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An example of art history analysis of painting on the example of Renoir’s painting
Our Gallery of Contemporary Art continues the series of articles on the history of art.
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Parisian women are born with all the flaws, but the wonderful fairy gives any flaw to their charm and enchantment. This fairy is grace.
Heinrich Heine
The painting “Nude” was painted by Pierre Auguste Renoir during the transitional period of creativity, when the development of his art was approaching the zenith of fame after difficult years of misunderstanding and sharp criticism: “Rude blots, evoking thoughts about decaying flesh, were the first things about my paintings. Continue reading
History of English watercolors, paintings by old masters
Watercolor is often called the most capricious and unpredictable technique. This is due to the many nuances of the behavior of water-based paints. An artist inexperienced in watercolor painting, even observing all the rules, may not get the result he expected. But at the same time, watercolor is a very grateful technique, as it allows to get the subtlest nuances of half-tones that are inaccessible to any other technique.
Watercolor came to Europe in the Renaissance. All lovers of old paintings known “Hare” by Albrecht Dürer. But only in the XVIII century, masters of English painting were the first to actively apply watercolor and developed the basic principles of this technique.
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Soviet painting – the history of modern art
The culture of the Soviet and post-Soviet period is a bright large-scale coil of Russian heritage. The events of 1917 became the reporting point in the development of a new way of life, the formation of a new way of thinking. The mood of society k.XIX- n.XX centuries. resulted in the October Revolution, a turning point in the history of the country. Now she was waiting for a new future with its ideals and goals. Art, which in a sense is a mirror of the epoch, has also become a tool for the realization of the tenets of the new regime. Unlike other types of artistic creativity, painting, which forms and forms the thought of a person, penetrated the consciousness of people in the most accurate and direct way. Continue reading
