"Players in cards"

Author

Paul Cesanne

Country France
Years of life 1839–1906
Style Postpressionism

The artist was born in the south of France in a small town of Ex-en-Provence, but painting began to engage in Paris. This success came to him after the personal exhibition organized by the collector Ambruz Vollar. In 1886, 20 years before his care, he moved to the outskirts of his hometown.

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In 2010, the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and the Qatari National Museum opened in Qatar. Now their collections are replenished. Perhaps the fifth version of the "players in the card" was acquired by Sheikh for this purpose.

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Owner
Sheikha Hamad
bin caliph al-tanya

The Al-Tanya dynasty rules Qatar over 130 years. About half a century ago, huge oil and gas reserves were found here that the VMIG made Qatar one of the richest regions of the world. Thanks to the export of hydrocarbons in this small country, the largest GDP per capita is recorded. Sheikh Hamad Bin Califa Al-Tanya in 1995, while his father was in Switzerland, with the support of family members seized power. The merit of the current ruler, according to experts, in a clear strategy for the development of the country, creating a successful state image. Now the Constitution and Prime Minister appeared in Qatar, and women received the right to vote in the parliamentary elections. By the way, it was the emir of Qatar that founded Al-Jazeera news channel. Huge attention of the Arab state's authorities pay culture.

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"Number 5"

Author

Jackson Pollock

Country USA
Years of life 1912–1956
Style Abstract expressionism

Jack Sprayer - such a nickname was given to the American public for the special technique of painting. The artist refused the brush and easel, and the paint spilled over the surface of the canvas or fibrolite during the continuous movement around and inside them. From an early age, he was fond of Philosophy Jedda Krishnamurti, the main promise of which - the truth opens during the free "outpouring".

122x244 cm
1948.
cost
$ 140 million
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on the auction Sotheby's.

The value of the work of the midfield is not as a result, but in the process. The author did not accidentally call his art of painting action. With his light hand it became the main domain of America. Jackson Pollock mixed paint with sand, broken glass, and wrote a piece of cardboard, masticic, knife, scoop. The artist was so popular that in the 1950s, the imitators were found even in the USSR. The picture "Number 5" is recognized as one of the strangest and expensive in the world. One of the creators of DreamWorks David Hepfen acquired it for a private collection, and in 2006 sold at the Sotheby`s auction for 140 million dollars to Mexican David Martinez. However, soon a law firm on behalf of his client released a press release, which reported that David Martinez is not the owner of the painting. Apparently only one thing is known: the Mexican financier has indeed recently collecting works of contemporary art. It is unlikely that he would have missed such a "large fish" as "number 5" of the midfield.

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"Woman III"

Author

Villem de Kuning

Country USA
Years of life 1904–1997
Style Abstract expressionism

The leaving from the Netherlands, he emigrated in the United States in 1926. In 1948, a personal exhibition of the artist took place. Art critics appreciated complex, nervous black and white compositions, recognizing in their author of the Grand Artist-modernist. He suffered most of his life with alcoholism, but the joy of creating new art is felt in every work. De Kuning is distinguished by the impulsiveness of painting, wide strokes, which is sometimes the image does not fit in the boundaries of the canvas.

121x171 cm
1953.
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$ 137 million
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In the 1950s, women with empty eyes, massive breasts, ugly features of the face appear in the paintings of De Kuning. "Woman III" became the last work from this series participating in the auction.

Since the 1970s, the picture was kept in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, but after the introduction of hard rules of morality in the country, they sought to get rid of it. In 1994, the work was taken out of Iran, and after 12 years its owner David Hepfen (the most producer who sold the Jackson Pollock "Number 5" canal) gave the picture to Milliona Stephen Cohen for $ 137.5 million. Interestingly, Hepfhen began to sell his painting collection in one year. It gave rise to a weight of rumors: for example, that producer decided to buy Los Angeles Times newspaper.

At one of the art-forums, an opinion was expressed about the similarity of the "Women III" with the picture of Leonardo da Vinci "Lady with Mornosta". For a toothy smile and a shapeless figure of the heroine, the connoisseur of painting saw the grace of the royal blood. This is evidenced by the poorly painted crown, the wedding head of a woman.

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"Portrait of AdeliBloch-Bauer I »

Author

Gustav Klimt.

Country Austria
Years of life 1862–1918
Style Modern

Gustav Klimt was born in the family of an engraver family and was the second of seven children. Three Sons of Ernest Klimt became artists, and only Gustav had become famous for the whole world. Most of the childhood he spent in poverty. After the death of his father, he was responsible for the whole family. It is at this time that climt develops his style. In front of his paintings, any viewer freezes: under thin smears of gold is clearly visible to frank eroticism.

138x136 cm
1907 year
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$ 135 million
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on the auction Sotheby's.

The fate of the picture, which is called "Austrian Mona Liza", can easily become the basis for bestseller. The work of the artist was the cause of the conflict of a whole state and one elderly lady.

So, on the "portrait of Adeli Bloch-Bauer I" depicted an aristocrat, Ferdinand Bloch's wife. Her last will was to transfer the picture of the Austrian state gallery. However, fleas in his will canceled donation, and the canvas expropriated the Nazis. Later, the gallery hardly bought the "Golden Adel", but here the heirs appeared - Maria Altman, the niece of Ferdinand Bloch.

In 2005, the loud process of "Maria Altman against the Austrian Republic" began, following which the picture "left" with her in Los Angeles. Austria adopted unprecedented measures: there were negotiations on loans, the population sacrificed money to buy a portrait. Good and did not won evil: the price of Altman raised to $ 300 million. At the time of the proceedings, she was 79 years old, and she entered the story as a person who had changed the will of Bloch Bauer in favor of personal interests. The picture was acquired by Ronald Laoupere, the owner of the "New Gallery" in New York, where it is still in this day. Not for Austria, for him Altman lowered the price of up to $ 135 million.

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"Creek"

Author

Edward Munk.

Country Norway
Years of life 1863–1944
Style expressionism

The first picture of the mud, which has become famous worldwide, - "Sick Girl" (exists in five copies) - devoted to the sister of the artist who deceased from tuberculosis aged 15 years. Minka has always been interested in the theme of death and loneliness. In Germany, his heavy, manic painting even provoked a scandal. However, despite the depressive plots, his paintings have special magnetism. Take at least Creek.

73,5х91 cm
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$ 119.992 million
sold B. 2012.
on the auction Sotheby's.

The full name of the picture is der Schrei Der Natur (translated from the German - "Creek of Nature"). The person is whether the person is, or aliens expressing despair and panic - the same emotion is experiencing a viewer when looking at the picture. One of the key works of expressionism warns the themes that have become acute in the art of the XX century. According to one of the versions, the artist created it under the influence of mental disorder, who suffered all his life.

The picture twice was stolen from different museums, but it was returned. The resulting small damage after theft "Creek" was renovated, and he was again ready to show at the Mill Museum in 2008. For representatives of the pop culture, the work became a source of inspiration: Andy Warhol created a series of its print-copies, and the mask from the film "Creek" was made in the image and likeness of the hero of the picture.

For one plot, the Munk wrote four versions of the work: the one is in the private collection, pastels are performed. Norwegian billionaire Petter Olsen put it on auction on May 2, 2012. The buyer was Leon Black, who did not regrepresent the "cry" of the record amount. Founder of Companies Apollo Advisors, L.P. and Lion Advisors, L.P. Known by his love of art. Black is a patron of College Dartmouth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Center Lincoln, Metropolitan Museum of Arts. It has the largest collection of paintings of modern artists and classic masters of past centuries.

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"Nude on the background of bust and green leaves"

Author

Pablo Picasso

Country Spain, France
Years of life 1881–1973
Style cubism

By origin, he is a Spaniard, and in spirit and place of residence - a real Frenchman. Picasso's own art studio opened in Barcelona when he was only 16 years old. Then he went to Paris and spent a majority of life there. That is why in his surname double emphasis. At the heart of the style, invented Picasso, there is a denial of opinion that the object depicted on the canvas can be considered only under one view.

130x162 cm
1932 year
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$ 106.482 million
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on the auction Christie's.

During his work in Rome, the artist met Olga Khokhlov's dancer, who soon became his wife. He finished with vagrancy, moved with her to a luxurious apartment. By that time, recognition found a hero, but the marriage was destroyed. One of the most expensive paintings of the world was created almost by chance - in great love, which, as always, Picasso was short. In 1927, he was carried away by the young Marie Terez Walter (she was 17 years old, he was 45). In secret, he left his wife with his mistress in the town near Paris, where he wrote a portrait, depicting Marie Terez in the image of Daphne. The canvas acquired the New York dealer Paul Rosenberg, and in 1951 sold him Sydney F. Brouda. Spouses Brody showed a picture of the world only one day and only because the artist was 80 years old. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Brody, in March 2010, put a work on auction in the House of Christie's. For six decades, the price has grown more than 5,000 times! An unknown collector acquired her for $ 106.5 million. In 2011, "Exhibition of One Pattern" took place in Britain, where she saw the light of the second time, but the name of the owner is still unknown.

