Gustave Courbet’s painting The Funeral in Ornan

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1. Description of the painting by Gustave Courbet “Vealshitsy”The Veal Girl is the work of Gustav Courbet, written in 1854. She was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1855, and then in 1861 at the so-called Ninth Exhibition of the Society of Art of Nantes, which then buys the work for the museum of fine art of the city. The two young women […]...
2. Description of the painting by Gustave Courbet “Man with a pipe”The painting was painted in 1846 – 1849. Courbet was a true master of portraits. What is interesting, he himself was a model for paintings. The artist managed to write a lot of self-portraits, in which one feels how his skills are gradually growing. We see a fairly young man with half-closed eyes. The pallor […]...
3. Gustave Courbet picture description “Self-portrait with a black dog”The Frenchman Gustave Courbet in the course of creative development passes from romanticism to realism. Pictures in both genres are equally interesting and valuable. The artist worked in a romantic direction, creating his own portrait with a dog. After completion of the canvas in 1841 will be called “Self-portrait with a black dog.” At a […]...
4. Description of the painting by Gustave Courbet “Bathers”The scandalous picture of Gustave Courbet “Bathers” caused a wide public response when it was presented to society. The artist has violated almost every conceivable tradition, adopted in depicting people, besides women. Exaggerated proportions, extremely unusual and even disgusting for viewers of that time, refusal to please aesthetics to keep silent about the existence of […]...
5. Gustave Courbet’s Picture of Stone CrushersThe work of Gustave Courbet “Crushers of stones” tells about the deep poverty that can only meet on the way out of town. The artist himself said that he was returning from a trip when he saw these two. Only adversity can make a person do this. Being a lover of the most unexpected way […]...
6. Description of the painting by Gustave Courbet “Wave” (1870)In the last years of his life, Courbet painted beautiful seascapes. The artist called his marines – landscapes of the sea, insisting on this term and focusing on the sea. Although one of the main features of his marine paintings is the domination of the sky over water: on his canvases the skies began to […]...
7. Gustave Courbet painting description “Sleepers”The erotic picture “The Sleepers” was painted by the Western European artist Gustave Kurbe in 1866 by order of a diplomat from the Ottoman Empire, who at that time lived in Paris. The plot is based on two completely naked women, a blonde and a brunette, hugging a white sheet. Their general appearance and posture, […]...
8. Gustave Courbet painting description “Hello, Mr. Courbet” (1854)At the Paris exhibition, the realistic picture became an event. The artist felt himself a pioneer, making the central theme of works of art of his contemporaries engaged in everyday activities. Of particular weight and expressiveness of his canvas gives the fact that in everyday fact, he sees a generalizing value. The veracity and realism […]...
9. Gustave Courbet painting “Artist’s Workshop”The painting “Artist’s Workshop” by the French painter Gustave Courbet was painted in 1855 with the use of oil paints and canvas, whose size was almost 6 meters long and at least 3.6 meters wide. The canvas was written for the opening day of the World Exhibition in 1855 and became the main exhibit of […]...
10. Gustave Courbet painting description “Woman with a parrot” (1866)The canvas was presented at the Paris Salon in 1866 and immediately won success with the audience, who were always attracted by the beauty of the naked female body. There is an assumption that the Irish woman became a model, serving as a model for other painter canvases. The entire main plan of the picture […]...
11. Description of the painting by Mikalojus Čiurlionis “Funeral Symphony”The cycle of paintings created in 1903. Čiurlionis was a science fiction painter. But the most suitable word for defining his painting is phantasmagoria. The artist creates a real cosmos in which sounds, colors and forms intertwine in an odd way. A person simply has no place in it. That is why he portrays not […]...
12. 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 […]...
13. 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 […]...
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 illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides”Description of the illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides” Throughout his entire creative life, the artist has created more than 500 illustrations of famous works, including fairy tales and biblical scenes. The first illustrations of the Divine Comedy, Dante Dore began writing at the age of ten and continued over the years. This […]...
16. Gustav Courbet painting description “Self-portrait”Looking at the work of the French artist Gustave Courbet, there is no doubt that he was the most ingenious master of the portrait. And he wrote not only portraits of other people, but himself, and wrote a lot of them. A sort of model for himself. From the image to the image, we see […]...
17. Description of the painting by Gustave Moreau “Song of Songs”Gustave Moreau is a bright representative of the Symbolists. He chose mystical, biblical, and fantastic themes as themes for his works. His paintings had a strong influence on the creations of the Fauves, as well as the surrealists. Moreau was well acquainted with the art of earlier centuries. He loved the beauty of Eastern silk, […]...
18. Description of the painting by Gustave Moreau “Salome”On Gustave Moreau’s canvas, the frail beauty Solomei is represented dancing in a light embroidered gold dress for the despotic, wicked and envious King Herod. Her figure, curved in dance, with a hand raised in an imperative gesture, causes a desire to follow her will, from which even the king himself could not escape. The […]...
19. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn “Dr. Tulp’s Anatomy Picture”In the 17th century, in the countries of Europe it was extremely popular to take action on which many prominent physicians, surgeons, and even ordinary citizens gathered; this was the public opening and anatomical study of a human corpse. It is this moment that the great Rembrandt depicted in his picture. The artist finds scientists […]...
20. Description of the painting by Claude Monet “Magpie”The Magpie is a painting by Claude Monet, written in 1968 and now in the Paris museum of Orsay. At first glance, the picture seems very simple, it depicts a fence sitting on the gate of forty, fruit trees, a house on the side and snow. It is seen that broad and quick strokes were […]...
