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 force. 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.

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

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 urban legend was born that it was impossible to watch a portrait for a long time - 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.

In almost every significant work of art, there is a mystery, "double bottom" or a secret story that you want to reveal.

Music on the buttocks

Jerome Bosch, "Garden of Earth Delights", 1500-1510.

Fragment of part of triptych

Disputes about the meanings and hidden meanings of the most famous work of the Dutch artist do not subside from the moment of its appearance. On the right sash of triptych called "Music Hell", sinners are depicted, which torture in the underworld with the help of musical instruments. One of them has notes on the buttocks. A student of Christian University Oklahoma Amelia Hamrick, who studied the picture, shifted the notation of the XVI century to modern way and recorded "a song from the ass from Hell, which was 500 years old."

Nude Mona Lisa

The famous "Joconda" exists in two versions: the nude version is called "Monta Bath", she wrote her a little-known artist Salaya, who was a student and a simulator of the great Leonardo da Vinci. Many art critics are confident that it was he who was a model for paintings by Leonardo "John Baptist" and "Bakhus". There are also versions that Salaya dressed in a women's dress served as the Mona Lisa itself.

Old fisherman

In 1902, the Hungarian artist Tivadar Kostya Chongwari wrote a picture of the old fisherman. It would seem that there is nothing unusual in the picture, but Tivar laid the subtext in it, during the lifetime of the artist and undisclosed.

Few people occurred to apply the mirror to the middle of the picture. Each person can be like God (the right-handed old man's right shoulder) and the devil (the left shoulder of the old man is duplicated).

And was Kit?

Hendrik van Antonissen "Scene on the shore".

It would seem the usual landscape. Boats, people on the shore and deserted sea. And only an X-ray study showed that people gathered on the shore is not just like that - in the original they considered the carcass of China, thrown ashore.

However, the artist decided that no one would want to look at the dead whale, and rewrote the picture.

Two "breakfast on the grass"

Eduard Mana, "Breakfast on the Grass", 1863.

Claude Monet, "Breakfast on the grass", 1865.

Artists Eduard Mana and Claude Monet are sometimes confused - after all, they were both French people, lived at one time and worked in the style of impressionism. Even the name of one of the most famous paintings by Mana "Breakfast on the Grass" Monet borrowed and wrote his "breakfast on the grass."

Doubles on the "Last Evening"

Leonardo da Vinci, "Last Supper", 1495-1498.

When Leonardo da Vinci wrote a "secret evening", he attached a special meaning to two figures: Christ and Judah. He was looking for simulators for them for a very long time. Finally, he managed to find a model for the image of Christ among young singers. To pick up a simulator for Judah Leonardo was not able for three years. But one day he came across the street on a drunkard, who was lying in a wastewater. It was a young man who was a non-digestion. Leonardo invited him to the restaurant, where he immediately began to write from him Judas. When the drinker came to himself, he told the artist that one day already posed him. It was a few years ago when he sang in the church choir, Leonardo wrote from Him Christ.

"Night Watch" or "Day"?

Rembrandt, "Night Watch", 1642.

One of the most famous paintings of Rembrandt "Speech by Rifle Company Captain France Bannang Coca and Lieutenant Villem Van Ryuteitbürga" about two hundred years has checked in different halls and was discovered by art historians only in the XIX century. Since it seemed that the figures perform on a dark background, she was called "Night Watch", and under this title she entered the treasury of world art.

And only during the restoration spent in 1947, it was discovered that in the hall the picture managed to be covered with a layer of soot, distorting her flavor. After clearing the original painting, it turned out that the scene represented by Rembrandt actually occurs during the day. The position of the shade from the left hand of Captain Coca shows that the time of action is not more than 14 hours.

Inverted boat

Henri Matisse, "Boat", 1937.

