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Natalia Goncharova: the unknown side of the famous beauty
Pushkin and Goncharova are the same identity as day and night, yin and yang, black and white. Today, with the discovery of new archival materials, there is an opportunity for a deeper study of their relationships.
The horses are red, but not dappled
One of the most striking examples of my collection of paintings is a series of stamps dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.
The tale of the Sleeping Beauty
Believe it or not, it was like this. In 2001, a modest engineer Taute, who does not differ in special knowledge in the field of painting, but has an irresistible craving for beauty, bought a beautiful drawing on the market for 73 Ecuadorian pence (75 Russian rubles).
Pearls to your feet
Beloved, lovely, the only ones - those for whom loving men are ready to throw the whole world at their feet and a bouquet of flowers to boot, beautiful ladies from time immemorial have stirred the hearts of their ardent fans.
Jackson Pollock: inside the painting
'I'm an artist, I see it that way! Jackson Pollock, a young American avant-garde artist, exclaimed and began to spray paint in large quantities on the canvas lying on the floor.
Claude Monet: impressions on the other side of the canvas
It is today we rave about the paintings of French impressionist Claude Monet.
Precocious masterpieces
'Only cats will be born quickly' ‒ the famous phrase of Ostap Bender was challenged by the popular Norwegian artist Espen Olsen Sotervik. And he began to draw pictures. But not just in oils or watercolors.
How to make and spend $1.4 million in 10 minutes
Or rather, not to the wind, but to the trash can. It was there that the painting of the British street art artist Banksy 'The Girl with the Ball'was sold under the hammer at a London auction.
Modern technologies in the service of art
Humanity is taking leaps and bounds towards its future, using a variety of adaptations that have become available in the process of evolution.
Ladies prefer stoats
Even young and unmarried Italian girls prefer the glorious fur-bearing animals of the marten family.
Frida Kahlo: the bitter beauty of suffering
Frida Kahlo was often called a female follower of Salvador Dali, but she believed that her work was based not on ephemeral allusions of Surrealists, but on the personal pain of loss and betrayal.
Pointless eternal rest Kazimir Malevich
Of course for those who are more close to the classical canons of painting, the paintings of Kazimir Malevich seems kind of stupid nonsense, aggressive degenerative daubs.