Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Funeral Symphony”

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1. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Creation of the World”Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis is a very unique and amazing phenomenon in all the art of the world; to this day, the works of the creator arouse very turbulent emotions and spiritual admiration for creativity. Pictures of the artist move us to the edge of eternal fantastic beauty. His canvases were very famous in the Soviet […]...
2. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Signs of the Zodiac”The end of the 20th century in painting is characterized by the formation of symbolism and neo-romanticism. In this period, the flowering of creativity of the Lithuanian artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis begins. Pictures of the artist admire their mystery and persuasiveness. But the special quality is the original art form. The works in nature resemble […]...
3. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “The Tale of Kings”Combining painting and music seems an incredible task, but not for the Lithuanian composer, musician and artist Mikalojus Čiurlionis, who managed to make the painting literally resound, and the colors respond to the rhythm of music. This extraordinary genius of art, is the author of many musical compositions and artistic works. The young musician and […]...
4. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Forest”Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis is an artist who sang the beauty of Lithuanian nature, but not in the usual sense. Many critics see in his paintings something cosmic, the struggle of heaven with the earth. He puts art to a new level, presenting evolution not as a natural process, but as the influence of higher powers. […]...
5. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Paradise”Mikalojus Čiurlionis is a famous Lithuanian artist and composer. The picture opens before us a beautiful world unknown to us, shows the viewers all the beauty of the other world. This work is filled with purity and beauty, the unusual landscape and characters depicted on the canvas. Čiurlionis combined his talents in painting and music […]...
6. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Friendship”Mikalojus Čiurlionis was a very quiet and dreamy man. Born in Lithuania, in 1875. He lived his life richly, but not for long – only 36 years. The musician and the artist in one person, he loved to work around the clock, although he constantly lacked the means for living. He perfectly finely and mentally […]...
7. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Rex”A multifacetedly talented person, Čiurlionis tried himself in many kinds of creativity. His literary tests and musical scores became revelations for contemporaries. However, his paintings make a difficult impression. The style of symbolism allows you to hide the meaning in a sense, like a nested doll. And who knows how many of these dolls are […]...
8. Description of the painting by the paintings of Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Sonata of the Sea”The widely known “Sonata of the Sea” is a “suite” of three paintings by Ciurlionis, which is considered to be one of his most beautiful works. The musicians call the sonatas of the play, in which there is a struggle between several sometimes completely opposite themes, and the main melody sounds in the finale. Mandatory […]...
9. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Sonata of the Sun”The first sonata of Mikalojus юрurlionis is drawn on paper with the help of tempera. The atmosphere of mysticism, magic and miracles overflows the picture along with the balance of all its elements. The sun is the dominant element of the picture. Unusual is that on the canvas there are a large number of suns […]...
10. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Sonata of the Stars”The sky landscape depicted by юрurlionis is a vivid example of symbolism in painting. Mikalojus Čiurlionis is an absolutely unique artist in many respects, his creative life is very short – only seven years, for which he created more than 300 paintings, some of them recognized as masterpieces of world art. The artistic style of […]...
11. Description of the painting by Pavel Filonov “The First Symphony of Shostakovich”Pavel Filonova – one of the brightest and most complex artists of the twentieth century. He was called “the witness of the unseen,” “conservative futurist.” The artist’s creativity increased interest in avant-garde trends in the USSR. The paintings of P. Filonov differed in scale, the rejection of the obvious side of reality and the desire […]...
12. Description of the painting by Makaloyus Čiurlionis “Truth”This picture is mysterious, but how much food provides for reflection! How much you can think of looking at this canvas. Truth is a capacious concept and truth is not always the final instance for mortals. As a rule, the truth is hidden from us and we reach the truth only when we ourselves want […]...
13. Gustave Courbet’s painting The Funeral in OrnanThe work of Gustave Courbet is dedicated to his grandfather, after the funeral of which, the artist dawns on the idea of ​​capturing this event on canvas. Many of those present were eager to be in the picture. So it happened. As the artist said afterwards, it was very difficult to place such a large […]...
