Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “combing woman” (behind the toilet)

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1. Description of the sculpture of Edgar Degas “Horse and Rider”Edgar Degas was born in a fairly wealthy family. For certain reasons, he was forced to sell off his property in order to pay all his father’s debts. Edgar was the oldest child from a large family. The boy showed interest in drawing since childhood, his father encouraged him in every way. Degas loved clear […]...
2. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Self-portrait”Before us are two self-portraits of the great artist Edgar Degas. Why just two self-portrait? Simply, they are made in different years. At the first self-portrait, Degas is still young and inexperienced, and he still has everything ahead and he still has a lot to go through and suffer all the fates. Still ahead is […]...
3. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Roman beggar”This work was done in a realistic genre and meets the basic canons characteristic of this area. But Edgar Degas is interested in experiments with the subject of the image. It is not by chance that for his work he chooses not an aristocratic lady in rich toilets, but a simple woman who does not […]...
4. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Bathers”This pastel is one of the most ambitious projects of Edgar Degas in the last ten years of his life. The picture depicts four women involved in bathing. Someone is engaged in various procedures, and someone just basks on the grass after the end of this important and pleasant ritual. Like in his other works, […]...
5. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Dancers in Pink”This picture is written in the genre of impressionism and is one of the most famous works of Edgar Degas, who was interested in the image of “ballet stories.” It is characterized by an unusual composition and a complex internal system of images. The artist captured the moment of preparing the ballerinas for their performance. […]...
6. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Blue Dancers”Want to look into the world of theater backstage? Out of the corner of my eye to notice the pre-premiere bustle, try to feel the excitement of the artists before going on stage? The best expert in ballet among artists Edgar Degas with his works will help the viewer in this. As you know, Degas […]...
7. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Consent Square”The masterpiece by Edgar Degas entitled “The Square of the Concord” is one of the fundamental works in 19th century painting. The appearance of the picture played a large role in shaping the views on art in France and around the world. At the heart of the picture are images of real people close to […]...
8. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Absinthe”Year of creation of a picture – 1893. At first it was called simply “People in a cafe”. We see a pretty drunk woman and definitely a sober man who settled down at a table. This is Degas’s friend and popular actress. She was always elegant. But before us appears absolutely simple woman. Directly in […]...
9. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Dance Lesson”Grace, beauty and sophistication – that’s what comes through in all the paintings of Edgar Degas, dedicated to ballet. The master of painting painted ballet dancers in different techniques, and everything can be seen – he was always fascinated by the plasticity of young dancers. And at the same time, I understood very well how […]...
10. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Dance Class”“Dance Class” – one of the most famous works of Edgar Degas. The artist wrote a lot of the artistic world, depicting actors, opera singers and dancers in his paintings. Backstage inspired the author; He often visited the Paris Opera, looking for scenes for future paintings. In the end, he became behind the scenes “his” […]...
11. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Daughter of Jephthah”The picture is painted in oil on canvas. The artist painted it from 1859 to 1960. Degas is a 19th century French artist. His real birth name was Edgar Ilar Germain de Ga. In 1870, the artist decided to change his name and added the prefix de to Ha. His canvases are known all over […]...
12. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Prima Ballerina”The end of the ballet performance. All the artists are behind the scenes, and only the prima ballerina goes out alone. The audience is raging, the audience is not exiting. And she gracefully bows as if to every applauding person separately. It is her duty to thank the audience in this way for the fact […]...
13. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Star”“Brilliant, semi-aerial…”. Ballet has always inspired the great geniuses of art to create unfading masterpieces. And just like Pushkin in a few lines conveyed all his admiration for the grace and beauty of the ballerina, so Degas managed to capture a moment of ballerina hovering on a wave of glory and applause from the public […]...
14. Description of the painting by Edgar Degas “Gladilschitsy”One of the founders of impressionism. With his canvases he manages to bring the viewer closer to the image depicted in the picture so much that, even without knowing the plot, we understand, and, most importantly, we begin to feel and empathize with the characters of his paintings. One of such works is the painting […]...
15. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Woman with arms crossed”It should immediately say that the painting by Pablo Picasso, – “Woman with arms crossed” is one of the most expensive paintings in the world. Now directly about the canvas, which throughout its appearance can be attributed to the “blue period” of the master, and, naturally, is included in that list of paintings that leave […]...
16. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Toilet of Venus”The painting depicts Venus – the goddess of love. She is completely naked, covers only part of her body sheets. She looks like a doll made of porcelain – the same large and doll eyes, almost unnaturally white skin, a mischievous look in the direction of one of the Cupids playing with her beads next […]...
17. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Sitting Woman”His creation of Pablo Picasso’s “Seated Woman” wrote in 1908. The famous painter is already experiencing the “blue” and “pink” periods of creativity by this time and is entering a new phase of life, moving to a cubic style. In the center of an unusual picture is the image of a woman. It occupies almost […]...
18. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Woman in the chair I”1948 Like most of the paintings of the famous Spanish artist, this one is written in the style of cubism. However, it is worth noting that fragmentation into geometric shapes is not so traced as in other works. Of course, this portrait cannot be called clear and structural, depicting a feminine and beautiful figure. But […]...
19. Description of the painting by Paul Gauguin “Woman Holding a Fruit (1893)”This picture Gauguin painted while on the island of Tahiti. In the background are two ordinary huts, located in the settlement of the islanders. In the foreground is a young woman, a Tahitian, holding a fruit in her hands. This fruit is a mango, differing lemon-green color. Many critics point out that the fruit itself […]...
20. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens painting “Toilet of Venus”Peter Paul Rubens lived and worked in the Renaissance and Baroque. The main feature of this era was the popularization of art of the ancient world. That is why in this picture we see the image of the Roman goddess of love and beauty – Venus. The central image of work is, of course, Venus […]...
21. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Woman with a guitar”Picasso – one of the founders of cubism. At first he wrote in a realistic manner, but then, not being satisfied with this, he began to gradually break realism into its component parts, together with the images as if dissecting the universe. This can be traced to his work, if you look at them consistently. […]...
22. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Woman with a flower”This picture is unlikely to be perceived by the audience unequivocally. Abstraction – it is invented to simply cause a certain impression in a person. Someone on this canvas and does not see a woman at all, only a set of geometric shapes, and of course the leaves – at best. But there is, is […]...
23. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Black Woman”The Negro Woman, which was so different from Repin’s usual letter form, was created in Paris under the influence of the works of the famous Fortuny, whom the author adored. Repin did not try to imitate his idol, but at the same time, he stretched himself in his art because of the inaccessibility of the […]...
24. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Weeping Woman”Surprisingly beautiful style of writing canvases always delighted the audience. And Picasso lived a life long enough to surprise and amaze more than one generation of Europeans with his works. Of course, he is not as extravagant as Dali, but he, too, was with his quirks and his portraits really could not be called an […]...
25. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn “Portrait of an old woman”Rembrandt wrote old men almost with the greatest pleasure. The life lived seemed to him to be something that leaves an indelible mark on a person, which, with a certain talent, can be read like from an open book. He wrote both young people and children, but old men were always the best models for […]...
26. Description of the painting by Vasily Tropinin “Woman in the window”The great Russian artist Tropinin differs from other masters of painting in that it complements each picture of a certain direction with its characteristic detail and technique. Heroes, which were embodied in the paintings of the artist, are depicted in luxury and parade. The biography of the Russian artist had a strong influence on the […]...
27. Description of the sculpture by Eric Fishl “The Falling Woman”The sculpture of the American artist and sculptor Eric Fischl “Falling Woman” is an example of modern art. This statue is dedicated to people who died during the terrorist attack that took place in America, in the city of New York, on September 11, 2001. Before us is a sculpture of a female figure. A […]...
28. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Woman in the hat”In 1905, Henri Matisse rejected the usual mixture of colors and decided to use classic shades in his works. This policy was very different from the usual techniques of past eras. Needless to say, this approach did not immediately appeal to society and critics. One of the most pronounced works of this nature was the […]...
29. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Woman with a rake”The Woman with the Rake is a picture from the second series of the peasant cycle of works by Kazimir Malevich. The artist began to create it in the years 1930-1931, after the first cycle was lost after the Berlin and Warsaw exhibitions in 1927. New pictures in the second cycle solve other problems. The […]...
30. Description of the painting by Konstantin Makovsky “Woman’s Portrait”Starting from genre scenes and household sketches, the artist gradually went to narrow professional issues – composition and detailing of images, elaboration of form and color. The artist took up the traits of romanticism and love for decorative effects from Briullov. Cooperation with the Peredvizhniki brought no moral satisfaction to the artist and he began […]...
31. Description of the painting by Willem de Kooning “Woman 3”This picture was painted in 1953. Therefore, we can safely say that Willem de Kooning is our contemporary. The artist has six paintings from the series about women. And the picture of Woman 3 is one of these six works. This model has become a very famous picture. The writer is very fond of writing […]...
32. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Portrait of a Woman”“Portrait of a Woman”, one of the most famous paintings by Picasso, was painted in 1936. This time experts refer to the period of surrealism in the works of Picasso, when the artist for more than ten years seriously became interested in this direction, creating many outstanding examples of surrealistic painting. Surrealism is characterized by […]...
33. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Woman with buckets”Kazimir Malevich’s “Woman with Buckets” is a bright work of avant-garde art written in 1912. Now the picture is in the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. The style known as the Russian avant-garde is characteristic of the art of the Russian Empire, and then of the Soviet Union from 1890 to […]...
34. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of a Woman”Repin was essentially a portrait painter. Single or group, strict or funny, they were equally good at this talented painter. Of course, more often we see it is the individual canvases that help to reveal the soul and thoughts of the person depicted as detailed as possible. A very large contribution to Repin’s work was […]...
35. Description of the painting by Leonardo da Vinci “The head of a woman”Leonardo Da Vinci – the great artist of the Renaissance. The most important feature of his work is that he with incredible accuracy and expressiveness conveyed the emotions of a person in his paintings, carefully drawing absolutely everything, even the smallest details. In order to complete the work, the great artist repeatedly made multiple sketches […]...
36. Description of the painting by Georges Seurat “Man and Woman”Impressionism is characterized by a passion for intuition, inspiration and premonition, as the basis of work. Pictures of impressionists are penetrated by light, narrate about one frozen moment, and are built on feelings, but not on mind. That is why Seurat is called neo-impressionist – in many respects following the spirit of impressionism, letting the […]...
37. Description of the painting by Sandro Botticelli “Portrait of a young woman”In the years of his life, Sandro Botticelli was a famous artist who was often approached with orders from portraits. One of those who wanted to order a portrait was Simonetta, one of the most beautiful women of the Renaissance. “Portrait of a young woman” 1476-1480 is considered one of the best portraits of the […]...
38. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Woman with chignon”Pablo Picasso finished this painting in 1901 during his second trip to Paris. At the time of painting the artist turned 19 years old. It was a difficult time for the artist. Despite his young age, Picasso already knew the bitterness of loss. Shortly before, he had tragically lost his close friend, Carlos Casagemas. He […]...
39. Description of the painting by Alexei Venetsianov “Peasant woman with butterflies” &; nbspThe painting “Peasant Woman with Butterflies” was painted by Venetsianov in 1820. Portraits of simple women make up the best part of his creations. The artist in these portraits glorifies the intrinsic human dignity of a Russian peasant woman. This painting is one of his best works of the artist. The image of a reaper, […]...
40. Description of the painting by Georges Seurat “Effluent woman”In 1890, the artist first displayed this canvas at the Exhibition of Independent Artists, where, in principle, it was not noticed by the jury and the audience. On the same day, his other painting “Cancan” was exhibited, the cardinally different work “The Eager Woman” appeared on the sidelines. This strange picture for some time caused […]...