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Fairytale illustrations by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - the best British Victorian watercolourist
The Victorian era gave the world fantastic stories about elves and fairies, the movement of the Pre-Raphaelites, a return to medieval images and ideals. The last representative of this Victorian…

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The stolen masterpieces: Famous paintings whose whereabouts are still unknown
The paintings of the great masters are not only artistic, but also quite measurable in monetary terms, value, and therefore are always in the focus of the robbers. Some of…

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"Who is b ** Jackson Pollock?": 3 cases when people found masterpieces among the trash
Which of us did not dream of finding among the grandfather rubble a masterpiece worth millions? But, let's admit, so few are lucky - and such lucky ones, most often,…

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Why the picture of John Millet “Christ in the parental home” caused a scandal and the beginning of a new direction in art

The picture in which Christ and his family were depicted as “ordinary people” caused a once-great resonance in English society. Many considered the excessive realism inappropriate and even “disgusting.” But the young artist who created this work had his own motives for that – and time has shown that the calculation was justified.

Conquer the Academy of Arts and start a rebellion against its foundations

The author of the picture, which caused an extremely stormy resonance in English society, was John Everett Millet, who was born in Southampton in 1829. He was considered a young genius – from the age of nine he showed brilliant abilities in drawing, and from eleven became the youngest student of the Royal Academy of Arts in its entire history. Continue reading →

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"The Secret of Things" in the paintings of Rene Magritte, who wanted to "make everyday life less dreary"
Unfinished painting by William Merritt Chase Leaving the life of a brilliant artist is always a big loss for art. Unfinished works become a symbol of all that the artist…

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Innovators, court portrait painters and scandalous people: 10 famous artists who conquered the world
Caravaggio, Malevich, Picasso, Levitan ... When it comes to the famous artist, then, as a rule, come to mind the names of men who worked at the easel in different…

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What was the fate of “Big Sue”, which posed Freud’s grandson for the scandalous paintings that made him a millionaire
Lucian Freud and Sue Tilly: The Story of a Scandalous Muse. If the fame of the artists could be measured in kilograms, then the scales of Lucien Freud (yes, that…

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What riddles did the Flemish master encrypt in his paintings?
The paintings written by the so-called Flemish author are distinguished by the fact that in trying to unravel whose brush each of his creations belongs to, one has to be…

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