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Pimen Orlov: As an apprentice, the painter became a student of Briullov and one of the best European portrait painters
The history of Russian art knows many names of artists who came from the common people. One of these is the brilliant Russian portrait painter Pimen Nikitich Orlov, a native…

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Funny winter paintings of the Dutchman Anton Pick, which will give New Year's mood
The anticipation of the New Year holidays, which in childhood always arose by itself, over time, many of us dulled. And if the pre-Christmas mood does not come to you,…

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City streets and rural expanse on warm watercolors by a Croatian artist
“In my works, I try to achieve balance and harmony between each object, color and mood, so that visually all this arouses great interest and emotion in the viewer, making…

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“Marriage takes away hope”: As an artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker was looking for a balance between family and creativity

At the end of the 19th century, the inhabitants of the German village of Worpswede only said that they were about the eccentric artists who settled there. Young men and women wandered around with their sketchbooks around Worpswede, bringing stunted birches, small rivers and rotten foliage to the canvas. The canvases of one of them, Otto Moderzon, were seen at the exhibition by a young artist – Paula Becker – and this completely turned her life upside down. Continue reading →

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Seven Betrayals of Ivan Mazepa: Brilliant Strategist or Cunning Adventurer?

Reviews of this historical figure to this day resemble a swing with a large amplitude – from plus to minus and vice versa. Disputes do not subside both in the scientific community and at the level of public understanding of the role of Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa in the history of Russia and Ukraine. One thing can be stated unequivocally – it was an extraordinary person, in front of the bright colors of which artistic fiction of works about Mazepa Ryleev, Pushkin, Byron and Hugo fade. Continue reading →

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5 brilliant creators who went down in history and died in poverty
It seems to us that genius itself is the key to success, and that people who have become classics in any kind of art should swim in success in life.…

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Secrets of self-portraits of famous artists
Self-portrait in most cases - a tool of narcissism, an attempt to leave your image in eternity. But if a genius takes over, his image on the canvas can turn…

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From petroglyphs to the drawings of the great Pushkin: History of portrait profile
The profile that in the modern world is associated primarily with self-presentation in the Internet space, in its original meaning of a half-turn, silhouette is almost the same age as…

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“Nu” in Soviet style: How many are asked today for the social realism of Alexander Deineka on the global art market?
After the teleconference in 1986, Leningrad - Boston, the whole world is finding out that there is nothing forbidden in the USSR, what happens between a man and a woman,…

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