Illustration of Valdemar Cossack. Earth Beauty: Women in painting of different directions Painting paintings in Nude style
If you think that all the great artists remained in the past, then you can not even imagine how much you are mistaken. In this article you will learn about the most famous and talented artists of our time. And believe me, their work will be in your memory no less deeply than the work of the maestro from the past eras.
Wojciech Babski.
Wojca Babski is a modern Polish artist. He graduated from studying at the Silesian Polytechnic Institute, but also related to. Recently draws, mostly women. Focusing on the manifestation of emotions, seeks to get as much effect as possible by simple means.
Loves color, but often uses shades of black and gray to achieve the best impression. It is not afraid to experiment with different new technicians. Recently, increasingly gaining popularity abroad, mainly in the UK, where with success sells its works, which can already be found in many private collections. In addition to art, it is interested in cosmology and philosophy. Listens to jazz. Currently lives and works in the city of Katowice.
Warren Chang.
Warren Chang is a modern American artist. Born in 1957 and grew up in Monteree, California, with honors graduated from the College of Design Art Center in Pasaden in 1981, where he received a bachelor's degree in fine arts in the area. Over the next two decades, he worked as an illustrator for various companies in California and New York, before in 2009 to start a career of a professional artist.
Its realistic paintings can be divided into two main categories: biographical interior pictures and paintings depicting working people. His interest in such a manner of painting goes its roots to the artist of the 16th century artist Jan Vermeer, and applies to objects, self-portraits, portraits of family members, friends, students, studio interiors, class and houses. His goal is to create mood and emotions in their realistic paintings using the manipulation of light and the use of muffled colors.
Chang became known after the transition to traditional visual art. Over the past 12 years, he earned a lot of awards and honorary titles, the most prestigious of them - Master Signature from the Association of Artists by America Oil, the largest Oil artists community in the United States. Only one person out of 50, receives the opportunity to get this award. Currently, Warren lives in Monteree and works in his studio, he also teach (known as a talented teacher) at the Academy of Arts San Francisco.
Aurelio Bruni.
Aurelio Bruni is an Italian artist. Bored in the city of Bler, October 15, 1955. He received a diploma in the specialty Scenic in the Institute of Art in Spoleto. As an artist, he is self-taught, as he "erected the house of knowledge" on the foundation laid down at school. Draw oil began at the age of 19. Currently lives and works in Umbria.
The early painting of Bruni goes its roots into surrealism, but over time he begins to focus on the proximity of lyrical romanticism and symbolism, strengthening this combination of exquisite refinement and the purity of his characters. Animate and inanimate objects acquire equal dignity and look, almost, hyperely, but, at the same time, do not hide behind the curtain, but allow you to see the essence of your soul. Multi-faceted and sophistication, sensuality and loneliness, thoughtfulness and fruitfulness are the spirit of Aurelio Bruni, feeding the magnificence of art and harmony of music.
Alekasander Balos.
Alkasander Balos is a modern Polish artist who specializes in the oil area. 1970 was born in Gliwice, Poland, but since 1989 he lives and works in the United States, in the city of Shasta, California.
As a child, he studied art under the leadership of his father Yana, self-taught and sculptor artist, therefore, from an early age, the artistic activity received full support from both parents. In 1989, at the age of eighteen, Balos left Poland in the USA, where his school teacher and part-time artist Katie Gaggliadi prompted Alkassandra to enter an art school. Then Balos received a complete university scholarship in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where he studied painting at Professor Harry Rosina philosophy.
After completing studies in 1995 and the degree of bacheloring Balos moved to Chicago to enroll in school at the School of Fine Art, whose methods are based on the work of Jacques-Louis David. Figurative realism and portrait painting constituted most of the works of Balos in the 90s and early 2000s. Today, Balos uses a human figure in order to emphasize the features and show the shortcomings of human being, without proposing, while there are no decisions.
The plot compositions of his paintings are intended to be independently interpreted by the viewer, only then the canvas will acquire their true temporary and subjective meaning. In 2005, the artist moved to Northern California, since then the subject of his work has significantly expanded and now includes more free painting methods, including abstraction and various multimedia styles, helping to express ideas and ideals of being through painting.
Alyssa Monks.
Alissa Monsx is a modern American artist. Born in 1977, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Began to be interested in painting when she was still a child. He studied at the New School in New York and the Monkler State University, and graduating from the Boston College in 1999, received a bachelor's degree. At the same time, she studied painting at the Academy Lorenzo Medici in Florence.
Then he continued studying the program to the Master's degree in the New York Academy of Art, at the Department of Figurative Art, graduated from 2001. In 2006, she graduated from Fullerton College. For some time I lectured at universities and educational institutions across the country, taught painting in the New York Academy of Art, as well as Monkler's State University and College of the Laima Academy of Arts.
"Using filters, such as glass, vinyl, water and steam, I distort the human body. These filters make it possible to create large areas of abstract design, with eyelash-colored islands through them - parts of the human body.
My paintings are changing a modern look at the already established, traditional poses and gestures of swimming women. They could tell a lot to the attentive viewer about such, it would seem, of course, as well as the use of swimming, dancing, and so on. My characters are pressed against the glass window of the shower cabin, distorting his own body, realizing that there are thereby affect the notorious male look at the naked woman. Thick layers of paint are mixed so that from afar to imitate glass, pair, water and flesh. However, the amazing physical properties of oil paint are becoming obvious. Experimenting with layers of paint and color, I find the moment when abstract strokes are becoming something else.
