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The Prisoners' Rest. About the most overrated painting by Valery Jacobi
At the beginning of his career, he saw injustice, was not afraid to depict it in his paintings, and this social message was much more important in those years than any purely technical nuances.
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From drawings for adults that evoke disapproval from their authors to illustrating children's fairy tales. The diverse work of Vladislav Yerko.
A few years later, this publishing house was closed for "excessive expenditure of public money." Yerko was told: "Draw whatever you want, the main thing is to find at least some buyers." His work resembles a kind of dream, when he simply imagines the necessary images.
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He loved all his models and gained fame as a ladies' man, but he only married at the age of 86. The gorgeous women of Giovanni Boldini.
He was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts, but Boldini's boring lectures did not attract him much, and so he rarely attended them. The entire high society was gossiping about his affairs, and the artist's personal life was very stormy.
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​Жизненные качели незаслуженно забытого передвижника Василия Максимова.
"To make some money, Maksimov painted portraits of local merchants and innkeepers, but he barely earned anything for his work. His art seemed hopelessly outdated, and he refused to acknowledge the trendy new movements in painting."
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Catching fleas and visiting a brothel. Wild paintings by Dutch artists of the 17th century, honestly illustrating real life at that time.
Later, they began to be called the minor Caravaggisti, putting a derogatory connotation into this nickname. The artists organized a pagan procession in honor of Bacchus and walked so that they horrified all pious Christians.
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On the Extremes of Human Feelings in the Memorable Paintings of Oskar Zvintscher
Through a skillfully constructed composition: we don't see the face of a grieving man, the viewer often otozhdestvlyaet sebya with him, rassmatrivaet the grieving man as some collective image, not a concrete person.
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