Description of the painting by René Magritte “Empire of Light”

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1. Description of the painting by René Magritte “Son of man”The most famous among the works of Rene Magritte is the enigmatic picture “Son of Man.” Written in 1964, she immediately captured the minds of external simplicity and extreme depth of content. An eye catching and easy-to-remember image of a man in business attire – a black coat on a shirt with a tie, and […]...
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3. Description of the painting by Rene Magritte “Golkonda”Surrealism – the most mysterious and absurd art direction. Often similar to advertising posters, unusual and paradoxical, the paintings of Rene Magritte belong to the surrealistic style. However, the author attributes them to the so-called “magical realism.” The only thing is that his creations always attract attention, slam into the memory and make everyone think […]...
4. Description of the painting by Rene Magritte “Lovers” (Lovers)The picture was created in 1928. The viewer knows two versions of this picture. On one canvas in front of us, a man and a woman merged in a long kiss. Their heads are wrapped in a white cloth. In another version, they look directly at us. This picture is incredibly symbolic. It contains an […]...
5. Description of the painting by René Magritte “The human lot”Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte – an artist working in the direction of surrealism. His works are striking in their originality and destroy the well-established concept of reality. Pictures of the artist are not only psychological, but also filled with deep philosophical meaning. He rewrote his work several times, perfecting them. The painting “The human inheritance” […]...
6. Description of the painting by Rene Magritte “Nostalgia”The picture is dated 1940, is stored in one of the Belgian museums. Rene Margitt is known in artistic circles as the author of mysterious, mysterious paintings. They need to be considered for a long time and attentively in order to see the true, sometimes deeply hidden, meaning of the canvas. The key to the […]...
7. Description of the painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti “Separation of Light from Darkness”Looking at the magnificent frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, its majestic images, one cannot again be amazed at the ingenious skill, multifaceted talent and unsurpassed fantasy of Michelangelo Buanarotti. They are amazed not so much by the biblical plots themselves, but by their thorough execution and attention to the smallest details of any frescoes, whatever […]...
8. Description of the monument to the traffic light in NovosibirskSuch a pedestal for the first time in our country was built in the central part of Novosibirsk. This composition consists of a traffic light, welcomed by a policeman. It was located near the twelfth school, which is considered the oldest. As early as the fortieth year, the first traffic lights of Novosibirsk began to […]...
9. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Wanderer of the Light City”The canvas was created in 1933 in oil on canvas. Nicholas Roerich is a unique person in Russian history. He was an artist, writer, philosopher, and archaeologist. He traveled a lot and was a public figure. During his life he wrote seven thousand paintings. Roerich contributed to the church heritage of the country, engaged in […]...
10. Description of the painting by Valery Jacobi “Ice House”The painting “Ice House” of 1878 illustrates one of the sad stories in the Russian government – the clownish wedding of Prince Golitsyn and Anna Buzheninova. The canvas reflects the reign of Queen Anna Ioannovna, who became famous for cruel “events.” The ice house was one of its “joking” decisions. Once Anna Ivanovna was angry […]...
11. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Twilight”The story of the creation of the picture is quite prosaic. Isaac Ilyich Levitan wrote it specially as a gift to A. P. Chekhov, who was in the Crimean sanatorium and missed his native lands very much. Most likely, this is why Levitan depicted in his picture, as close as possible, everything that was so […]...
12. Description of the painting by Nikolay Krymov “At dawn”In the light mist of dawn, a little froze from the freshness of the early morning, the shepherd boy sleeps under a tree. Immediately it becomes clear that he spent here all night. His players graze nearby, but never slept all night. They calmly graze nearby to look after the owner for a bit, but […]...
13. Description of the painting by Edward Munch “Starry Night”Stars have always attracted Munch, served as a mysterious object of his creative worship. He wrote several paintings united by a common theme. One of them is “Starry night”. More precisely, not one, several of them. Munch had one feature – to write his canvases in different variations. It happened with this picture. The “starry […]...
14. Description of the painting by Nikolay Krymov “Evening”The painting “Evening” by the Russian artist Nikolai Petrovich Krymov, written by him in 1920, takes us to the bank of a nameless stream surrounded by tall dark trees. The picture shows an already deep evening, not a soul around, and only a lonely boat bobbing on tired water, tied with a rope to a […]...