When I just started drawing a human body, I was immediately fascinated and even became obsessed and thought that I had to make my paintings as realistic as possible. I "confessed" realism until he began to unravel and open contradictions in herself. Now I am investigating the possibilities and potential of the letter manner, where there are representative painting and abstraction - if both styles can coexist in the same time, I will do it. "
Antonio Finelli.
Italian artist - " Observer of Time"- Antonio Finelli was born on February 23, 1985. Currently lives and works in Italy between Rome and Campobasso. His works were exhibited in several galleries in Italy and abroad: Rome, Florence, Novara, Genoa, Palermo, Istanbul, Ankara, New York, can also be found in private and state collections.
Pencil drawings " Time observer"Antonio Phinelli send us to an eternal journey through the inner world of human template and associated with a scrupulous analysis of this world, the main element of which is to pass through the time and the traces applied to them.
Finelli writes portraits of people of any age, gender and nationality, the expressions of whose persons testify to passing through time, the artist hopes to find evidence of the mercability of time on the bodies of their characters. Antonio determines its works by one, common name: "Self-portrait", because in his pencil drawings, he does not simply depict a person, but allows the viewer to contemplate the real results of the passage of time inside a person.
Flaminia Carloni.
Flaming Karloni is an Italian artist 37th, daughter of a diplomat. She has three children. Twelve years lived in Rome, three years in England and France. Received a diploma in the field of art history at the School of Art BD. Then he received a diploma in the specialty restorer works of art. Before finding your calling and completely devote yourself to painting, she worked as a journalist, colorist, designer, actress.
The passion for painting in Flaming has arisen in childhood. Its main environment is oil, because she loves "Coiffer La Pate" and also play with the material. Similar equipment, she learned in the works of the artist Pascal Torya. Flaming is inspired by great masters of painting, such as Baltuse, Hopper, and Francois Legran, as well as various artistic movements: Street Art, Chinese Realism, Surrealism and Realization of the Renaissance. Her favorite artist Caravaggio. Her dream to open the therapeutic force of art.
Denis Chernov.
Denis Chernov is a talented Ukrainian artist, born in 1978 in Sambor, Lviv region, Ukraine. After the end of the Kharkov Art School in 1998, he remained in Kharkov, where he currently lives and works. He also studied at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, the Department of Chart, graduated from it in 2004.
It regularly participates in art exhibitions, at the moment they took place more than sixty, both in Ukraine and abroad. Most of the works of Denis Chernov are stored in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, England, Spain, Greece, France, USA, Canada and Japan. Some works were sold to Christis.
Denis works in a wide range of graphic and scenic techniques. Paintings with a pencil - one of the most beloved methods of painting, the list of topics of his pencil drawings is also very diverse, he writes landscapes, portraits, nude, genre compositions, books illustrations, literary and historical reconstruction and fantasy.
The world history of visual art remembers a lot of amazing cases related to the creation and further adventures of famous canvases. All because real artists live and creativity are too closely connected.
"Creek" Edward Mukka
Year of creation: 1893
Materials: Cardboard, Oil, Pastel, Pastel
Where is: National Gallery,
The famous painting "Creek" of the Norwegian artist-expressionist Edward Minka is a favorite subject of discussion of mystics around the world. One seems to be a cloth predicted the terrible events of the 20th century with his wars, environmental catastrophes and the Holocaust. Others are confident that the picture brings unhappiness and illness to their abusers.
The life of the Mukanka himself is difficult to call a prosperous: he lost many relatives, was repeatedly treated in a psychiatric clinic, never married.
By the way, the painting "Creek" The artist reproduced four times.
There is an opinion that it is the result of a manic depressive psychosis, from which Munch suffered. Anyway, the appearance of a desperate person with a big head, open mouth and hands attached to the face, and today shocks everyone who considers the canvas.
"Great Masturbator" Salvador Dali
Year of creation: 1929
Materials: oil, canvas
Where is: Queen Sofia's Arts Center
The painting "Great Masturbator" was a broad public only after the death of the Master of Phantaja and the most famous surrealist Salvador Dali. The artist kept her in his own collection in the theater-museum Dali in Figueres. It is believed that an unusual canvas can tell a lot about the author's personality, in particular about his painful attitude to sex. However, we can only assume what motives are actually hidden in the picture.
This is akin to the rip out of the rebus: in the center of the picture is depicted looking down the angular profile, not something on the same thing, it was not on the rock on the coast of one Catalan city, and the nude female figure rises in the bottom of the head - a copy of the mistress of the artist Gang. There is also a locust in the picture, which caused the inexplicable fear, and the ants are a symbol of decomposition.
"Family" Egon Shile
Year of creation: 1918
Materials: oil, canvas
Where is: Gallery "Belvedere",
At one time, the beautiful painting of the Austrian artist Egon Shila was called pornography, and the artist was put into prison allegedly for the seduction of a minor.
Such a price was given to the love of the simulator of his teacher. Pictures of SHILE - one of the best examples of expressionism, while they are naturalistic and full of frightening despair.
Teenagers and prostitutes often became models. In addition, the artist was fascinated by himself - his heritage includes many diverse self-portraits. The family of "Family" spier wrote three days before his own death, depicting his pregnant wife who had fallen from the influenza and did not born the child. Perhaps this is not the most strange, but definitely the most tragic work of the painter.