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"Eight Elvis"

Author

Andy Warhole

Country USA
Years of life 1928-1987
Style
pop Art

"Sex and parties are the only places where you need to appear with your own person," said the cult artist Pop Art, director, one of the founders of the InterView magazine, designer Andy Warhol. He worked with Vogue and Harper`s Bazaar, drawing up the cover of the records, came up with shoes for I.miller. In the 1960s, pictures of America symbols appeared: Campbell`s soup and Coca-Cola, Presley and Monroe - made it legend.

358x208 cm
1963 year
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$ 100 million
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Warholovsky 60s - so called Pop Art's era in America. In 1962, he worked in Manhattan in the Studio "Factory", where all Bohemia New York gathered. Its bright representatives: Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Trueman Hood and other person known in the world. At the same time, Warhol tried silkographic technology - a multiple repeat of one image. He used this method and when creating "eight Elvis": the spectator seems to see the frames from the movie, where the star comes to life. There is everything that the artist loved so much: the win-win public image, the silver color and the premonition of death as the main promise.

There are two art dealers promoting the work of Warhol on the world market today: Larry Gagosyan and Alberto Morbai. The first in 2008 spent 200 million dollars to acquire more than 15 works of Warhol. The second buys and sells his paintings as christmas cards, only more expensive. But not they, and the modest French art consultant Philip Segalo helped the Roman connoisseur of the art of Annibal Berlingheri to sell the unknown buyer "Eight Elvis" for a record for Warhol - $ 100 million.

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"Orange,red Yellow"

Author

Mark Rotko

Country USA
Years of life 1903–1970
Style Abstract expressionism

One of the creators of painting the color field was born in Dvinsk, Russia (now - Daugavpils, Latvia), in a large family of the Jewish pharmacist. In 1911, they emigrated to the United States. Rotko studied at the Art Faculty of Yale University, achieved scholarships, but the anti-Semitic sentiments forced him to leave his studies. In spite of everything, the art criticism of the artist was guarded, and museums pursued all his life.

206x236 cm
1961 year
cost
$ 86,882 million
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on the auction Christie's.

The first artistic experiments of Rotko were a surrealistic orientation, but over time he simplified the plot to color spots by depriving them of any object. At first they had bright shades, and in the 1960s they poured brown, violet, thickening to black to the time of the death of the artist. Mark Rotko warned against the search for any meaning in his paintings. The author wanted to say exactly what said: Only a color dissolving in the air, and nothing more. He recommended looking at the work from a distance of 45 cm so that the viewer "delayed" in color, as in a funnel. Caution: Looking for all the rules can lead to the effect of meditation, that is, gradually come to the awareness of infinity, complete immersion in itself, relaxation, cleansing. The color in his paintings lives, breathes and has a strongest emotional impact (they say, sometimes healing). The artist stated: "The viewer should cry, looking at them," and such cases were indeed. On the theory of Rotko, at this moment people live the same spiritual experience as he in the process of working on the picture. If you managed to understand it on such a thin level, then you will not be surprised that these works of abstraction criticism often compare with icons.

The work "Orange, Red, Yellow" expresses the whole essence of painting Mark Rothko. Its initial cost at Christie's auction in New York 35-45 million dollars. An unknown buyer offered a price twice as exceeding Estimate. The name of the happy painting owner, as it often happens, not disclosed.

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"Triptych"

Author

Francis Bacon

Country
Great Britain
Years of life 1909–1992
Style expressionism

The adventures of Francis Beckon, a complete namesake and besides a long descendant of the Great Philosopher, began when the Father renounced him, unable to accept the homosexual tendencies of the Son. Bacon went first to Berlin, then to Paris, and then his traces are confused throughout Europe. During his life, his work was exhibited in leading cultural centers of the world, among which the Guggenheim Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery.

147,5х198 cm (each)
1976
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$ 86.2 million
sold in 2008
on the auction Sotheby's.

Prestigious museums sought to possess paintings of Bekon, but the primary English audience was in no hurry to survive on such art. The legendary Prime Minister of British Margaret Thatcher talked about him: "A person who draws these horrific paintings."

The starting period in his work, the artist himself considered post-war time. Returning from service, he again engaged in painting and created the main masterpieces. Before the participation of Triptych, 1976 in the auction of the most expensive work of Bacon was "Etude to the portrait of Pope Innokentia X" ($ 52.7 million). In Triptykh, 1976, the artist depicted a mythical plot of the persecution of Oresta Fury. Of course, Orest is Bacon himself, and Furi is his torment. For more than 30 years, the picture was in the private collection and did not participate in exhibitions. This fact gives it a special value and, accordingly, increases cost. But what is a few million for a connoisseur of art, and even in Russian generous? Roman Abramovich began to create his collection in the 1990s, the girlfriend Dasha Zhukov had significantly affected him, which became a fashionable gallery in modern Russia. According to unofficial data, in the personal ownership of the businessman, there are works by Alberto Dzhacometti and Pablo Picasso, bought for amounts exceeding $ 100 million. In 2008, he became the owner of Triptych. By the way, in 2011 another valuable work of Bekon was acquired - "Three sketches to the portrait of Lucien Freud". Hidden sources say that Roman Arkadyevich again became the buyer.

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"Pond with water lily"

Author

Claude Monet

Country France
Years of life 1840–1926
Style impressionism

The artist is recognized by the ancestor of impressionism, "patented" this method in its canvases. The first significant work was the painting "Breakfast on the grass" (the original version of the work of Edward Mane). In his youth, he painted caricatures, and a real painting took up during his travels along the coast and outdoors. In Paris, he led the bohemian lifestyle and did not leave him even after the service in the army.

210x100 cm
1919 year
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$ 80.5 million
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on the auction Christie's.

In addition to the fact that Monet was a great artist, he also enthusiastically engaged in gardening, adored living nature and flowers. In his landscapes, the state of nature is lightly, items as if blurred by air movement. The impression is enhanced by large smears, from a certain distance they become imperceptible and merge into a textured, three-dimensional image. In the painting of late Monet, the topic of water and life in it occupies a special place. In the town of Giverni, the artist was his own pond, where he grown pita from seeds, specially brought from Japan. When their flowers bloomed, he searched to drawing. A series of "Sweets" consists of 60 works that the artist wrote for almost 30 years to death. His vision has deteriorated with age, but he did not stop. Depending on the wind, the time of year and the weather, the pond has constantly changed, these changes wanted to capture Monet. Through thorough work towards him, an understanding of the essence of nature came. Some of the shells of the series are stored in the leading galleries of the world: the National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo), Orangery (Paris). The version of the next "pond with water lily" went into the hands of an unknown buyer for a record amount.

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False Star t.

Author

Jasper Jones

Country USA
Year of birth 1930
Style pop Art

In 1949, Jones entered the Design School in New York. Along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Cunning and others, he is recognized as one of the main artists of the 20th century. In 2012, he received the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" - the highest civilian award of the United States.

137.2х170.8 cm
1959
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$ 80 million
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Like Marseille Dushan, Jones worked with real objects, depicting them on canvas and in sculpture in full accordance with the original. For their work, he used simple and understandable items: a beer bottle, flag or card. The False Start picture has no clear composition. The artist as if plays with the audience, often "wrong" signing colors in the picture, turning the concept of color itself: "I wanted to find a way to portray color so that it can be determined by some other method." His most explosive and "durable in himself", according to critics, the picture was acquired by an unknown buyer.

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"Sittingnude on the sofa"

Author

Amedeo Modiganiani

Country Italy, France
Years of life 1884–1920
Style expressionism

Moodigaliani often sick since childhood, during a feverish nonsense, he recognized his designer of the artist. He studied painting in Livorno, Florence, Venice, and in 1906 he went to Paris, where his art flourished.

65x100 cm
1917 year
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$ 68,962 million
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on the auction Sotheby's.

In 1917, Modigliani met 19-year-old Jeanne Ebutern, who became his model, and then his wife. In 2004, one of her portraits was sold for $ 31.3 million, which became the last record before selling "Sitting Nude on the Sofa" in 2010. The picture acquired an unknown buyer for the maximum for Modigliani at the moment the price. Active sales of work began only after the death of the artist. He died in a poverty, sick tuberculosis, and the next day she committed with him and Zhanna Ebutern, who stayed on the ninth month of pregnancy.

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"Eagle on the pine"

Author

Qi Bayshi.

Country China
Years of life 1864–1957
Style Gokhua

Interest in calligraphy led Qi Baisha to painting. At the age of 28, he became a student of the artist Hu Zinyuan. The Ministry of Culture of China appropriated to him the title of "Great Artist of the Chinese People", in 1956 he received an international award of the world.

10x26 cm
1946
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$ 65.4 million
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on the auction China Guardian.

Qi Bayshi was interested in those manifestations of the surrounding world, which many do not give values, and in this his greatness. A man without education became a professor and an outstanding creator in history. Pablo Picasso spoke about him: "I'm afraid to go to your country, because in China there are Qi Baisha." The composition "Eagle on a pine" is recognized as the largest work of the artist. In addition to the canvas, it includes two hieroglyphic scrolls. For China, the amount for which the work was bought, represents a record - 425.5 million yuan. Only a scroll of an ancient calligrapher Juan Tinjiang was sold for 436.8 million.