In the New York Museum of Contemporary Art in 1961, a picture of Henri Matisse "Boat" was exhibited. Only after 47 days someone drew attention to the fact that the picture hangs upside down. On the canvas depicted 10 purple lines and two blue sails on a white background. Two sails, the artist painted not just like that, the second sail is a reflection of the first water.
In order not to make a mistake in how the picture should hang, you need to pay attention to the details. A larger sail must be the top of the picture, and the peak of the sail pattern should be directed to the right upper angle.

Cheating in self-portrait

Vincent Van Gogh, "Self-portrait with a tube", 1889.

The fact that Van Gogh allegedly cut off his ear, go legends. Now the most reliable is the version that the ear Van Gogh damaged in a small scuffle with the participation of another artist - Gogen fields.

Self-portrait is interesting in that reflects reality in distorted form: the artist is depicted with a bandaged right ear, because it used a mirror during operation. In fact, the left ear suffered.

Aliens Mishki

Ivan Shishkin, "Morning in a Pine Forest", 1889.

The famous painting belongs not only to the brush of Shishkin. Many artists who were friendly among themselves often resorted to the "help of a friend", and Ivan Ivanovich, had a whole life with landscapes, feared that touching bears would not work with him as it was necessary. Therefore, Shishkin appealed to the familiar animalist artist Konstantin Savitsky.

Savitsky painted hardly not the best bears in the history of Russian painting, and the Tretyakov commanded her surname from the canvas, because everything in the picture "since the plan and ending with the fulfillment, everything speaks about the manner of painting, about the creative method for Shishkin."

Innocent History "Gothic"

Grant Wood, "American Gothic", 1930.

The work of the wood grant is considered one of the strangest and depressing in the history of American painting. The painting with gloomy father and daughter is filled with details that indicate the severity, puritancy and retrogradment of the people depicted.
In fact, the artist did not think of portraying any horror: during a trip to Iowa and he noticed a small house in the Gothic style and decided to portray those people who, in his opinion, would ideally come as inhabitants. In the form of characters, which are so offended by the inhabitants of Iowa, the sister of the grant and his dentist are immortalized.

Revenge of Salvador Dali

The picture "Figure by the window" was written in 1925, when Dali was 21 years old. Then the artist has not yet entered Gala, and his museum was Sister Ana Maria. The relationship of brother and sisters deteriorated when he wrote on one of the pictures "Sometimes I spit on the portrait of my own mother, and it gives me pleasure." Ana Maria could not forgive such a shock.

In his book of 1949, Salvador gave the eyes of her sister "she writes about his brother without any praise. The book led Salvador to rabies. Another ten after that, he was angry with each other case. And so, in 1954 a picture "The young virgin, indulging in Sodomsky sin with the help of horns of his own chastity appears." Pose of a woman, its curls, a landscape outside the window and the color scheme paintings are clearly echoing with the "window figure". There is a version that I was given a revengent sister for her book.

Double Dana

Rembrandt Harmens Wang Rhine, "Dana", 1636 - 1647.

Many secrets of one of the most famous paintings of Rembrandt were disclosed only in the 60s of the twentieth century, when the canvas enlightened the X-rays. For example, shooting showed that in the early version, the face of the princess, which entered into a love relationship with Zeus, was similar to the face of Saskiy - the spouse of the painter, who died in 1642. At the final version of the picture, it began to resemble the face of Herges Dirks - Lovers Rembrandt, with which the artist lived after the death of his wife.

Yellow Bedroom Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, "Bedroom in Arles", 1888 - 1889.

In May 1888, Van Gogh acquired a small workshop in Arle, in the south of France, where he escaped from not understanding his Paris artists and critics. In one of the four rooms, Vincent places the bedroom. In October, everything is ready, and he decides to draw a "bedroom Van Gogh in Arles." For the artist, it was very important to flavor, the comfort of the rooms: everything should have been made to the thoughts on vacation. At the same time, the picture is withstanding in anxious yellow tones.

Van Gogh's creativity researchers explain this by the fact that the artist took a spatter - a remedy for epilepsy, which causes serious changes in the patient in color perception: all surrounding reality is painted in green-yellow tones.

Toothless perfection

Leonardo da Vinci, "Portrait of Mrs. Liza Del Jocondo", 1503 - 1519.