"Portrait of Adeli Blow Bauer" Gustav Clima
Year of creation: 1907
Materials: oil, canvas
Where is: New Gallery,
The history of the most famous picture of the Austrian artist Gustav Clima "Portrait of Adeli Bloch-Bauer" can rightly be called shocking. The wife of the Austrian Sugar Magnade Ferdinand Bloch Bauer became a muse and mistress of the artist. Wanting to take revenge on both of them, a vulnerable husband decided to resort to the original method: he ordered a portrait of his wife from Clima and intimidated him with endless soldiers, forcing hundreds of sketch. In the end, this led to the fact that Klimt lost their interest in his simulator.
Work on the picture lasted for several years, and Adel watched the feelings of her beloved fade. The cunning idea of \u200b\u200bFerdinand was never revealed. Today, the Austrian Mona Lisa is considered to be the national ownership of Austria.
"Black Supermarket Square" Kazimir Malevich
Year of creation: 1915
Materials: oil, canvas
Where is: State Tretyakov Gallery,
Almost a hundred years have passed since the Russian Avant-gardeist Kazimir Malevich has created his famous creation, and disputes and discussions do not stop so far. Appeared in 1915 at the futuristic exhibition "0.10" in the "red corner" intended for the icon of the hall, the picture shocked the public and forever glorified the artist. True, today there is few people know that the supermatic paintings are a free-use painting in which the ball rules the ball, and the black square is not really black and not square.
By the way, one of the versions of the history of the canvas is reading: the artist did not have time to complete the work on the picture, so he was forced to smell the work of black paint, at that moment his friend came into the workshop and exclaimed: "Brilliant!".
"The origin of the world" Gustava Kourba
Year of creation: 1866
Materials: oil, canvas
Where is: Museum Orsay,
The picture of the French artist-realistic Gustava Kourbe was considered exceptionally provocative and more than 120 years old was not known to the general public. A naked woman lying on the bed with stretched legs, and today causes an ambiguous response of the audience. For this reason, in the Museum of Ores, a picture is protected by one of the employees.
In 2013, the French collector announced that she came across in one of the antique Parisian shops on that part of the painting on which the head of the simulator was visible. Experts confirmed the assumption that the artist posed Joanna Hiffernan (Joe). While working on the picture, she consisted in love with the student of Kourbe, the artist James Whistler. The picture provoked their parting.
"Man and woman in front of a bunch of excrement" Joan Miro
Year of creation: 1935
Materials: oil, copper
Where is: Joan Miro Foundation,
Association with horrors of the civil war would arise from a rare viewer when looking at the picture of the Spanish artist and sculptor Joan Miro. But after all, it was the period of the pre-war concern of 1935 in Spain served as the theme of the picture with the promising name "Man and a woman in front of a bunch of excrement." This is a premonition picture.
She depicts a ridiculous "cave" pair, which stretch to each other, but can not move away. Increased genitals, poisonous colors, scattered figures on a dark background - all predicted, according to the artist, approaching tragic events.
Most paintings of Joran Miro - abstraction and surreal work, and the mood passed - joyful.
"Water Lilies" Claude Monet
Year of creation: 1906
Materials: oil, canvas
Where is: Private collections
The cult picture of the French Impressionist Claude Monet "Water Lilies" has bad fame - it is not accidentally called "fire hazard". This series of suspicious coincidence continues to surprise many skeptics. The first case occurred right in the artist's workshop: Monet with friends celebrated the end of work on the picture, as suddenly there was a small fire.
The picture was able to save, and soon it was bought by the owners of the cabaret on Montmartre, but did not pass the month, as the institution also suffered from a strong fire. The next "victim" of the canvas became the Paris Macenate Oscar Schmitz, the Cabinet of which caught fire a year after "water lilies" were hanged. And again the picture managed to survive. This year, a private collector acquired "water lilies" for 54 million dollars.
"Avignon girls" Pablo Picasso
Year of creation: 1907
Materials: oil, canvas
Where is: Museum of Contemporary Art,
"Such a feeling that you wanted to feed us pacles or drink gasoline," said the painting "Avignon girls" a friend Picasso Artist Georges Marriage. The canvas really became scandalous: the audience adored the old, gentle and sad, artist's work, and a sharp transition to cubism caused alienation.
Women's figures with rude male faces and angular hands and legs were too far from an elegant "girl on a bowl."
Friends turned away from Picasso, Matisse was extremely unhappy with the picture. However, it was the "Avignon girls" determined not just the direction of the development of Picasso's creativity, but the future of the visual art as a whole. The initial name of the canvas is "Philosophical Boutinal.
"Portrait of the Son of the Artist" Mikhail Vrubel
Year of creation: 1902
Materials: Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite Pencil, Paper
Where is: State Russian Museum,
The brilliant Russian artist of the 19th-XX century Mikhail Vrubel succeeded in almost all types of fine art. His firstborn Savva appeared on the light with the "hare Lip", which deeply upset the artist. Vrubel depicted a boy on one of his cloths frankly, not trying to hide innate ugliness.
Gentle tones of portrait do not make it serene - it reads shocked. The baby itself is depicted with a strikingly wise, a non-deputy gaze. Shortly after the completion of the work on the picture, the child died. From the moment in the life of the artist, heavily worried the tragedy, began "black" period of disease and madness.
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In art there are eternal topics. One of them is the theme of a woman, the theme of maternity. Each era has its ideal of a woman, the whole history of mankind is reflected in how people saw a woman, what myths surrounded it and helped them. Exact one - in all centuries and times yansky character attracted, attracts and will attract special attention to artists.
