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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Exposed the problems of modern society. Gerhard Haderer's poignant cartoons, for which he was wanted to be imprisoned.
Haderer sincerely dislikes many things about modern Western society and this saddens him, which is reflected in his cartoons.
In Soviet times, pin-up was banned in our country. Barykin's pin-ups are more straightforward, the fantasy and mystery have disappeared. The objectives of posters and pin-ups were generally the same.
The face of a fifteen year old, the body of a twenty year old and a minimum of clothes. The secret to American pin-up.
Girls you can meet in ordinary life and easily fall in love with. Many illustrators living in the USA realized that this was the “gold mine”, so they started to draw pin-ups on an industrial scale.
Иронические картины Валентина Губарева, не оставляющие равнодушными тех, кто родился и вырос в Советском Союзе.
Он иронизирует над маленьким человеком, но не жёстко и насмешливо, а по-доброму. Губарев — настоящий мастер отображения эстетики неразвитого социализма. Это реальная жизнь и реальные люди.
Nostalgia for the USSR with ironic drawings by Angela Jerich.
Without the internet and social media, few people would know about Jerich's artwork. The time range in Jerich's paintings varies from the 1950s to the present day, although they are mostly about the 1980s.
The very same “Krokodil”. Funny and topical cartoons by the editor-in-chief of this magazine German Ogorodnikov
Ogorodnikov depicted all these negative phenomena in his cartoons, but without excessive blackness, although you could draw anything, as there was practically no censorship.
Painted nude beauties, although he considered himself a Christian artist. Maurice Denis and his impressive paintings.
Denis was happy and in demand all his life, as if God himself had blessed the artist. A painter should not engage in empty copying, painting is a reflection of his attitude to the subject he is painting.
Vasya Lozhkin and his paintings, which now look defiantly brave
By the way, Lozhkin does not consider himself an artist, he did not study in an art school, and can not draw a real picture in the style of realism. Lozhkin himself once said that they are all extremely concrete, without metaphors, an old woman with an axe is just an old woman with an axe.
