Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “Thrush”

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1. 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 […]...
2. 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 […]...
3. 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, […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. 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 […]...
6. 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 […]...
7. 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 […]...
8. 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. […]...
9. Description of the painting by Jan Vermeer “A Glass of Wine”The work of Vermeer “Glass of Wine” was written in 1660, currently located in Germany in the Berlin Art Gallery. The artist depicts two acting characters, male and female. The girl has emptied a vessel with wine, and a man who is nearby, sets himself the goal of drinking it with alcohol. The roles that […]...
10. 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 […]...
11. Description of the painting by Igor Grabar “Untidy table”I. Grabar was an outstanding personality even among his famous contemporaries. He drew and wrote, taught and studied himself. After the European trip, under the impression of the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Grabar created a whole series of still lifes resembling impressionism in their technique. Among these still lifes one of the most famous is […]...
12. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Tea drinking in Mytishchi, near Moscow”One of the most famous and widely replicated paintings of Perov’s hand. This genre scene as never before and perfectly shows a huge hole in society between the clergy and mere mortals. But even among mere mortals there is a hierarchy. This is exactly what Perov depicted on this canvas. In front of us, a […]...
13. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Morning still life”The picture is full of optimism and joy. Before us is a glass of tea and two eggs, a modest bouquet of flowers and a teapot. Cloth expressive and internally dramatic. It seems that everything happens on the terrace in one very sunny morning. Before us is a table of light brown wood, which the […]...
14. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “A table in a cafe”In 1912, Pablo Picasso wrote a very original painting “A Table in a Cafe (Bottle Perno)”. This is a kind of still life of the artist’s favorite drink, which he often portrayed in his works, but for the first time on this canvas was an attempt to depict a bottle of absinthe in a new […]...
15. Description of the painting by Zinaida Serebryakova “In the kitchen. Portrait of KatieThe author of this canvas is the mother of beautiful children. She repeatedly expressed her love for them in her paintings. A lot can be found in her works of such paintings. Here is “In the kitchen. Kati’s portrait is one of them. This canvas depicts the daughter of the artist. She is dressed in […]...
16. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Behind the samovar”Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin is a Russian artist who painted in the spirit of symbolism, using for his paintings some images from Russian folk tales – animals, people in unusual circumstances. Spectators of the last century know the artist as the author of the painting Bathing a Red Horse, popular in the Soviet Union, but the creator […]...
17. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “The Last Supper”The great artist Ilya Repin created his masterpiece The Last Supper in 1903. Now the picture is in the Novgorod State Museum. The work was canceled. This is one of the biblical scenes. There are a lot of candles and lamps on the table, so the room is well lit. It is light that creates […]...
18. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Herring”Petrov-Vodkin saw the world in his own way. This was expressed in an unusual perspective, which he liked to choose for his paintings, in their unusual composition and form. Each of his work is endowed with special expressiveness. There are not so many details in the works, but at the same time they are deep […]...
19. 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 […]...
20. Description of the painting by Pavel Filonov “Easter”Pavel Filonov is a famous avant-garde artist, one of the most mysterious Russian painters. He called some of his works “formulas” – “flower formula”, “formula of the proletariat”, etc. He created articles where he tried to formulate the principles of analytical art. He called himself “an artist-researcher”, trying to draw parallels between science and art. […]...
21. Description of the painting by Sergei Ivanov “In the order of Moscow times”The picture clearly tells us about the work of the mandative system of the 17th century. From early morning in the orders on Ivanovskaya Square there was already a queue from the most different strata of that society, each of which came with his own request. In the picture, they crowded along the wall, waiting […]...
22. Description of the painting by Paul Gauguin “Still Life”Paul Gauguin is from Paris, but he grew up in Peru, this exotic country gave him emotions and love for the tropics. He was known as a very successful stockbroker. Painting was not his profession, it was his hobby. But when there was another economic crisis, which led him to the mastery of a new […]...
23. 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 […]...
24. Description of the painting by Stanislav Zhukovsky “Easter still life”In 1915, Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky presents to the world a wonderful and very atmospheric picture – “Easter Still Life”. It is also interesting in that it allows us to imagine the life of a not rich aristocrat of the time when the revolution was already knocking on all doors. Zhukovsky must not only want us […]...
