Works of art that know everything often keeps unknown fascinating stories.

Kazimir Malevich was a sixth artist who drew a black square, Shishkin wrote his "morning in a pine forest" in collaboration, Dali had a serious psychosexual injury, and Pablo Picasso survived after a bold answer to the gestapovats. We admire the beauty of the greatest cloths, but the stories that have happened before, during or after writing masterpieces, often remain outside of our attention. And completely in vain. Sometimes such stories allow you to better understand the artist or just surprised the fancy life of life and creativity.

"Black Square" Malevich is one of the most famous and discussed works of art - not such an innovation.

Artists experimented with black "solid", starting with the XVII century. The first tightly black work of art called "Great Darkness" wrote Robert Fladd in 1617, Bertal followed him in 1843 and his work "View on La Hougue (under the cover of the night)". More than two hundred years. And then almost without breaks - the "Twilight History of Russia" Gustava Dore in 1854, "Negro's night fight in the basement" Paul Bilhold in 1882, quite already plagiarism "Battle of blacks in a cave of deep at night" for the authorship of Alphonse Alla. And only in 1915, Kazimir Malevich presented his "black suprematic square" to the public, this is how the picture is completely called. And it is his picture known to everyone, while other familiar knows the historians of the arts. Malevich himself drew at least four versions of his "black suprematic square", differing in the pattern, texture and color in the hope of finding absolute "lack of oblivion" and flight of forms.

"Creek", Edward Munch

As in the case of the "black square" in the world there are four versions of "Cry". Two options are written by oil and two pastels. It is believed that Munk, who suffered by manic-depressive psychosis, wrote it several times in attempts to relyze all the suffering that covered His soul. And it is possible that the strange teaching of the unbearable flour of the little people would be more if the artist did not lay down in the clinic. After the course of treatment, he never tried to reproduce his "cry" who became cult.

"Gernika", Pablo Picasso

The huge cloth-fresco "Gernika", written by Picasso in 1937, talks about the tax of the volunteer division of Luftwaffe to the city of Herront, as a result of which the sixdiest city was completely destroyed. The picture was written literally for the month - the first days of work on the picture Picasso worked for 10-12 hours and already in the first sketches you could see the main idea. This is one of the best illustrations of the nightmare of fascism, as well as human cruelty and grief. "Gernika" presents scenes of death, violence, atrocities, suffering and helplessness, without specifying their direct reasons, but they are obvious. And the most interesting moment in connection with this picture occurred in 1940, when Picasso was summoned to Gestapo in Paris. "Did you do it?", A fascists asked him. "No, you did it."

"Great Masturbator", Salvador Dali

In the picture with strange and impulse, even for our time, the title is actually there is no challenge to society. The artist actually portrayed his subconscious, confessed in front of the audience. On the canvas depicted his spouse Gala, which he passionately loved; a locust, which he was also afraid; Fragment of a man with chopped knees, ants and other symbols of passion, fear and disgust. The origins of this picture (but first of all the origins of his strange disgust and at the same time traction to sex) lie in the fact that in childhood Salvador Dali looked through the book about venereal diseases, randomly left his father.

The historical canvas, the narrative of the viewer about the dramatic moment in the history of our country, in fact, was inspired by not so much the fact of the murder of the Son and the heir to the king of John Vasilyevich, how much the murder of Alexander II terrorists-revolutionary, and the most unexpected - Corrida in Spain. The artist wrote about what he saw: "Unfortunate, live death, murders and blood make up to themselves ... And I, infected, probably, this bloody, on arrival home, right now began behind the bloody scene."

"Morning in a pine forest", Ivan Shishkin

A masterpiece, familiar to each Soviet child for breathtakingly delicious and scarce candies, belongs to Peru not only Shishkin. Many artists who were friendly among themselves often resorted to the "help of a friend", and Ivan Ivanovich, had a whole life with landscapes, feared that touching bears would not work with him as it was necessary. Therefore, Shishkin appealed to the familiar animalist artist Konstantin Savitsky. Savitsky painted hardly not the best bears in the history of Russian painting, and the Tretyakov commanded her surname from the canvas, because everything in the picture "since the plan and ending with the fulfillment, everything speaks about the manner of painting, about the creative method for Shishkin."

