1. "Crying Boy" - Picture of the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin. There is a legend, as if the father of the boy (he is the author of the portrait), trying to achieve the brightness, vitality and naturalness of the canvas, he lit in the face of the baby matches. The fact is that the boy was afraid of fire to death. The boy crying - father drew. Once the baby could not stand and shouted at the Father: "Gorge you yourself!". A month later, the child died from pneumonia. And after a couple of weeks, the charred body of the artist was found in its own house next to the picture of a crying boy who survived in a fire. On this, everything could end, but in 1985, with British newspapers, there were no statements about the fact that in almost every of the burned premises, firefighters found the reproductions of the "crying boy", which the fire did not even touch. 2. "Hands oppose to him" - Picture of the American artist Bill Stonehem. The author says that he is depicted in the picture itself at the age of five, that the door is the view of the dividing line between the real world and the world of dreams, and the doll is a conductor who can spend the boy through this world. Hands represent alternative lives or opportunities. The picture became a famous urban legend in February 2000, when it was put up for sale at EBAY auction with a prehistory, telling that the picture is "with ghosts". According to the legends, after the death of the first owner, the painting was found in the landfill among the pile of garbage. The family, who found her, brought home, and already on the first night, a small four-year-old daughter ran into the bedroom of parents with the cries that "children in the picture are fighting." Next night - that "the children in the picture were outside the door." On the next night, the head of the family put the camcorder responding to movement, in the room where the picture hung. The camcorder worked several times, but nothing could be counted. 3. "Woman of rain" - Picture of Vinnitsa Artist Svetlana Taurus. For another six months before the creation of the painting, some visions began to visit it. For a long time, Svetlana seemed that someone was watching her. Sometimes she even heard strange sounds in her apartment. But these thoughts tried to drive away from ourselves. After some time, the idea for a new picture appeared. The image of the mysterious woman was born suddenly, but Svetlana seemed to see how she knew her a long time ago. The features of the face that woven from fog, the clothes, the ghost lines of the figure - the artist wrote a woman without thinking for a minute. As if her hand drove an invisible power. In the city, the Molva rushed around that this picture was damned, after the third buyer returned the picture back in a few days, not even picking money. Everyone who had this picture said that at night she seemed to come to life and walks the shadow nearby. People began with headaches and, even hiding the picture in the closet, the feeling of presence did not leave. 4. In the time of Pushkin, the portrait of Maria Lopukhina, written by Vladimir Borovikovsky, was one of the main "horror stories." The girl lived a short and unhappy life, and after writing a portrait died from Chathek. Her father, Ivan Tolstoy, was a famous mystic and magician Masonic lodge. Therefore, rumors crawled around that he managed to lure the spirit of the dead daughter in this portrait. And that if young girls look at the picture, they will soon die. According to the salon gossip, the portrait of Mary destroyed at least ten nobles on the issuance ... 5. "Water lilies" - Landscape of the Impressionist Claude Monet. When an artist with friends celebrated the end of the work on the picture, a small fire happened in the workshop. The flame quickly poured wine and did not give it values. Just a month, the picture has checked in a cabaret on Montmartre. And then at one night, the institution burned down. But "Lilies" managed to save. The picture was bought by Paris Macenate Oscar Schmitz. A year later, his house burned down. The fire began with a cabinet, where the ill-fated canvas hung. It miraculously survived. Another victim of the mona landscape was the New York Museum of Contemporary Arts. Here "Water Lilies" transported in 1958. Four months later, she worked here. And the damned picture was greatly charred.
6. On the film Edward Mink "Creek" A hairless suffering from his head, similar to an inverted pear, is depressed in horror to the ears of his palms and with an open mouth open in a silent cry. Facial waves of the flour of this creature, as if echo, diverge in the air around his head. This man (or a woman) seems to be concluded in his own cry and, so as not to hear him, squeezed her ears. It would be strange if there were no legends around this picture. They say that everyone who entered her contact was suffered from evil rock. A museum employee who accidentally dropped the picture began to suffer from the strongest headaches and eventually committed suicide. Another employee who, apparently, was also the curves of his hands, dropped the picture and the next day fell into an accident. Someone even burned down a day after contact with the picture. 7. Another canvas that constantly accompany the trouble is "Venus with a mirror" Diego Velasqueza. The first owner of the painting is the Spanish merchant - it was broken, his trade worsened every day until most of his goods were captured by pirates in the sea, and a few more ships drowned. Selling from the hammer, everything that he had, the merchant was sold and the picture. She acquired another Spaniard, also a merchant who owned rich warehouses in the port. Almost immediately after money was transferred for the cloth, the warehouses of the merchant caught fire from suddenly impaired lightning. The owner was ruined. And again auction, and again the picture is sold among the rest of things, and again it buys a wealthy Spaniard ... After three days it was stabbed in his own house during robbery. The picture after that could not find his new owner for a long time (her reputation was too tightened), and the canvas chaser in different museums, while in 1914, the crazy did not cut her with a knife.
8. "Demon defeated" Mikhail Vrubel had a detrimental effect on the psyche and the health of the artist himself. He could not break away from the painting, everything continued to add the face of the defeated spirit and change the flavor. "Demon defeated" already hung at the exhibition, and Vrubel came to the hall, not paying attention to visitors, sat in front of the picture and continued to work as if obsessed. The closest were concerned with his condition, and his famous Russian psychiatrist Behterev was examined. The diagnosis was terrible - dice of the spinal cord, close to madness and death. Vrubel was placed in the hospital, but the treatment helped poorly, and soon he died.