14. Description of the painting by Heinrich Semiradsky “The funeral of the noble Rus”Semiradsky depicts in the picture the climax of the traditional Russian burial rite. At the very most you can see a man standing. He has already set fire to the torch and is about to transfer this fire directly under the boat. First, the deceased was placed in a temporary grave, and now they are […]...
15. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “The return of the peasants from the funeral in winter”In 1880, Vasily Perov wrote the painting “The Return of Peasants from a Funeral in Winter”. It was a turning point in the work of the artist who decided to reflect the everyday life of ordinary peasants in his works. It would seem that this topic for work is boring and unremarkable, but Perov was […]...
16. 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 […]...
17. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Bayonets! Cheers cheers!”The picture is painted in oil on canvas. Vereshchagin left an invaluable cultural contribution to our state. His work includes dozens of paintings devoted to Russia and the events in it. The painting “In bayonets! Hooray! Hurray! “Is one of the paintings of Vereshchagin’s masterpiece cycle dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812 with Napoleon. […]...
18. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Woman with a rake”The Woman with the Rake is a picture from the second series of the peasant cycle of works by Kazimir Malevich. The artist began to create it in the years 1930-1931, after the first cycle was lost after the Berlin and Warsaw exhibitions in 1927. New pictures in the second cycle solve other problems. The […]...
19. Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov “St. Sergius of Radonezh”“St. Sergius of Radonezh” – one of the paintings of the religious cycle of Michael Nesterov, dedicated to this saint. The artist began working on the canvas in 1891, not yet finished the other paintings of the cycle. However, despite the apparent simplicity of composition, the writing of the image of Sergius of Radonezh took […]...
20. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Last role”Dali is not just one canvas. This is just a few canvases that he wrote several years, or even decades before his departure to another world. Closer to 1983, he began to write less and less, to work because of his age it became harder and harder. Yet he wrote… And this last of his […]...
21. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Artist and Model”The canvas was created in 1926 in oil on canvas. Picasso is considered one of the great artists of the 20th century. His canvases are estimated at millions of dollars. But not all his works are understandable for the perception of an ordinary person. Not prepared, they can plunge into shock. The whole life of […]...
22. Description of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “North”The concept of this painting dates back to 1872, when the Russian artist decided to create a cycle of paintings, united by a common theme – the depiction of the harsh northern nature. The first two pictures of the cycle – “Ladoga Lake” and “On the Island of Valaam” – were created by Kuinji, who […]...
23. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Head”The picture can be attributed to the cycle of peasants, which is one of the best works of the artist. Before the viewer appears a symbolic portrait of a man. Malevich in his work sought to develop the boundaries of traditional art. The cycle “Peasants” should have been presented as a graphic depiction of everyday […]...
24. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “To the harvest (Martha and Roly)”In the works of Soviet avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich, human characters are not very frequent guests. But when the author still took on the image of people, as a rule, they were created from peculiar curved suprematic planes. This is a characteristic feature of the artistic direction of Suprematism, the founder of which was Malevich. […]...
25. Description of the Soviet poster “If you will not read books, you will soon forget the letter”Campaign posters, which in our time would be more called motivational, were very popular in the last century. Each of them displayed its own meaning. Posters were created in whole cycles, where some topic was taken as a basis, for example, illiteracy or drunkenness, and on this topic, the artists created a number of different […]...
26. Description of the painting by Viktor Borisov-Musatov “Hazel bush”The picture is painted in oil on canvas in 1905 in the last year of the artist’s life. Cloth refers to post-impressionism. Borisov-Musatov is known for its landscapes, which are covered with a haze of unreality. Hazel bush is a painting that was painted on the terrace of Tarusa, where the artist lived and was […]...
