In the winter of 1870 the artist caught a severe cold, and he had a severe lung disease. With the onset of spring, the illness worsened and passed into tuberculosis. Being on treatment in the Crimea, he yearns north. Real for the artist in the final period of creativity is the return to work on … Read more
“Dora Maar with a cat” – a picture of Pablo Picasso, created in the style of cubism. The work was written in 1941. Canvas, oil. 128.3 × 95.3 cm. Currently it is in a private collection. The painting was bought by an unknown Russian buyer in 2004 for $ 95 million. In the center of … Read more
Wonderful artist-realist VM Vasnetsov was the first to present a fairy tale to painting. Songs, epics, legends, legends come alive in his paintings. In the bright, colorful world of the towers and palaces, we are led to an illustration of the Russian folk tale “The Princess of Nesmeyan”. Painted royal chambers, luxurious decoration, high patterned … Read more
In 1867 in Florence, Ge wrote a picture of the “Messengers of the Resurrection”, which no one in Russia understood or recognized. Nikolai Nikolayevich sent the canvas to the exhibition of the Academy of Arts, but they refused to attend. His friends put up a job in an art club, but she did not have … Read more
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, like none of the landscape painters, was able to capture in his canvases both the character of the Russian people and the image of the national nature. In the landscape image of the artist, “the spirit and the image of the great, mighty space”, called Russia, sounds like. In the last decade … Read more
Looking at the work of the artist Willie James “Cat on the window,” I immediately remember our cat Barsik. Our cat also likes to sit on the window and look at the street. Sometimes he can sit so very long. What attracts the attention of animals on the street? Snowflakes sparkling in the rays of … Read more
It was 1943 hours. The village was occupied by the Germans. Many villagers went to the neighboring loess and became partisans Now the partisan detachment attacked the Germans. Grenades were flying, rumblings of explosions rattled, and smoke was building. The battle was fierce, several Germans and a number of partisans were driven in. One partisan … Read more
The painting “The Morning of the Strelets Execution” was written by V. Surikov in 1881. In it, he first turned to the genre, which is the essence of his painting – the image of the Russian people in the bright, critical moments of history. The canvas describes the events that took place in Moscow in … Read more
Dmitry Ivanovich, direct name (on the birthday) Ouar (October 19, 1582, Moscow – May 15, 1591, Uglich) – prince, prince of the coal, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible from Maria Feodorovna Naga, his sixth or seventh wife (unmarried). He lived only eight years, but the political crisis, largely associated with his mysterious death … Read more
Young talented artists Konstantin Miroshnik and Natalia Kurguzova-Miroshnik make up a couple and a creative union, they wrote all their pictures together. Both graduated from the Academy of Arts Ilya Glazunov, where they met. By their own admission, every picture is written as the best. One of the works is in the Kremlin, she was … Read more