There is a superstition that the portrait writing can bring the unfortunate model. In the history of Russian painting there were several famous canvases, which had a mystical reputation.

"Ivan the Terrible and Son of His Ivan on November 16, 1581." Ilya Repin

Ilya Repin had a "fatal painter" reputation: many of those whose portraits he painted, dying suicide. Among them, Mussorgsky, Pisemist, Pirogov, Italian actor Mursa D'Argeanto and Fyodor Tyutchev.

The most gloomy picture of Repin recognize "Ivan Grozny kills his son." Curious fact: It is still unknown, if Ivan IV his son killed or this legend really composed by the Vatican envoy Antonio Possevino.

The picture made an oppressive impression on the visitors of the exhibition. Cases of hysteria were recorded, and in 1913, the icon painter Abram Balashov resorbed the picture with a knife. Later he was admitted insane.

A strange coincidence: the artist of Myasoedov, from which Repin wrote the image of the king, soon almost killed in the attack of anger of His son Ivan, and the writer Vsevolod Garshin, who becamefortorchik For Tsarevich Ivan, went crazy and committed suicide.

"Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina." Vladimir Borovikovsky

Maria Lopukhin, originating from the county of Tolsty, became the artist's simulator at 18, shortly after his own wedding. Amazingly beautiful girl was healthy and full strength, but died 5 years later. After years, the poet Polonsky will write "The beauty of her Borovikovsky saved ...".

There were rumors about the connection of the painting with the death of a loophin. The city legend was born that a portrait could not look at a portrait - the sad fate of the "Timber" will suffer.

Some argued that the father of the girl, the master of the Masonic lodge, concluded the Spirit of his daughter in the portrait.

After 80 years, the picture acquired Tretyakov, who was not afraid of the reputation of the portrait. Today, the canvas is located in the Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery.

"Unknown". Ivan Kramskaya

The painting "Unknown" (1883) caused a rustling interest among the St. Petersburg public. But Tretyakov flatly refused to acquire a picture for his collection. So, the "stranger" began his journey through private collections. Soon we began to occur: the first owner was abandoned by his wife, the second burned down the house, the third went bankrupt. All misfortunes attributed a fatal picture.