15. Description of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Ukrainian Night”The picture was created in 1876. We look at this canvas, as if spellbound. The painter was the first to portray the night in the south so gorgeous. This way, only the person who loves her very much could show nature. Undoubtedly, Kuindzhi has a tremendous temperament of a real creator, who creates wonderful pictures, […]...
16. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Twilight, stack”Isaac Levitan in his creative destiny has written many beautiful and famous paintings that are very loved and appreciated both in Russia and around the world. In the last years of his life, the artist moved from writing bright colorful landscapes filled with sunny heat and light to more tranquil and calming sunset paintings in […]...
17. Description of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Elbrus. Moonlight night”“Elbrus. Moonlight Night “is a sketch by Arkhip Kuinji on the nature of the Caucasus. A sketch is considered preparatory work before writing a picture. It is made with oil paints on paper. The Russian artist always treated the moonlight with trepidation. At night, the hidden secrets of nature and the essence of things – […]...
18. Description of the painting by Vincent van Gogh “Cafe Terrace”When creating his painting “Night Cafe Terrace”, Van Gogh did not use black paint at all. But hardly anyone would argue that the canvas is not depicted at night. This canvas was created in the so-called Arles period of the painter’s work (at that time the yellow palette of shades was clearly dominant in the […]...
19. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Moonlight Night on Capri”The picture of the famous Odessa artist Aivazovsky has long occupied its place in the Tretyakov Gallery. During his life, he managed to visit all the major maritime cities that fascinated him and were sealed on canvas. To increase the level of skill, the artist traveled to Rome, Germany, Switzerland and other cities. In each […]...
20. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Moonlit night. Village”The painting was painted in 1897. Before the viewer appears a number of huts, which fell asleep until the morning. On the left side we see the majestic trees that cast fancy shadows on the road. The night is filled with special secrets and some unaccountable anxiety. It’s so quiet around, even the tops of […]...
21. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Summer evening”Amazing sometimes canvases can be seen from the most famous painters. Vrubel with his mystical canvases, Savrasov, Kuindzhi, who conjured with his light on his canvases and thus made people believe that this is not a canvas of a picture, but a real live picture. That’s what he achieved mastery. And what about Levitan? He […]...
22. Description of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Night”This picture Kuindzhi is considered to be his creative testament. The circumstance of the incompleteness of the picture here appears as a symbol of the eternity of the creative path. This association is enhanced by the lunar illumination of the boundless plains – as if by eternal light on the horizon. In the picture, the […]...
23. Description of the painting by Boris Nemensky “Mother”Boris Mikhailovich Nemensky was a Soviet teacher and painter. The artist was born in 1922 in Moscow. As soon as he graduated from college in 1942, Boris went to the front. During the service he was able to create several sketches on military subjects. One of such works is the painting “Mother”, based on the […]...
24. Description of the painting by Vincent Van Gogh “White House at Night”The painting was painted by the outstanding Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh shortly before the tragic death. Moreover, the exact date of creation of the canvas is known – 06.16.1890, around eight o’clock in the evening. Such accuracy was established thanks to astronomers who explained that the star and the shining around it, depicted in […]...
25. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “House of Surikov in Krasnoyarsk”The painting “The House of Surikov in Krasnoyarsk” was painted by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov in 1890. The style of the work can be attributed to realism, the genre of performance – to the urban landscape. Materials for writing a picture served as a pencil, watercolor, paper. The size of the canvas is only 24.5 by […]...
26. Description of the painting by Sylvestre Shchedrin “Moonlit Night in Naples”Russian artist, landscape master Sylvester Shchedrin lived in Italy for many years, where he died at an early age. This explains the considerable number of paintings that are dedicated to this country. However, looking at the mastery of landscape painter and those paintings that were created in Russia, we can safely assume that if Shchedrin […]...
27. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Last rays of the sun”Levitan is a romantic singer of nature, her charms, her purity, her naturalness. He is known to many for his landscapes, beautiful, reminiscent of the fact that the world around does not boil down to a simple “home-work”, but it also contains beauty created not by human hands, but by something higher. Forests, fields, rural […]...