Created in portrait art images of women carry a poetic ideal in the harmonic unity of his mental qualities and appearance. According to portraits, we can judge, as the appearance of a woman, the public events, fashion, literature, art and the painting itself affect her mental warehouse.
We present to you a variety of images of women in painting of different directions.
REALISM
The essence of the direction in as much as possible and objective fixation of reality. The birth of realism in painting is most often associated with the works of the French artist Gustava Kourba, who opened its personal exhibition "Pavilion Realism" in Paris in Paris. The opposite of romanticism and academism. In the 1870s, realism was divided into two main directions - naturalism and impressionism. Naturalists called artists who sought as accurate as possible, photographically capture reality.
Ivan Kramskaya "Unknown"
Serov "Girl with Peaches"
Academism
Academism has grown on the external forms of classical art. Academism embodied the traditions of ancient art in which the image of nature is idealized. For Russian Academism of the first half of the XIXVEK, there are elevated topics, high metaphorical style, multi-faceted, multifigiousness and pompousness. Biblical plots, salon landscapes and front portraits were popular. With the plot limitations the theme of the paintings of the work of academicists were distinguished by high technical skills.
Bugro "Pleiad"
Bogro "Mood"
Cabell "Birth of Venus"
IMPRESSIONISM
Style representatives sought the most natural and unbiased to capture the real world in its mobility and variability, transfer their mumbling impressions. French impressionism did not raise philosophical problems. Instead, impressionism focuses on surfaceness, momentum of moment, mood, lighting or visual coal. Their paintings were represented only by the positive sides of their lives, did not violate public problems, they accounted for such problems as hunger, illness, death. Biblical, literary, mythological, historical plots inherent in official Academism were discarded. Flirt plots were taken, dance, staying in a cafe and theater, boat walks, on the beaches and in the gardens. If you judge the pictures of the impressionists, then life is a turn of small holidays, parties, pleasant pastime at the city or in a friendly environment.
Boldini "Moulin Rouge"
Renoir "Portrait Zhanna Samari"
Mane "Breakfast on the grass"
Mayo "Rosabrava"
Lotrek "Woman with an umbrella"
SYMBOLISM
Symbols radically changed not only various types of art, but also the attitude towards it. Their experimental character, desire for innovation, cosmopolitanism became a model for most modern art directions. They used symbols, inexpensive, hints, mystery, mystery. The main mood was often pessimism, gaining to despair. In contrast to other directions in art, symbolism believes the expression of "unattainable", sometimes mystical ideas, eternity and beauty images.
Redon "Ophelia"
Franz Backgrounds "Salome"
Watts "Hope"
Rosseti "Persephone"
Modern
Modern sought to combine the artistic and utilitarian functions of the works created, involve in the sphere of beautiful all spheres of human activity. As a result - interest in applied arts: interior design, ceramics, book graphics. Artists Modern painted inspiration from the art of ancient Egypt and ancient civilizations. The most notable feature of modernity was the rejection of direct angles and lines in favor of more smooth, curved lines. Often artists of Modern took on the basis of their drawings ornaments from the plant world.
Klimt "Portrait of Adelie Bloch-Bauer I"
Climt "Dana"
Climt "Three ages of women"
Fly Fruit
EXPRESSIONISM
Expressionism is one of the most influential artistic movements of the XX century. Expressionism arose as a reaction to an acute crisis of the first quarter of the 20th century, the first world war and subsequent revolutionary movements, the ugliness of bourgeois civilization, which resulted in the desire for irrationality. Pain motifs were used, a scream, the principle of expression began to prevail over the image.
Modigliani. With the help of the bodies and people of women, he tries to penetrate his characters. "I am interested in a human being. The face is the greatest creation of nature. I use it without tired, "he repeated.
Modigliani "Sleeping Nude"
Sew "Woman in black stockings"
CUBISM
Cubism - the modernist flow in visual art (mainly in painting) of the 1st quarter of the 20th century, which has advanced a formal problem of designing a volumetric form on a plane, minimizing the image-cognitive functions of art. The occurrence of cubism is traditionally dating 1906-1907 and associated with the work of Pablo Picasso and George Marriage. In general, cubism was a break with the tradition of realistic art that established in the Renaissance era, including the creation of the visual illusion of the world on the plane. Cubists' creativity was a challenge of the standard beautifulness of salon art, foggy allegoryrs of symbolism, asylight of impressionist painting. Entering the circle of rebellious, anatomy, individualistic currents, cubism stood out among them to color asceticity, to simple, weighty, tangible forms and elementary motifs.
Picasso "Crying Woman"
Picasso "Playing on Mandolina"
Picasso "Avignon girls"
SURREALISM
The main concept of surrealism, surreality - Combining sleep and reality. For this, the surrealists were offered an absurd, controversial combination of naturalistic images by collage and move the object from an uneximiced space into a artistic, thanks to which the item opens from an unexpected side, they do not have the properties not noticed outside the artistic context. Surrealists were inspired by the radical left ideology, but they proposed the revolution to begin with their consciousness. Art threw them the main tool of liberation. This direction has developed under the great influence of Freud's psychoanalysis. Surrealism was rooted in symbolism and was originally subject to the influence of symbolist artists as Gustave Moro and Odilon Redon. Many of the popular artists were surrealists, including Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Alberto Dzhacometti.
