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.

He saw enemies and ill-wishers everywhere, it seemed to him that he was always being pursued, although in fact few people in general needed an elderly artist. His fascination with the occult eventually allowed him to conduct spiritistic séances and receive good money for it.

If the wife and daughter like it, it's all right. There was a lot of satire on all kinds of drunkards, street vendors, plumbers, thieving directors of enterprises.

Возможно дело в правильном подборе стиля и темы своих работ — красивая фантастика с элементами художественного сюрреализма тогда рассматривалась как нечто совершенно необычное и нестандартное, как глоток свежего воздуха среди заезженных картин соцреалистов про однотипное восхваление советской действительности

This is our heritage, which we must remember and know, at least in order to have a clear idea of what war is and what disasters it brought to our people.

English King Karl I was very fond of long conversations with the artist, and therefore tried to prolong communication. “If you want a painting painted by me personally, you have to pay a lot of money.

And such a relationship she had with Polenov - some meaningless, soul-weary drudgery. And only the third woman will sincerely love Polenov, with her he will live 45 years

His paintings often participated in all kinds of exhibitions, where they are willingly bought. Baranov began to create these funny and cute paintings depicting fabulous village old men and old women.

Mucha placed an advertisement with the text "For five guilders at the Lion's Hotel," and next to it a hand-painted portrait of the local doctor's wife.