The artist himself did not escape the trouble, shortly after writing the picture, two sons of Kramsky died.

Pictures were sold abroad, where she continued to bring one misfortune to the owners, while in 1925 the canvas did not return to Russia. When the portrait turned out to be in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery of the misfortune ceased.

"Troika". Vasily Perov

Perov could not find a simulator for a central boy for a long time, until he met one woman who was driving through Moscow at a manty-motherly with his 12-year-old Son Vasya. The artist managed to persuade a woman to give Vasily to pop up for the painting.

A few years later, Perov again met with this woman. It turned out that a year after writing a picture of Vassenka died, and his mother specially came to the artist to buy a picture for the last money.

But the canvas was already acquired and exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery. When a woman saw Troika, she fell on her knees and began to pray. Sillarmed, artist wrote for woman portrait of her son.

"Demon defeated." Mikhail Vrubel

Son Vrubel, Savva, died suddenly soon after the artist finished the portrait of the boy. The death of the Son became a blow to Vrubel, so he concentrated on his last picture "Demon defeated".

The desire to finish the canvas turned into obsession. Vrubel continued to add the picture even when she was sent to the exhibition.

Not paying attention to visitors, the artist came to the gallery, took the brushes and continued to work. Concerned relatives contacted the doctor, but it was already too late - the dice of the spinal cord brought Vrubel into the grave, despite the treatment.

"Mermaids". Ivan Kramskaya

Ivan Kramskaya conceived to write a picture based on the story N.V. Gogol "May night, or a drowning". At the first exhibition in the mobile partnership, the picture was hung next to the pastoral "Gracchi flew" by Alexei Savrasov. On the first night, the picture "Graci" fell from the wall.

Soon both paintings bought Tretyakov, "Grachics flew" took a place in the office, and the "mermaids" were put up in the hall. From this point on, the servants and households of Tretyakov began to complain about the guarantee singing, informed at night from the hall.

Moreover, people began to celebrate that next to the picture they experience the decline.

Mysticism continued until the old nurse advised to remove the mermaids from the light to the far end of the hall. Tretyakov followed the Council, and the oddities stopped.

"To the death of Alexander III." Ivan Aivazovsky

When the artist found out about the death of Emperor Alexander III, he was shocked and wrote a picture without any order. According to the idea of \u200b\u200bAivazovsky, the picture was supposed to symbolize the celebration of life over death. But, by graduating from the picture, Aivazovsky hid it and did not show anyone. For the first time, the picture was put on all over 100 years later.

The picture is broken into fragments, a cross is depicted on the canvas, the Petropavlovsk fortress and the figure of a woman in black.

A strange effect is that at a certain angle, the female figure turns into a laughing man. Some see in this silhouette of Nikolai II, while others - Pakhoma Andreyushkin, one of those terrorists who failed to attempt to the emperor in 1887.

Italian scientists said they found the remains that could belong to Lisa del Jokondo. Perhaps the mystery of the "Mona Lisa" will be disclosed. In honor of this remember the most mysterious paintings in history.

1. Joconda
The first thing that comes to mind when it comes to the mysterious paintings, or about the pictures-riddles is "Mona Lisa", written by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503-1505. Gryuye wrote that this picture can be crazy anyone who, after seeing plenty of her, will begin to lead about her conversations.
"Mysfots" in this work da Vinci find a lot. Art historians write dissertations at the inclination of the hands of Mona Lisa, medical professionals are diagnosed (from such that Jokonda has no front teeth to such that Mona Lisa is a man). There is even a version that Jocona is a self-portrait of the artist.
By the way, the picture acquired a special popularity only in 1911, when it was stolen by the Italian Vincenzo Perugia. Found it on fingerprint. So "Mona Lisa" also became the first success of Dactyloscopy, and the enormous success of the marketing of the art market.

