Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Self-portrait”

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1. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Madame Matisse”The painting “Madame Matisse” was painted by the artist in 1907. Here he depicted his wife – Madame Matisse. It must be said that when the canvas was presented for public viewing, the society embraced an indescribable feeling, and it was not a feeling of admiration. People could not understand how it was possible to […]...
2. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Family Portrait”This picture of the artist differs from the others in that Mathisc never used the image of life and interior in his works. In the picture you can see how the family members of the artist are busy with their household chores. For example, the wife is depicted on embroidery, the sons of Henri Matisse […]...
3. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Conversation”At first it may seem that Matisse portrays his own banal scene that can occur on any given day. We see the husband and wife talking in the morning. In the characters you can guess the artist himself and his spouse. It is not easy to do this, since Matisse deliberately makes the features of […]...
4. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Boat”Matisse portrayed the boat under sail and the reflection that can be seen in the water. At first, no one could understand what is shown here. It got to a funny case. The work of the painter was exhibited in the Museum of New York. Placed it upside down. More than a month passed, and […]...
5. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Red Room”The French Fauvist Henri Matisse in 1908 wrote another canvas commissioned by Sergei Schukin. Fauvism as a new artistic direction did not exist for long, but managed to express itself quite brightly in the paintings of painters. This style of performance of the image mixed up several components and gave birth to rich avant-garde pictures. […]...
6. 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 […]...
7. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “The joy of life”In March 1906, the second exhibition of representatives of Fauvism took place. It was impossible not to notice the bright large picture of the leader of the Fauves, Henri Matisse, called the “Joy of Life.” The artist began to work on it a year earlier, staying in the south of France. Gathering impressions in the […]...
8. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Still Life”In 1909, the founder and devotee of Fauvism, Henri Matisse, wrote one of his best paintings. “Still life with a blue tablecloth” – the original, complete, harmonious mural. The composition of the still life is not different subject diversity. From the wall falls on a horizontal hard surface colorful fabric. The pattern is recognizable by […]...
9. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Music”Schukin – a famous collector in the last century, knew Matisse well. In 1908, he decided to decorate his mansion in Moscow in a special way and invited the artist to paint two panels for the house. It was necessary with the help of an allegory to depict such important arts as music and dance. […]...
10. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Red fish”Matisse is a famous French artist, the leader of the Fauvist movement, which lasted only twenty years, but left a peculiar mark on history, Fauvism is related to impressionism and brings it to an extreme point, in which the form stops playing and its emotion and color begins to play. Fauvism is extremely simple, not […]...
11. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Blue Nude”In 1952, Matisse finished working on a series of canvases that had a common name – “Blue Nude”. The canvases depicted a female figure, which was skillfully combined with abstract designs and shapes. The artist loved to depict the female body in space in the same position – the figure always had crossed legs, with […]...
12. Description of the painting by paintings by Henri Matisse “Open Window”The artist often used his favorite trick – an image of an open door or window. This helped him to build the composition of the future picture itself. All the beauty of the Mediterranean were able to convey beautiful tones. The picture seems to be written in a careless technique, here we will not find […]...
13. Description of the painting by Henri Matisse “Dance”Creativity Matisse – a significant phenomenon of French art of the early twentieth century. His style was different from the classic familiar compositions. Contemporaries were stunned by the novelty, the riot of colors, the power of emotions that caused his paintings, which they called the artist “wild.” With a light hand, the term entrenched itself […]...
14. Description of the painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “Alone”Peer into the picture… loneliness.. hollowness and fatigue. As if all this woman’s life fell on her fragile shoulders at once. Looking at the picture, I want to ask her about what had so drained her in life, so heart and soul drained. One of the cycles that were devoted to women of “easy” behavior […]...
15. Description of the painting by Henri Rousseau “Self-portrait” (Customs)Rousseau was a primitive – he became an artist without additional training, simply because he felt an inner desire. He did not have a teacher who would show him the basics, and, trying, making mistakes, he discovered painting for himself, as a completely new science, like alchemy. Where others had long gone, without stumbling, he […]...
16. Description of the painting by Henri Rousseau “Customs”For the specific style of drawing Rousseau was nicknamed the amateur, although his paintings were admired by Picasso and his entourage. The reason for such unflattering reviews was the manner of Rousseau writing his pictures. The artist perceived the world completely at ease. This ease of it did not find a reciprocal understanding in the […]...
17. Description of Leon Bakst’s painting “Self-portrait”The painting, written by Leon Samoylovich Bakst in 1893, is now kept in the State Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg. It is known that Leon Bakst was recognized as a real trendsetter in painting, such as Orientalism of the early twentieth century – the desire for exotic, “unusual”. After studying at the Imperial Academy of […]...
18. Description of the painting by Sandro Botticelli “Self-portrait”Botticelli is rightfully one of the most prominent representatives of the Renaissance. The original style of the master, was received from his teacher, which is largely determined solely in color, his own type of face and attention to detail. On the example of “Self-portrait”, it is clearly seen how the formation of a personal style […]...
19. Description of the painting by Ivan Khrutsky “Portrait of a boy in a straw hat”This artist is quite rightly called the master of still lifes. Portraits of the master are in no way inferior to images of fruits, game and flowers. In the artist’s gallery there are landscapes, and even icons. In most still lifes can be traced frontal composition, where the centerpiece is a bouquet of lush garden […]...
20. Description of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh “Self-portrait in a straw hat”Portraits Van Gogh began to paint in Paris, and here he began to devote a lot of time to writing self-portraits. He wrote dozens of works on this subject, but one of the most popular was the “Self-portrait in a straw hat,” although the work looks somewhat unfinished. There is no background in the picture; […]...
