Был везунчиком и выходил целым и невредимым из самых опасных ситуаций. Скафандр в открытом космосе раздулся и войти в тесный шлюз было невозможно. Пришлось скидывать давление в скафандре, заходить не как положено.

Однажды на одну эпиграмму он отправил обидчику запечённую в духовке коровью лепёшку. В итоге был объявлен коммунистом, и это тяжело сказалось на его финансовом положении. И Кент решился — подарил советским музеям свыше 80 своих картин и около тысячи рисунков.

But there is no absolute certainty that none of Giger's dark fantasies will ever be realized in the future, even if not in such an artistic form.

After the amazing early paintings were followed by monotypical and boring late ones, and visitors had the feeling that the artist simply wrote out, stopped trying and went to outright hackwork.

The style and taste of the artist was formed under the influence of Flemish and German painting of the XV century, she was inspired by Italian Mannerism. Lifetime retrospectives of Leonore's artwork appeared in Japan, Belgium, Paris and Italian cities. But in the mid-1990s, after the artist's death, her work was forgotten.

Then he met the owner of the café. She would gladly take his paintings and pay him with food or sometimes send him flowers - not to express admiration, but simply so that the artist could admire their colorful beauty.

Such pictures were the dream of truckers and bachelors back in the 1920s. The publishers of Brown & Bigelow calendars had a million-dollar idea - to pin up pictures of girls (to pin up or pin a poster to the wall).

A new wave of popularity of Tamara's work came in the sixties. First followed a successful Paris exhibition, then a Luxembourg exhibition. Clients began eagerly ordering replicas of paintings, but the eye and hand were no longer so accurate.

Norman Rockwell drew ordinary people of all ages with sympathy, warmth, and a good deal of good humor. And this manner found the widest understanding among ordinary Americans. Not everyone was close and understandable avant-garde art Pollock or paintings by Francis Bacon ...