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Ancient Roman tragedy, who has become Triumph Carl Bryullov

On December 23, 1799, Karl Brullov was born. The son of the sculptor of the French origin of the Bullet Field, Karl was one of the seven children in the family. His brothers Paul, Ivan and Fedor also became painters, and Brother Alexander - Architect. However, the most famous was Karl, who wrote the cloth "Last Day Pompeii" in 1833 - the main work of his life. "Culture.rf" remembered how it was created by the canvas.

Karl Bromlov. Self-portrait. 1836.

History of creation

The picture was written in Italy, where in 1822 the artist went to a pensioner trip from the Imperial Academy of Arts for four years. But he lived there for 13 years.

The plot tells about the ancient Roman tragedy - the death of the ancient city of Pompeii, located at the foot of Vesuvia: August 24, 79 n. e. The eruption of the volcano took the lives of two thousand inhabitants.

In 1748, the Military Engineer Rockke de Alcubierre began archaeological excavations at the place of the tragedy. Opening Pompeii became a sensation and reflected in the work of different people. So, in 1825, the opera Giovanni Pacini appeared, and in 1834 - the historic Roman of the Englishman Edward Bullver-Litton, dedicated to the death of Pompeii.

Brullov first visited the site of excavations in 1827. Going to the ruins, a 28-year-old artist and did not suspect that this trip would be a fateful for him: "You can not pass these ruins, without feeling in yourself some completely new feeling, forcing everything to forget, except the terrible incident with the SIM city", "the artist wrote.

The feelings that Karl Brullov experienced on the excavations did not leave him. So the idea of \u200b\u200bthe canvas on the historical theme was born. Working on the plot, the painter studied archaeological and literary sources. "I took this scenery from nature, not retreating at all and not adding, standing to the city gate back to see the part of Vesuvia as the main reason.". Italians became models for characters - descendants of the ancient residents of Pompeii.

At the junction of classicism and romanticism

In this work, Bryullov is not a traditional classicist, but an artist of the romantic direction. So, his historical plot is devoted not to one hero, but the tragedies of the whole people. And as a plot, he chose not an idealized image or an idea, but a real historical fact.

True, the composition of the Broullov painting builds in the traditions of classicism - as a cycle of individual episodes enclosed in a triangle.

In the left part of the painting on the second plan, several people are depicted on the steps of a large building of the tomb of the scow. A woman looks straight on the viewer, in which horror is read in the eyes. And behind it - an artist with a drawer of paints on the head: This is a self-portrait of the bullov, who worries the tragedy along with his characters.

Closer to the viewer - a married couple with children, which is trying to escape from the lava, and in the foreground the woman presses his daughters ... Next to her - the Christian priest who has already reserved his fate and because of calm. In the depths of the picture, we see the pagan Roman priest who is trying to escape, carrying ritual values. Here, Bryullov hints at the fall of the ancient pagan world of Romans and the offensive of the Christian era.

In the right side of the painting on the second plan, the rider is depicted on a horse, which stood on the rap. And closer to the viewer - the groom embraced by horror, which is trying to keep his bride on her hands (on it a wreath of roses), who lost consciousness. In the foreground - two sons carry their old man's father in her arms. And next to them - the young man, pleading his mother to rise and run further from this all-consuming element. By the way, this young man is not anyone else, like Pliny younger, really saved and left his memories of the tragedy. Here is an excerpt from his letter Tacitis: "I look back. Thick black fog, flowing around the ground, overtook us. There was a night, unlike the moonless or cloud: it happens so dark only in the locomotive room during the extinguished lights. Women's screams were heard, a children's squeak and a cry of men, some dangle their parents, other children or wives and tried to find them in voices. Some mourned their death, other death of loved ones, some in fear before death prayed for death; Many have gone hands to the gods; Most explained that nowhere and no gods and for the world is the last eternal night ".

