Stole his wife from his best friend. Artist John Millais.
After the amazing early paintings were followed by monotypical and boring late ones, and visitors had the feeling that the artist simply wrote out, stopped trying and went to outright hackwork.
The extravagant artwork and unusual personal life of feminist and artist Leonor Fini
The style and taste of the artist was formed under the influence of Flemish and German painting of the XV century, she was inspired by Italian Mannerism. Lifetime retrospectives of Leonore's artwork appeared in Japan, Belgium, Paris and Italian cities. But in the mid-1990s, after the artist's death, her work was forgotten.
Not only in money, but also in kind. How did customers pay for paintings by famous artists?
Then he met the owner of the café. She would gladly take his paintings and pay him with food or sometimes send him flowers - not to express admiration, but simply so that the artist could admire their colorful beauty.
Soviet beauties in pin-up style by artist Natalia Ershova.
Such pictures were the dream of truckers and bachelors back in the 1920s. The publishers of Brown & Bigelow calendars had a million-dollar idea - to pin up pictures of girls (to pin up or pin a poster to the wall).