The generally accepted opinion is that Mona Lisa is perfection and a smile is beautiful with his mysteriousness. However, American art historian (and part-time dentist) Joseph Borkovsky believes that, judging by the expression of the face, the heroine lost a lot of teeth. Studying enlarged photos of the masterpiece, Borkovski also discovered the scars around her mouth. "She smiles like that because of what happened to her," the expert believes. - The expression of her face is typically for people who have lost its front teeth. "

Major on facingontrol

Pavel Fedotov, "Major's Major", 1848.

The public, who first saw the picture of Major's "Watchtime," laughed from the soul: Fedotov's artist filled with ironic details, understandable viewers of that time. For example, Major is clearly not familiar with the rules of the noble etiquette: he appeared without laid bouquets for the bride and her mother. And the bride itself, her merchant parents discharged into the evening ball gown, although in the yard day (all the lamps in the room are extinguished). The girl clearly first tried a decolted dress, confused and tries to escape into his bel.

Why freedom is naked

Ferdinan Victor Eugene Delakrua, "Freedom on the barricades", 1830.

According to the art historian Etienne Juli, Delacroix wrote the face of a woman with the famous Parisian revolutionaries - Anna-Charlotte's missure, which went to the barricades after the death of his brother from the hands of royal soldiers and killed the Ninter Guardsmen. The artist depicted it with naked breasts. According to him, this is a symbol of fearlessness and dedication, as well as the celebrations of democracy: Nagaya chest shows that freedom, as a simple hat, is not a corset.

Unquadant square

Kazimir Malevich, "Black Suprematic Square", 1915.

In fact, the "black square" is not at all black and not at all square: none of the sides of the quadrangle is not parallel to any other side, and not one of the sides of the square frame, which the picture is framed. And dark color is the result of mixing various colors, among which it was not black. It is believed that it was not the negligence of the author, but a fundamental position, the desire to create a dynamic, moving form.

Specialists of the Tretyakov Gallery found the author's inscription at the famous picture of Malevich. The inscription states: "Battle of blacks in a dark cave." This phrase sends to the name of the joking picture of the French journalist, the writer and the artist Alfons Alla "Battle of Blacks in the Dark Cave of Deep At night", which was absolutely black rectangle.

Melodrama of the Austrian Mona Lisa

Gustav Klimt, "Portrait of Adelie Bloch-Bauer", 1907.

On one of the most significant climes, the wife of Austrian sugar magnate Fetinad Bloch Bauer was captured. All Vienna discussed the stormy Roman Adelel and the famous artist. A vulnerable husband wanted to take revenge on lovers, but chose a very unusual way: he decided to order a portrait of the portrait of Adeli and make him make hundreds of sketches until the artist starts turning away from her.

Bloch Bauer wanted work to last for several years, and a simulator could see how the feelings of Clima could fuss. He made an artist a generous proposal, from which he could not refuse, and everything developed on the scenario of a deceived husband: the work was completed for 4 years, lovers have long cooled to each other. Adel Bloch Bauer never learned that her husband was aware of her relationship with Clima.

Picture that returned Gogen to life

Paul Gajen, "Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?", 1897-1898.

The most famous canvas of Hogen has one feature: it is "reading" without left to right, but on the right to left, like the Kabbalistic texts that the artist was interested in. It is in this order that the allegory of the spiritual and physical life of a person unfolds: from the origin of the soul (sleeping child in the lower right corner) to the inevitability of the death hour (bird with a lizard in claws in the lower left corner).

The picture was written by Gogen on Tahiti, where the artist ran several times from civilization. But this time, life on the island did not specify: total poverty led him to depression. Having finished the canvas, which should have become his spiritual testament, Gauguen took a box with arsenic and went to the mountains to die. However, he did not calculate the dose, and suicide failed. In the next morning, he, swing, did not know the hut and fell asleep, and when he woke up, he felt the forgotten thirst for life. And in 1898, his affairs went uphill, and in the work began their bright period.