There is no main character in the picture, but there are central: a cereal child near the open body of his deceased mother in a yellow tunic - a symbol of the fall of the old world and the birth of a new one, this opposition of life and death is in the best traditions of romanticism.

In this picture, Bryullov showed himself and as an innovator, using two light sources - hot red light in the background, transmitting the sensation of the impending lava, and a cold greenish-blue in the foreground, adding the plot of additional playwright.

A bright and saturated flavor of this painting also violates the classic traditions and allows you to talk about the artist as a romance.

Triumphal march pattern

Karl Bryullov worked on the web for six years - from 1827 to 1833.

For the first time, the picture was represented by the public in 1833 at the exhibition in Milan - and immediately produced Furore. The artist was honored as the Roman triumphant, a laudatory reviews in the press wrote about the picture. Bryullov was celebrated on the street with applause, and during his movements at the borders of the Italian principalities did not require passports: it was believed that every Italian already knows him in his face.

In 1834, the "Last Day Pompei" was presented at the Paris Salon. French criticism was not an example Italian deserving. But the professionals appreciated the work on dignity, handing the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Arts by Bullylov.

The canvas made a sensation in Europe, and he was looking forward to him in Russia. In the same year it was sent to St. Petersburg. Seeing the picture, Nikolai I expressed a desire to personally meet the author, but the artist went with the Graph Vladimir Davydov on a trip to Greece, and returned to his homeland only in December 1835.

On June 11, 1836, in the circular hall of the Russian Academy of Arts, where the painting "Last Day Pompeii" was exhibited, honored guests, members of the academy, artists and just fans of painting were gathered. The author of the canvas, "Veliky Karla", brought to the hall on their hands under the enthusiastic cries of guests. "Crowds of visitors, you can say, broke into the halls of the Academy to look at the" Pompei ", "the contemporary writes and the witness of that success equal to which no Russian artist knew.

The customer and the owner of the painting Anatoly Demidov presented it to the emperor, and Nikolai I placed her in the Hermitage, where she was located for 60 years. And in 1897 was translated into the Russian Museum.

The picture literally agreed on all Russian society and the best minds of that time.

Art peaceful trophies
You contributed to the deceo model.
And was the "last day Pompeii",
For Russian brush first day! -

posted about the picture Poet Yevgeny Bratansky.

Alexander Pushkin also devoted poems to her:

Vesuvius Zev opened - smoke hung the club, the flame
Widely developed as a combat banner.
The Earth is worried - with a shitful columns
Idols fall! People persecuted by fear
Under stone rain, under inflamed rush,
Crowds, old and young, runs out of grades.

Mention "Last Day Pompeii" and Mikhail Lermontov in the novel "Princess Ligovskaya": "If you love art, then I can say a very pleasant news: the picture of the bullov" Last Day Pompeii "rides in St. Petersburg. I knew all Italy about her, the French were crushed "- Lermontov clearly knew about the reviews of the Paris Press.

Russian historian and traveler Alexander Turgenev said that this picture was the glory of Russia and Italy.

And Nikolay Gogol devoted a big article by writing: "A brush holds it in itself the poetry that you just feel and you can always know: our feelings always know and see even distinctive signs, but they will never tell their words. Coloring him so apart, which has never been almost never before, his paints are burning and droopy. They would be unbearable, if the artist had a degree below the bryullov, but he was leaning in that harmony and breathe in the internally music, which were performed by living objects of nature ".

Canvas, oil. 144 by 162 cm

For the first time I saw a picture ... More precisely, I need to say, of course, so: I learned about the existence of this painting from Mr. Bean with the participation of Rowen Atkinson. We are talking about the full-length film production of 1997, and not about the television series of 14 episodes (from 1990 to 1995). So, according to the plot of the film, the picture of James Whistler was purchased from the French Museum of France with one rich and donated to the Los Angeles art gallery. The guardian of the Royal British Gallery Mr. Bean is inappropriate, but desperately spoiled the head of the artist's mother. Above the circumstances of this horror still laughed and still laugh hundreds of millions of people all over the world. And I was so in general, I was not less than the most unfortunate Mr. Bina.

