To write in a new way Dripper did not want to, and could not, so had to put up with the ridicule ...
“The Swan Princess” is a mystical painting by Mikhail Vrubel that foretold him a bad fate
Her wonderful shimmering voice, expressive, wide-set eyes, in which you can drown, flexible stance and charming smile. “Don't look into her eyes - she'll bewitch you” - so some critics said.
Repin's painting “Sailing” was not painted by Repin at all. What is this painting and who is its real author?
But Repin never painted in this style - funny and somewhat ironic. This painting is rather closer to the work of Vasily Perov or Illarion Pryanishnikov. So there was confusion - people came to see the masterpieces of the famous capital master, and see...
Gained fame as the author of immodest drawings, although he considered them “empty”. The Gallant Age and not only in Konstantin Somov's artwork.
They thought about a new art, where there would be no emasculated and hardened traditions of academism. After the revolution, Somov lay low, tried not to show himself in any way and went abroad at the first opportunity.
What is the hidden meaning of the world's most popular print, “The Great Wave at Kanagawa”?
In fact, not all of the 5,000 prints have survived to this day. Hokusai's prints became a source of inspiration for the early Impressionists and later Modernists. Man is only part of the eternal movement of nature.
Village women and girls in positive nude paintings by Andrei Averyanov
Averyanov was born in 1948 and was deaf-mute from childhood. He began painting in the style of primitivism in which Gubarev, Jerich and many others work.