112 proverbs on one picture

Peter Bruegel - Senior, "Netherlands Proverbs", 1559

Peter Bruegel - Senior depicted the land, inhabited by literal images of the Dutch proverbs of those days. In a written picture, there are approximately 112 recognized idioms. Some of them are used to this day, for example, such as: "Fly against the current", "fight your head about the wall", "armed to teeth" and "Big fish eats a small one."

Other proverbs reflect human nonsense.

Subjectivity of art

Paul Gogen, "Breton village under the snow", 1894

The painting of Gogen "Breton village in the snow" was sold after the death of the author in just seven francs and, moreover, called Niagara Falls. A man who spent auction accidentally hung up a picture of his legs, seeing a waterfall in it.

Hidden painting

Pablo Picasso, Blue Room, 1901

In 2008, infrared radiation showed that a "blue room" was hidden another image - a portrait of a man dressed in a suit with a butterfly and put her head on his hand. "As soon as Picasso appeared a new idea, he was taken for the brush and embodied it. But he did not have the opportunity to buy a new canvas every time a muse was visited, "explains the possible reason for this art criticism of Patricia Favero.

Inaccessible Moroccanika

Zinaida Serebryakova, "Nagaya", 1928

Once Zinaida Serebryakova received a tempting offer - to go to the creative journey to portray the naked figures of East Dev. But it turned out that in those places to find simators simply impossible. A translator of Zinaida came to the rescue - he led her sisters and a bride to her. No one before that and after that did not manage to capture closed oriental women nude.

Spontaneous illusion

Valentin Serov, "Portrait of Nicholas II in a pressURE", 1900

For a long time, Serov could not write a portrait of the king. When the artist surrendered at all, he apologized to Nikolai. Nikolai was a little upset, sat down at the table, stretching his hands in front of him ... And then the artist painted - here it is an image! A simple military in an officer's tuber with pure and sad eyes. This portrait is considered the best image of the last emperor.

Again Double

© Fedor Reshetnikov

The famous painting "Again Two" is just the second part of the artistic trilogy.

The first part is "arrived on vacation." Obviously secured family, winter holidays, a joyful student student.

The second part is "again deuce." The poor family from the working outskirts, the midst of the school year, Puraden Oballa, again grabbed the two. In the upper left corner, the picture "arrived on vacation" was visible.

The third part is "re-examination". Country house, summer, all walk, one malicious inequality, having failed annual exam, is forced to sit in four walls and tool. In the upper left corner, a picture "Two again" is visible.

How masterpieces are born

Joseph Turner, "Rain, Couples and Speed", 1844

In 1842, Mrs. Simon traveled by train in England. Suddenly began a strong shower. The elderly gentleman, who was sitting opposite her, got up, opened the window, stuck his head and looked at ten minutes. Unable to keep your curiosity, the woman also opened the window and began to look ahead. A year later, she found a picture of "rain, couples and speed" at the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts and was able to recognize the same episode in it.

Anatomy lesson from Michelangelo

Michelangelo, "Creation of Adam", 1511

A pair of American experts in the field of neuroanatomy believe that Michelangelo actually left some anatomical illustrations in one of his most famous works. They believe that in the right part of the picture depicts a huge brain. It is surprising, but you can find even complex components, such as a cerebellum, optic nerves and pituitary gland. And the cast green ribbon perfectly coincides with the location of the vertebral artery.

"Last Supper" Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, "Night Terrace Cafe", 1888

Explorer Jared Baxter believes that on the canvas Van Gogh "Night Terrace Cafe" is encrypted by the dedication of the "secret evening" Leonardo da Vinci. In the center of the picture there is a waiter with long hair and in a white tunic, reminding the clothes of Christ, and there are exactly 12 visitors to the cafe around it. Also Baxter draws attention to the cross, located right behind the waiter's back in white.

Dali's memory

Salvador Dali, "Constancy of Memory", 1931

It is no secret that the thoughts attending Dali during the creation of his masterpieces were always in the form of very realistic images that the artist then transferred to the canvas. So, according to the author himself, the picture "Constancy of Memory" was written as a result of associations arising at the form of a melted cheese.