Rena Magritte "Castle in Pyrenees"

The picture is not called the air castle! And why it should be so called, because air locks are something ephemeral, impossible for sale, from the area of \u200b\u200bunrealized dreams and vain hopes. And before us the embodiment of great gravity, massiveness, stone castle-asteroid. Hang it over the sea and remove, therefore, only a massiveness could only surreal. After all, surrealism, he is over, under, above, on the side ... anywhere, but not the reality itself! Well, even if Magritte himself said that surrealism is a reality, freed from the banal meaning. Play words and I can and I can say a lot of things ... But I don't know how to draw. And Rena Magritte decided to hang up the land on anything and drew his Le Château des Pyrénées - Castle in the Pyrenees. It is very possible that another artist James Cameron, but in 50 years, will fill in his meaning to the existence of weightless stone dwellings

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov "Boyajna Morozova". Canvas, oil. 304 at 587.5 (1887)

"Boar Morozova" - One of the famous historical canvons of Surikova. For many parameters, it reminds me of a picture "", written in 6 years before "Boyari Morozova", although the idea to draw a boyfriend came to Surikov in 1881, in the year of writing the "Morning execution". I will not talk about the technique of execution, I will talk about the plot. And there and here is a trial of worldviews. In 1881, Surikov describes the destruction of the Streetsky class, and in 1887 - to massacre over old-handedness. And there are witnesses of the court - people, city, buildings. In the "morning of Streletzka execution", the Cathedral of Basil Blessed hangs over the archers, in the "Boyaryn Morozova" the miracles of the monastery takes a bispanite sign from the splitter. And there and there are two truths: the truth of Streltsov and the reformist Pravda Peter I; True Patriarch Nikon, the church reformer and the truth of the Raskolnikov. They, these different Russian truths, clogged each other then not to life, but to death. Skrew then then that today we knew only one truth - Peter I was the great Russian king, the emperor reformer, and the Old Believers, which today is only about one million people, no more than the exotic of Orthodoxy.

Canvas, oil. 199.5 by 254 cm

Other Picture Title - " Ivan the Terrible kills his son" If you look at the picture of Ilya Repin "unarmed" eye, you can see a big tragedy. In her arms, the father dies, from the deadly wound, his beloved son. The eyes of the king are full of grief and despair, fear and pain for a native person. The father as if she grabbed Tsarevich's head from under blows, he tries to save his son from an unknown evil that concerned his life. And here is the murder? What does the name of the picture "Ivan Grozny kill his son"? Is it so killed?! Does really the king in anger hit his son, and so that he died on the spot?

Canvas, oil, 1533, 207 by 209 cm

Once again I am convinced that the time of the artist, people, his surrounding, political and religious movements in society - all this directly affects his work, reflected in the works. The thought seems obvious, but many artists claim, they say, they are not doing to the external, the main thing for them is to create. This is written in more detail, and the topic caused a considerable discussion.

So, Hans Golbien Jr. (1497 - 1543), German artist and his picture "Ambassador".

In 1529, English King Heinrich VIII turned to Pope with a request to terminate his marriage so that he could marry another, Anna Boleyn. Dad refused, then the king ripped the relationship with the Vatican, and in 1534 he himself became the head of the English Church. So the church split began in England, or otherwise - the Reformation.

Oil, temperature, pastel, cardboard, 91 x 73.5 cm

Picture "Creek" The most famous picture of the Norwegian artist Edward Munka (1863 - 1944), one of the most expressive powers of expressionism. Such a picture of the modern publishers of mass literature could confidently put in a selection with the title of the "Ten most terrifying paintings in history".