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"1949-A-№1"

Author

Clifford Still

Country USA
Years of life 1904–1980
Style Abstract expressionism

At the age of 20, I visited the Metropolitan Museum in New York and was disappointed. Later, he was signed up for the course of the student league of the arts, but left 45 minutes after the start of the classes - it turned out to be "not it." The first personal exhibition caused a resonance, the artist found himself, and with this recognition

79x93 cm
1949 year
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$ 61.7 million
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on the auction Sotheby's.

All their works, and this is more than 800 canvases and 1600 works on paper, the stylist won the American city, where the museum of his name will be opened. Denver became such a city, but only construction was expensive to the authorities, and for its completion, four works were put up for auction. The works of Stille are unlikely to participate in the auction ever yet, which advanced their price in advance. The painting "1949-A-No.1" was sold for a record for the artist, although the experts predicted the sale of 25-35 million dollars.

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"Suprematic composition"

Author

Kazimir Malevich

Country Russia
Years of life 1878–1935
Style suprematism

Malevich learned painting in the Kiev Art School, then at the Moscow Academy of Arts. In 1913, he began to write abstract-geometric paintings in style, which called Suprematism (from Lat. "Dominance").

71x 88.5 cm
1916
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$ 60 million
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on the auction Sotheby's.

In the urban museum Amsterdam, the picture was kept about 50 years old, but after a 17-year-old dispute with Malevich's relatives, the Museum gave her. The artist wrote this job in one year with the "Manifesto of Suprematism", so Sotheby`s was announced before the bid, it would not go to the private collection in a private collection. So it happened. It is better to look at it: the shapes on the canvas resemble the view of the Earth from the air. By the way, a few years earlier, the same relatives exproprical from Moma Museum another "Suprematic composition" to sell it at Phillips auction for $ 17 million.

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"Buckles"

Author

Paul Gajen

Country France
Years of life 1848–1903
Style Postpressionism

Up to seven years, the artist lived in Peru, then with his family returned to France, but children's memories constantly pushed him to travel. In France, he began writing paints, was friends with Van Gogh. He even spent several months with him in Arles, until Van Gogh during a quarrel cut off his ear.

93,4х60.4 cm
1902 year
cost
$ 55 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2005
on the auction Sotheby's.

In 1891, Gauguen arranged to sell his paintings to go deep into the island of Tahiti to the reversed money. There he created work in which the fine relationship of nature and man is felt. Gogen lived in a straw hut, and a tropical paradise flourished on his canvases. His wife became the 13-year-old Tahitiankah tehra, which did not prevent the artist to join disorderls. Illness syphilis, he left for France. However, Mogen was closely, and he returned to Tahiti. This period is called "Second Taitian" - it was then that the picture of the "swimsters" was written, one of the most luxurious in his work.

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"Narcissus and a tablecloth in blue and pink tones"

Author

Henri Matisse

Country France
Years of life 1869–1954
Style Fovisov

In 1889, Henri Matisse had an attack of appendicitis. When he was recovered from the operation, the mother bought him paints. At first, Matisse from boredom copied color postcards, then - the works of great painters, which saw in the Louvre, and at the beginning of the 20th century came up with a style - Formism.

65.2x81 cm
1911
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$ 46.4 million
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on the auction Christie's.

The picture "Narcissus and a tablecloth in blue and pink tones" for a long time belonged to Iva Saint-Laurent. After the death of Kuturier, his whole collection of art has moved into his friend's hands and lover Pierre Berez, who decided to set it at Christie's auction. The pearl of the sold collection was the painting "Narcissus and a tablecloth in blue and pink tones", written on an ordinary tablecloth instead of canvas. As a sample of foxism, it is filled with color energy, paints seem to explode and shout. From the famous series of paintings written on the tablecloth, today this work is the only one, which is in the private collection.

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"Sleeping girl"

Author

RoyLie

khtenstein

Country USA
Years of life 1923–1997
Style pop Art

The artist was born in New York, and graduating from school, went to Ohio, where he went to art courses. In 1949, Liechtenstein received a master's degree in elegant arts. Interest in comics and the ability to ironize the cult artist of the last century.

91x91 cm
1964
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$ 44,882 million
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on the auction Sotheby's.

One day a chewing gum hit Liechtenstein. He redraged the picture from the liner on the canvas and became famous. In this plot from his biography, the entire pop art mission is concluded: consumption is a new god, and in the candy from Zhwachka no less beauty than in Mont Lisa. His paintings resemble comics and cartoons: Liechtenstein simply increased the finished image, drawing the rasters, used stencil printing and silk screen. The picture "Sleeping Girl" belonged for almost 50 years to collectors Beatris and Philip Pearrs, whose heirs sold it at auction.

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"Victory. Boogie Woogie"

Author

Pete Mondrian

Country Netherlands
Years of life 1872–1944
Style Neolasticism

His true last name - Cornelis - the artist changed to Mondrian, when in 1912 he moved to Paris. Together with the artist Teo Vann Dusburg founded the movement "Nexousticism". In honor of Mondrian, the Piet programming language is named.

27x127 cm
1944
cost
$ 40 million
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on the auction Sotheby's.

The most "musical" from the artists of the 20th century earned a living by watercolor still lifes, although it became famous for a neoplastic artist. In the US, moved in the 1940s and spent there the remainder of life. Jazz and New York - this is what inspired him most! Picture "Victory. Bogi-Vuy "is the best example of this. "Branded" neat squares were obtained due to the use of sticky tape - Mondrian's favorite material. In America, he was called the "most famous immigrant." In the sixties, Yves Saint Laurent released the Mondrian dresses known to the whole world with a print into a large color cell.

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"Composition number 5"

Author

BasilKandinsky

Country Russia
Years of life 1866–1944
Style avant-garde

The artist was born in Moscow, and his father was from Siberia. After the revolution, he tried to cooperate with the Soviet power, but soon realized that the laws of the proletariat were not created for him, and was not emigrated to Germany without difficulties.

275x190 cm
1911
cost
$ 40 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2007.
on the auction Sotheby's.

Kandinsky one of the first completely refused the subject painting, for which he received the title of genius. During Nazism in Germany, his paintings were attributed to "degenerative art" and have not been exhibited anywhere. In 1939, Kandinsky adopted French citizenship, he participated in the artistic process in Paris. His paintings "sound", as if the Fugue, so many were called "compositions" (the first was written in 1910, the latter - in 1939). "Composition number 5" is one of the key works in this genre: "The word" composition "sounded for me as a prayer," said the artist. Unlike many followers, he planned what would depict on a huge canvas, as if wrote notes.

21

"Etude Women in Blue"

Author

Fernian Leo

Country France
Years of life 1881–1955
Style cubism-postpressionism

Legeway received architectural education, and then he was a listener of the school of elegant arts in Paris. The artist considered himself the follower of Cezanna, was an apologist of the cubism, and in the XX century he was also successful as a sculptor.

96,5x129.5 cm
1912-1913 year
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$ 39.2 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2008
on the auction Sotheby's.

David Norman, president of the International Department of Impressionism and Modernism Sotheby`s, considers a huge amount paid for the "lady in blue", quite justified. The picture belongs to the famous lesion collection (the artist wrote three pictures on one plot, in private hands today - the last one. - Ed. Ed.), And the surface of the canvas is preserved in pristine. The author himself gave this job to the gallery of Der Sturm, then she fell into the Hermann Lang collection, the German Gatherers of Modernism, and now belongs to an unknown buyer.

22

"Street scene. Berlin"

Author

Ernst LudwigKirchner

Country Germany
Years of life 1880–1938
Style expressionism

For German expressionism, Kirchner became a sign person. However, local authorities accused him of commitment to "degenerative art", which tragically affected the fate of his paintings and in the life of the artist who committed suicide in 1938.

95x121 cm
1913 year
cost
$ 38,096 million
sold in 2006
on the auction Christie's.

After moving to Berlin, Kirchner created 11 sketches of street scenes. He was inspired by the turmoil and nervousness of a big city. In the film sold in 2006 in New York, an alarming state of the artist is particularly acute: people in Berlin Street resemble birds - elegant and dangerous. She became the last work from the famous series sold at the auction, the rest are stored in museums. In 1937, the Nazis were cruelly dealt with Kirchner: 639 of his works were withdrawn from German galleries, destroyed or sold abroad. The artist could not survive this.

23

"Recreationdancer"

Author

Edgar Degas

Country France
Years of life 1834–1917
Style impressionism

The history of Degi as an artist began with the fact that he worked as a copywriter in Louvre. He dreamed of becoming "famous and unknown," and eventually it was possible. At the end of the life, the deaf and dazzle 80-year-old degas continued to attend exhibitions and auctions.

64x59 cm
1879 year
cost
$ 37,043 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2008
on the auction Sotheby's.

"Ballerina has always been for me only a pretext to portray fabrics and grab the movement," said Degas. Plots from the life of dancers as if peeped: girls are not posted by an artist, but just become part of the atmosphere caught a look of Degas. The "resting dancer" was sold for $ 28 million in 1999, and in less than 10 years they bought it for 37 million - today it is the most expensive work of the artist, ever put up for auction. Much's attention was paid to Ramam, he himself designed them and banned them. I wonder what kind of frame is installed on a sold picture?