What screams munk

Edward Munk, Creek, 1893.

Munk so told about the appearance of the idea of \u200b\u200bone of the most mysterious paintings in world painting: "I walked along the path with two friends - the sun was sat down - the sky unexpectedly became bloody-red, I suspended, feeling exhausted, and leaning about the fence - I looked at Blood and flame languages \u200b\u200bover a bluish-black fjord and the city - my friends went further, and I stood, trembling from excitement, feeling an endless cry, piercing nature. " But what kind of sunset could scare the artist?

There is a version that the idea of \u200b\u200b"scream" was born at Mill in 1883, when several strongest eruptions of Krakataau volcano occurred - so powerful that they changed the temperature of the atmosphere of the Earth to one degree. Abundant amount of dust and ash spread all over the globe, coming even to Norway. Several evenings in a row, the sunsets looked as if, the apocalypse would be - one of them was the source of the artist's inspiration.

Writer in the people

Alexander Ivanov, "The Phenomenon of Christ People", 1837-1857.

Dozens of simulators posed Alexander Ivanov for his main picture. One of them is known for no less than the artist. In the background, among the traverses and Roman horsemen, who have not yet heard the preaching of John the Forerunners, you can see the character in Korchin Chiton. His Ivanov wrote from Nicholas Gogol. The writer tightly communicated with the artist in Italy, in particular on religious issues, and gave him advice in the process of writing the picture. Gogol believed that Ivanov "had long died for the whole world, except for his work."

Gout Michelangelo

Rafael Santi, Athens School, 1511.

Creating the famous Fresco "Athens School", Rafael perpetuated his friends and acquaintances in the images of ancient Greek philosophers. One of them was Michelangelo Buonotti "In the role of" Herclite. Several centuries fresco kept the secrets of the personal life of Michelangelo, and modern researchers did the assumption that the strangely angry knee of the artist testifies to the presence of the diseases of the joints.

It is likely to consider the characteristics of the lifestyle and the working conditions of the artists of the Renaissance and Chronic Workaholism Michelangelo.

Mirror couple Arnolphini

Yang Van Eyk, "Portrait of Arnolphin Fau", 1434

In the mirror behind Arnolphin's spouses, you can see the reflection of two more people in the room. Most likely, these are witnesses present at the conclusion of the contract. One of them is Van Eyke, as evidenced by the Latin inscription, placed, contrary to tradition, above the mirror in the center of the composition: "Jan Van Eyk was here." So usually fastened contracts.

As a flaw turned into a talent

Rembrandt Harmens Wang Rhine, "Self-portrait at the age of 63", 1669.

Researcher Margaret Livingston studied all Rembrandt self portraits and found that the artist suffered as a squint: in the images, his eyes look at different directions, which is not observed on the portraits of other people's brushes. The disease led to the fact that the artist could better perceive reality in two dimensions than people with normal vision. This phenomenon is called "stereo" - the inability to see the world in 3D. But since the painter has to work with a two-dimensional image, it was this deficiency of Rembrandt that could be one of the explanations of his phenomenal talent.

Sure Venus

Sandro Botticelli, "Birth of Venus", 1482-1486.

Before the appearance of the "birth of Venus", the image of a naked female body in painting symbolized only the idea of \u200b\u200boriginal sin. Sandro Botticelli The first of the European painters did not find anything sinful in it. Moreover, art historians are confident that the pagan goddess of love symbolizes on the fresco.

Butterist or butcher?

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, "Butterist", 1596.

For a long time, the picture was exhibited in the Hermitage called "Butcher's". Only at the beginning of the twentieth century, art historians agreed that the canvase still shows the young man (probably Caravaggio posed his familiar artist Mario Minni): On the notes in front of the musician, the recording of the bass party Madrigala Jacob Arcaader "You know that I love you" . A woman could hardly make such a choice - it's just hard for the throat. In addition, a lute, like a violin at the very edge of the picture, was considered a male tool in the era of Caravaggio.