The work is made by the artist, at least in five versions (two options - oil painting, two options - pastel, one option - lithograph) and is a curly example of the understanding of painting with a wide circle of viewers. The painting of a complex emotional ball, painting is not external forms and colors, and the inner splash, transmitted by brush and paints, is clearly and unequivocally felt by people. What did you want to say Edward Munk.? In my opinion, just that I wanted, I said! And everyone heard: a lot of references in the mass culture, an excitement among collectors, appeals to the "scream" of other artists, the mass of interpretations of art historians, psychiatrists, sociologists, just big money at auctions, and, as it is rightly celebrated, money is paid not so much for the name of the painter, how much is for the work itself. And all this is one side of the case ...

COLOR COLOR MANUAL, 23.9 × 18.8 cm

The image is increasing

"Walk, otherwise you will fall into the tape and oblivion ... remember that you must fulfill the mission that Providence appointed you. When the time comes, it will open your eyes and direct on the desired path. Be always ready for this ... listen carefully, and you will hear when the call will sound! .. "

Ancient Astrologers about Saturn

The winged woman is sitting in thought, it surrounds items: measuring, joinery tools. Nearby is a ball (perhaps it is wooden, heated recently). The abundance of parts does not distract attention from the winged figure. It stands out in general terms, as if it is outside (or above?) The surrounding world. Events, life take place without her participation. Hourglass on the wall enhance this feeling. And all this is called melancholyWhat is clear from the inscription that the bat carries (this is called art historians, although I recognize a little bat in this tailed creature).

How many characters, allegories, which is thought out to the smallest composition! For people living in those days (1514), such allegations were more or less understandable. What is this engraving for us? If you do not go into interpretation, having only an image yes before your eyes?

Toned paper, oil, 1510 g. 28 × 22.5 cm

The image is increasing

Many hundreds of generations of people lived in the era, which we have the most vague ideas. Who knows, what is the difference between the living of the town of the beginning of the XIV from his stay at the end of the century? Moreover, it is difficult for us to distinguish between life and morals of the beginning and end of a length of a thousand years! Whole centuries are blurred for us at one time, gloomy and wild. Middle Ages.

Such a name was given to the historical period of Renaissance, denoting the period from the fall of ancient Rome before their time, which they naturally called new. Also, naturally, the whole culture of the early revival interpret the life and heritage of the nearest past.

Canvas, oil, 1825-1827 g. 76 by 68 cm

The picture increases.

In the second half of the 19th century, a new current originated - impressionism. The main thing was in it: the transfer of a momentary feeling, the moment, without deepening in philosophy and reasoning. The pictures of impressionists are usually cheerful (or nice-nostalgically sad). They are easy and natural.

In 1808, Napoleon entered Spain, long-term bloody battles began in cities. The Spanish people violently resisted the invader. "Error number one is a hike in Spain," Napoleon wrote on the island of St. Helena (what the second mistake will be, I think it is clear). The consequences of the war later, after the expulsion of French wars, describe Francisco Goyia

The picture increases. It can be seen that the image cracked and swallowed; Initially, it is a smooth black canvas.

Consider painting Casimir Malevich "Black Suprematic Square" It is possible only within the framework of the Malevich created in painting entitled suprematism. The only way. Otherwise, the conversation about this work will not go beyond the banal "king of a naked" or "a child from a kindergarten can draw no worse." I'm not going to also discuss the monetary value of the picture with the world population of art historian experts (Western naturally) against the sanity of the labor population of the planet.

It's no secret that the famous personalities fall more often than others in extraordinary life situations and various stories that thanks to eyewitnesses are imprinted in their biographies for the century. As a rule, these stories are anecdotal ridiculous, sometimes curious and not very pleasant, as well as instructive, which have passed the parable. Today we will talk about interesting facts from the life of famous Russian and European classic artists.

The artist's autograph, worth more than the painting itself ten times

Ilya Efimovich Repin. Once a certain lady acquired a picture with the signature "I. Repin ", paying 100 rubles for it. After time, coming to the workshop of the painter, she showed his acquisition to the artist. Repin, laughing at the unlucky buyer, attributed at the bottom of the canvas: "This is not a repin." After that, the lady resold the picture, but already for a thousand rubles.