2. Black square


Everyone knows that "black square" is not really black, and not square. This is really no square. In the catalog to the exhibition, he was declared Malevich as a "quadrangle". And really not black. The artist did not use black paint.
It is less known that Malevich considered "Black Square" with its best work. When the artist was buried, "Black Square" (1923) stood in the head of the coffin, the Malevich's body was covered with a white canvas with a squeezed square, the black square was drawn on the coffin lid. Even on the train and the bodies of the truck, black squares were depicted.

3. Creek

With the picture "Creek" mysteriously not that it allegedly influences people, forcing them almost to commit suicide, but the fact that this picture is essentially realism for Edward Minka, who at the time of writing this masterpiece suffered from manic Depressive psychosis. He even recalled exactly how he saw what he wrote.
"I walked along the path with two friends - the sun was sitting - unexpectedly the sky became bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaned about the fence - I looked at the blood and flame languages \u200b\u200bover a bluish-black fiior form and the city - my friends went on, And I stood, trembling excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature. "

4. Grannie


Picasso wrote "Gernik" in 1937. The picture is devoted to the bombardment of the city of Gernik. They say that Picasso in 1940 was summoned to the Gestapo and asked about the "hennik": "Do you have done?" The artist replied: "No, you did".
A huge fresco of Picasso wrote no longer than a month, working for 10-12 hours a day. "Gernika" is considered to reflect the whole horror of fascism, inhuman cruelty. Those who saw the picture with their own eyes say that it gives rise to alarm, and sometimes panic.

5. Ivan the Terrible and Son of His Ivan


We all know the picture "Ivan the Terrible and the Son of His Ivan," calling her usually "Ivan Grozny kills her son."
Meanwhile, the murder of Ivan Vasilyevich his heir, a very controversial fact. So, in 1963, the Tomb of Ivan the Terrible and his son was opened in the Arkhangelsk Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Studies made it possible to argue that Tsarevich John was poisoned.
The main content of the poison in its remains is many times the permissible norm. Interestingly, the same poison was found in the bones of Ivan Vasilyevich. Scientists concluded that the royal family for several decades was the victim of the Emirates.
Ivan the Terrible did not kill his son. This version was adhered to, for example, the Ober-Prosecutor of the Holy Synod of Konstantin Victorious. Seeing the famous film of Repin at the exhibition, he was outraged and wrote to the emperor Alexander III: "It is impossible to call the picture of historical, since this moment ... purely fantastic." The murder version was founded on the stories of the Papal Leah Antonio Possevino, which is difficult to call the disinterested person.
On the picture once the present attempt was committed.
On January 16, 1913, the twenty-one-year-old icon painter-old shipholder Abram Balashov defeated her three strikes with a knife, after which the persons depicted in the picture of Ivanov Ilya Repin had to write actually again. After the incident, the keeper of the Tretyakov Gallery Khruslov, having learned about Vandalism, rushed under the train.

6. Hands oppose to him


The picture of Bill Stonehem, written in 1972, became famous, say straight, not the best glory. According to information on E-Bay, the picture after a while after the purchase was found in the landfill. On the first night, as the picture was in the house found her family, the daughter came running to parents in tears, complaining that "the children in the picture are fighting."
Since then, the picture is very bad reputation. To buy it in 2000, Kim Smith constantly come angry letters demanding to burn the picture. Also in the newspapers they wrote that ghosts sometimes appear in the Hills of California, like two drops of water similar to children from Stonehem's paintings.

7. Portrait of Lopukhina


Finally, the "bad picture" is a portrait of a loop, written by Vladimir Borovikovsky in 1797, after a while began to have bad fame. In the portrait, Maria Lopukhin was depicted, which died shortly after writing a portrait. People began to say that the picture "takes out youth" and even "leads to the grave."
It is certainly unknown who let such a rumor, but after Pavel Tretyakov "fearlessly" acquired a portrait for his gallery, talking about the "riddle of the painting" dull.

Each artwork carries a certain message of the author, transfers its inner world and character.

