His destiny is full of ups and downs, meetings with kings and exiles, traveling and searching for inspiration.
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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.
Funny and immodest cartoons by Igor Makarov about autumn and family life
Even if it drips a little rain, but golden maple leaves fall from above.
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.
Occultist and lover of models František Kupka, who always followed his own path, even if to the detriment of the artist himself
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.
Funny caricatures "about it" and not only from the artist Igor Elistratov.
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.
Красивый сюрреализм Станислава Плутенко
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
Impressive paintings by Soviet artists about the Great Patriotic War, which once seen, are hard to forget
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.
Managed to stop the war, traded his forgeries and other facts from the life of Rubens, revealing the personality of the artist in a new way
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.
Хороший человек, но вот беда — пьяница. Непростая личная жизнь художника Ивана Билибина
Пить слишком много Билибину не давала, что явно шло на пользу и самому художнику. Не думая о последствиях, и даже обменял в итоге на бутылку свою семью...
Tragic love stories of Russian artist Vasily Polenov
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
Funny old men and old women in endlessly kind and optimistic paintings by artist Leonid Baranov
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.
An unseemly embarrassment in the life of artist Alphonse Mucha that had a key impact on his fate
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.
He preferred maids to aristocrats. Jean Chardin and his beautiful paintings that reproduce the truth of life.
Chardin paid attention to the common people, which is worth a lot. One of his first popular works was a surgeon's sign. But despite all this, Chardin painted joyful and cheerful pictures, where he often depicted women and children who were quite happy with life.
An ambiguous picture by Valentin Papko, in which he made many blatant bloopers. Where is the line between kitsch and the artist's creative vision in art?
Everyone makes mistakes, but it is too revealing in terms of psychology and attitude to their work. The picture is reminiscent of modern war serials - you look at it and can't believe your eyes.
Почему Марк Шагал рисовал картины без одежды, а за их подлинники платят огромные деньги? История жизни художника, позволяющая лучше понять его творчество
Он писал по велению души, что в итоге и позволило выработать свой стиль, совершенно неповторимый и легко узнаваемый. При работе над картинами Шагал раздевался практически догола, чтобы не заляпать одежду красками.
"Vaska the Lamplighter". A holy fool of art and a mad genius who became a legend of the Soviet artistic underground.
Paintings that failed to find recognition in his homeland were sought after abroad. “I got fed up with stupid people on the river and boats for the rest of my life and realized that I only wanted to be an artist.”
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