Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Bible”

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1. Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Angel”Dore created magnificent illustrations for various subjects of the Bible. They were published in various editions of the Bible in different languages. Many masters created plots on a religious theme. But it was Dore who became the most outstanding among them. Impressively realistic engraver style. He was able to give each story almost a new […]...
2. Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Don Quixote”The famous French engraver and illustrator Gustave Dore wrote a lot of illustrations to the famous literary work of Cervantes Don Quixote. But this work is best known. In the illustrations of Dore, an artistic character is opened to the contemplator of the noble, kind. The main purpose of his life – the destruction of […]...
3. Description of the painting by Gustav Dore “Dante and Vergelii on the ice of Lake Kocid”Gustave Dore, the famous French painter 19ivek. The delight of the 15th century poem by Dante was so great that Dore decided to illustrate the work. His work on Dante, Gustave reproduced in the period from 1861-1868. He is the only one of the artists who decided to take on the illustration of such a […]...
4. Description of the illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides”Description of the illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides” Throughout his entire creative life, the artist has created more than 500 illustrations of famous works, including fairy tales and biblical scenes. The first illustrations of the Divine Comedy, Dante Dore began writing at the age of ten and continued over the years. This […]...
5. Description of the painting by Marc Chagall “Bible story”Marc Chagall, was one of the most prolific artists of the twentieth century, whose bright, bizarre works from the time they fell into the rank of cult and put his name in line with the most famous masters of the art world. Enjoying life on the French Riviera, Chagall never forgot about his Jewish origin, […]...
6. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Idyll”Klimt’s paintings are deeply symbolic – they are difficult to read at one glance, they need to ponder, estimate, put forward hypotheses and reject them. And the most exciting thing about them is that there is no single clue that suits everyone. Everyone is free to interpret them as he pleases, depending on his world […]...
7. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Hope II”German artist Gustav Klimt was the creator of art nouveau works. The roots come from the group of the Vienna Secession, created by the artist himself. The group was engaged in the publication of works by young painters who painted in unusual styles. The breadth of genres was the main focus in the works of […]...
8. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Waiting”The mosaic for the Waiting dining room is a decorative addition to the architectural design of the palace. In general, the mosaic consists of nine basic elements, but this one is considered the main one. It depicts a dancing girl, in whose image Japanese features are clearly visible. This was the main wish of the […]...
9. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Adam and Eve”Klimt is a modernist. Just almost all of his paintings fit this style, modern style. All of them are vivid and memorable, just like everything that was done in the framework of this style. It is impossible to walk past a building or a masterpiece of art nouveau painting without paying attention to it. It’s […]...
10. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Embrace”In 1894, the famous Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt was commissioned to create three paintings to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna. The artist showed traditional allegorical images of symbolism in a new style, which was much more frank and sexy, which caused a lot of contradictory reviews. Public […]...
11. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Music”The idea of ​​synthesizing methods of music, painting and literature permeates all the creative practices of symbolism, to which many artists of the era of the turn of the century addressed. This fate did not pass and the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, in the paintings of which (“Music” in 1895, the cycle “Beethoven Frieze”) clearly […]...
12. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Girls”The picture of the famous Austrian artist of the beginning of the 20th century “Girls” is better known to a narrow circle of connoisseurs of extravagant art as “Three Ages of Woman.” even saturating the picture with phallic symbols. On the right side of the picture is a baby – a girl, hugging his mother […]...
13. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Danae”The painting “Danae” is one of the most popular mythological works of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. According to ancient myth, beautiful Danae was sharpened by Father Ariksius in a copper tower. So strictly he treated his daughter, trying in every possible way to protect his daughter from the birth of his son. The famous oracle […]...
14. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Girlfriend”Gustav Klimt painted the picture “Girlfriends” in 1916-1917. Unfortunately, the original of the painting did not reach us – it burned down in 1945. The author painted his work based on the complete contrast of the bodies of two girls, girlfriends – one of them is naked, the other on the contrary – wrapped in […]...