Paintings are no exception, often they are endowed with the Creator's energy, who has drawn them, which happens to mysterious and mystical events. And sometimes the author is specifically trying to encrypt any riddles and puzzles in his work, some have not yet been solved.

This is perhaps the most famous and most mysterious cloth today. Millions of people attend annually Louvre to look at the famous "Jocona" Leonardo da Vinci. What is such a mysterious in itself her smile?

There are still disputes, who depicted In the portrait. Versions Many, this is the wife of the Silk Francesco Del Jocondo, and the mother of Leonardo, and his student, Salay, and even self-portrait of Master da Vinci.

In addition, several secret signs are encrypted in the picture itself. Not so long ago, with the help of the strongest microscope managed Detect tiny letters and numbers In the eyes of Mona Lisa. Also, different digital signs are in other fragments of the work.

Picture with a double bottom, more precisely face. In the 1960s, with the help of X-ray, it was enlightened and saw that immediately after writing it looked differently. Initially, Danai's face was the face of the wife of Rembrandt Sasquia, who was his muse. After her death, the artist under pressure from his mistress changed the appearance on the canvasBy adding her features.

It is noteworthy that Master 11 years worked his brainchild, and her restoration lasted almost the same amount, after in 1985 the canvas poured acid and cut the knife.

And at the heart of the work lies the myth about letting, sharpened by his father, the acrysie, who was afraid of prophecies. It stated that he death of his own grandson. The ruler of Olympus Zeus, fascinated by the beauty of the girl penetrated into imprisonment in the form of a golden rain. From him and was born Perseus, who subsequently performed a legend and killed his grandfather.

For some pictures, the loop of misfortunes and mysterious events stretches. Did not avoid the picture of Volodymyir Borovikovsky. In the XIX century Unknown rumors went about this portrait. And all because the daughter of the retired general Ivan Tolstoy Countess Maria Lopukhin is depicted on it died shortly after writing the picture. In the salons of the then gossips whispering that the spirit of the dead Countess was sharpened in the picture, which picks the soul of girlslooking at her. Not less than a dozen young nobility on issuing became victims of the ill-fated canvase.

In 1880, the Tretyakov's patternants bought a portrait of a loop for his gallery, where he is still to this day. Death and rumors stopped. Toli Spirit calmed down, the clouds of the noble class were dressed.

Some works of art As if they beat the viewer on the head, silent and amazing. Some - delay in thought and in search of semantic layers, secret symbolism. Some paintings are wanders with secrets and mystical riddles, and some are surprised by an exorbitant price.

Painting, if not to take into account the realists, there was always, there will be strange. Metaphorical seeking new forms and means of expression. But some strange paintings are stable others.

It is clear that "oddity" is a fairly subjective concept.And for everyone there is their amazing paintings, knocking out of a number of other works of art.

We were intentionally not included in this selection. Salvador Dali, whose works completely fall under the format of this material and are the first to come to mind.

1. Edward Munch "Creek"

1893, cardboard, oil, temperatures, pastel. 91x73.5 cm

National Gallery, Oslo

"Creek" is considered a landmark event Expressionism and one of the most famous paintings in the world.

"I walked along a path with two friends - The sun sat down - unexpectedly the sky became bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaned about the fence - I looked at the blood and flame languages \u200b\u200bover a bluish-black fiior form and the city - my friends went on, and I was trembling with excitement, Feeling an endless cry, piercing nature, "said Edward Munk on the history of the painting.

There are two interpretations of the depicted: It is the hero itself covered by horror and silently shouts silently, pressing his hands to the ears; Or the hero closes the ears from the crying crying of peace and nature around the cry. Munk wrote 4 versions of the "Creek", and there is a version that this picture is the fruit of a manic-depressive psychosis, from which the artist suffered. After the course of treatment in the clinic, Munk was not returned to work on the web.