Painting is immortal

Pablo Picasso. One pretty famous doctor at the exhibition approached Picasso and importantly stated: - I do not badly know the anatomical structure of the body of a person. So, I can say that people on your canvases cause some regret and bewilderment. "It is quite possible," Picasso parried. "But I can assure you that they will live much longer than your patients."

Children's individualism

Self-portraits. Pablo Picasso at 15 and 90 years old. Somehow, visiting the exposition of children's drawings, Pablo Picasso said thoughtfully: - When I was at their age, I could write as Rafael, but it took a whole life to learn how to draw as they. Portrait of an artist's mother (1896), written by 15-year-old Picasso.

Expensive check

Salvador Dali. Salvador was given a very tricky trick for restaurants owners. Visiting an entertainment establishment for the first time, he collected a large company of friends and acquaintances, and a whole evening treated everyone with any dishes and drinks from the menu. When it took time to pay on the bills, the artist defiantly wrote down a check on a huge amount, and then ... turned over the check and wrote several warm words in the reverse side of the host of the establishment and put his autograph. The calculation of the Matra was simple and trouble free: using his glory of the living genius, Dali was sure that the owner of the restaurant would never decide to cash the check with the original signature given himself! So it usually happened: the restaurants understood that they would be able to rescue much more money over time for this check than just the amount of the account, well, and the master saved a bunch of money.

Who went crazy?

Salvador Dali. Somehow, in a conversation with her friends, Salvador Dali said that all the cataclysms, which occur in nature, do not surprise him. Then the interlocutor began to inspire an example of a possible situation: "Well, let him, but if at midnight on the horizon suddenly there was a light that announces the morning zero? You are peering and see that the sun rises. Wouldn't it be impaired? Would you not think that they were crazy? - On the contrary, - without thinking said Dali, - I would have thought that this sun was crazy.

Creative unions

Isaac Levitan ./ "Autumn day. Sokolniki. " (1879) ./ Nikolai Chekhov. As you know, the artist Isaac Levitan "specialized" only on landscape painting, but there is one cloth in his heritage with the image of a female figure strolling in the park. "Autumn day. Sokolniki "- this is the name of this picture, written by him in student years. The artist draw people never took and justice to see if the only image of a woman was written not by the artist himself, and his friend on the artistic school, the brother of the famous writer - Nikolai Chekhov.
Ivan Ayvazovsky. / "Pushkin on the seashore. "/ Ilya Repin. By the way it was not the only creative cooperation in the history of art. Why "in friendship" do not help a friend-artist who does not work with something? Not many know that the figure of Pushkin in the picture of the Aivazovsky "Pushkin on the seashore" is written by Ilya Repin.
K. A. Savitsky and I. I. Shishkin. The beginning of the 1880s. Photo. / "Morning in a pine forest". And the famous bears in the painting of Shishkin "Morning in a pine forest" wrote an artist Savitsky. Well, these funny animals were not obtained from the brilliant masters of the landscape. But the fee of four thousand rubles from the sale of this picture was divided into fraternally, and autographs were originally on the canvas two. All in justice ... However, the owner of the painting, Pavel Tretyakov, decided to leave the authorship for Shishkinn and his own self-signature Savitsky.

Granted letter "in" to the name of the artist by the emperor

Karl and Alexander Bryullov. Before the beginning of the 19th century, the names of Bullov in Russia did not exist. Karl Bryullov, the famous Russian artist, was born in the family of academician of the ornamental sculpture Pavel Bryullo, whose ancestors were from France. The letter "B" at the end of the last name was pleased with Carlo and his brother Alexander, architect by profession, the highest imperial decree before the retired trip to Italy.

