После революции 1917 года в России возникла потребность в новом искусстве, которое бы соответствовало политическим задачам социализма. Потому и мно...

Benois, of course, is partly right - everything in the painting is too beautiful and theatrical. But that is the only reason it is beautiful - if Briullov had painted it as it really was, it would not be a work of art that belongs in a museum, but a frame of a documentary chronicle from the scene of the catastrophe. There are many of them now, but hardly any of them evokes feelings other than horror and general negative perception.

Последняя любовь Марка Шагала — Валентина Бродская. Её вновь нашла Ида, которой не терпелось обустроить личную жизнь отца — прекрасно понимала, что без любви он жить не может. Валентину очень не любили многие искусствоведы, считали, что она деспотична и влияет на его творчество, рассорила со многими друзьями.

Многие выдающиеся произведения искусства часто не устраивали цензоров и власти, а потому оказывались под запретом. Причины всегда находились — то с...

Kustodiev was a very strong-willed and strong-willed man, fully devoted to creativity - otherwise he would have long ago instead of painting succumbed to despair and drunkenness. The Soviet government allocated money for the treatment of the artist, expensive surgery in Germany - but Kustodiev did not live to see it.

Modigliani had almost no real friends, sometimes beat his girlfriend, but still treated Jeanne with tenderness and love. By the way, Modigliani painted many portraits in the Nude style, but none of them had Jeanne.

Вначале своего творческого пути Архипов писал жанровые сцены из жизни крестьян своей родной деревни, потом, приехав на русский север, проникся невзрачной красотой северных пейзажей, а после 1914 года пишет русских крестьянок в яркой, красочной манере

Perhaps, already in adulthood, Rene sketched his teenage nightmares, reinterpreted them into similar images, and these paintings were needed more by the artist himself, in order to express on canvas everything that he felt on that March day in 1912 on the bank of that very river and somehow come to terms with it, to calm and ease the mental pain.

But since 1760 the rococo style was recognized as definitively outdated, and Boucher is subjected to merciless criticism. He even contemplated moving to Russia, where Catherine II would surely have welcomed him with open arms, as she was a great admirer of his art...