21. Description of the painting by Valentin Khabarov “Portrait of MilaPicture Khabarova quite interesting. We see a girl who is keen on reading a book. All her attention is absorbed by this process. The girl nestled in a chair with her legs straight. On the right we see the skates, which are carelessly laid. For this detail, we can assume that Mila recently walked and […]...
22. Description of the painting by Valentin Serov “Self-portrait”Probably all the famous portrait painters have not once portrayed themselves on the paintings of paintings. For some, a creative path began with this, and someone drew pictures of himself at the very end. In 1880, with his own self-portrait, he began his creative activity, which gave great promise, the artist Valentin Serov, who was […]...
23. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Gravity”Catherine “Gravity” Vasily V. Kandinsky wrote in 1935. On a dark background, the artist depicted a composition of clear lines, circles and squares. The center of the canvas, he marked a kind of axis from one horizontal line and several vertical ones. In the upper left corner of the canvas, he placed a square, marked […]...
24. Description of the painting by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec “Laundress”It is believed that the model for the painting “Laundress” Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec met on a street in Paris. The young artist often preferred models from among dancers and girls of easy virtue. But this case was special. Red Mademoiselle was extremely modest and pleasant to talk to. According to art historians, Susanne Valadon, the […]...
25. 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 […]...
26. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Beggar Old Man with a Boy”Picasso paints a picture of “A poor beggar with a boy” in 1903, this period of his work is called “blue”. Pictures of the master of these years attract the attention of blue and rich blue colors. For Picasso, these are the colors of sadness and sadness, spiritual melancholy and longing. The artist is excited […]...
27. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of Victor Vasnetsov”Repin left a great legacy as his excellent work. These include portraiture of the artist. Graphic sketches preserved quite a lot. Ilya Efremovich liked to sketch everything that attracted his attention. Repin met Vasnetsov as an art academy student. Two comrades were the exact opposite of each other. Different in character and manner of drawing […]...
28. Description of the painting by Nicholas Ge “Portrait of Herzen”Nikolai Nikolayevich Ge wrote his famous work in 1867 in Florence. Delivered her to Russia under the guise of a picture of the prophet Moses. This was all done in secret, otherwise the gendarmes on the border would have destroyed the portrait, like an image of a rebel. Ge previously closed the portrait with a […]...
29. Description of the painting by Gregory Ostrovsky “Portrait of Cherevina”Ostrovsky’s painting dedicated to Cherevina is one of the most famous works of the artist. Ostrovsky himself with trepidation and admiration embarked on his work, since the Cherevins’ family is an integral part of his artistic creation. The picture is notable for its particular realism and the vision that Ostrovsky put in his work. The […]...
30. Description of the painting by Valentin Serov “Portrait of Misha Serov”The portrait of Misha Serov became one of a series of portraits of children made by Valentin Alexandrovich Serov, a Russian artist and one of the main portrait painters of his era. The main genre in the works of Serov from 1890 became a portrait. In this area, all the features characteristic of his early […]...
31. Description of the painting by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec “Dance in the Moulin Rouge”Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec belonged to a very famous aristocratic family in Paris, and his parents were always opposed to his passion for painting. But I must say that the artist Lautrec was not from a good life – because of a hereditary disease, he had a small stature, therefore he could not lead his usual […]...
32. Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “Self-portrait”Vasnetsov created his first “Self-portrait” in 1873. The master of the brush was very serious about writing any portrait image, he was sure that there was no need to invent anything in the portrait, you just need to fully see the person. So he created a self-portrait in his vision of himself. The canvas was […]...
33. Description of the painting by Franz Marc “Two Women”Cloth of absolute peace. Probably this is the way to call this work right away. Two women are seated on the mountain grass and are talking peacefully. One lady almost lies on her side, and the second just sat on her side. This allows them to talk to each other about something more intimate. Although […]...
34. 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. […]...
35. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of Lopukhina”Undoubtedly, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, very talented and judging by his robots, is quite a diligent artist, after all, all his lines, contours, and textures have been perfected. There is not even a hint of unfinished work. Many art critics believe that it was from the portrait of Lopukhina that the era of portrait painters began […]...
36. Description of the painting by Valentin Serov “Portrait of P. P. Dyagilev”In this picture, Serov V. A. depicts an outstanding figure of Russian culture, the organizer of many exhibitions and operas, including in Paris, the creator of the literary journal “World of Art” Sergey P. Dyagilev. This portrait of Serov began to paint in 1904, but the artist quickly lost interest in the painting. That is […]...
37. Description of the painting by Leon (Lev) Bakst “Portrait of Alexei Tolstoy”The portrait of the writer Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy was made using lithography and graphics techniques in 1909. The following materials were used for the work: gray paper, pencil, watercolor, ink, whitewash, gold, silver. In portrait painting, Leon Bakst showed himself as a magnificent portrait painter, able to convey the characteristics and mood of a model. […]...
38. Description of the painting by Vasily Polenov “Self-portrait”“Self-portrait” is dated 1901. Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov is about sixty years old on it. This man was gifted with many talents and was interested in various fields of art. V. Polenov was a pioneer, undertaking the study and development of those areas that were considered to be not worth the attention of the fundamental master. […]...
39. Description of the painting by Fedor Rokotov “Portrait of Vasily Maikov”Of course, this is one of the most realistic works that have come from the hands of the master. The work attracts by the fact that in this case the master concentrated the viewer’s attention on the inner component of the whole image. The first thing that catches your eye is the fleshy lips and […]...
40. Description of the painting by Anthony Van Dyck “Self-portrait”One of the best paintings of the Hermitage, a self-portrait of Van Dyck, shows us the artist in a creative, relaxed incarnation of a person who makes a living impression of embodied art, a bit rebellious, out of a succession of images of everyday life, and it is especially attractive. The aristocratic appearance is emphasized […]...