These canvas are known even to those who are far from the world of art, because they are real masterpieces. And each of them pays some kind of secret, which cannot be seen with a naked eye.

And it seems that every smear has already been studied along and across, however, scientists constantly open something new in these vintage paintings. Their authors left the descendants of unusual riddles that it turned out to solve!

The editorial office Inplanet prepared a list of 12 legendary cauldons that have been kept by mystery for many years and even centuries!

Portrait of Arnolphini / Jan Van Eyk (1434)

This portrait became the first in the history of Europe, which depicts a couple. He is an excellent form of an early revival era. Historians still argue who is depicted on the canvas, and what is happening there. Many are confident that this is a wedding, which is indicated by some signs in the picture.

But the most curious fragment is practically hidden from the eyes - in the reflection of the mirror on the wall you can see the outlines of four people. It's vaguely understanding that there is a man and a woman, and signature - "here was Jan Van Eyk." Art historians believe that the artist depicted himself and his spouse.

Last Supper / Leonardo da Vinci (1495-1498)

This fresco is one of the most famous works by Leonardo da Vinci and also pays a lot of secrets. The most interesting mystery is hidden on the surface - in images of Jesus and Judah.

The artist with ease wrote the rest of the images, but these two persons were given to him the most difficult. For the Lick Jesus, he was looking for the embodiment of good, and he was lucky - he met the young singing in church church. But Judas remained the last unlisted spot, and yes Vinci spent the clock clock in the eaters to pick up the perfect embodiment of evil. And finally, he was lucky - he discovered a drunkard in the ditch, who barely standing on his feet. From him he wrote the image of Judah, but at the end was surprised.

This man approached him and said they have already met. A few years ago, he had a singers in the choir and had already posing Leonardo for this painting. So, one man began to personify good and evil.

Portrait of Mrs. Liza Del Jokondo / Leonardo da Vinci (1503-1505)

Perhaps the most mysterious picture of all written Mona Lisa ever written. For several centuries for several centuries, she does not give rest to art crust and historians, generating all the more wild and intriguing ideas of its creation.

Who is this woman with a mysterious smile and without an eyebrow? Traditionally, it is considered that this is the spouse of the Francesco Jocondo merchant. But there are several other theories that have the right to exist. For example, that Mona Lisa is a self-portrait of Leonardo himself. It is also likely that this picture is written da Vinci for himself, and the present canvas was found in Aislut 100 years ago. This Joconda is more suitable for the description of the painting by Sovremenniki Leonardo.

And quite recently, scientists suggested that the mysterious smile of the girl on the canvas is connected with the fact that she did not have teeth. By the way, X-rays showed that she had eyebrows, they simply damaged them significantly.

Adam / Michelangelo's Creation (1511)

Another genius of the Renaissance, Michelangelo, created his fresco for the Sistine Chapel, where she is to this day. The plot for this part of the painting was the scene from being called the creation of Adam. And on the fresco there are many encrypted characters.

For example, it is worth looking to the Creator who creates Adam, and you can see ... the human brain. Experts believe that this way the artist conducted an analogy of the Creator with a source of mind, and simply the brain. Such the theory is confirmed by the fact that Michelangelo was fond of anatomy and constantly carried out experiments on the corpses.

Sicstinskaya Madonna / Rafael (1513-1514)

This is a huge web belonging to Rafael's brush, is a sample of the highest art of the Renaissance. The picture was written by order of Pope Julia II and was in the monastery of Piacenses. Some art historians believe that this masterpiece was written for Pope's funeral.

Rafael encrypted many signs on canvas, which managed to reveal to historians. One of the explicit secrets of the Sicstinian Madonna - in the background, the artist portrayed the clouds in the form of an angels. Some historians believe that this is not a born soul.