28. Description of the painting by Sergei Vinogradov “Plays”Since 1910, S. A. Vinogradov, like his associates from the Union of Russian Artists, was seriously fascinated by the theme of the old estates of the Russian Empire. The new trend spawned an extensive series of paintings, elegiac and imbued with lyricism. Spacious interiors of country estates, flowering gardens, flooded with sunlight, all this inspired […]...
29. Description of the painting by Van Gogh “Night Cafe”According to Van Gogh himself, the painting “Night Cafe” was created in order to convey the effect of a look at the environment of a public institution through the eyes of a drunk person whose thoughts, understanding of what is happening and his mind are clouded by awakened drunkenness. The painting was made on an […]...
30. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “Portrait of Napoleon in his office”The picture was painted in 1812 in oil on canvas. David is a brilliant artist of the 19th century. His portraits are known all over the world and stand in the same row with the greatest artists. The portrait of Napoleon was painted by David when the period of classicism dominated in painting. It is […]...
31. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Moonlit Night. Bath in Feodosia “Aivazovsky is a famous Russian marine painter (that is, an artist who preferred the image of the sea), a battle painter and a collector. There is a legend that his great-grandfather was a Turk, and during the capture of Azov by Russian troops, he was adopted by an unknown Armenian who pitied him and baptized. […]...
32. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Black Sea at night”The painting “The Black Sea at Night” was painted by the artist IK Aivazovsky in 1879. It was not the first landscape of the dreamy creator with the image of the Black Sea. In his work, the author used oil paints. He masterfully applied them to the canvas and conveyed all the beauty and mysteriousness […]...
33. Description of the painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Moonlit night on the Dnieper”The picture is written by A. I. Kuindzhi and was exhibited by the only painting at the exhibition in 1880. The painting was the only one at the exhibition and became a real sensation. The artist himself said that this is the main product of his life. Kuindzhi all his talent focused on the transfer […]...
34. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “To the night”This canvas, many critics refer to the most mystical period of creativity of Mikhail Vrubel. The beauty and really mysticism is fascinating. The night is near, the moon is visible. But horses graze on the poppy field, and next to them is a shepherd. But it is he who fascinates. Only the back is visible, […]...
35. Description of the painting by Salvador Dali “Shadows of Melting Night”When he was in America, Salvador Dali painted many beautiful paintings, among which were landscapes. The painting “The Shadows of a Vanishing Night” was painted by the artist in 1931 and entered the collection of the most outstanding canvases painted by Dali. In the center of the picture there is something like a clay block, […]...
36. Description of the painting by Alexei Savrasov “Winter Landscape”Eh, winter is beautiful in the open spaces of the Russian land! Such beauty is rarely seen. And with our modern technology and life too advanced and you will not notice at all. But one has only to go out of town, a little farther than all the highways. Just turn on the road forgotten […]...
37. Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “Blue House”The canvas was written in 1920. A home for an artist is not just an architectural structure that needs to be completed, while maintaining the proportions of the clarity of the lines – this is life itself, spouting from all doors and windows. Here and in the picture Kustodiev “Blue House” all the same. A […]...
38. Description of the painting by Van Gogh “Starry Night over the Rhone”The sketch of the film “Starry Night over the Rhone” was painted by Van Gogh in 1888, and the painting itself was completed and exhibited in 1889. The oil painting is written in large strokes and its main colors are multiple shades of blue and yellow, turning into pale blue, now greenish-bronze, now bright gold. […]...
39. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Himalayas”Roerich – singer of the mountains. Considering that a person should live in them, he immortalized them in paintings with enviable stubbornness and skill, as if giving them a new life on paper. Shambhala, the city of great truth, is hidden in the mountains. Sparse air is useful for understanding oneself, thin mountain peaks and […]...
40. Description of the painting by Isaac Brodsky “Fallen leaves”Brodsky Isaac Izrailevich – an artist who lived and worked in Soviet times. He wrote many paintings, but the most famous autumn landscapes of Brodsky. He, like no one else, was able to convey the discreet beauty, modest charm and refinement of this time of year. “Fallen leaves” – one of these pictures. It depicts […]...