Description of the painting by Maurits Escher “Waterfall”

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6. Description of the painting by Maurits Escher “Relativity”Escher in this canvas, skillfully uses a technique called tessellation. Thanks to this technique, the master very skillfully divides one plane into several parts. Thus, he manages to cover the entire canvas with planes that do not intersect or overlap one another. Everything was done perfectly, thanks to the fact that the artist studied mathematical […]...
7. Description of the painting by Maurits Escher “Mosaic”Maurits Escher was an outstanding Austrian artist working in graphic engineering. His engravings, mosaics and lithographs reveal not only artistic genres, but also philosophical categories, such as infinity, absolute symmetry, the golden ratio, and, of course, mathematical concepts. In his work he masterfully combined geometry and art, for which he was named the most extraordinary […]...
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14. Description of the painting by Konstantin Vasilyev “Mermaid”In the picture of Konstantin Vasilyev, the mermaid is depicted in an unusual manner for the viewer. In the picture there is no hint of fabulousness or cartoon character image. The mermaid is written in the form of a pretty young girl who sits on the branches of a tree. I would like to recall […]...
15. Description of the painting by Yuri Pimenov “Front road”The famous Russian artist Yuri Pimenov approximately a year before the end of the Great Patriotic War creates an almost vivid picture called “Front Road”. Just a couple of years before, the author had written another well-known work called “New Moscow”, which very closely intersects with the wartime picture and depicts the same action of […]...
16. Description of the painting by Mitrofan Grekov “Tachanka”Mitrofan Grekov known for his work “Tachanka” was a volunteer of the Red Army in the ranks of the cavalry corps Budenny. The genre of his paintings is characteristic of wartime. Many of his works have become the image on the stamps of Soviet times. However, despite the devotion to the revolution and the chanting […]...
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18. Description of the painting by William Turner “Fishermen in the sea”It is interesting to note that William Turner masterfully mastered watercolors, but nevertheless, among his series of ten water-color works, only one was done with oil, and this work was “Fishermen at Sea”. In fact, the artist was not engaged in writing paintings in this technique, but during each free case, he began to study […]...
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32. Description of the painting by Claude Monet “Japanese Bridge” (pond with water lilies)French artist Claude Monet was very fond of writing a water-lily pond located in his own garden in Giverny. He wrote this pond at different times, in different angles and in any light. Sometimes he had to work in parallel on several images of his pond, as the sun moved, everything changed and the work […]...
33. Description of the painting by Diego Velazquez “Waterman”The painting “Water Carrier” was painted in 1622 by the unusually gifted and educated Spanish artist Velasquez. She also has another name – “The seller of water from Seville”. With this picture the artist added to his cycle of works of bodegones (translated from Spanish as a tavern). A number of paintings are included in […]...
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37. Description of the painting by Nadezhda Udaltsova “Restaurant”Udaltsova was a bright representative of the Russian avant-garde, so her work “Restaurant” is the embodiment of madness, chaos and disorder. Udaltsova drew this work on the wave of the popularity of the direction called “cubism”. The founder of Cubism was the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, perhaps that is why in this work we see […]...
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39. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Shipwreck”Katrina “Shipwreck” was written by the artist in 1800. It depicts a rocky coast of a raging sea. In the center of the picture, on a flat stretch of rocky shore, is a standing woman in a bright yellow dress. Her hands are raised to the sky. She’s screaming like that. Dress her wet and […]...
40. Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “Russian Venus”This is the last big picture of the great Russian artist. Written by him in the last year of his life, when Kustodiyev was already almost completely struck by his serious illness. Feeling the severe pains that spinal tuberculosis causes, Kustodiyev tried to portray the collective image of the Russian village beauty in his picture. […]...