His destiny is full of ups and downs, meetings with kings and exiles, traveling and searching for inspiration.
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Stephan Schmitz's clever illustrations allow you to reflect and laugh at many of the problems of our time.
When a man is like a squeezed lemon and can't even get out of his chair. Schmitz doesn't like jobs where everything is obvious at first sight. He is also ironic about the desire to show that we are doing well.
"The career of the courtesan" and the nocturnal escapades of aristocrats. English artist who invented critical realism
And he decided to open his fellow citizens' eyes to everything that was going on around him. Hogarth felt it was his duty to bring her story to everyone. He was very expressive in showing the relationships between people, their passions and vices
Everyday life of the “right guys”. Gopniks in paintings by contemporary artists.
It is difficult to imagine that a monument to Gopnik would ever be erected. But you shouldn’t think that gopniks can only drink beer and sit on the courts.
Still lifes with potatoes instead of nudes. A special look at Robert Falk's painting.
He somehow always managed to write not “as it should”, and based on his understanding of painting. And in 1928, Falk received permission to go to Paris. And after the Second World War, Falk was subjected to disgrace, his paintings were no longer bought.
He switched from cityscapes to paintings of nude bathers. Check out these incredible Impressionist paintings by Frederic Gassaman!
He began working as an accountant, but Gassam quickly grew tired of the boring accounting. His paintings were often harshly criticized as being completely incomprehensible. There was also a period of excessive passion for alcohol, but at some point he decided to give it up completely.
The immodest illustrations of pin-up master Gil Elvgren that still excite all men today
During his studies he got married, and when he received a degree in architecture he moved to Chicago with his wife. Elvgren became a famous artist, and he had many lucrative commissions, drawing advertisements for large companies and collaborating with magazines.
Memorable "anti-Stalinist" paintings by Peter Belov, which will leave no one indifferent.
People stood in queues to see a different view of Stalin's times. Camps grind up human bodies and souls, individuals with their aspirations and dreams become mere cogs in a soulless state machine.
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 ...
Marina Abramovic's Shocking Performances That Are Repulsive to Ordinary People
At some point, the crowd surrounding Marina almost lost control of itself. The phenomenon of the cruelty of a crowd ready to tear apart an innocent victim. And Abramovic went to her hotel and discovered gray hair for the first time.
“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.
Картины Рафаэля Санти, которые нужно знать.
Он изобразил всех знаменитых философов из Греции, великих мыслителей. Моделью для Мадонны, по мнению некоторых искусствоведов, была любовница Рафаэля Маргарита Лути. Облака на картине символизируют ещё не родившиеся души. Талант виден даже в ранних картинах.
Как на самом деле называлась «Мона Лиза» Леонардо да Винчи и другие факты об этой незаурядной картине.
Зануды могут говорить «Портрет госпожи Лизы Джокондо», но прижилось сокращённое название. Лиза Джокондо просто саркастически ухмыляется, увидев своё изображение на картине, она очень любит мучное, потому и страдает от повышенного холестерина.
Japanese obscene “spring pictures” shunga - beauty, sensuality and defiant vulgarity.
Most Europeans did not become familiar with Japanese art, including shunga, until the 19th century. But by the ninth century they had evolved into an art for newlyweds. The Japanese did not advertise them, they were part of intimate life.
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