25. 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 […]...
26. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Family matter at the magistrate”1884 In the picture – domestic genre scene. The plot of the work is taken from life – Makovsky saw the scene of the trial during a trip to the Oryol province. In the foreground, two – a simple peasant and a representative of the authorities, the justice of the peace. The young man in […]...
27. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn “Portrait of Rembrandt’s mother sitting at the table”Rembrandt is a Dutch painter, a representative of the golden age and one of the best masters. He was known during his lifetime, he had many students, among whom there are famous and talented artists, he preferred historical scenes and portraits. He loved to draw people, devoted almost all his work to this, not chanting, […]...
28. Description of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh “White roses”“White Roses” represent the later works of Van Gogh, when he was already close to madness and his tragic death. Wanting to relax, he left Paris on the outskirts, where he wrote a lot of flowers – on bushes, in vases, without a clear background – and the roses must have caught his eye by […]...
29. Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “Tea Party”In fact, Kustodiyev was quite an interesting image of the merchants. He painted their portraits in all sorts of angles, under the most bizarre interiors and in various poses, naked and dressed up. It is worth noting, of course, that there are actually a lot of paintings with the merchants, but the most successful, and […]...
30. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “St. Jerome in the cell”Albrecht Durer – the great German artist of the Renaissance. The orientation in which the painter worked was filled with expressiveness and a desire for realism. The moments of the artist’s activities included a collection of “three workshops engravings” on a religious theme. One of them was the painting “St. Jerome”, it was created in […]...
31. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Gathering”This canvas depicts the meeting of several revolutionaries. They found a secluded corner, locked themselves in a dark room and discuss ambitious plans. A total of 13 people in the room, several of them are still very children. Despite such a young age, they are ready to fight for their interests. The company is sitting […]...
32. Description paintings Yuri Pimenov “Waiting”1959 One of the beautiful still lifes of this unusual, broad-minded artist. The picture refers to the “Things of People” cycle and depicts a polished table in front of a window, on which a tall black telephone stands alone. The handset is off the hook and lies next to it. Both the telephone and the […]...
33. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “After the battle”The painting “After the Battle” by Petrov-Vodkin, written in 1923, became an important milestone in the painting of the artist, marking a new stage in his creative quest. Up to this point, all the paintings of the artist did not have a specific time reference and were not specific. The characters of his paintings could […]...
34. Description of the painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio “A young man with a lute”Caravaggio’s painting “Lute” or “A Young Man with a Lute” is a vivid exhibit of the Hermitage. But the picture is also presented in several museums of the world, for example, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. And experts still do not agree on which of the works is the original, and […]...
35. Description of the painting by Pavel Fedotov “Players”The painting of Pavel Fedotov is very peculiar. So, in the film “The Players”, the author tries to portray what is happening, with the glance of the hero who lost, and his partners became terrible phantoms for him. The players spent the whole evening in mutual deception, vying, defeating and suffering defeat. All behaved passionately […]...
36. Description of the painting by Ilya Mashkov “Strawberry and white jug”Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov is a Russian (Soviet) artist of the twentieth century. All his work is a confirmation of the broad Russian soul. We know more than one thousand of his paintings. These are portraits, subject-thematic works, landscapes and, of course, still lifes. The still life “Strawberry and White Jug” was written in the last […]...
37. 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 […]...
38. Description of the painting by Edward Manet “Portrait of Emil Zola”The painting “Portrait of Emile Zola” was written by Edouard Manet in 1868, was written from the writer himself, who came to the workshop of the master several times a week for posing. Edouard Manet and Emile Zola were good friends, protecting each other from attacks by the press and critics. It should be noted […]...
39. Description of the painting by Vasily Maximov “With the diploma”How wonderful it is to return to your home from distant lands! On Maximov’s canvas, we can observe an amazing scene of the return of a girl who was educated away from home. In those days, getting an education as a girl was considered foolishness or whim – it was believed that a girl should […]...
40. 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 […]...