Jill Elvgren (Gil Elvgren) (1914-1980) was the main PIN-AP by the artist of the twentieth century. For all his professional activities, which began in the mid-1930s and lasted more than forty years, he proved himself as an obvious favorite among collectors and fans of PIN-APA worldwide. And although Jil Elvgren is considered mainly pin-up with an artist, he deserves the title of a classic American illustrator who was able to embrace various spheres of commercial art.
25 years of work for Coca-Cola's advertising helped him establish himself as one of the great illustrators in this area. Advertising Coca-Cola included the images of "Girls Elvgrena" in the style of Pin-up, most of these illustrations reflected typical American families, children, adolescents - ordinary people dealing with everyday affairs. During the Second World War and the war in Korea, Elvgren even painted illustrations on a military theme for Coca-Cola, some of which became "icons" in America.
The work of Elvgren for Coca-Cola reflected the American dream of a safe, comfortable life, and some illustrations for stories in magazines reflected hopes, fears and joy of their readers. These images were published in the 1940x-1950s GG in a number of well-known American magazines, such as McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Woman's Home Companion. Along with Coca-Cola, Elvgren also worked with Orange Crush, Schlitz Beer, Sealy Mattress, General Electric, Sylvania and Napa Auto Parts.
Elvgren stood out not only with his paintings and advertising graphics - he was also a professional photographer who owned the camera as deftly as a brush. But his energy and talent did not stop at what was achieved: in addition, he was a teacher, whose disciples later became famous artists.
Even in early childhood, Elvgren inspired pictures of famous illustrators. Every week, he pulled out sheets and covers with images that he liked, as a result, collected a huge collection, which left his mark on the work of a young artist.
Many artists, such as Felix Octavius \u200b\u200bCarr Darley (1822-1888), were influenced by Elvgrena (1822-1888), the first artist who managed to refute the superiority of English and European schools on American commercial art; Norman Rockwell (1877-1978), with which Elvgren met in 1947, and this meeting marked the beginning of a long friendship; Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), from under the brushes of which the ideal of the girl was released, which combined the "Next-Door" and "Girl of Dreams" (Girl-Of-Your-Dreams) , Howard Chandler Christy, John Henry HinterMeister (1870-1945) and others.
Elvgren tightly studied the work of these classic artists, as a result, which created the basis for which the further development of the art of Pin-AP was based.
So, Jill Elvgren was born on March 15, 1914, grew up in Sant-Paul-Minneapolis. His parents, Alex and Goldie Elvgren (Alex and Goldie Elvgren) were store owners in the city center, where they sold wallpaper and paint.
After graduating from the senior school, Jil wanted to become an architect. Parents approved this desire, as they noticed his talent for drawing when at the age of eight years, the boy was eliminated from school classes due to the fact that he painted the fields of textbooks. In the end, Elvgren entered the University of Minnesota to study architecture and design, in parallel visiting art courses at the Minneapolis Art Institute. It was there that he realized that the drawing was interested in it much more than the design of buildings.
In the autumn of the same year, Elvgren married Janet Cummins. And so, for the new year, newlyweds are moving to Chicago, where there were many opportunities for artists. Of course, they could choose New York, but Chicago was closer and safer.
Upon arrival in Chicago, Jil tried to do everything for the development of his career. He enters the prestigious American Academy of Arts in the center of the city, where he became friends with Bill Mosby, an experienced artist and a teacher who was always proud that Jill developed under his leadership.
When Jill Elvgren came to the Academy, of course, he was talented, but did not stand out from most students who studied there. But from others there was only one distinguished: he firmly knew what he wanted. Most of all he dreamed of becoming a good artist. For two years of study, he mastered the course designed for three and a half: he visited classes at night, in the summer. In his free time, he always painted.
He was a good student and worked more than others. Jill attended all courses on which he could get at least some knowledge of painting. For two years he made phenomenal progress and became one of the best graduates of the Academy.
Jil is a stunning artist with whom few may be compared. Strong on the physique, it looks like a football player; His large hands are not at all like the artist's hands: the pencil literally "dries" in them, but the accuracy and painstaking of his movements can only be compared with the skill of the surgeon.
During training at the Jil Institute never stopped working. His illustrations have already decorated brochures and magazines of the Academy, in which he studied.
There, Jill met many artists who became his friends for life, for example: Harold Anderson, Joyce Baltrin (Joyce Ballantyne).
In 1936, Jil and his wife returns to his hometown, where he opens his studio. Shortly before that, he performs his first paid job to order: the cover for the magazine mod, on which a handsome man is depicted, dressed in double breasted jacket and bright summer pants. Immediately after Elvgen sent his work to the customer, the director of the company called him to congratulate and order half a dozen covers.
Then another interesting order was received, which was to draw five twins Dionne (Dionne Quintuplets), the birth of which became a sensation for the media. The client was Brown and Biglow - the largest publisher engaged in the release of calendars. This work was printed in the calendars of 1937-1938, which were sold out with millipine circulations. Since then, Elvgren began to draw the most famous girls in America, which brought him a huge success. Elvgrena is beginning to invite other companies to cooperate, for example, BROWN AND BIGLOW - LOUIS F. DOW CALENDAR COMPANY. The artist's work began to be printed in booklets, playing cards and even match boxes. Then many of his paintings on the full size made for Royal Crown Soda appeared in grocery stores. The same year becomes especially important for Elvgrena, since he and his wife born their firstborn, Karen.