24

"Painting"

Author

Juan Miro

Country Spain
Years of life 1893–1983
Style abstract art

During the Civil War in Spain, the artist was on the side of the Republicans. In 1937, he ran from fascist power to Paris, where he lived in a poverty with his family. During this period, Miro writes the picture "Help Spain!", Paying attention to the whole world on the dominance of fascism.

89x115 cm
1927 year
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$ 36.824 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} {!LANG-217579cca66021e45f9b13835f073409!}
on the auction Sotheby's.

The second name of the picture is the "Blue Star". The artist wrote it in the same year when he announced: "I want to kill painting" and mercilessly mocked the canvas, scratching paint with nails, gluing to the canvas of feathers, covering work with garbage. His goal was to debunk myths about the sacrament of painting, but, coping with this, Miro created his own myth - surrealistic abstraction. His "painting" refers to the cycle of "Snowstice". At the auction, four buyers were fighting for her, but one phone call incognito solved the dispute, and "painting" became the most expensive picture of the artist.

25

"Blue Rose"

Author

Yves Klein

Country France
Years of life 1928–1962
Style Monochrome painting

The artist was born in the family of painters, but he studied oriental, seafarers, the Crafts of the Golden Ram, Zen-Buddhism and a lot. His personality and cheeky tricks were at times more interesting in monochrome paintings.

153x199x16 cm
1960.
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$ 36,779 million
sold in 2012
At Christie's auction

The first exhibition of monophonic yellow, orange, pink work did not cause interest among the public. Klein was offended and the next time I presented 11 identical canvas stained with ultramarine interspersed with a special synthetic resin. He even patented this method. In history, the color entered as the "International Blue Color of Klein". Another artist sold the emptiness, created pictures, substituting the paper for the rain, setting on the cardboard, making on the canvas of the human body imprint. In a word, experimented as he could. To create a "blue rose" used dry pigments, resins, pebbles and a natural sponge.

26

"In search of Moses"

Author

Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema

Country Great Britain
Years of life 1836–1912
Style Neoclassicism

The prefix "Alma" to his surname Sir Lawrence added himself to be the first in the artistic directories. In the Victorian England, his paintings were so claimed that the artist was assigned the knightly rank.

213,4х136.7 cm
1902 year
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$ 35.922 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2011
on the auction Sotheby's.

The main theme of the creativity of the Alma Tadema was antiquity. In the pictures, he tried in the smallest details to portray the Epoch of the Roman Empire, for this even engaged in archaeological excavations on the Apenninsky Peninsula, and in his London house reproduced the historical interior of those years. Mythological plots have become another source of inspiration for him. The artist was extremely in demand during his lifetime, but after death he quickly forgot. Now interest is reborn, as the cost of the picture "In Search of Moses", seven times, exceeding the pre-sale estimate.

27

"Portrait of sleeping nude official"

Author

Lucien Freud.

Country Germany,
Great Britain
Years of life 1922–2011
Style Figurative painting

The artist is grandson Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis. After establishing fascism in Germany, his family emigrated to the UK. The works of Freud are located in the London Museum "Meeting of Wallace", where no modern artist was previously exhibited.

219.1х151.4 cm
1995.
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$ 33.6 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2008
on the auction Christie's.

While fashion artists of the 20th century created positive "color stains on the wall" and sold them for millions, Freud wrote extremely naturalistic paintings and sold them even more expensive. "I capture the shouts of the soul and suffering fading flesh," he said. Critics believe that all this "inheritance" Sigmund Freud. The paintings were so actively exhibited and successfully sold that specialists had a question of doubt: did they have hypnotic properties? The "Portrait of Sleeping Nude Official" auction, according to the Sun edition, acquired a connoisseur of the beautiful and billionaire Roman Abramovich.

28

"Violin and guitar"

Author

H.uan Gras.

Country Spain
Years of life 1887–1927
Style cubism

Born in Madrid, where he graduated from school art and crafts. In 1906, he moved to Paris and entered the circle of the most influential artists of the era: Picasso, Modigliani, Marriage, Matisse, Lyzh, also worked with Sergey Dyagilev and his troupe.

5x100 cm
1913 year
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$ 28,642 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2010 year
on the auction Christie's.

GRIA, according to his own words, was engaged in "plane, color architecture." His paintings are precisely thought out: he did not leave a single random smear, which relates creativity with geometry. The artist created his version of the cubism, although Pablo Picasso, the founder of the direction very much respected. The successor was even dedicated to him his first job in the style of cubism "Tribute to Picasso." The painting "Violin and Guitar" is recognized as outstanding in the work of the artist. During the lifetime, Gras was known, clinically critics and art historians. His works are exhibited in the world's largest museums, stored in private collections.

29

"PortraitElouar fields »

Author

Salvador Dali

Country Spain
Years of life 1904–1989
Style surrealism

"Surrealism is me," said Dali, when he was excluded from the group of surrealists. Over time, he became the most famous surrealist artist. Creativity was given everywhere, and not just in the galleries. For example, it came up with a packaging for Chupa-Chupa.

25x33 cm
1929 year
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$ 20.6 million
{!LANG-89617c0741dc6d49a3a10300c44b9cfd!} in 2011
on the auction Sotheby's.

In 1929, visit the Great Provocator and Scandalist Dali came the poet Paul Eluro with his Russian wife Galo. The meeting was the beginning of the history of love that lasted more than half a century. The picture "Portrait of the Eloire Field" is written just during this historic visit. "I felt that I was charged with a duty to capture the Poet's face, with the Olymp of which I kidnapped one of the music," the artist said. Before acquaintance with Galo, he was a virgin and experienced disgust with thought about sex with a woman. The love triangle existed before the death of Eluar, after which he became a duet Dali Gala.

30

"Anniversary"

Author

Mark Shagal

Country Russia, France
Years of life 1887–1985
Style Avangard

Moisha Segal was born in Vitebsk, but in 1910 he emigrated to Paris, replaced the name, became close to the leading avant-gardists of the era. In the 1930s, when capturing the authorities, the fascists went to the United States with the help of the American Consul. Returned to France only in 1948.

80x103 cm
1923
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$ 14.85 million
sold in 1990
at Sotheby's auction

The picture "Anniversary" is recognized as one of the best works of the artist. It has all the features of his creativity: the physical laws of the world have erased, the feeling of fairy tales in the scenery of the Meshchansky life remains, and in the center of the plot - love. Chagall did not draw people from nature, but only in memory or fantasizing. In the picture "Anniversary" captured by the artist with his wife Bel. The picture was sold in 1990 and since then did not participate in the auction. Interestingly, in the New York Moma Museum Moma is absolutely the same, only called "Birthday". By the way, she was written before - in 1915.

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Tatyana Palaceov
rating made up
by list www.art-spb.ru.
magazine TMN №13. (May-June 2013)

"The new world was born when the impressionists wrote it"

Henri Canveyiler

XIX century. France. In painting it happened unprecedented. A group of young artists decided to shaken a 500-year-old tradition. Instead of a clear drawing, they used a wide "careless" smear.

And from the usual images and abandoned, portraying all in a row. And the ladies of lung behavior, and the Lords of dubious reputation.

The public was not ready for the painting of impressionists. They were ridiculed, scolded. And most importantly, they did not buy anything.

But resistance was broken. And some impressionists lived to their triumph. True, they were already in 40. Like Claude Monet or Auguste Renuar. Others waited for recognition only at the end of life as Camille Pissarro. Someone before him did not live as Alfred Sisley.

What is the revolutionary committed each of them? Why didn't the public have not accepted them for so long? Here are the 7 most famous French impressionists who know the whole world.

1. Eduard Mana (1832-1883)

Eduard Mana. Self-portrait with palette. 1878 Private Collection

Mana was older than most impressionists. He was their main inspirer.

Mana himself for the role of the leader of revolutionaries did not claim. He was a secular man. Dreamed of official awards.

But he was waiting for recognition for a very long time. The public wanted to see the Greek goddesses or still lifes at the worst end, to beautifully looked in the dining room. Mane wanted to write modern life. For example, the curtains.

As a result, "Breakfast on the grass" appeared. Two dandies rest in the Society of Ladies of Light Behavior. One of them like nothing sits next to the dressed men.

Eduard Mana. Breakfast on the grass. 1863, Paris

Compare its "Breakfast on the Grass" with the work of Tom Couture "Romans during a decline." Couture painting produced a furor. The artist instantly became famous.

"Breakfast on the grass" was accused of vulgarity. Pregnant was absolutely not seriously recommended to watch it.

Tom Kutur. Romans of the time of decline. 1847 Museum D'Ors, Paris. Artchive.ru.

In the picture of Couture, we see all the attributes of Academism (traditional painting of the XVI-XIX centuries). Columns and statues. People Apollo appearance. Traditional muffled colors. Mannerness poses and gestures. The plot from the distant life of a completely different people.

"Breakfast on the grass" mana is another format. Before him, no one depicted the curtains like that. Next to respectable citizens. Although many men of the time have spent their leisure time. It was the real life of real people.

Once I depicted one respectable lady. Ugly. He could not flatter her with a brush. The lady was disappointed. Gone from him in tears.

Eduard Mana. Angelina. 1860 Museum D'Ors, Paris. Wikimedia.commons.org.