15. 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 […]...
16. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Lady with a Fan”Gustav Klimt had the gift of a painter from birth, however, he did not rely only on originality, but honed his art at the School of Decorative Arts, in Vienna. For a long time, his canvases were created in a familiar, academic manner, without betraying the artist’s true thrust for bright, fantastic images and colors. […]...
17. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Kiss”Klimt’s work of art, entitled “The Kiss”, is not only the best painting of all the works of this painter, but is also a significant and unique painting canvas that was created in the twentieth century. Execution of a hundred years of painting is an excellent reason to think about what can give us, descendants, […]...
18. Gustav Courbet painting description “Self-portrait”Looking at the work of the French artist Gustave Courbet, there is no doubt that he was the most ingenious master of the portrait. And he wrote not only portraits of other people, but himself, and wrote a lot of them. A sort of model for himself. From the image to the image, we see […]...
19. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Nude Truth”“Naked Truth” – a picture that shocked Klimt’s contemporaries. It was a daring challenge to inert views and to all who believe that they can dictate to art workers how to create. If you can put it that way, with the help of this work the artist “showed the language” to his spiteful critics. The […]...
20. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “The second portrait of Adele”Gustav is an Austrian artist. The second portrait of Adele, Gustav wrote in 1912. This picture is one of the ten most expensive art masterpieces in the world. What is the history of this model? Adele Bloch-Bower was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, who was one very rich industrialist of those times. Ferdinand loved art […]...
21. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Death and Life”The famous Austrian artist – the ancestor of the modern in the life of Austria. The main themes of his paintings – a beautiful female body. In this regard, the bulk of his work is imbued with frank erotic scenes. At an early age, Gustav showed a craving for painting. In his student years, Gustav, […]...
22. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Athena Pallas” (1898)The originality of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt lies in portraying women as the main characters of his works. In his canvases it concerns such universally significant themes as death, old age, love, depicted in expressive bright colors, mainly in gold tones. Especially spectacular on his canvases are images of powerful ladies and destructive beauties, […]...
23. Gustav Klimt’s painting “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II”Can Adele Bloch-Bauer be considered a kind of “muse” by Gustav Klimt? In a certain sense, perhaps, yes. Since this young woman served as a model for as many as four works by an Austrian artist: “Judith I”, “Judith II” and, in fact, two portraits of the heroine numbered I and II, written in 1907 […]...
24. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Tree of Life”The creation of this canvas is associated with the name of the magnate Adolf Stokwe, who in 1904 decided to build a huge family. At that time there was a fashion to draw pictures on buildings and inside them, so the Viennese industrialist invited several artists (including Gustav Klimt), offering them a contract. The industrialist […]...
25. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Beethoven Frieze”In 1902, an exhibition-memorial was held in the Viennese Secession, which was dedicated to the memory of the great Ludwig van Beethoven. Gustav Klimt saw genius in the musician, and in his creative activity – the embodiment of love. Especially for the exhibition in 1902, the artist created the Beethoven Frieze. The public reacted negatively […]...
26. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Judith with the head of Holofernes”Judith is a feminine character; she is a widow who saved her entire Jewish race from enemies. Assyrians besieged her hometown, the widow had to change clothes and go to the camp of the damned foe. She was a very attractive maiden and the commander of the enemy side could not ignore her charms. In […]...
27. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Salome” (1909)The artist, who created the canvas with the image of Judith, 8 years later embodied another archetype of a fatal beauty not in the image of a biblical character, but in the guise of his contemporaries – the inhabitant of the Austrian capital, as indicated by her fashionable outfit and jewelry. This ambitious and independent […]...
28. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Three ages of women”Gustav Klimt more than once addressed women’s issues. He was worried about the inner world of a woman, as evidenced by the predecessor of the painting “Three Ages of a Woman” – the painting “Love”. In his unusual picture, the artist tried to touch on the widest possible subject – the psychological state of a […]...