Exhibition of one masterpiece

Archka Queenji. In 1880, an unprecedented event occurred in the world of Russian art. In St. Petersburg, the picture of the Archip of Quinji "Moonlight on the Dnieper" was first put up for the public. Amazing was that she was the only one at the exhibition. Rumors about the extraordinary canvase separated the city long before it shows, and on the day of discovery itself, it seemed that the whole city was going to look at him. Many crews were tanned by all nearby streets, and people crowded in long queues at the entrance. Many visited the exhibition several times.
"Moonlight Night on the Dnieper." The public was fascinated by the extraordinary realism of the lunar light in the picture, many have suggested that the artist used glowing paints, some even secretly looked at the picture, trying to figure out whether the lamps of the highlightening moon were there.

Vow Modillani

Amedeo Modigliani. Amedeo Modigliani is a famous Italian artist, - very early years has been interested in painting and painting. The final decision to become an artist, he accepted in the eleven-year-old age after severe pleuris, when, lying in delight, Amedeo decided: if he survive, he would dedicate himself painting. And he kept the word.

Queenji and birds

Archka Queenji. The archite Quinji loved birds very much. He could stay for hours on the roof of his house, "chatting" with pigeons and corners. And my friends often told that the birds understand his words and easily go to his hands. Well, it would be more .... After all, the artist spent a lot of money on the proceedings, buying a lot of money, buying in 60 French bulls, up to 10 kg of meat and 6 oats kula. And one day, Illustrator Pavel Shcherbov published a caricature on which Quinji puts the bird to the enema. They say that did not differ in particular a sense of humor Arkhip Ivanovich was terribly offended by a colleague.
Caricature. Pernaya Patients (A.I.Koinji on the roof of their house). Author: Pavel Scherbov.

Five thousand for the plander

Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky. / Girl in flora costume. Konstantin Makovsky was famous for not only salon portraits of wives of wealthy husbands, but also by transcendent prices on them. And the artist really loved to eat deliciously, what is called the true gourmet. But one day he almost fell into a prosack. Baron Acritical, only by buying a luxurious mansion with plants, painted by Makovsky, but without his autographs, invited the most popular artist to have breakfast in the restaurant. In the hope that the artist as a sign of gratitude sign the ceiling for free. It would have happened if it were not for one "but" ... Makovsky was already softening in anticipation of exquisite meal and promised immediately after her to go and sign all three flashers for free. And the nipped baron, finally made an order: ordered to give a born and loaf. "Koryushka? Me? "Makovsky indignant to himself. And loud said: "Five thousand rubles for a signature on each plastic!"

Valentine or Anton Serov

Portrait of Miki Morozov. / Valentin Serov. Friends and relatives called Valentina Serov Anton. This name was stuck to him in childhood, when the parents from an excess of feelings for the baby called the little Valentine Valentine, Tosh, sometimes - tone. Low later in the family of Mammoth Tosha turned into Anthosh. And letters that Ilya Repin wrote already adult Serov, often began to appeal: "Anton, Anton!".

Little blackmail

* Girl with peaches *. Author: V. Serov. The fact that Valentin Serov worked slowly - they knew him particularly well. And when the artist conceived to write a portrait of a 11-year-old daughter Savva Mamontov - Faith, (and the canvas was conceived as a gift for the birthday of Elizabeth Mammoth - Mother of the girl), she came across the categorical protest of the future model. The Veroch was immediately smeared than threatening her consent to the positiveness by the artist. She absolutely did not care about the weeks in the immovable posture, instead of running around the village surroundings with peers. The Verochie stubborn and Serov did not remain anything, how to agree is not its condition: after each session, ride her on horseback.
* Girl with peaches *. fragment. / Verohm Mamontov.

Works of art that know everything often keeps unknown fascinating stories.

Kazimir Malevich was a sixth artist who drew a black square, Shishkin wrote his "morning in a pine forest" in co-authorship, Dali had a serious psychosexual injury, and Pablo Picasso survived after a bold answer to the gestapovats. We admire the beauty of the greatest cloths, but the stories that have happened before, during or after writing masterpieces, often remain outside of our attention. And completely in vain. Sometimes such stories allow you to better understand the artist or just surprised the fancy life of life and creativity.
Adme.ru collected the most interesting and unknown stories about the great paintings in this material.

