Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”

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1. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Self-portrait”In the XVIII century, the situation with the Spanish painting was not easy. The domination of foreigners penetrated the art of Spain, in his painting. The authorities, paying tribute to fashion and political ambitions, pushed foreign painters to the leading positions and gave them a clear preference. They were awarded the most prestigious awards, critics […]...
2. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Mahi on the balcony”In the best works of Goya, two beginnings are combined – realistic and fantastic. He constantly turned to the bright image of the swing. This is a typical Spanish girl, a simple girl. We see two beauties who are dressed in national costumes of the modern painter of the era. Mahi preferred to wear just […]...
3. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Umbrella”The Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, or better known to us Francisco Goya, who wrote engravings, was one of the most prominent artists of the 18th century. His painting “Umbrella” was written in 1777, when Francis was only 33 years old. This picture is recognized as the best creation of the early […]...
4. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Colossus”The painting by Francisco de Goya “Colossus” was painted in the period from 1810 to 1825. A talented artist could always convey through his canvases all the feelings that overwhelm him, and even centuries later admirers of his art are captured by passion, irrepressible joy, moments of admiration and affection, but more often than not, […]...
5. Description of “Tavromachy” by Francisco Goya Etching No 33: The tragic death of Pepe Ilho in the arena of Madrid“Tavromachia” was published by Francisco Goya in 1816. This is a series of 33 etchings that describes the feats of a bullfighter in the bullfight arena from antiquity to the time of publication. The entire collection of drawings is depicted in black and white. Each sheet depicts a separate scene of bullfighting and is devoted […]...
6. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Dressed Maha”The most famous work of the artist – “Mach dressed.” Many argue about who was the model with which this famous painting. Some say that before us is the Duchess of Alba. But today, researchers are confident that not one girl posed for the painter. The picture is incredibly realistic. Surprising skill Goya, who managed […]...
7. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Saturn devours its children”If you follow the usual interpretation, then in the painting by Francisco Goya, Kronos, a god from ancient Greek mythology, is depicted. The name Saturn dates back to the Roman era. This deity, following the prophecy, in which he was predicted the overthrow of one of the offspring, devours still living children. But the artist […]...
8. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “The shooting of the rebels”In 1808, an event occurred in Madrid that inspired Francisco Goya to create a unique masterpiece. In early May, a revolt of patriots against the French who occupied Spain broke out in this city. It was crushed by Napoleon’s troops. Fighters for the independence and freedom of his native country were condemned to be shot. […]...
9. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Witches Sabbath”Initially, the work of the great and outstanding genius was not at all a picture in the usual sense, but a painting that adorned one of the walls in the artist’s house. She was transferred to the canvas after almost half a century since its creation by the hand of Salvador Kubels. The masterpiece is […]...
10. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “The funeral of sardines”The canvas belongs to the brush by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The exact date of its creation is unknown. It is assumed that the picture was painted between 1812 and 1819. The centerpiece is a raging crowd of people carrying a banner with a smiling mask in the center. The name of the painting is […]...
11. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Vintage”Francisco Goya’s “Vintage” was written in 1786. Currently, the work adorns the Prado National Museum in Madrid. The dimensions of the canvas are as much as 267.5 by 190.5 cm. According to the style, the work can be attributed to rococo, classicism, realism. The canvas depicts a young woman in a yellowish dress, surrounded by […]...
12. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “Mach naked”Among the paintings of Goya, the diptych “Maha dressed” and “Mach naked” is fanned by the greatest mystery. Legend has it that the pictures depict the same woman, the mistress of the artist, the Duchess of Alba. However, all her descendants object to this version. They were even asked to open the family crypt in […]...
13. Description of the painting by Goya Francisco “Playing in the blind man’s buffoon”Cooperating with the Royal Tapestry Manufactory for a long time, the artist painted different plots on cardboard, which the weavers transferred onto woven tapestries. One of these cardboard paintings is the “Hilar’s Silence.” The picturesque scene of aristocratic entertainment captured on this canvas. In the central part of the picture several young men and women, […]...
14. 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 […]...
