Oil painting - from old masters to modern
Also paints with a transparency effect were invented, thanks to which the previous paint layers are translucent, and I get a glow - a glaze technique. Artists of that era…

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The history of modern art of Russia, contemporary painting of Russia
Post-Soviet (modern) Russian painting The variety of contrasts combines the face of modern art in Russia. The beginning of the 21st century is a kind of transitional moment in the…

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Art as a source of pleasure
Man is a social being. The history of mankind shows that people have always wanted to share their thoughts and feelings with other beings. Painting is one of the most…

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Oil painting - from old masters to modern
Also paints with a transparency effect were invented, thanks to which the previous paint layers are translucent, and I get a glow - a glaze technique. Artists of that era…

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devilish creatures

FAVORITE WOMEN PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Pablo Picasso wrote a huge number of paintings, tens of thousands of paintings – so many that no one knows all his works, even his professional biographers. They constitute the core of the collection of any museum in the world and are the subject of legitimate pride of private collectors. They shake the auctions of modern art and excite the imagination of the most daring museum robbers.
And I gained courage among the whole mass of his vast creative heritage to select, to your taste, the beautiful female images created by the artist. They, too, are the greatest multitude, limited themselves with difficulty … But at the same time she considered it appropriate to recall the beloved muses of the genius of Pablo Picasso.
Born in Malaga, Spain, on October 25, 1881, was born. Continue reading

Explore Bosch: the hidden meanings of the “Garden of Earthly Delights”

Despite the great work of researchers, the fantasy world of this amazing artist has not yet been solved.
“Melody, written on the boy’s buttocks”, apparently, not a very good name for a musical work, but it was born thanks to one of the most famous paintings in the history of art.
When student Amelia Hemric saw a fragment of the “Garden of Earthly Delights”, she decided to play a melody, the notes of which are written on the buttocks of one of the many martyrs depicted on the right panel of the triptych.
The body of the martyr, crushed by a huge lute and harp, is surrounded by people and monsters. Someone is holding a frog on its peak, engulfed in flames. Continue reading

What pictures of Russian classics were banned from showing
We are accustomed to associate censorship bans with forbidden books or films. But even in such a seemingly harmless genre of art as painting, artists could go against the ideological…

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Avant-garde and socialist realism
Avant-gardism, developed in the literature by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov, since the 1910s has also spread powerfully in Russian painting. Back in the 1910s avant-gardism in Russia was fond…

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