Elvgren continues to play orders and together with his family decides to return to Chicago. Soon he met Haddon Sandblom (1899-1976), which was an idol for him. Sandbl has a huge impact on the work of Elvgrena.
Thanks to Sandcloma, Elvgren became an artist for Coca-Cola advertising. Until now, these works are icons in the history of Amerkan illustration.
Immediately after the bombardment, Pearl Harbor Elvgreen offered to draw paintings for a military campaign. His first drawing for this series was printed in 1942 in the magazine Good Housekeeping under the title "She knows what" Freedom "is actually" and depicted a girl dressed in the officer's uniform of the Red Cross.
In 1942, Gyl Jr. was born, and in 1943 his wife was already waiting for the third child. The family of Elvgren grew, however, as his business. Jil is engaged in advertising projects and also sells his old work. He enjoyed life, as he himself was already a respected artist and a happy family man. When the third child was born in his family, Elvgren had already received about $ 1,000 per picture, i.e. About $ 24,000 per year, which at that time was a huge amount. This meant that Jil could become the highest paid illustrator in the United States and naturally, take a special place in Brown and Bigelow.
Before starting to work exclusively for Brown and Bigelow, he accepted the first (and only) order from the Philadelphian company Joseph Gaver. In order to avoid problems with Brown and Bigelow, he accepted this proposal provided that the picture will not be signed. For this work entitled "Girl of the Dream" he received $ 2500, because She was the largest of those that he ever painted (101.6cm x 76.2cm).
Cooperation with Brown and Bigelow allowed Elvgen to continue to draw for Coca-Cola, however, it could work for any other companies that did not have conflicts with Brown and Bigelow. Thus, in 1945, cooperation launched for more than thirty years began for Elvgrena and Brown and Bigelow.
Brown and Bigel Director Charles Ward made the name Elvgren recognizable. He also offered Jill to make Pin-AP in the style of Nu, for which the artist agreed with great enthusiasm. The nude blond nymph on the beach was depicted on this picture, under the lilac blue light of the moon in lilac colors. This illustration was released in a deck of cards, together with the works of another artist - Zoî Mozert. Next year, Ward ordered Elvgren another nude pin-up for the next cards, but this time fully fulfilled with Elvesgren alone. This project broke the Brown and Bigelow sales records and wore the name "Mais Oui by Gil Elvgren".
The first three PIN-AP project for Brown and Bigelow became the company's bestsellers after a couple of weeks. These images were shortly used for playing cards.
By the end of the decade, Elvgren became the most successful artist Brown and Bigelow, thanks to the media of his work were widely known to the public, in journals they even published articles about him. Among the companies with which he worked was Coca-Cola, Orange Crush, Schlitz, Red Top Beer, Ovaltine, Royal Crown Soda, Campana Balm, General Tire, Sealy Mattress, Serta Perfect Sleep, Napa Auto Parts, Detzler Automotive Finishes, Frankfort Distilleries, Four Roses Blended Whisky, General Electric Appliance and Pangburn's Chocolates.
Faced with such demand for his work, Elvgren wondered over the opening of his own studio, because there were already quite a few artists who admired his work and the so-called "mayonnaise painting" (so called Sandbloma and Elvgren's style because the paints looked "cream" and Smooth as silk). But heighing all "for" and "against", he left this idea.
Jill Elvgren traveled a lot, got acquainted with many influential people. His salary in Brown and Bigelow has changed: if earlier he paid $ 1,000 for the canvas, now he received $ 2500 and painted 24 pictures per year, plus he received interest from magazines where his illustrations were printed. He moved with his family to a new home in the suburb of Winnetka, where he began to build his studio in the attic, the presence of which allowed him to work even more productive.
Jil had a magnificent taste, besides he was a sharp. His work is always interesting composition, color schemes, and carefully thought-out poses and gestures make them alive and exciting. His paintings sincere. Jill felt the evolution of female beauty, which was very important. Therefore, Elvgren was always in demand by customers.
In 1956, Jill moved to Florida family. He was completely satisfied with the new place of residence. There he opened an excellent studio, where Bobby Toombs studied, rightfully became a recognized artist. He said that Elvgren was an excellent teacher who taught him thoughtfully to enjoy all his skills.
In Floord, Gil drew a huge number of portraits, among his models were Myrna Loy, Arlene Dahl, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, Kim Novak. In 1950-1960, each starting model or actress would like Elvgren to draw a girl by her likeness, which would later be printed on calendars and posters.
Elvgren was always in finding new ideas for his paintings. Although many of his friends artists helped him in this, most of all he relied on her family: he discussed his ideas with his wife and children.
Elvgren worked in the circle of artists, whom he taught or, on the contrary, who studied; who were his friends with whom he had a lot in common. Among them were Harry Anderson, Joyce Ballantyne, Al Buell, Matt Clark, Earl Gross, Ed Henry, Charles Kingham and others.
Jill Elvgren lived in full life. Like an avid tourist, he loved fishing and hunting. He could be in the pool for hours, was fond of racing cars, he also shared the passion for his children with collecting ancient weapons.
Years later, Elvgren had many assistants in the studio, most of whom later became successful artists. When Elvgren was forced to deny companies in collaboration due to a huge amount of work, the art director agreed to wait for a year, and even more, just to Jil worked on them.