15. Description of the painting by Francisco de Goya “The thrush of Bordeaux”Many people call this picture the first manifestation of impressionism in painting. Light strokes line up the image of a beautiful sitting girl who amazes art lovers with their uniqueness. So, it was replaced by almost photographic clarity and focus on meaning, the lightness and momentaryness of images of impressionism came. The artist decided to […]...
16. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Sleep” (“Sleeping”)Before us is one of the most famous and controversial paintings by Dali, which entered the cycle “Paranoia and War.” A gigantic, almost amorphous head, an unpleasant bluish (if not “bluish”) shade, a head that is only a thin, unnaturally elongated thread of the “neck” associated with the body remaining on the ground seems to […]...
17. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Sleep caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate”The famous masterpiece of the outrageous surrealist Dali, created in 1944 and inspired by Freudian psychoanalysis can be briefly called “Dream.” Thus, Freud’s large-scale work on the theory of dreams turned out to be useful not only in the field of scientific psychology and psychiatry, but also served as the brightest inspiration for surrealism. I […]...
18. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Mad Greta”One of the most terrible pictures of Bruegel. The horror of this picture can be somewhat explained by the incomprehensibility of this canvas and all the events taking place on it. If we consider the picture “Mad Greta” from the side of emotional perception, then in its expressiveness it surpasses even Bosch’s phantasmagoric images and […]...
19. Description of Peter Bruegel’s The Fall of the AngelsBruegel created this canvas under the influence of another artist Bosch. In fact, a little parodied it. As you know, Bosch frightened everything – his faces were ugly, the monsters were scary, everything was somehow creepy. Bruegel created exactly the same creepy representation on the canvas. Only here is an old story, more precisely the […]...
20. Description of the painting by Francisco de Zurbaran “Still life with lemons and oranges”“Still Life with Lemons and Oranges” was written in 1633 by Francisco de Zurbaran. Most of the collection of his paintings is devoted to scenes of monastic life, his favorite genre was still life. In this writing style, one can clearly see the unique ability of the Spanish artist to see in the prose of […]...
21. Description of the monument to “Children – victims of adult vices” by ShemyakinMonuments are most often set to capture someone or something. They symbolize different things that are sometimes not clear to everyone. Ambiguously, people reacted to the monument Shemyakin “Children – victims of adult vices.” It was installed in Moscow, near the Swamp area. It has been 15 years since the installation, and the residents of […]...
22. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Meal”One of the outstanding artists of the nineteenth century, Vasily Grigorievich Perov, in his paintings almost always revealed the imperfections of modern society. One of such works is the “Trapeza” canvas. Here is a scene of dinner in the monastery walls. In front of the ministers of the church laid a luxurious table filled with […]...
23. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Rural religious procession at Easter”“The village religious procession at Easter” was Vasily Grigorievich Perov written in 1861. At this time of reforms and transformations, in the year of the abolition of serfdom, the artist sought, through a realistic plot, to convey subtle criticism of modern Russian society. He took it upon himself to dare to denounce some of the […]...
24. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Purest City – bitterness to the enemies”The work “Purest Hail to the enemies of bitterness” is included in the large collection of paintings that Roerich dedicated to the upcoming war. This work was written in 1912. There was tension all over the world. The world powers were in conflict. Nicholas Roerich did not see anything good in the impending war. He […]...
25. Description of the painting by Diego Velázquez “Portrait of Count Olivares”Velasquez’s circle of interests was surprisingly broad: genre scenes, historical and religious themes, mythological subjects. All styles of painting the artist tried, until he stopped at the portraits. In the early manner of writing, the influence of Caravaggio is clearly visible. However, the artist quickly crystallized his own style, well recognized by connoisseurs. But there […]...
26. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Poor Lisa”Very interesting portrait of Kiprensky. It was written on the story of Karamzin of the same name. There is also a clear connection with the life of the painter. The artist was a real psychologist who created magnificent portraits of women. He was able to convey the feminine soul. All his heroines necessarily sad about […]...
27. Description of the painting by Arkady Rylov “Flowery Meadow”The famous Russian artist Arkady Rylov wrote in 1916 a unique painting “Flowery Meadow”. He depicted the early summer, when nature is only awakening and reborn after a long “hibernation”. The picture allows you to relax not only the body but also the soul. Looking at the beauty of the meadow, which is immersed in […]...