Therefore, he continued to experiment. For example, with color. He did not try to portray the so-called natural flavor. If the gray-brown water seems to him bright blue, he also portrayed her bright blue.

This, of course, annoyed the public. "After all, even the Mediterranean Sea cannot boast of such a blue as the water man." - Yazvili they.

Eduard Mana. Arzhante. 1874 Museum of Fine Arts, Tour, Belgium. Wikipedia.org.

But the fact remains a fact. Mana in the estate changed the purpose of painting. The picture became an embodiment of the artist's individuality, who writes as he pleases. Forgetting about templates and traditions.

Nomaturation did not forgive him for a long time. Recognitions waited only at the end of life. But it was already not necessary. He painfully faded from the incurable disease.

2. Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Claude Monet. Self portrait in take. 1886 Private Collection

Claude Monet can be called a textbook impressionist. Since he was faithful to this area all his long life.

He wrote not objects and people, but a single color design of glare and spots. Separate strokes. Air shake.

Claude Monet. Paddling pool. 1869 Metropolitan Museum, New York. Metmuseum.org.

Monet wrote not only nature. He managed and city landscapes. One of the most famous - .

In this picture there is a lot from the photo. For example, the movement is transmitted using a blurred image.

Please note: long-range trees and figures are as if they are in the smoke.

Claude Monet. Kapuchin Boulevard in Paris. 1873 (Art Gallery of Europe and America 19-20 Vz.), Moscow

Before us is a stopped moment of the rapid life of Paris. No agility. Nobody poses. People are depicted as a totality of smears. Such immunity and the effect of the "Stop frame" is the main feature of impressionism.

By the mid-1980s, artists were disappointed in impressionism. Aesthetics is, of course, well. But the inconsistency of many oppressed.

Only Monet continued to persist, hypertrophing impressionism. It turned into a series of paintings.

The same landscape he portrayed dozens of times. At different times of the day. At different times of the year. To show how much temperature and light can change the same appearance beyond recognition.

So there were countless hay stacks.

Pictures of Claude Monet in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Left: hay stacks at sunset in Zhiverny, 1891 on the right: a stack of hay (snow effect), 1891

Please note that the shadows in these pictures are colored. And not gray or black, as was customary to impressionists. This is another their invention.

Monet managed to enjoy the success and material well-being. After 40, he already forgot about poverty. Got a house and a beautiful garden. And for a long time spent for many years.

About the most sign painting of the master read in the article

3. Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Self-portrait. 1875 Institute of Art Sterling and Francin Clark, Massachusetts, USA. Pinterest.ru.

Impressionism is the most positive painting. And the most positive among the impressionists was Renoir.

In his paintings, you will not find dramas. Even the black paint he did not use. Only the joy of being. Even the most common Renoire looks beautiful.

Unlike Monet, Renoir wrote people more often. Landscapes for him were less significant. The pictures are resting and enjoying the life of his friends and acquaintances.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Breakfast rowers. 1880-1881 Collection of Phillips, Washington, USA. Wikimedia.commons.org.

You can not find Renoara and deepness. He was very happy to join the impressionists who were polluted by plots.

As he himself said, finally he has the opportunity to write flowers and call them just "flowers." And do not invent any stories about them.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Woman with umbrella in the garden. 1875 Museum of Tissen-Burnis, Madrid. arteuam.com.

The best Renoir felt in the society of women. He asked his maid to sing and joke. The more stupid and the song was more naive, the better for him. And the men's chatter was tired. It is not surprising that Renoir is famous for the Nude cloths.

The model on the picture "naked in the sunlight" as if manifests itself on a colorful abstract background. Because there is nothing minor for Renuara. The eye of the model or the rear background section is equivalent.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Nude in the sunlight. 1876 \u200b\u200bMuseum d'Orsov, Paris. wikimedia.commons.org.

Renoir lived a long life. And never put off the brush and the palette. Even when his hands completely fed rheumatism, he tied a brush to his hand with a rope. And painted.

Like Monte, he waited for recognition after 40 years. And he saw his paintings in the Louvre, next to the works of famous masters.

About one of the most charming portraits of Renuara read in the article

4. Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Edgar Degas. Self-portrait. 1863 Museum of Galust Gulbenkyan, Lisbon, Portugal. Cultured.com.

Degi was not a classic impressionist. He did not like to work at the Captive (outdoors). He will not find a deliberate palette.

On the contrary, he loved a clear line. It has a black color. And he worked exclusively in the studio.

But still it is always put in a row with other great impressionists. Because he was an impressionist gesture.

Unexpected perspectives. Asymmetry in the location of objects. Cracked surprise characters. Here are the main attributes of his paintings.

He stopped the moments of life without giving the characters to come to his senses. Look at least on his "Opera Orchestra".

Edgar Degas. Opera orchestra. 1870 Museum D'Ors, Paris. COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG.

In the foreground, the back of the chair. Musician to us back. And on the back background, the ballerina on the stage did not fit into the "frame". Their heads are mercilessly "circumcised" the edge of the paintings.

So the dancers beloved them are not always depicted in beautiful poses. Sometimes they just make a stretch.

But this improvisation is impaired. Of course, Dega thoughtfully thought out the composition. This is just the effect of a stop frame, and not a real foot frame.

Edgar Degas. Two ballet dancers. 1879 Museum Shelbourne, Vermouth, USA

Edgar Degas loved to write women. But the disease or features of the body did not allow him to have physical contact with them. He was never married. No one ever seen him with the lady.

The lack of real plots in his personal life added a thin and intense eroticity to his images.

Edgar Degas. Ballet star. 1876-1878 Museum d'Ors, Paris. wikimedia.comons.org.

Please note that only the ballerina itself is drawn in the "Ballet Star" picture. Her colleagues behind the scenes barely distinguishable. Is that a few legs.

This does not mean that Dega did not finish the picture. This is the reception. Leave in focus only the most important thing. The rest to make disappearing, illegible.

About other paintings of the master read in the article

5. Berta Morizo \u200b\u200b(1841-1895)

Eduard Mana. Portrait of Berth Morizo. 1873 Maroton Monet Museum, Paris.

Bert Morizo \u200b\u200brarely put in the first row of great impressionists. I am sure that it is undeserved. Just do you have all the main features and techniques of impressionism. And if you like this style, you love her work with all the soul.

Morizo \u200b\u200bworked quickly and pushing, shifting his impression on the canvas. Figures as if about to dissolve in space.

Bert Morizo. Summer. 1880 Museum of Famon, Montpellier, France.

Like a degi, she often did not teach some details. And even parts of the body model. We cannot distinguish between the girls in the picture "Summer".

The path for self-expression in Morizo \u200b\u200bwas difficult. Not only did she have been engaged in a "careless" painting. She was still a woman. In those days, the lady was supposed to dream of marriage. After that, any hobby was forgotten.

Therefore, Berta has long refused marriage. Until I found a man who respectfully took her lesson. Eugene Mana was his native brother of the artist Eduard Man. He submiredly wore an easel and paint.

Bert Morizo. Eugene Mane with her daughter in Buhval. 1881 Maroton Monet Museum, Paris.

But still the case was in the XIX century. No, Morizo's pants did not wear. But she could not afford complete freedom of movement.

She could not go to the park to work alone, unaccompanied by someone from loved ones. Could not sit alone in the cafe. Therefore, its paintings are people from the family circle. Husband, daughter, relatives, nanny.

Bert Morizo. Woman with a child in the garden in the warehouse. 1881 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

Morizo \u200b\u200brecognition did not wait. She died in 54 years from inflammation of the lungs, almost no one's work at life. In her testimony of death in the column "Rod classes" stood a ditch. It was unthinkable to a woman called the artist. Even if she really was.

About the paintings of the master read in the article

6. Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)

Camille Pissarro. Self-portrait. 1873 Museum D'Ors, Paris. Wikipedia.org.

Camille Pissarro. Non-conflict, reasonable. Many people perceived as teachers. Even the most temperamental colleagues about Pissarro did not speak badly.

He was a faithful follower of impressionism. Strongly needing, having a wife and five children, he still hard worked in his beloved style. And never switched to salon painting to become more popular. It is not known where he took the power to believe in himself.

In order not to die at all with the hunger, Pisserrro painted a fan, which would be happy. And this recognition came after 60 years! Then finally he was able to forget about the need.

Camille Pissarro. Diligence in Luvezienne. 1869 Museum D'Ors, Paris

Air in paintings Pissarro thick and dense. Unusual alloy of color and volume.

The artist was not afraid to write the most changeable phenomena of nature, which are shown for a moment and disappear. First snow, frosty sun, long shadows.

Camille Pissarro. Frost. 1873 Museum d'Orsov, Paris

His most famous works are the types of Paris. With wide boulevards, a bay motley crowd. At night, in the afternoon, in different weather. Something they echo with the series of Pictures of Claude Monet.

FRENCH PAINTING OF THE 19TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY IS REPRESENTED by APPROXIMATEL 850 ITEMS. Chronologically, this section begins with works by artists from the late 18th and early 19th centuries whose contributions to the history of art vary enormously, but whose works embody the artistic aspirations of the age: Lethiere, Lefebre, Caraffe, C. Vernet, Girodet, P. Chauvin, Artists Who Were Very Popular During The Time of The Empire Such As Guerin, F. Gerard and Others.

