"I want to paint as if I could photograph nightmares." Zdzisław Beksiński's scary and inexplicably appealing paintings
The real success came to Beksiński in the 1980s. But in his personal life he had to endure a lot of tragedies. His guardian's 20-year-old son Robert stabbed the artist 17 times for some reason.
"How could you disgrace our entire society of Itinerant artists?". Pimonenko's humorous painting, which became a cause of great trouble for the artist.
Fortunately, justice prevailed: Pimonenko won the case, and Shustov had to withdraw all bottles with incorrect labels from sale.
"What are you doing here, huh?" Colorful and slightly ironic paintings by Konstantin Trutovsky, honestly reflecting the life of peasants and landowners
It seems at first glance that the young peasants decided to rest in the hayloft, but they were caught by a boy with a rake, and judging by his snide smile, he understood perfectly well what they were doing here.