2. Paul Gogen "Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?"

1897-1898, canvas, oil. 139.1х374.6 cm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Deeply philosophical picture The postpressionist of the Gaugen field was written to them on Tahiti, where he escaped from Paris. Upon completion, he wanted to even commit suicide, because "I believe that this canvas not only exceeds all my previous ones, and that I will never create something better or even similar."

At the direction of the Mogen itself, the picture You should read right left - three main groups of figures illustrate the questions set in the title. Three women with a child represent the beginning of life; The average group symbolizes the daily existence of maturity; In the final group, according to the artist, "the old woman approaching death seems to be reconciled and preparing his reflections," her legs "a strange white bird ... represents the uselessness of words."

3. Pablo Picasso "Gernik"

1937, canvas, oil. 349x776 cm

Queen Sofia Museum, Madrid

Huge fabric-fresco "Gernik"Written by Picasso in 1937, talks about the tax of the volunteer division of the Luftwaffe to the city of Gernik, as a result of which the six-thousandth 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 death scenes, violence, atrocities, suffering and helplessness, without specifying their direct reasons, but they are obvious. They say that in 1940 Pablo Picasso was called to Gestapo in Paris. Speech immediately went about the picture. "Did you do it?" "No, you did it."

4. Jan Wang Eyk "Portrait of Arnolphin Fours"

1434, wood, oil. 81.8x59.7 cm

London National Gallery, London

Portrait of Presumably Giovanni Di Nikolao Arnolphin And his wife is one of the most difficult works of the Western School of Painting of the Northern Renaissance.

The famous picture is entirely filled Symbols, allegories and a variety of references - up to the signature "Jan Van Eyk was here", which turned her not just into the work of art, and in a historical document confirming the actual event, which was attended by the artist.

In Russia, recent years The picture has gained more popularity thanks to the portrait similarity of Arnolphin with Vladimir Putin.

5. Mikhail Vrubel "Demon Sitting"

1890, canvas, oil. 114x211 cm

Tretyakovskaya Gallery, Moscow

Picture of Mikhail Vrubel surprises the work of the demon. The sad long-haired guy is not at all similar to universal ideas about how the evil spirit should look like. The artist himself spoke of his most famous picture:

"Demon - the Spirit is not so much evil, How much suffering and mournful, with all this spirit domineering, the magnificent. " This is the image of the power of the human spirit, inner struggle, doubt. Tragically chazzing his hands, the demon sits with sad, directed in the distance in huge eyes, surrounded by flowers. The composition emphasizes the constancy of the demone figure, as if clamped between the upper and lower frames of the frame.

6. Vasily Vereshchagin "Apotheosis of War"

1871, canvas, oil. 127x197 cm

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Vereshchagin - one of the main Russian Batalists artists, but he painted wars and battles not because he loved them. On the contrary, he tried to conveyed his negative attitude towards people. Once Vereshchagin in the heat of emotions exclaimed: "There will be no more battle paintings - Basta! I take it too close to the heart what I am writing, I smell (literally) the grief of each wounded and killed. " Probably, the result of this exclamation was the terrible and fascinating picture of the "apotheosis of war", on which the field, crows and the mountain of human skulls are depicted.

The picture is written so deeply and emotionallyFor each skull lying in this heap, you begin to see people, their fate and the fate of those who will no longer see these people. Vereshchagin himself called the canvas "still life" with sad sarcasm - "Dead nature" is depicted on it.

All painting details, including yellow flavor, symbolize death and emptying. Clear blue sky emphasizes the dead of the picture. The idea of \u200b\u200b"apotheosis of war" is also expressed scars from the saber and holes from the bullets on the turtles.

7. Grant Wood "American Gothic"

1930, oil. 74x62 cm

Chicago Institute of Arts, Chicago

"American Gothic" is one of the most recognizable The images in the American art of the 20th century, which is famous for the arts of the XX and XXI centuries.