Each of the Most Celebrated Masters Is Represented Here: David by His Superb Sappho and Phaon.(1809), gros by Napoleon on the Bridge at Arcole (About 1797), Ingres by Portrait of Count Guriev (1821), Delacroix, The Most Brilliant of FRENCH Romantic Artists, by Two Canvases: Moroccan Saddling A HORSE (1855) and Lion Hunt in Morocco (1854).

The Hermitage collection provides a good overview of the Barbizon School, a group of artists who settled in the village of Barbizon near Paris: Theodore Rousseau, Dupre, Daubigny and others, who were to have such a major influence on the development of French landscape painting , And Corot, Whose Works Contain A Peculiar Combination of Neoclassicism, Realism and Romanticism. One of the Focal Points of the Museum IS The Collection of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Works, Which Includes Over 250 Works.

IT Contains Seven Works by One of the Founders of Impressionism, Claude Monet, Enabling US to Judge Not Only His Creative Work, But Also The Evolution of the School Overall: From His Early Lady in a Garden (1867) to the Late Waterlolo Bridge.(1903). There Are Six Paintings by Renoir, Including HIS Notable Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary(1878); Two Paris Scenes by Pissarro; Three LandScapes by Sisley; And A Series of Pastel Drawings by Degas.

The Works by Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh Are of the Highest Quality. Cezanne Worked in Different Genres, AS CAN BE SEEN by The Selection of His Paintings on Display. Gauguin "S Oeuvre Is Here Repreten by Works Painted During His Life in Tahiti. Among Van Gogh" S Paintings Are The Lilac Bush. (1889), One of His Greatest Achivements, and Thatched Cottages. (1890), Among His Last Works.

Carriere, Puvis de Chavannes, Odilon Redon and Others A Among The Leading Symbolist Artists Whose Work Can Be Seen on Display. Works by The Nabis Group - Denis, Roussel, Vuillard, Bonnard, Vallotton - As Well As Marquet, Derain, Van Dongen, Vlaminck And Manguin, The Hermitage Exhibition Provides A Comprehensive View of The Development of French Painting At The Time.

The Culmination of the Collection of FRENCH 20th-Century Painting Comes with the Superb Display of Works by Matisse and Picasso. WITH 37 PAINTINGS BY MATISSE, INCLUDING SUCH NOTABLE CANVASES AS The Red Room (1908), Family Portrait.(1911), and the Important Panels Dance and Music (Both 1910), and 31 Paintings by Picasso, from the Early The Absinthe Drinker. (1901), A Major Work From His Blue Period - The Visit.(1902), to Works Vital To The Understanding Of Cubism - Dance with veils. (1907), Three Women, Woman With A Fan (1908) - These Rooms Are Rightly Amongst The Most Popular In The Museum.

It is more than beautiful pictures, this is a reflection of reality. In the works of great artists, you can see how the world and consciousness of people changed.

Art is also an attempt to create an alternative reality where you can hide from the horrors of your time, or the desire to change the world. The art of the XX century rightly occupies a special place in history. People who lived and worked in those days have survived social shocks, war, unprecedented science development; And all this found a fingerprint on their canvases. Artists of the 20th century took part in creating a modern vision of the world.

Someone's names are still pronounced with a swim, and someone's unfairly forgotten. Someone had such a controversial creative way that we still could not give him an unequivocal assessment. This review is devoted to the greatest artists of the 20th century. Camille Pisarro- French painter. An outstanding representative of impressionism. The artist's work was influenced by John Consthebla, Camille Coro, Jean Francois Mill.
Born on July 10, 1830 in the city of Saint-Thomas, died on November 13, 1903 in Paris.

Hermitage in Pontoise, 1868

Operable passage in Paris, 1898

Sunset in Varenzhville, 1899

Edgar Degas -french homeward, one of the greatest impressionists. At the work of the degi, the influence of Japanese graphics was born on July 19, 1834 in Paris, died on September 27, 1917 in Paris.

Absinttle, 1876.

Star, 1877.

Breathable woman, 1885

Paul Cezanne -french artist, one of the greatest postsionism representatives. In his work, it was striving for the disclosure of harmony and equilibrium of nature. His creativity had a huge influence on the worldview of the artists of the 20th century.
Born on January 19, 1839 in the city of Ex-en-Provence, France, died on October 22, 1906 in ex-en-Provence.

Games, 1893.

Modern Olympia, 1873

Still life with turtles, 1900

Claude Monet - Outstanding French painter. One of the founders of impressionism. In his works, Monet was striving to convey the wealth and saturation of the world. For its late period, decolation and
For the late period of MONE creativity, decolation is characterized, increasing dissolution of the subject forms in sophisticated combinations of color spots.
Born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, died on December 5, 1926 in the belly.

Rock Welk in Purville, 1882

After Lunch, 1873-1876

Erthet, Sunset, 1883

Archka Queenji -famous Russian artist, master of landscape painting. Early lost his parents. From an early age, love for painting began to manifest. The work of the Archproun is a great influence on Nikolai Roerich.
Born on January 15, 1841 in Mariupol, died on July 11, 1910 in St. Petersburg.

Volga, 1890-1895

"North", 1879

"View of the Kremlin from Zamoskvorechye", 1882

Pierre Auguste Renoir -french artist, schedule, sculptor, one of the prominent representatives of impressionism. Also known as a master of a secular portrait. Auguste Roden became the first impressionist who became popular among wealthy Parisians.
Born on February 25, 1841 in Limoges France, died on December 2, 1919 in Paris.

Art Bridge in Paris, 1867

Ball in Moulin de la Gaette, 1876

Zhanna Samari, 1877

Paul Gajen - French artist, sculptor-ceramist, schedule. On a par with a field of Cesan and Vincent Van Goghom is one of the most prominent representatives of postmingness. The artist lived in poverty, because his paintings were not in demand.
Born on June 7, 1848 in Paris, died on May 8, 1903 on the island of Hiva-Oa, French Polynesia.

Breton Landscape, 1894

Breton village in the snow, 1888

Are you jealous? 1892.

Saints Day, 1894

Vasily Kandinsky -russian and German artist, poet, theorist of art. It is considered one of the leaders of the avant-garde of the 1st half of the 20th century. It is among the founders of abstract art.
Born on November 22, 1866 in Moscow, died on December 13, 1944 in the town of Neu-sur-Sene, France.

Couple traveling riding on horse, 1918

PEST LIFE, 1907

Moscow 1, 1916

In gray, 1919

Henri Matisse -one of the greatest French artists and sculptors. One of the founders of the flow of walkers. In his work, it was striving for the transfer of emotions through color. At his work experienced the impact of the Islamic culture of Western Maghreb. Born on December 31, 1869 in the city of Le Kato, died on November 3, 1954 in the town of Symode.

Square in Saint-Tropez, 1904

Outlines notre-lads at night, 1902

Woman in hat, 1905

Dance, 1909.

Italian, 1919.

Portrait of Deleign, 1934

Nikolai Roerich - Russian artist, writer, scientist, mystic. For your life, more than 7000 paintings wrote. One of the outstanding cultural figures of the XX century, the founder of the "World through Culture" movement.
Born on October 27, 1874 in St. Petersburg, died on December 13, 1947 in the city of Kulu, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Overseas guests, 1901

Great Spirit Himalayev, 1923

Message Shambhala, 1933

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin -russian artist, schedule, theorist, writer, teacher. It was one of the ideologues to reorganize art education in the USSR.
Born on November 5, 1878 in the city of Sharnsk Saratov Province, died on February 15, 1939 in Leningrad.

"1918 in Petrograd", 1920

"Playing boys", 1911

Swimming Red Kony, 1912

Portrait of Anna Ahmatova.

Kazimir Malevich - Russian artist, founder of Suprematism - directions in abstract art, teacher, art theorist and philosopher
Born on February 23, 1879 in Kiev, died on May 15, 1935 in Moscow.

Recreation (society in cylinders), 1908

"Peasants with buckets", 1912-1913

Black Suprematic Square, 1915

Suprematic painting, 1916

On Boulevard, 1903

Pablo Picasso - Spanish artist, sculptor, sculptor, designer ceramist. One of the founders of the cubism. Creativity Pablo Picasso had a significant impact on the development of painting of the 20th century. According to the results of the survey of readers of the Time magazine
Born on October 25, 1881 in the city of Malaga Spain, died on April 8, 1973 in Music, France.

Girl on a bowl, 1905

Portrait of Ambruz Vallora, 1910

Three Graces

Portrait of Olga

Dance, 1919.

Woman with flower, 1930

Amadeo Modiganiani - Italian artist, sculptor. One of the brightest representatives of expressionism. During his lifetime, had only one exhibition in December 1917 in Paris. Born on July 12, 1884 in the city of Livorno, Italy, died on January 24, 1920 from Tuberculosis. World recognition received posthumously global recognition received posthumously.

Cellist, 1909.

Spouses, 1917.