28. Description of the sculptural composition of Francois Auguste Rodin “Gates of Hell”Auguste Rene Rodin – an innovator, impressionist sculptor. For Rodin, it is important to reproduce feelings, impressions in sculpture, to reflect the real world, its variability and mobility. Received in 1885, an order from the government to manufacture the gates of the State Museum of France, Roden set to work three years later, but he […]...
29. Description of the painting by Timothy Neff “Dream”The famous artist Neff presented to the world the subtle beauty of the young ladies of that era, who demonstrated and posed for the artist. Genre theme Neff – images of beauties. If you consider his work, you can find a lot of work, which adorn the beautiful and young girls. However, the work “Dreaming” […]...
30. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of Prince Kurakin”Vladimir Borovikovsky is a virtuoso portrait painter of Ukrainian origin, all his life he wrote the high society of Russia. The recognition came to him relatively late, but in his short career as a painter, he managed to get the title of academician. “Portrait of Prince A. Kurakin” – is the pinnacle of the artist. […]...
31. Description of the painting by Pierre Renoir “Girls in black”A lot of imagination, elegance of models and a sad kind glance of one of them on us. This canvas Renoir “Girls in black.” And why exactly in black? This may be some kind of uniform of a female gymnasium, or these girls are present at the funeral and therefore black. Although no, it seems […]...
32. Description of the painting by Fedor Reshetnikov “Boys”Fedor Pavlovich Reshetnikov – Soviet artist. He is a representative of such a genre as socialist realism, where reality and censorship prevail. Therefore, many pictures of Reshetnikov show the mood not only of the author, but of all epochs in general. The painting “Boys” was written in 1971. On it we see three boys, who […]...
33. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Hands praying”The history of this picture is amazing. This is not just a sketch of the hands, there is something more behind this image. Albrecht Durer captured on this engraving the hands of his brother, thanks to which the name of the artist is now known throughout the world. Sometime at the very beginning of a […]...
34. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Dream”“Dream” was written in 1905, at the time of the deepest stagnation – as a country ready to rush into the abyss of change, but still awkwardly creased in the place, and the artist’s work. On it, right on the bare stones, a young man sleeps, completely naked, in an awkward pose, as if a […]...
35. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Zvenigorod”Roerich was a very versatile man – an artist, a writer, a traveler, an archaeologist, he lived a long life and wrote about 7,000 paintings, many of which are famous and are kept in museums. “Zvenigorod” is a picture closely connected with his life and with his belief that Altai is the best place for […]...
36. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Love”From the beginning of the 90s a new period began in the work of Gustav Klimt. At this time, the artist felt a keen desire to go beyond the academic traditions, despite his popularity in the artistic circles of the Viennese society. In 1895, Klimt painted the picture “Love.” It is one of the works […]...
37. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Dream”The famous painting by the great artist Pablo Picasso “The Dream” was written in the period of surrealism in 1932. On the canvas depicts a portrait of Maria Theresa Walter. This favorite woman of Picasso, to whom he dedicated many of his paintings. The picture is bright and colorful, the rounded shapes of Maria Theresa […]...
38. Description of the painting by Diego Velasquez “Aesop”In the ancient Greek era, it was Aesop who was incredibly famous. The fables he created told people to each other. It was he who in the form of various animals embodied all sorts of human types. This is constant greed, incredible stupidity, great vanity and others. Many, listening to his fables of unusual sharpness, […]...
39. Description of the sculpture of Mark Antokolsky “Mephistopheles”The famous sculptor worked on his sculpture for several years. He began work in 1874, which led simultaneously with the image of Christ. In 1879, Antakolsky creates a bust, which later imposes several sketches, and in 1883 he leads to the execution of his plan. The Hermitage received in his collection the work of the […]...
40. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Dizziness”The great surrealist of the 20th century, Salvador Dali, left many questions behind him, most of which are expressed in his paintings. His works cannot be evaluated or understood unequivocally, everyone sees something of their own, comes to a special understanding of the artist’s surrealistic perception of the world around him. Before the eyes of […]...