The very picture of the famous Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso called “Avignon maidens” came about on the basis of his impressions of the brothel girls located in the Avignon quarter […]
Before us is a picture of Nicholas Roerich, written in the late period of the artist’s work. The work is included in the collection of paintings dedicated to the Himalayas. Roerich personally […]
The canvas was born under the brush of Edward Manet in 1874. Today it is stored in New York in the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. On the canvas, we can see […]
The story of the creation of the picture is quite prosaic. Isaac Ilyich Levitan wrote it specially as a gift to A. P. Chekhov, who was in the Crimean sanatorium and missed […]
For the great Russian painter Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, Valaam served as a kind of school, honing the artist’s unique skill. In these places there were many landscape painters who worked in nature […]
American artist Mark Rothko is not very famous here in Russia. But despite this, his paintings are sold at auction for hundreds of millions of dollars. What makes his paintings so expensive? […]
The Russian state of the late 16th – early 17th century is marked by events that went down in the history of the country as the Time of Troubles. The political and […]
The most famous of all the Sibyls is the Kuma Sibyl. Many Sibylins of the book are connected with her name. It was she who predicted the demise of the whole world. […]
This picture has an addition to the title – “The principle of flickering.” What is it? Apparently, in that in different positions, the word in the stroboscopic photograph shows a foot pushing […]
One of the most undervalued works of Vasily Surikov, “The Hut,” was painted by him in 1873 and depicts a dilapidated dwelling, resembling an ordinary village house, made dozens or hundreds of […]