Joan Ebutern, 1918

Mediterranean landscape, 1918

Diego Rivera - Mexican painter, Mural, politician. He was a spouse Frida Calo. In their house, found a shelter for a short time Lion Trotsky.
Born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, died on December 21, 1957 in Mexico City.

Notre Dame de beta in the rain, 1909

Woman at the well, 1913

Union of peasant and worker, 1924

Detroit Industry, 1932

Mark Shagal - Russian and french painter, schedule, illustrator, theater artist. One of the greatest representatives of Avangonds.
Born on June 24, 1887 in the city of Liozino, Mogilev province, died on March 28, 1985 in Saint-Paul-de-Provence.

Annie (sister portrait), 1910

Bride with fan, 1911

I and the village, 1911

Adam and Eve, 1912

Mark Rotko (Nast. Mark Rotkovich) is an American artist, one of the founders of abstract expressionism and the founder of painting the color field.
The first works of the artist were created in realistic spirit, however, then by the mid-40s Mark Rotko appeals to surrealism. By 1947, the most important fracture in the work of Mark Rotko happens, he creates its own style - abstract expressionism, which departs from subject elements.
Born on September 25, 1903 in the city of Dvinsk (now Daugavpils), died on February 25, 1970 in New York.

Untitled

Number 7 or 11

Orange and yellow

Salvador Dali - Painter, schedule, sculptor, writer, designer, director. Perhaps the most famous representative of surrealism and one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
The author of the design of Chupa Chups.
Born on May 11, 1904 in the city of Figueras, Spain, died on January 23, 1989 in Spain.

Temptation of St. Anthony, 1946

Last Supper, 1955

Woman with heads from roses, 1935

My wife Gala, naked, looks at her body, 1945

Frida Kalo -mexican artist and schedule, one of the brightest representatives of surrealism.
Frida Kalo began to draw after the car accident, which was the result of a year chained to the bed for a year.
It was married to the famous Mexican artist-Communist Diego River. They didn't find a lion Trotsky in the house for a long time.
Born on July 6, 1907 in the city of Koyoacan, Mexico, died on July 13, 1954 in Koyoacan.

Hugs of Universal Love, Earth, I, Diego and Cathl, 1949

Moses (core of creation), 1945

Two Frida, 1939

Andy Warhole (Nasty. Andrei Varchol) - American artist, designer, director, producer, publisher, writer, collector. The founder of pop art, is of one of the most anti-cultivatic personalities in the history of culture. In the life of the artist, several films were shot.
Born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died in 1963 in New York.

Impressionism.

Eduard Mana (Fr. Édouard Manet, January 23, 1832, Paris - April 30, 1883, Paris) - French artist, one of the hedlemen of impressionism.

The hobby of the old painting led numerous travel mane. He repeatedly visited the Dutch museums, where he admired the painting of France Hals. In 1853 he made a traditional journey to Italy for French artists, where Venice and Florence visited. It was then that the beginning of the influence on the young artist paintings by the worst and high revival. One of the artists who had the greatest influence on Mana becomes Velasquez. Perhaps it is his late works, especially famous Bodegons, had a huge impact on the formation of the movement of impressionism. The return journey to France was long - Mane went through Central Europe, visiting museums in Dresden, Prague, Vienna and Munich.

In 1863 and 1864, Manne is put up in both the cabin and the official salon, where his new paintings, especially the "breakfast on the grass" caused a sharp indignation by critics. The peak of rejection falls for 1865, when Manne put out his (famous) "Olympia" in the cabin - the picture found by his contemporaries is extremely obscene and vulgar, and provoked a grandiose for those times the scandal.

During the siege of Paris in 1870, Mana, as a convinced republican, remained in the capital. After the French-Prussian War and the Paris commune, the artist converges even closer with young impressionists. This is evidenced, for example, numerous pictures written in the pleaire, side by side with Claude Monet in Argenthe in 1874. Nevertheless, mana did not want to participate in the exhibitions of the Impressionists. He preferred at any cost to achieve recognition of the jury of official salons. Another hype around his name originated in 1874. "Railway" again caused the acute antipathy of the jury. And only in 1879, the Salon appreciated the persistence of the artist: the canvas "in the greenhouse" and "in the boat" were very warmly met.

"Absinthe Amateur", 1858-1859, New Gilipotka Karlsberg

"Music in Tuilery", 1862, National Gallery, London

Olympia, 1863, Orsay Museum, Paris

Spanish musician (Galterrelo). 1860 Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Emperor's execution Mexico Maximilian. 1867, Kunsthalla, Mannheim.

Edgar-Germain-Ilher de Ga, or Edgar Degas (Fr. Edgar Degas) (July 19, 1834, Paris - September 27, 1917) - French painter, one of the most prominent and original representatives of the Impressionism.

In 20 years (1854), Degas enters the student in the workshop in his time the artist of the lady, who, in turn, the student of the Great Engra. In a familiar family of degius, Engra happened, and he had long retained his appearance in his memory, and for his life he had retained the love of the Engrovsky singer line and clearly. Degi loved other great drawers - Nikola Poussna, Hans Golbien - and copied their work in the Louvre with such diligence and skill, which was difficult to distinguish a copy of the original.

The products of the degi with their strictly verified and at the same time dynamic, often asymmetric composition, an accurate flexible pattern, unexpected angles, active interaction of the figure and space combine the seeming imperfect and the randomness of the motive and architectonics of the picture with careful thoughtfulness and calculation. "There was no art, less directly than mine," the artist himself assesses his own creativity. Each of his work is the result of long observations and stubborn, painstaking work on their implementation into an artistic image. In the work of the masters there is nothing from the expression. Completion and thoughtfulness of its compositions causes sometimes to recall the Pussen's web. But as a result, images arise on canvas that will not be an exaggeration to be called an immacitation instantaneous and random. In the French art of the 19th century, the degiousness of the degiousness in this respect is the diametrical opposite of creativity Cezann. In Cesanna, the picture carries all the immutableness of the world order and looks fully completed by the microcosm. The degas it contains only a part of a cut-off frame of a powerful stream of life. Drug images are executed by dynamism, they embody the accelerated rhythms of the modern artist of the era. It was the passion for the transmission of motion - this, according to the words identified a debit story plots: images of jumping horses, ballerinas at rehearsals, laundors and ironers at work, dressed or combing women.

Edgar Degas. Right horses in front of the stands. 1869-1872 Louvre, Paris.

Blue dancers. Museum. Pushkin, Moscow.

Office on cotton trading in New Orleans. 1873.

The washing up. 1886 Hill Stand Museum, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.

Absinthe, 1876, Orsay Museum, Paris

Before start, 1862-1880, OSA Museum, Paris

Ballet performance - View of the stage from the lodges, 1885, Art Museum, Philadelphia

Ballet school.

Miss Lala in Circus Fernando.

Bundoras with linen.

At the modist.

Gladliners

Pierre Auguste Renoir (Fr. Pierre-Auguste Renoir; February 25, 1841, Limoges - December 2, 1919, Kan-sur-Mer) - French painter, schedule and sculptor, one of the main representatives of Impressionism. Renoir is known primarily as a master of a secular portrait, not deprived of sentimentality; He first of the impressionists have gained success in wealthy Parisians. In the mid-1880s. In fact, broke with impressionism, returning to the linearity of classicism, to engrism. Father famous director.

"Spring Bouquet" (1866). Museum of Harvard University

"Ball in Le Moulin de la Gaette" (1876). Museum Orsay

"Big swimsters" (1887). Museum of Arts, Philadelphia.

"Piano girls" (1892). Museum Orsay.

"Gabriel in Red Blouse" (1910). Meeting M. Vestema, New York.

Oscar Claude Monet (FR. Oscar-Claude Monet, 1840-1926) - French painter, one of the founders of impressionism.

When the boy was five years old, the family moved to Normandy, to Gavr. On the sea coast, Normandy Monet met Ezhen Budanene, a famous landscape player and one of the impression sovereigns of impressionism. Budy showed young artist some picturesque work from nature

The picture "On the Way of the Seine" (Bennecourt, 1868), this is an early example of a captive impressionism, in which the skillful and awakening imagination use of oils was presented as a finished product of art.

Disappointed in traditional art, which was taught in art schools, in 1862 Monet entered the University named after Charles Gleira in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederick Basil and Alfred Sisley. They shared each other new approaches to the art, the art of image effects of light in a clear-style style with a violation of the color scheme and fast strokes, the fact that later became known as impressionism. Picture with a portrait of Camilla Monet or "Woman in a green dress" (La Femme and La Robe Verte), written in 1866, brought him recognition and was one of the many works depicting his future wife, Camillas Donsen; A year later, she posed for the pictures of "Women in the Garden" and "On the Way of the Seine" (Bennecourt, 1868).

After the start of the Franco Prussian War (July 19, 1870), Monte found a refuge in England in September 1870, where he studied the works of John Consthebla and Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose paintings of landscapes will become a source of inspiration for monet innovation in a color study.

"Impression. Ascending Sun ", 1872, Museum Marmotan Monet, Paris

"Kapuchin Boulevard", 1873

"Harbor"

"Pond with lilies", 1899g., National Gallery, London

"Regatta in Arzhate", 1872, Museum Orsay, Paris

"Frog", 1869, Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA

"Women in the Garden", 1866-1867, Museum Orsay, Paris, France

"Beach in Purville", 1882, National Museum of Poland, Poznan, Poland

"Water lilies", 1915

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (Franz. Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro, July 10, 1830, Saint Thomas Island - November 12, 1903, Paris) - French painter, one of the first and most consistent representatives of impressionism.