"Black Square", Kazimir Malevich

"Black Square" Malevich is one of the most famous and discussed works of art - not such an innovation.
Artists experimented with black "solid", starting with the XVII century. The first tightly black work of art called "Great Darkness" wrote Robert Fladd in 1617, Bertal followed him in 1843 and his work "View on La Hougue (under the cover of the night)." More than two hundred years. And then almost without breaks - "Twilight History of Russia" Gustava Dore in 1854, "Negro's night fight in the basement" Paul Bilhold in 1882, completely plagiarism "Battle of Blacks in the Cave of Deep At night" for the authorship of Alphonse Alla. And only in 1915, Kazimir Malevich presented his "black suprematic square" to the public, this is how the picture is completely called. And it is his picture known to everyone, while other familiar knows the historians of the arts.
Malevich himself painted at least four versions of his "black suprematic square", differing in the pattern, texture and color in the hope of finding absolute "landslide" and flight forms.

"Creek", Edward Munk

As in the case of the "black square" in the world there are four versions of the "scream". Two options are written by oil and two pastels.
It is believed that Munk, who suffered by manic-depressive psychosis, wrote it several times in attempts to relyze all the suffering that covered His soul. And it is possible that the strange teaching of the unbearable flour of the little people would be more if the artist did not lay down in the clinic. After the course of treatment, he never tried to reproduce his "cry" who became cult.

"GERNIKA", Pablo Picasso

The huge cloth-fresco "Gernika", written by Picasso in 1937, talks about the tax of the volunteer division of Luftwaffe to the city of Herront, as a result of which the sixdiest city was completely destroyed. The picture was written literally for the month - the first days of work on the picture Picasso worked for 10-12 hours and already in the first sketches you could see the main idea.
This is one of the best illustrations of the nightmare of fascism, as well as human cruelty and grief. "Gernika" presents scenes of death, violence, atrocities, suffering and helplessness, without specifying their direct reasons, but they are obvious. And the most interesting moment in connection with this picture occurred in 1940, when Picasso was summoned to Gestapo in Paris. "Did you do it?", A fascists asked him. "No, you did it."

"Great Masturbator", Salvador Dali

In the picture with strange and impulse, even for our time, the title is actually there is no challenge to society. The artist actually portrayed his subconscious, confessed in front of the audience.
On the canvas depicted his spouse Gala, which he passionately loved; a locust, which he was also afraid; Fragment of a man with chopped knees, ants and other symbols of passion, fear and disgust.
The origins of this picture (but first of all the origins of his strange disgust and at the same time traction to sex) lie in the fact that in childhood Salvador Dali looked through the book about venereal diseases, randomly left his father.

"Ivan Grozny and Son His Ivan on November 16, 1581," Ilya Repin

The historical canvas, the narrative of the viewer about the dramatic moment in the history of our country, in fact, was inspired by not so much the fact of the murder of the Son and the heir to the king of John Vasilyevich, how much the murder of Alexander II terrorists-revolutionary, and the most unexpected - Corrida in Spain. The artist wrote about what he saw: "Misfortune, live death, murders and blood make up to themselves ... And I, infected, probably this bloody, on arrival home, right now began for a bloody scene."

"Morning in a pine forest", Ivan Shishkin

A masterpiece, familiar to each Soviet child for breathtakingly delicious and scarce candies, belongs to Peru not only Shishkin. Many artists who were friends among themselves were often resorted to the "help of a friend," and Ivan Ivanovich, all his life drawing landscapes, feared that touching bears would not work with him as it was necessary. Therefore, Shishkin appealed to the familiar animalist artist Konstantin Savitsky.
Savitsky drew hardly not the best bears in the history of Russian painting, and the Tretyakov commanded to wash off his surname from the canvas, since everything in the picture "starting from the plan and ending with execution, everything speaks about the style of painting, about the creative method for Shishkin."