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From this period, the artist creates less and less significant works of art, focusing on portraits of influential personalities: politicians, public figures and representatives of the aristocracy.
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Avenged her rapist in her paintings. The tragic fate of the Baroque era's most talented artist and her impressive artwork.
Few women at the time were seriously pursuing painting, science or art. They encapsulate the no-nonsense drama that the artist emphasizes. Her father taught her how to paint light and shade correctly. A quality characteristic only of really strong personalities.
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Почему Снегурочка на знаменитой картине Васнецова одна без Деда Мороза и чьи черты лица увековечены в её образе?
Он изобразил трагический финал старой сказки о Снегурочке. Однако Солнце-Ярило было против, потому и перестало толком греть землю. У Снегурочки была подруга Купава, которая встречалась со своим поклонником.
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He bought out serfs and was the first to paint Russian peasants. The kindest artist Alexei Venetsianov and his paintings.
He spent a lot of money on the redemption of able serfs young artists, however, once he was bailed out by Emperor Alexander I himself, buying the painting "Threshing Ground".
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Ordered a doll of the woman he loved and went to the opera with her. The mad love of Oskar Kokoschka and his amazing paintings
When they were not making love, the artist drew her and pictures of her. He was expelled from school for illustrations that were too bold and frank. But he did not despair, but decided to go to the nearest pub, where he drank the most beer on a bet.
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7 distinctive features of the paintings of the Peredvizhniki. How to identify their paintings accurately?
For artists it was more important to show an intelligent and thinking man, deeply concerned about what is happening in Russia, staying in thought about the search for the meaning of life and the special path of our people and here excessive colorfulness would only harm the whole image.
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Love is cruel. Love stories of famous artists, which they themselves would prefer not to recall
Artists, as representatives of the creative intelligentsia are often people who are finely sensitive and emotional - with a cold heart would not have been able to write many of their masterpieces, and therefore often fell into various love stories, often quite unpleasant for themselves.
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​Передвижники. Как они появились, сколько зарабатывали и почему впоследствии распались несмотря на успех?
Передвижничество продержалось вплоть до 1922 года, за это время было проведено 47 выставок и сложно переоценить вклад этого художественного объединения в развитие русской живописи.
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Sincere Soviet muralist Alexander Deyneka and his epic paintings
Deyneka is multifaceted, versatile, sincerely admired youth, enthusiasm, energy and assertiveness, they are felt in almost every one of his paintings. He lived a good life, wrote many excellent paintings and the main thing is that he always believed in what he was doing, as it is impossible to create like this without sincerity.
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He was married to a "fallen woman" and was criticized by his friends artist-Peredvizhniks. The controversial Ivan Kramskoi and his marvelous paintings.
Already at the age of 50 Kramskoi looked like a tired, exhausted old man. He began to have serious heart problems, and in order to relieve the pain on the recommendation of the doctors of the time actively used morphine and continued to paint portraits for 5-6 hours a day.
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Что в «Чёрном квадрате» Малевича такого особенного из-за чего его признали шедевром живописи?
Работы Малевича были источником вдохновения многих современных художников, архитекторов и дизайнеров одежды. Современная культура была бы иной, не придумай Малевич свой супрематизм и в этом его главная заслуга.
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​Три советских художника, чьи картины высоко ценят во всём мире
После революции 1917 года в России возникла потребность в новом искусстве, которое бы соответствовало политическим задачам социализма. Потому и мно...
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The most insecure Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov and his wonderful paintings.
Everyone was interested to see how Alyonushka looked like, the three bogatyrs, Ivan Tsarevich, the wonderful world of Russian fairy tales came to life in Vasnetsov's paintings. Epochs and art fashions changed, but Vasnetsov's work was timeless and eternal, beyond the control of either politics or fleeting artistic fashions.
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​По какой причине работы Сандро Боттичелли забыли на 300 лет и как вновь вспомнили о них? Трагическая судьба его музы, запечатлённой в образе Венеры.
Поколениями художники ориентировались на Рафаэля, переписали каждый жест с его картин, каждую композицию и в какой-то момент пришло время сказать: «хватит, сколько можно повторяться, неужели, кроме Рафаэля нет других мастеров кисти?»
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Critics mercilessly criticized Karl Bryullov's painting "The Last Day of Pompeii", what was wrong with it?
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.
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Почему на картинах Марка Шагала люди летают? Главная трагедия в жизни художника.
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.
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5 выдающихся произведений искусства оказавшихся под запретом
Многие выдающиеся произведения искусства часто не устраивали цензоров и власти, а потому оказывались под запретом. Причины всегда находились — то с...
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Why did Boris Kustodiev paint such festive paintings? A simple answer that explains the true character of the artist.
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.
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The most dissolute artist in early 20th century Paris, Amedeo Modigliani and his tragic love story.
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.
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​Всю жизнь писал красочные портреты крестьянок, но так не на ком и не женился. Необычная судьба и удивительные картины Абрама Архипова.
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
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​Why did Rene Magritte paint such paintings? An accident that happened in his childhood that answers this question
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.
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