But all this success of Gila in 1966 overshadowed the terrible tragedy, which fell his family: Jilan's wife, Janet, died of cancer. After that, he even looked at the job. Its popularity remains unchanged, he does not need to worry about anything, except for the result of his work. It was the best career period Elvgrena, if not the death of his wife.
Elvgren's ability to transmit female beauty was unsurpassed. During the drawing, he usually sat in a chair on the wheels so that it was easy to move and look at the drawing from different angles, and a large mirror behind him allowed him to have a general idea of \u200b\u200bthe film. The main thing was the girls in his work: he preferred the models of 15-20 years, who were just beginning their careers, as they had the immediacy that disappears with experience. When he was asked about his technique, he said that he added his strokes: lengthens his legs, increases his chest, narrows her waist, makes her lips more plump, eyes - more expressive, nose - drunken, thereby giving models greater attractiveness. Elvgren always carefully worked out his ideas from beginning to end: Pick up the model, props, lighting, composition, even hairstyle was very important. After all, he photographed the scene and proceded to drawing.
A distinctive feature of Jil's works was that looking at the paintings, it seemed that the girls were about to come to them, say hello or offer a cup of coffee. They looked pretty and complete enthusiasm. Always charming, armed friendly smile, they even during the war they gave the soldiers of power and hope to return to their girls home.
Many artists dreamed of drawing the way Elvgren did, his talent and success were admired.
Every year he painted everything with more ease and professionalism, his early paintings seem more "tough" compared to later. He reached the vertex of skill in his business.
On February 29, 1980, Jill Elvgren, a man who dedicated himself to please people with his work, died from cancer, aged 65 years. His son Drake found the last unfinished, but nevertheless the magnificent picture for Brown and Bigelow. Three decades have passed since Elvgrena death, but his art still lives. Without a doubt, Elvgran will go down in history, as an artist who made a great contribution to the American art of the twentieth century.
The painting genres appeared, recruited popularity, fade, new, inside the existing began to allocate subspecies. This process will not stop while there is a person and is trying to capture the world around him, whether nature, buildings or other people.
Previously (up to 19 century) there was a division of painting genres on the so-called "high" genres (FR. Grand Genre) and "Low" genres (FR. Petit Genre). This division arose in the 17th century. And it was based on what subject and plot were depicted. In this regard, the high genres was attributed: battle, allegorical, religious and mythological, and low-portrait, landscape, still life, animalism.
The division on the genres is pretty conditionally, because In the picture, elements of two or more genres can be present at the same time.
Animalism, or animal genre
Animalism, or an animal genre (from lat. Animal - Animal) - a genre in which an image of an animal is the main motive. We can say that this is one of the most ancient genres, because Pictures and figures of birds and animals were present in the lives of already primitive people. For example, on a well-known picture of I.I. Shishkin "Morning in the Pine Forest" Nature is depicted by the artist themselves, and the bears - completely different, just specializing in the image of animals.
I.I. Shishkin "Morning in a pine forest" As subspecies can be allocated Ippic genre (from Greek. Hippos - a horse) - a genre in which the image of the horse is the image of a horse.
NOT. Crickets "Horse in the stable" Portrait
Portrait (from Fr. words Portrait) - a picture on which the central is a man or group of people. The portrait reports not only the external similarity, but also reflects the inner world and broadcasts the feelings of the artist towards a person whose portrait he writes.
I.E. Repin portrait of Nicholaii Portrait genre is divided into individual (image of one person), group (image of several people), by image character - on the frontwhen a person is depicted in full growth on a noticeable architectural or landscape background and chamberWhen a person is depicted on breasts or a belt on a neutral background. A group of portraits, united by any sign, forms an ensemble, or a portrait gallery. Examples can be portraits of members of the royal family.
Separately stands out self-portraitwhere the artist depicts himself.
K. Bryullov Self-portrait The portrait is one of the oldest genres - the first portraits (sculptural) were already present in Ancient Egypt. Such a portrait performed as part of the cult of the afterlife and was the "twin" of a person.
Scenery
Landscape (from fr. Paysage - country, terrain) - a genre in which the central is an image of nature - rivers, forests, fields, sea, mountains. In the landscape, the main point is, of course, the plot, but it is equally important to pass the movement, the life of the surrounding nature. On the one hand, nature is beautiful, causes admiration, and on the other - it is quite difficult to reflect it in the picture.
K. Monet "Field of Makov from Argentei" The subspecies of the landscape is seascape, or Marina (From Fr. Marine, Ital. Marina, from Lat. Marinus - Sea) - An image of marine battery, sea or other events unfolding at sea. Bright representative of Marinists - K.A. Aivazovsky. It is noteworthy that many details of this picture artist wrote in memory.
I.I. Aivazovsky "Ninth Val" However, often artists seek the sea to draw from nature, for example, W.Terner to write a picture "Blizzard. A steamer at the entrance to the harbor gives a distress signal, hitting in shallow water, "spent 4 hours tied on the captain's bridge of a ship sailing into the storm.
W. Turner "Blizzard. Steamer at the entrance to the harbor gives a distress signal, hitting in shallow water "Water element is also depicted on the river landscape.
Separately allocate cityscapeIn which the main object of the image is the city streets and buildings. A variety of urban landscape is VERITE - An image of a city landscape in the form of panorama, where the scale and proportion are necessarified.