21. Description of the painting by Sergei Grigoriev “Admission to the Komsomol”The painting “Admission to the Komsomol” was written in 1949, the materials for creating the work are canvas and oil, the size of the canvas is 143 by 202 cm. By genre, the work refers to genre painting, in style to social realism. Currently, the picture is in the museum of Ukrainian art in Kiev. […]...
22. Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “The Virgin and Child”Victor Vasnetsov, known to most of the fairy-tale paintings, worked very hard on painting various temples. Until now, anyone can admire his work in the Church of the Savior on Blood (St. Petersburg), Vladimir Cathedral (Kiev), the Church of the Savior (Abramtzevo) and many others, located both in our country and abroad. A special place […]...
23. Description of the painting by Giotto “Resurrection of Lazarus”In most of his works, the artist Giotto often chose this kind of multi-figured compositions, in which a lot of incidental episodes accompanying him were attributed to the main plot. As it may seem at first, a superficial glance, all these side episodes and plots are so insignificant and small that some may have doubts […]...
24. Description of the painting by Diego Velázquez “Breakfast”Diego Velázquez is one of the most beloved artists of the world, and besides, he was one of those for the king, whom he served faithfully until his death. Drawing portraits of courtiers, exterior gloss and the setting of huge palaces, the artist never forgot about the simple people who could never afford such luxury. […]...
25. Description of the painting by Nicolas Poussin “Death of Germanicus”Nicolas Poussin with his work shows us the last minutes of Germanicus – the Roman commander and future emperor. As the son of Tiberius, he had a high influence, as well as all the possibilities, to soon change his father. However, unexpectedly for all of his disease mows down. On the main background, we see […]...
26. Description of the painting by Honore Daumier “Third Class Car”The picture, written in the nineteenth century, refers to the phenomenon of that time – the railway. Then it was strange and new, and Daumier could not sidestep this topic. Known for his time satirical caricatures, his paintings came out bearing important themes. This picture also shows a dissimilar crowd swaying in time with the […]...
27. Description of the painting by Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres “The Apotheosis of Homer”The main character of this canvas is Homer – the great old man, whose thoughts and sayings have been passed on from mouth to mouth for many centuries. The old man’s face expresses wisdom and mental clarity, and the sage’s shoulders and knees are covered with white cloth. Glory – a beautiful angel in white […]...
28. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Healing the Blindborn”V. Surikov is considered a clairvoyant, he depicted his knowledge on a canvas. The artist was not like anyone, his career was interrupted for a long time. The work “Healing the Blindborn” was the first picture after a long break. In this work, he conveyed all his state of mind. The painter claimed that the […]...
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31. Description of the painting by Peter Konchalovsky “Family Portrait”The picture “Family Portrait” was written by Peter Konchalovsky in 1912 in the city of Siena. The whole family of Konchalovsky is present on it: the artist, the wife and the children. Konchalovsky wrote “Family Portrait” on one of the days when the family had already come to terms with frequent trips. In a short […]...
32. Description of the painting by Jacques Louis David “The Coronation of Napoleon and Empress Josephine”The artist worked on the painting for about two years and created a huge canvas. The painter depicted about 150 characters. Each image is realistic and accurate, the master wrote all the characters from real people. The artist has long wanted to create a canvas using the theme of the coronation and, after the implementation […]...
33. Description of the icon by Andrei Rublev “The Descent into Hell”According to the biblical commandments, after his death, Jesus went to hell and smashed the gates that held everyone who was there. He came there to allow the prisoners there to rise with him. After all, according to the canons, hell is evil, and not only the souls of sinners, but also some of the […]...
34. Description of Peter Bruegel’s Census of BethlehemThe famous canvas, based on the biblical story, was created by Peter Bruegel in 1566. The main theme of the plot reflects the life and life of the people in a social aspect. All the work of the artist of this time interval characterizes the authenticity of what is happening, and the gospel plot masks […]...
35. Description of the painting by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky “New Tale”Every man has gone out of childhood. So the artist Bogdanov-Belsky, born and raised in the village, who loved his fellow villagers greatly, carried this love through his whole life. Many Bogdanov-Belsky was known precisely as a “village artist”, but one should not forget that the author was also a renowned painter, one of whose […]...
36. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Girls in the field”And here Malevich is true to his tradition. Everything seems to be left with his style, but still not quite. The same geometric shapes – only they are woven into the female image. But these images are equipped with excellent color gamut. There is a place for red and black, green and yellow. Yes, almost […]...
37. Description of the painting by Konstantin Korovin “In the garden. Gurzuf “Artist Konstantin Korovin was born into a wealthy merchant family, his grandfather was a merchant of the first guild. However, the family business did not want to continue – the young man was more fascinated by the opportunity to paint. Three trips to Paris caused the artist a great interest in impressionism – almost all […]...
38. Description of the painting by Sergei Gerasimov “Collective farm holiday”Soviet art of the 1930s ceases to be loaded with details. The painters of that time tried to reflect the fast course of life as accurately as possible. S. V. Gerasimov was able to convey the whole atmosphere of the collective farm through his painting “Collective Farm Holiday”, which he wrote in 1937 For the […]...
39. Description of the painting by Nikolay Krymov “In the park”On the canvas, the characters have no faces, it is almost impossible to determine their gender and the goals of what they gathered in this place. Everything is depicted in dark colors and the picture seems deprived of life, light. Instead of lush trees – black trunks, instead of sunlight – twilight, which, most likely, […]...
40. Description of the painting by Victor Vasnetsov “The Sleeping Princess”Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov painted the painting “The Sleeping Princess” in 1926. Currently it belongs to the Moscow House of Vasnetsov. This is one of the works illustrating a fairy tale. The artist caught the moment when the beautiful princess pricked her finger on a sharp spindle and froze in deep oblivion. A magical spell was […]...