Picture with gloomy father and daughter Overflowed with details that indicate the severity, puritancy and retrogradment of the pictures of people. Angry faces, forks right in the middle of the paintings, old-fashioned, even by the standards of 1930, the clothes sent to the elbow, the seams on the farmer's clothes, repeating the form of the fork, and therefore threatening, which is addressed to everyone who will encroacitate. All these details can be viewed infinite and sit down.

Interestingly, judges of the competition in the Chicago Institute The arts were perceived by "Gothic" as "humorous Valentine", and the inhabitants of Iowa were terribly offended by Wood for the fact that he portrayed them in such an unpleasant light.

8. Rena Magritte "Lovers"

1928, canvas oil

Picture "Lovers" ("Lovers") There is in two versions. On one man and a woman whose heads are scutched with white cloth, kiss, and on the other - "watching" on the viewer. The picture surprises and fascinates. Two figures without faces Magritte handed the idea and blindness of love. On blindness in all senses: the lovers do not see anyone, we do not see their true persons and we, and in addition, lovers are a riddle even for each other. But with this apparent clearness, we still continue to look at the Magrittov lovers and think about them.

Almost all the paintings of Magritt - These are rebuses that cannot be fully unraveling, as they set questions about the very essence of being. Magritt always talks about the deceptivity of the visible, about his hidden mystery, which we usually do not notice.

9. Mark Chagal "Walk"

1917, canvas oil

State Tretyakov Gallery

Usually to the extreme serious In his painting, Mark Shagal wrote a delightful manifesto his own happiness, filled with allegories and love. "Walk" is a self-portrait with his wife Bella. His beloved is ferry in the sky and that looked away in the flight and stagger standing on Earth, as if touching her only socks her shoes. In the other hand, Chagal Sinitsa - he is happy, he has a tit in his hands (probably his painting), and crane in the sky.

10. Jerome Bosch "Garden of earthly pleasures"

1500-1510, wood, oil. 389x220 cm

Prado, Spain

"Garden of earthly pleasures" - The most famous Triptych Jerome Bosch, who received its name on the topic of the central part, is dedicated to the sin of sweetusty. To date, none of the existing painting interpretations is considered the only true.

Inspection charm and at the same time oddity Triptych lies in how the artist expresses the main idea through many details. The picture is filled with transparent figures, fantastic facilities, monsters who have acquired flesh by hallucinations, adsk cartoons of reality, to which he is watching the test, extremely sharp look. Some scientists wanted to see in Triptych an image of a person's life through the prism of her vanity and images of earthly love, others - the celebration of solvents. However, the simplicity and some detachment with which individual figures are interpreted, as well as a favorable attitude to this work from the church authorities, are forced to doubt that its content could be the glorification of bodily pleasures.

11. Gustav Klimt "Three Ages Women"

1905, canvas, oil. 180x180 cm

National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rome

"Three ages of women" at the same time and glad, and sad. In it, three figures were written the history of the woman's life: carelessness, pacification and despair. Young woman organically woven into the ornament of life, old - stands out out of it. The contrast between the stylized image of a young woman and naturalistically the old women acquires a symbolic meaning: the first phase of life carries with you endless possibilities and metamorphosis, the last is the continued constancy and conflict with reality.

The canvas does not let go, climbs into the soul And makes thinking about the depth of the Epistle of the artist, as well as about the depth and inevitability of life.

12. Eaga Shile "Family"

1918, canvas, oil. 152.5x162.5 cm

Gallery "Belvedere", Vienna

Schiele was a student of KlimtBut, like any excellent student, he did not copy his teacher, but I was looking for a new one. Shile much more tragic, strange and frightening than Gustav Klimt. In his work, a lot of things could be called pornography, a variety of perversions, naturalism and at the same time a delicate despair.

"Family" - his last workIn which despair brought to the Absolute, despite the fact that it is the least strange painting. He painted her before death, after his pregnant wife, Edith died from Spanish. He died 28 years later just three days after Edith, having time to draw her, herself and their so and a unborn child.