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30. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Poppy field”The admirers of his work have already become accustomed to his unusually colorful panels, but the landscape here is extremely beautiful. A poppy is a flower of sleep and love. His scarlet color always tells us about the brightness and transience of love and its rapid flight in human life. And the fact that the […]...
31. Description of the painting by Klimt Gustav “Water snakes”Gustav Klimt from 1904 to 1907 was engaged in writing two paintings with a practically identical plot: “Water snakes I” and “Water snakes II”. The appearance of these pictures, or rather of these feminine figures, entices the viewer into the world of sweet fantasies, enchanting all men and young men with their appearance, causing a […]...
32. Description of the painting by Gustav Klimt “Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I” (Golden Adel)The Golden Adel is the most significant canvas of Gustav. Portrait of the Austrian Mona Lisa deserved scandalous fame. In 2006 it was sold for a huge amount – more than one hundred million US dollars. In 2015, about the canvas was filmed “Woman in Gold”. The painting with the image of Adele Bloch-Bauer was […]...
33. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Dante”Painting by Salvador Dali “Dante” is one of the artist’s illustrations to the work “Divine Comedy”, depicting its author – Dante Alighieri. Drawing watercolor looks simple and brilliant at the same time. There are no extra strokes or shades. He portrays an Italian scribe and poet walking in an important and thoughtful pose (this is […]...
34. Illustration to the fairy tale “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka” by Ivan BilibinEach of us remembers the wonderful Russian fairy tales that he read in childhood. Over time, they completely changed. People told them to each other, adding something of their own and thereby significantly enriching the overall content. Tales at first were not published. Only in the 17th century, in the second half, began to appear […]...
35. Description of the painting by Boris Zvorykin “Boris Godunov”Several dozens of illustrations were written by Russian artist Boris Zworykin to accompany the work “Boris Godunov” by A. Pushkin. The dramatic play of the genius of Russian literature captivated the imagination of the illustrator. Graphic drawings were ready in a century since the writing of the realistic drama of Pushkin. Year of completion of […]...
36. Description of the engraving of Albrecht Dürer “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”Apocalypse is the world-famous cycle of wood engravings by Albrecht Dürer on a religious theme. The series, made by the German artist in the three-year period from 1496, consists of 15 works depicting the biblical revelation of the final judgment. Prints were published twice. And the most famous is the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” […]...
37. Illustration to Pushkin’s poem The Bronze Horseman by Alexander BenoitArtistic illustrations by Alexander Benois are today considered the best depiction of Pushkin’s works. Work on a series of works for the “Bronze Horseman” Benoit began in 1903, and in order to achieve such perfection he needed to spend 20 years. During this time, the artist drew a whole cycle of intros, endings, sketches and […]...
38. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “The Head of the Demon”In the year when Vrubel moved to Moscow, he became acquainted with the then famous writer Konchalovsky, who was working on publishing Lermontov’s works. He ordered from the artist several illustrations to the works of the poet – including the “Demon”. All the illustrations to the poem (although, judging by the richness of the palette, […]...
39. Illustration for the fairy tale “The Frog Princess” by Ivan Bilibin (Ivan Tsarevich and the Frog)The great Russian artist Ivan Bilibin liked to create illustrations for fairy tales, this particular trend in art was especially good for him. Since 1899, he created entire cycles for the publication of fairy tales, while working in different styles. For each story, he picked up his approach, made his own flavor. He worked in […]...
40. Illustration to the fairy tale “Marya Morevna” by Ivan BilibinFor four years, a talented artist Ivan Bilibin managed to write illustrations for seven tales. And although they are all not large in volume, but they are rather large-format. The most important difference between his works is considered to be the unique patterned pattern, decorative elements. The author tried not only to create several separate […]...