Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “A Glass of Wine”

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1. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Astronomer”In the golden age of freedom and prosperity of the Protestant Holland, the mysterious artist Vermeer was born. He not only worked, but also engaged in commerce. Almost nothing is known about Jan Vermeer’s career, but he was always surrounded by art. The artist was influenced by Italian painting and the work of Caravaggio. Strong […]...
2. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Love Letter”After the death of Jan Vermeer, his paintings were highly appreciated. Despite the fact that during his lifetime he was known, he was known as an expert in art, he died in poverty and debt. His wife was forced to abandon the inheritance – it helped pay off with creditors. The artist has been forgotten. […]...
3. The description of the painting by Jan VermeerThis artist loved to write genre paintings. I enjoyed depicting everyday life on canvas. But, the truth at the same time never refused portraits. At least one of his most famous portraits is still highly valued and quite popular among fans of Scandinavian painting. This is “Portrait of a Girl with a Pearl.” Hollywood has […]...
4. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Girl with a pearl earring”Johann Reiners Vermeer is one of the most mysterious Dutch painters. About him, as well as about his customers and even about his number of paintings, we know not much. The picture is kept in the gallery Mauritshuys in the Dutch city of The Hague and is one of the most valuable works presented in […]...
5. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Artist’s Studio”The painting by the Dutch painter Vermeer bears other names as well. Such as “Artist and Model”, “Allegory of Painting” and “Art of Painting”. Size 130×110 cm. Painted with a mixture of protein and oil on canvas around 1667. The picture can be easily attributed to the Golden Age of painting. At that time, religious […]...
6. Description of the painting by Gerard Terborch “A glass of lemonade”This painting is one of the best works of the artist, which shows the most remarkable traditions of Holland at that time. This work has no drama, it is calm, measured, devoid of any movement and is fully focused on the relationship between boys and girls. The young gentleman who offers a lady a glass […]...
7. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Thrush”Painting by Jan Vermeer “The Milkmaid” cannot leave indifferent a fine connoisseur of art. On the one hand – this is the usual captured scene from real life. The girl pours milk in a bowl. It would seem that in this such. But the way the artist presented it on the canvas is another matter. […]...
8. Description of the painting by Konstantin Korovin “Fish, wine and fruits” (1916)The artist became one of the masters who prepared the rise of Russian still life in painting, and he himself worked in this genre rather actively. In his canvases reflected life-affirming attitude to life. His still-life characterizes an unprecedented showiness and scope of the stroke, combined with the classical layout. For the ease and liberation […]...
9. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “A girl reading a letter at an open window”Jan Vermeer – artist from the Netherlands, master of genre portrait and household painting. About his life is almost unknown, most of the biography is based on assumptions. Despite this, he is judged by the paintings and is called one of the great masters of the golden age of Dutch art. He had no pupils, […]...
10. Description of the painting by Edward Munch “Self-portrait with a bottle of wine”And here is Munch in front of us. Yes Yes. This is the same artist who portrayed for us the “Scream”, which became the most frequently stolen masterpiece and no guard can keep this canvas in any walls of the museum, even in a safe. The “cry” was stolen everywhere and even forged, and only […]...
11. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “The Lacemaker”“Lacemaker” – a typical canvas of the Baroque era in Dutch painting. Certain subjects, features and proportions of the bodies of the characters, colors – all these are distinctive features of Dutch painting. On the canvas depicts a young girl. She is focused on her business – she knits lace, subtle and elegant. The canvas […]...
12. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Music Lesson”The painting “Music Lesson” belongs to the brush of the Dutch artist. The canvas is written between 1662 and 1665 year. When it was created was used canvas and oil. Since 1696, the painting was part of the Royal Collection of Great Britain. As a result of the error when decrypting the signature, the right […]...
13. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “Rose in a glass”Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel – famous artist – realist. The era of its activity comes to the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The genre of the master is so diverse that it can not be immediately studied. This painting, graphics, decorative art. It may even be noted that the creator experimented on his […]...
14. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Prunus in a glass”What is presented to the eyes of the viewer? Chaotic scattered objects surrounding a branch of bird cherry. White flowers are contrasted with ordinariness and simplicity of composition. The artist tries to present habitual things in a new way, resorting to color and textured contrast of objects. Petrov-Vodkin paid special attention to works in the […]...
15. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Disappearing images”“Disappearing images” is one of Salvador Dali’s multi-faceted, multi-faceted paintings. It is known, for example, that he created a unique illusion room in which he used the facial features of the famous movie actress of the time, Mae West. The most famous in this installation is sofa lips. Something similar can be seen in the […]...
16. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Bacchus”Rubens is a Flemish painter, master of Baroque – his paintings represent practically the essence of this style. He is cheerful, bright, with a lot of details, they celebrate life and glorify it, representing almost a slap in the face of death. Preferred religious and mythological subjects, especially revealing the myths of ancient Greece. Bacchus […]...
17. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “The Last Supper”The great master of surrealism, Salvador Dali, wrote The Last Supper in 1955. The picture found its place in the Washington National Gallery. The canvas is written with sophisticated technique, photo materials were used to create it. He creates a traditional story, presenting it from a futuristic point of view. The artist depicted a meeting […]...
18. Description of the painting by Edward Manet “Breakfast in the workshop”The painting “Breakfast in the Studio” is atypical enough for the creative work of the founder of impressionism, Manet. This is a mixture of genres – portrait, still life and typical household plot. In the center of the picture – a young man, casually leaning on the table with the remnants of breakfast. This is […]...
19. Description of the painting by Giotto Di Bondone “Last Supper” (1304-1305gg.)The picture was painted by the artist in the period from 1304 to 1305. Giotto depicts a special event in Christianity – the Eucharist (Communion), the moment of the establishment of the New Testament. Because of the threat from the High Priesthood, the meeting was secret. The Last Supper is described in all the sources […]...
20. Description of the painting by Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov “The Descent of the Lord”The painting “The Presentation of the Lord” was painted by Ivanov in the second half of the 1800s. On it, the artist depicted the gospel story of the meeting of Simeon with the baby Jesus in the temple of Jerusalem. According to the rite on the fortieth day after the birth of the firstborn, parents […]...
21. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “The merciful Samaritan”The picture tells about a fairly well-known moment described in the Bible. He tells the story of Jesus himself. One man was walking in the desert and caught the robbers, who stripped and wounded him. Having finished what they wanted, they left him there to die. One person then a priest passed by the dying […]...
22. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Date”The painting “Date” was written by V. Makovsky. In 1883. This is a typical product of the “Wanderers” with the theme of impoverishment and the hard life of the people. The painting depicts the meeting of a mother, a peasant woman, with her son, who had been apprenticed to the city. A mother looks at […]...
23. Description of the painting by Vladimir Feldman “Motherland”The canvas depicts a soldier who was leaning against a birch tree. He hugs her so tenderly like his girlfriend. It can be seen that the soldier has not been in his homeland for a long time and birch personifies his native Russian land. He was probably in a foreign country for a long time […]...
24. Description of the painting by Claude Monet “Spring”Beautiful work and a little unlike all his work. How this canvas breathes in spring! As it is amazingly vivid and surprisingly easily perceived by the eyes, and then fantasy adds a story that can be real. Imagine that here in this flourishing cherry orchard two creatures met, but not simple. Let’s imagine that spring […]...
25. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “The Abduction of Ganymede”In ancient Roman or ancient Greek mythology there is a beautiful story about a very beautiful, one might even say, divinely beautiful young man named Ganymede. His beauty was so captivating that the nymphs and even the goddesses of Olympus instantly fell in love with him. In the end, Zeus himself fell in love with […]...
26. Description of the painting by Pierre Renoir “Breakfast of the Rowers” (Breakfast of Boatmen)The painting depicts Parisians vacationing outside the city. The action was captured in the town of Shatu, where rowing lovers were just gathering. People settled under a canopy on the terrace of the Fournaise restaurant. The picture was created within a few months. Each of the characters depicted Renoir invited to pose separately. The result […]...
27. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Dance”“Dance”, written by Pablo Picasso in 1925, is differently called “Three Dancers” (sometimes “Three Dancers”) and is considered a painting, the date of writing of which is the date of the beginning of the period of surrealism in the artist’s work. What caused such a negative emotional and expressive coloring of the picture, and why […]...
28. Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “On the terrace”One of the most famous Russian artists of the 19th and early 20th century, Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiyev, began his career as a portrait painter and graduated as a painter of various genres. He worked a lot for the theater, and this passion clearly influenced the talent of the artist. In 1906, Kustodiyev wrote a deeply […]...
29. Description of the painting by Pavel Filonov “Feast of Kings”The painting “Feast of Kings” was painted by Filonov in 1913. It must be said, the first glance at it leaves not the most pleasant impression: the contrasting red and black tones, the ugly elongated faces and the figures that crowd around the picture, are not at all appetizing dishes on the table. The characters […]...
30. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Dora Maar with a cat”Dona Maar was the lover, faithful companion of life and friend of Pablo Picasso. This was a beautiful, mysterious woman. The reason that she depicts all the canvases of Picasso Don is extremely creepy, was the period in which the relationship of this woman and the great artist unfolded. World War affected all spheres of […]...
31. 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 […]...
32. Description of the painting by Alexander Gerasimova “Hymn October”The author of the thematic paintings had the gift of a portrait painter, although he often turned to the topic of landscape and lyrical painting. Among his portraits are dominated by the faces of high-ranking leaders of the country and the party. Large canvases resemble posters and serve as a model of the Soviet style. […]...
33. Description of the painting by Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky “Party (1875 – 1897)”This picture is in one of the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery. It depicts young people in a dimly lit, small room. The light source is a kerosene lamp, rising from under the lampshade. Students gathered around the table waiting for the samovar to boil. Nobody starts the meal, although the table is set and […]...
34. Description of the painting by Pimen Orlov “October holiday in Rome”Coming from a peasant family, from childhood he had a strong craving for art, but his parents did not share his interests, and being still quite young, Orlov left home and went on to study for a wandering painter. They went to the villages, offered their services in the painting of houses, temples.. His skills […]...
35. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “Hamlet and Ophelia”The picture of the famous artist Mikhail Vrubel “Hamlet and Ophelia” was written in 1884 during his student days. Now the canvas is stored in the Russian Museum in the city of St. Petersburg. In 1883, Repin invites Vrubel to write a more serious picture. After a long search, as a result, the artist stops […]...
36. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Meeting of the State Council”In 1901, the famous painter Ilya Repin accepted a large state order to write the painting “The ceremonial meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901”. This work was timed to the centenary of the founding of the State Council. After two years of work, a huge canvas measuring 400 × 877 cm was […]...
37. Description of the painting by Diego Velazquez “Waterman”The painting “Water Carrier” was painted in 1622 by the unusually gifted and educated Spanish artist Velasquez. She also has another name – “The seller of water from Seville”. With this picture the artist added to his cycle of works of bodegones (translated from Spanish as a tavern). A number of paintings are included in […]...
38. Description of the painting by Francois Boucher “Marquise de Pompadour”Francois Boucher was not considered a portrait painter. For all his creative life, he painted more than a thousand paintings, of which portraits are just a little more than a dozen. Most of these portraits are images of the Marquise de Pompadour. The name of the Marquise de Pompadour was known to many even during […]...
39. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn “Sindiki”The last masterpiece of the Dutch genius painter – group portrait “Sindiki”. Rembrandt carried out the order for the organization at the cloth guild in Amsterdam. Every year new members were elected to the council, whose responsibility was to control the quality of fabrics made in the city and the selection of the best samples […]...
40. Description of the painting by Alexander Gerasimov “Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin”Artist Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov painted the picture “Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin” in 1938. It was made specifically for the anniversary exhibition for the twentieth birthday of the Red Army and Navy. The exhibit was put on the most revered place in the center of the hall. The composition of this picture is rather […]...