13. Frida Calo "Two Frida"

1939

History of the difficult life of Mexican artist Frida Kalo became widely known after the release of the film "Frida" with Salma Hayek in the title role. Kalo wrote mostly self portraits and explained it simply: "I am writing myself, because I spend a lot of time alone and because I am the theme that I know best."

Nor on one self portrait Fried Calo Not smiling: a serious, even a sorrowful face, threw thick eyebrows, slightly noticeable mustache over tightly compressed lips. The ideas of her paintings are encrypted in detail, background, figures that appear next to Frieda. Calo symbolism relies on national traditions and is closely related to the Indian mythology of the Damispan period.

In one of the best paintings - "Two Frida" - She expressed the male and feminine beginning, connected in it a single blood system, demonstrating its integrity.

14. Claude Monet "Waterloo Bridge. Fog effect "

1899, canvas oil

State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

When considering the picture at close range The viewer does not see anything except the canvas on which the frequent thick oil smears are applied. All the magic of the work is revealed when we gradually begin to move away from the canvas for a longer distance. First, we begin to show incomprehensible semi-rays, passing through the middle of the paintings, then, we see clear outlines of the boats and, moving at a distance of approximately two meters, in front of us are sharply drawn and linked all the binding works in a logical chain.

15. Jackson Pollock "Number 5, 1948"

1948, fibrololite, oil. 240x120 cm

The oddity of this picture is That the web of the American leader of abstract expressionism, which he painted, spilling out the paint on the fibrolite decomposed on the floor - the most expensive picture in the world. In 2006, 140 million dollars paid for it at the Sothesshis auction. David Giffen, a film producer and a collector, sold it to Mexican financier David Martinez.

"I continue to move away from ordinary tools Artist, such as Molbert, palette and brushes. I prefer sticks, scoops, knives and pouring paint or a mixture of paint with sand, broken glass or something else. When I inside the painting, I do not realize what I do. Understanding comes later. I have no fear before changing or destroying the image, since the picture lives with its own life. I just helped her get out. But if I lose contact with the picture, the dirt and disorder turns out. If not, then it is pure harmony, the ease of how you take and give. "

16. Joan Miro "Man and Woman in front of a bunch of excrement"

1935, copper, oil, 23x32 cm

Foundation Joan Miro, Spain

Good name. And who would have thought that this picture tells us about the horrors of civil wars.

The picture was made on a sheet of copper For the week between October 15 and 22, 1935. According to Miro, this is the result of attempts to portray the tragedy of the civil war in Spain. Miro said that this is a picture of anxiety period. The picture shows a man and a woman stretching toward each other in the arms, but not moving. Increased genuine organs and sinister colors were described as "full disgust and gady sexuality."

17. Yatesek Yerka "Erosion"

Polish Neousurialist known worldwide Thanks to its amazing paintings, in which reality are united, creating new ones. It is difficult to consider it extremely detailed and to some extent wealthy work on one, but this is the format of our material, and we had to choose one - to illustrate his fantasy and skill. We recommend reading more.

18. Bill Stonehem "Hands oppose to him"

1972

This work, of course, cannot be counted To the masterpieces of world painting, but the fact that it is strange is a fact.

Around the painting with a boy, doll and palms, pressed to the glass, go legends. From "because of this picture dying" to "the children on it are alive." It looks like a painion and terrible, which creates a lot of fears and speculations in people with a weak psyche.

The artist assured that in the picture He is depicted at the age of five, that the door is the representation of the dividing line between the real world and the world of dreams, and the doll is a conductor who can spend the boy through this world. Hands represent alternative lives or opportunities.

The picture gained fame in February 2000When she was put up for sale on eBay with a prehistory, telling that the picture is "with ghosts". "Hands oppose to him" Bought for $ 1025 Kim Smith, which was then simply rolled with letters with terrible stories and the requirements burn the picture