Scene on the shore / Hendrik Van Antonissen (1641)

The famous Netherlands Marinist Handrick Wang Antonssen has long attracted the attention of art historians. In this picture, the 17th century is shown, it would seem that the usual sea landscape. But specialists embarrassed a large number of people gathered on the shore without a visible reason.

The truth was able to establish using an X-ray study, which established that in reality Keith was in reality. But the artist decided that it would be boring to see the dead carcass of China, so redid the picture. And with whales, the canvas looks much more spectacular!

Last Day Pompeii / Karl Brullov (1830-1833)

The Russian artist Karl Bryullov was impressed by Pompeii's history during Vesuvius visits in 1828. He was in character a very discreet man, but here Charles just overwhelmed emotions, he stayed in a destroyed city for four days and after a couple of years began to write his famous painting.

On the canvas there is a special secret - if you look at, in the left corner you can see a self-portrait of the artist himself. He also captured his beloved, Countess Yulia Samoilov, with whom he was associated with a long relationship, at least three times, possibly more. It can be seen as a mother presses to his chest daughters, in the form of a girl with a jug on the head and in the image of lying on the ground.

Self-portrait with tube / Vincent Van Gogh (1889)

History with a sliced \u200b\u200bear of an extravagant artist Vincent Van Gogh know everything. He even wrote his self-portrait with a bandaged ear than caused hot spores from art historians. Until now, it is unknown, whether he cut the ear completely, or coughed.

For a long time, specialists embarrassed by the fact that in the picture Van Gogh is depicted with a bandage on the right ear, and he paused left. But the secret was revealed - the Netherlands artist wrote a self portrait, looking into the mirror, so confusion arose in the picture due to the mirror image.

Blue Room / Pablo Picasso (1901)

Now the names of these artists are known to everyone, and at the beginning of their career they had to write several paintings on one canvas - they could not afford to buy fabric. That is why many masterpieces have the so-called double bottom, for example, a picture of Pablo Picasso "Blue Room".

Using X-rays managed to find out that a man was drawn under the image. Art historians determine who this man was. According to one of the versions, Picasso wrote a self portrait.

Old Fisherman / Tivar Chontery Bone (1902)

Hungarian artist Tivadar Kostya Chonterty has created many paintings for his life, but there was little known. He suffered from attacks of schizophrenia, but still dreamed of the glory of Rafael. Tivadar became famous for death when the picture of the old fisherman was decrypted, which now became very popular. It was created in 1902 and is considered one of the most mysterious works of the artist.

At first glance, the canvas depicts an old man, as many years and was considered. While one day someone did not occur to look at the mirror image of the two heads of the old man. Then the main secret of this canvase was revealed - the master portrayed God and the devil, which is in every person.

Portrait of Adelie Bloch-Gauer / Gustav Klimt (1907)

This canvas is one of the most famous works of Gustav Clima. In 2006, the Golden Adel bought a fabulous amount - 135 million dollars. A beautiful woman depicted on it was actually written for ... Revenge.

In 1904, the whole Vienna, including her husband Ferdinand, was talking about the novel of Adeli Bloch Gauer and Gustav Clima, including her husband Ferdinand. He came up with an unusual revenge and ordered the artist a portrait of his beloved wife. Ferdinand was very picky, and Klimt made more than 100 sketches. During this time, the mistress, the image of which was so difficult, bored with the artist, and their novel ceased.

Black Square / Kazimir Malevich (1915)

One of the most famous and controversial Russian paintings is "Black Square" Kazemir Malevich's brush. Few understand the hidden meaning of this provocative canvase. But it is worth it, perhaps, with the fact that the square is not at all square shape and not even black!

X-ray helped determine that under the Black Square there is another job Malevich, on top of which he wrote his masterpiece. For him, he prepared a special composition of matte and glossy paints, among which, by the way, there was no black shade. And, despite the fact that the sides of the so-called square have a length of 79.5 cm, the figure does not have a single straight angle.

One way or another, Mona Lisa remains one of the most mysterious paintings of modernity. Perhaps we will never know what I wanted to tell you one or another artist, and maybe at all, all the signs are only a chandom coincidence ...