A. Kanaletto "San Marco Square"Different types of landscape are distinguished rural, industrial and architectural. In architectural painting, the main topic is the image of the architectural landscape, i.e. buildings, facilities; Includes an image of interiors (indoor indoors). Sometimes Interior (from fr. intérieur - internal) stand out as a separate genre. Another genre is distinguished in architectural painting - Capricheco (from Ital. Capriccio, Caprice, whim) is an architectural landscape fantasy.
Still life
Still Life (from Franz. Nature Morte - Dead Nature) - a genre dedicated to the image of inanimate objects that are placed in a common environment and form a group. Still life appeared in 15-16 centuries. However, as a separate genre was formed at 17 V.
Despite the fact that the word "still life" is translated as dead nature, in the paintings of flowers, fruits, fish, game, dishes, - everything looks "like a living", i.e. as a present. From the moment of its appearance to this day, still life is an important genre in painting.
K. Monet "Vase with flowers" As a separate subspecies can be allocated Vanitas (from Lat. Vanitas - vanity, vanity) - a genre of painting, in which a central place in the picture occupies a human skull, the image of which is designed to resemble the bustle and fragmentation of human life.
The picture of F. de Champane presents three symbols of the fraternity of being - life, death, time through the images of tulip, skull, hourglass.
Historical genre
The historic genre is a genre in which important events and social phenomena of the past or present are depicted in the paintings. It is noteworthy that the picture can be devoted not only to actually occurring events, but also events from mythology or for example, described in the Bible. This genre is very important for history both for the history of individual peoples and states and humanity as a whole. In the paintings, the historical genre is inseparable from other species of genres - portrait, landscape, battle genre.
I.E. Repin "Cossacks write a letter to Turkish Sultan" 
K. Bryullov "Last Day Pompeii" Battle genre
Battle genre (from Franz. Bataille - Battle) - a genre in which the paintings of which are depicting the culmination of battle, military actions, a moment of victory, scenes from military life. For battle painting, the image is characterized by a painting of a large number of people.
A.A. Deineka "Defense of Sevastopol" Religious genre
Religious genre is a genre in which the paintings are the main storyline - biblical (scenes from the Bible and Gospel). The subject refers to a religious and iconography, their difference is that the pictures of religious content are not involved in the services held, and for the icon it is the main purpose. Iconography Translated from Greek. means "prayer image". This genre was limited to the strict framework and the laws of writing paintings, because It is called up not to display reality, but to transfer the idea of \u200b\u200bGod's start, in which artists are looking for an ideal. In Russia, the iconography reaches a heyday in 12-16 centuries. The most famous names of the icon painters are Feofan Greek (frescoes), Andrei Rublev, Dionysius.
A. Rublev "Trinity" As a transitional stage from icon painting to a portrait stands out Parsuna (Dismist. From Lat. Persona - Personality, Essential).
Parsuna Ivan Grozny. author unknown Household genre
Pictures depict scenes of everyday life. Often the artist writes about those moments of life, the contemporary of which he is. Distinctive features of this genre is the realism of paintings and the simpleness of the plot. The picture can reflect customs, traditions, the system of the everyday life of this or that nation.
Household painting includes such famous paintings as "Burlaki on the Volga" I. Repin, Troika V. Perova, "unequal marriage" V. Pukireva.
I. Repin "Burlaki on the Volga" Milno mythological genre
The epic and mythological genre. The word myth comes from Greek. "Mythos", which means legend. The paintings depict the events of legends, epics, legends, ancient Greek myths, ancient legends, plots of works of folklore.
P. Veronese "Apollo and Mariji" Allegoric genre
Allegoric genre (from Greek. Allegoria - allegory). Pictures are written so that they have a hidden meaning. Ideas and concepts are lovely, invisible to the eye (power, good, evil, love) are transmitted through images of animals, people, other living beings with such characteristics that have characteristics that have symbolism already fixed in the consciousness of people, and help to understand the general meaning of the work.
L. Jordano "Love and Vices Disarmed Justice" Pastoral (FR. Pastorale - Shephealth, Rural)
Genre of painting, chanting and poeticizing simple and peaceful rural life.
F. Bush "Autumn Pastoral" Caricature (from Ital.Caricare - exaggerate)
The genre in which, when creating an image, consciously applies a comic effect by exaggerating and sharpening the features, manners of behavior, clothing, etc. The purpose of the caricature is to insult, in contrast, for example, from the cartoon (from FR. Charge), whose goal is to just be fun. Close with the term "caricature" such concepts as a lubok, grotesque are connected.
NU (from FR. NU - Nude, Rounded)
The genre, in whose paintings depict a naked human body, most often - female.
Titian Venera Venus Urbinskaya Fooling, or thromble (from fr. trompe-L'œil -optical illusion)
Genre, characteristic features of which are special techniques that create an entity and allowing the edge between reality and the image, i.e. The deceptive impression that the object is three dimens, whereas it is two-dimensional. Sometimes a snap is isolated as a subspecies of still life, but sometimes depicted in this genre and people.
Pen Borrel del Camasu "Running from Critics" For the completeness of the perception of the debris, it is advisable to consider them in the original, because Reproduction is incapable of passing fully the effect that is the image of the artist.
Jacopo de Barberry "Partridge and Iron Gloves" Plot-thematic picture
Mixing traditional genres of painting (domestic, historical, battle, landscape, etc.). In a different way, this genre is called a figure composition, its characteristic features: a major role is played by a person, the availability of action and socially significant idea, the relationship (conflict of interests / characters) and psychological accents are also known.
V. Surikov "Boyaryna Morozova"