Pizarro started like a student Camilla Coro. In this selection of the teacher already affected the innate love of the artist to landscape painting. But no less attention at the beginning of his creative path Camille Pisilo pays the drawing. Already in early works, the artist paid special attention to the image of the illuminated objects in the air. Light and air have become the leading theme in the work of Pisarro.

Gradually, Pisarro began to be freed from the influence of the Coro, his own style ripened. Since 1866, the artist's palette becomes a lighter, the dominant of its plot becomes the space permeated with sunlight and light air, and the peculiar Coro neutral tones disappear.

Work, glorified by Pisarro, is a combination of traditional landscape plots and unusual equipment in the drawing of light and illuminated objects. Pictures of mature Pizarro written with dense strokes and filled with the physical sensation of light, to express which he sought.

Pissarro had a strong influence on the impressionists, having independently generating many principles based on their painting style. He was friends with such artists as Degas, Cezanne and Gajn. Pizarro is the only participant in all eight exhibitions of impressionists.

"Montmartre Boulevard. Afternoon, sunny. " 1897.

Self-portrait, 1873.

Neo-simpressionism.

Paul Signac (Fr. Paul Signac, November 11, 1863, Paris - August 15, 1935, Paris) - French grades-postimigressismist, representative of the direction of Poentonism.

In 1882, in Paris and Brittany began writing pictures under the influence of impressionists, mainly Monet. In 1884, participates in the creation of a "society of independent artists", where he met George Siera, with whom in 1889 he developed the picturesque technique of punctivity, although at the last exhibition of impressionists of his paintings reflected the aesthetics of Divisionism.

In life, the artist was a recognized classic. In 1911, he was awarded the Order of the Honorary Legion.

Les Andelys (1886)

Femme Lisant (1887), Orsay Museum, Paris. Oil, tree

Château de Comblat (1887), Museum of Liege, Belgium

La Bouée Rouge (1895) Orsay Museum

L'Orage, (1895) Musée De L "Annonciade,

LE PHARE D'Antibes, (1909)

Postpressionism.

Paul Cezanne (Fr. Paul Cézanne) is a French artist, a bright representative of postminglyism.

Paul Cesann was born in France on January 19, 1839 in the city of Ex-en-Provence in the family of a wealthy bourgeois. In College, Bourbon, in which he studied, Paul became friends with the future famous writer Emil Zol. Paul studied the right at the University of Exce, but did not graduate from the course, deciding entirely to devote himself to painting.

After a short study at the School of Fine Arts, Ex-en-Provence Cesanne went to Paris, where he met the Camiel Piserro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Mona and Alfred Siseli. Together with them, he participated in the first exhibition of impressionists in 1874 in the photographic studio of Nadar in Paris.

The works of Cezanne carry the imprint of the internal life of the artist. They are filled with the internal energy of attraction and repulsion. The contradictions were originally peculiar to the mental world of the artist, and his artistic aspirations. The southern temperament was combined into household life Cezanna with pinnacle and asceticism, piousness - with attempts to free themselves from the temperament of religious traditions. Confident in his genius, Cezanne nevertheless was always obsessed with the fear of the fact that he would not find accurate means of expressing what he saw and wanted to express in the picture with painting by painting. He always told about the inability to "implement" his own vision, all the time doubted that he was able to do this, and each new picture became both a refutation and confirmation of this.

Piano girl (overture to "tangseyzer"). OK. 1868. Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Bouquet of flowers in a blue vase. 1873-1875. Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The bridge over Marla in the Creek (Marn Bank). 1888-1894. GMI them. A. S. Pushkin, Moscow

Smoker. 1890-1892. Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Mount St. Victoria. 1897-1898. Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Vincent Villem Van Gogh (Notherl. Vincent Willem Van Gogh, March 30, 1853, Grottoes-sunting, near Breda, Netherlands - July 29, 1890, Over-Sur-UAZ, France) - World-famous Netherlands graduation artist.

In the 1880s, Van Gogh appealed to art, visited the Academy of Arts in Brussels (1880-1881) and Antwerp (1885-1886), enjoying the tips of the painter A. Mauwe in the Hague, with hobby, painted mines, peasants, artisans. In a series of paintings and etudes of the mid 1880s. ("Peasantkaya", 1885, Museum of Kleller-Muller, Otterlo; "Potato Etheries", 1885, State Museum of Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam), written in the dark picturesque range marked with the painful perception of human suffering and feelings of depression, the artist recreated oppressive The atmosphere of psychological tensions.

In 1886-1888, Van Gogh lived in Paris, visited the prestigious private art studio of the teacher P. Kormon famous for the whole of Europe, studied the painting of impressionism, Japanese engraving, synthetic works of the Gaugaen field. During this period, the Wan Gogh's palette became light, the eartheny collar was disappeared, pure blue, golden-yellow, red tones, characteristic of him dynamic, as if the jogging smear ("Bridge over Seine", 1887, State Museum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam ; "Daddy Tangi", 1887, Roden Museum, Paris).

In 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles, where it was finally determined by the originality of his creative manner. Flaming art temperament, painful rushing to harmony, beauty and happiness and, at the same time, the fear of hostile man forces, find the embodiment of the south landscapes shining by sun paints ("Harvest. Valley of La Cro", 1888, State Museum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam ), then in the sinister, reminiscent of the nightmare of images ("Night Cafe", 1888, Museum of the Kleller-Muller, Otterlo); The dynamics of the color and smear fills the spiritual life and the movement not only the nature and inhabiting her people ("Red Vineyards in Arle", 1888, State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin, Moscow), but also inanimate items ("Bedroom Van Gogh in Arles, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh State Museum, Amsterdam). In the last week of his life, Van Gogh wrote his last and famous picture: a field of grain with corona. She was evidence of the tragic death of the artist.

Eugene Henri Paul Gaugugen (June 7, 1848 - May 8, 1903) - French painter, sculptor-ceramist and schedule.

Along with Cezanne and Van Gogh, he was the largest representative of postpressionism.

In the early 1870s began to engage in painting as an amateur. The early period of creativity (under the influence of Pissarro) is associated with impressionism. Since 1880, he participated in the exhibitions of impressionists. Since 1883, a professional artist.

Testing from childhood spent in Peru (on the mother's mother), craving for exotic places and considering the civilization "illness", Gauguin, thirsting to "merge with nature", in 1891 he leaves for Tahiti, where he lived in Papeete and where he writes in 1892 As many as 80 canvases. After a short-term (1893-1895) return to France, due to the illness and the absence of funds, he leaves for Oceania forever - first to Tahiti, and since 1901, to the island of Khiva Oa (Marquis Islands), where he takes himself a young Tahitian and It works in full force: writes landscapes, stories, works by a journalist. On this island, he dies. Despite the diseases, poverty and depression, which brought him to the attempt of suicide, the best works of Hogen wrote exactly there. Observation of the real life and the life of oceania people are wangling in them with local myths.

Sewing woman (1880)

Yellow Christ (1889)

Woman with flower (1891)

The spirit of the dead does not sleep (1892)

Are you jealous? (1892)

Fun Evil Spirit (1894)

Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? (1897-1898)

More Never (1897)

Francois Auguste Rene Roden (Fr. François-Auguste-René Rodin) (November 12, 1840 - November 17, 1917) - the famous French sculptor, one of the founders of impressionism in sculpture.

Auguste Roden was born in Paris. He studied at the Paris School of Drawing and Mathematics, enrolling there, contrary to the wishes of the Father, and Antoine Bari in the Museum of Natural History.

In 1864, the first work of Rodna - "a broken nose" man was rejected at the Paris Salon, as he chased the challenge to academic canons of beauty. Roden was also not accepted into the school of fine arts, and from 1864 to 1870 he worked in the workshop A.Karie-Belleza during the Severical Manufactory, earning the creation of a decorative sculpture.

sculpture "Thinker"

"Citizens Kale". Roden Museum in Philadelphia

Statue of Honor de Balzac. Roden Museum in Philadelphia

"Gate hell" of the Museum of Rodin in Philadelphia

A man with a broken nose. Roden Museum in Philadelphia

Theophile-Alexander Steinlen (FR. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen; November 10, 1859, Lausanne - December 14, 1923, Paris) - French and Swiss artist, schedule and illustrator, working both in realistic style and in modern style.

T.-A. Steinlen became famous thanks to his Paris posters created by about 1900, his scenes from the nightlife of Montmartre and, of course, his "cat" picture and the chart that made him the name. Other edges of the artist's talent are less known: its painting, sculpture and graphics devoted to the events of the First World War, especially the events in Serbia and Belgium. Steinlen was self-taught, and nevertheless, heir to rich artistic traditions. His works feels the influence of the creativity of Delacra, Domier, Dore and Man. That spread and the popularity that Steinlen had the works in Paris in the time of Belle Epoque, made the artist by the Central figure in the European artist of the beginning of the XX century; They became a source of inspiration for numerous avant-garde masters, including Picasso

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