27. Description of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Red Sunset”The theme of the fading sun in the works of the Russian and Ukrainian artist Arkhip Kuinji is realized through a series of canvases, including “Red Sunset”, “Sunset with trees”, “Sunset over the pine forest”, “Sunset in the steppe on the seashore” and others. All of them were written mainly in the period from 1898 […]...
28. Description of the painting by Vincent van Gogh “Red vineyards”In 1888-1889, Van Gogh lived in the southern part of France in the town of Arles. It was there that the artist was inspired by beautiful landscapes. Walking through the October afternoon in the vicinity of Montmajor Abbey, he watched as the locals gathered a ripe vineyard in the color of red wine. The riot […]...
29. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Return of the herd”The philosophy of ancient Greece has always argued that our universe is a very complex and, at the same time, beautiful structure, where every living and non-living subject has its own function. For example, a horse helps to carry and drag, a tank must be plowed, a dog to guard a dwelling and go hunting. […]...
30. Description of the painting by Camille Pissarro “Boulevard of Montmartre”In the winter of 1897, Camille Pissarro arrives in Paris to look for inspiration and storylines for a new series of paintings in Paris Avenue. Having settled in a hotel room, he turned his attention to the view outside the window – the noisy lively Boulevard Montmartre seemed to the artist to be no less […]...
31. 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 […]...
32. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Bather opening the booth”Pablo Picasso’s famous painting “Bather opening the cabin” is just one part of the whole series of paintings by the artist dedicated to “Bathers”. All these works belong to the period of surrealism of the author, which at one time was carried away by the artist. They are all written in different styles, however, despite […]...
33. Description of the fresco by Masaccio “Miracle with a Statyr”This mural is considered the best. Sometimes it is called “Submit.” This episode Masaccio took from the Gospel. Christ traveled with his apostles to different cities. Once they come to Kapranum. Before entering, it was necessary to pay only one stater. But those who came had no money at all. Christ gave the order to […]...
34. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Pushkin’s Farewell to the Sea”Aivazovsky very often described the sea, it was one of the main topics of his work. The sea is for him one of the main components of life, it is sometimes striking in its calmness, then it shakes with its greatness and strength. Aivazovsky was personally acquainted with the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, who […]...
35. Description of the painting by Abram Arkhipov “Girl with a jug”A real Russian girl, lush, with a soft kind face, who is ready to give the guests a delicious rural milk. Krasna maiden! Lepota!!! Something is in this portrait from Kustodiev, but the latter does not have this simplicity – there is more and more popular folk-folk, the Russian has a round dance – and […]...
36. Description of the painting by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky “In a sick teacher”The painting was completed in 1897. The style in painting is realism, genre-genre painting. The painting is in storage at the State Tretyakov Gallery. Bogdanov-Belsky was born in a poor peasant family in Smolensk Province. From childhood, he showed an interest in painting, and after receiving his primary education he went to study icon painting […]...
37. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Seasons”In the art of the Netherlands XVI. Peter Bruegel stands out as a significant figure. The cycle of oil paintings on wood “The Seasons”, dated by the author in 1565, shows the annual cycle of natural changes. Unfortunately, only 5 of the 6 paintings of the painter have been preserved. Other researchers believe that the […]...
38. 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 […]...
39. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Peasants”The art of the twentieth century is difficult to imagine without such a landmark artist as Kazimir Malevich. It was he who at one time clearly reflected all the distortions and paradoxes of humanity for the whole world. Malevich sought to reveal the art from different sides. In the painting “Peasants”, which subsequently marked the […]...
40. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “Flight of Faust and Mephistopheles”In the mid-1890s, Vrubel received an order for a cycle of works for the Gothic-style office. The customer was one of the representatives of the famous Morozov dynasty. The cycle of works includes the panel “Flight of Faust and Mephistopheles”, which is based on a medieval legend. The canvas combines Gothic pointed spiers, Baroque folds, […]...