It came to the absurd: for the painting “Slavic composers” Makovsky asked 25 thousand rubles, and Repin agreed to write for 1.5 thousand Makovsky shamelessly used the gullibility of “rich simpletons.

The topic is quite vast, and it's always interesting to trace the evolution of creativity, and to understand what might have changed over such a long period of time.

We decided to compare how the lives and work of famous artists have changed over the 10 years of their lives.

Timchenko's artworks are self-sufficient works, with original author's interpretation. He has collaborated with almost all famous musicians, although he doesn't like to talk about it very much. A modern freelance artist simply needs to be aware of all phenomena in mass culture.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that one should not sleep too long, as then there would be little time for creativity and life in general. Artists can often be great originals, and their behaviors and phobias are only perplexing.

In 1870, Savrasov was informed that he would have to vacate his apartment and rent another one at his own expense. There were misfortunes in the family: a child died, the fourth already, his wife was seriously ill after a difficult childbirth. There were two empty bottles of vodka and cranberries lying nearby....