One of the rare works, which is rarely mentioned in our time, is the painting “Admission to the Komsomol”, quite clearly and expressively reflects the course of the Soviet period and the formation of the socialist system at this stage. In the picture of Sergei Grigoriev, written by him in 1949, a solemn action takes […]
In his very famous work “Relativity”, Maurits Escher uses a special technique called tessellation. With its help, one graphic plane is divided into several parts. In the picture, the artist arranged the composition in three planes perpendicular to each other. Such works by Escher continue to amaze the audience with the intricacies of shapes and […]
Year of painting: 1850. Dimensions: 225 * 281 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: illustration. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Year of painting: 1950. The dimensions of the painting: 171 x 258 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: socialist realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Before us is the famous family portrait of the Spanish monarchs by the court painter Francisco Goya. The overweight figure of the Spanish king Charles IV in a black jacket studded with orders, a wig and white stockings is shifted slightly to the right of the center of the picture. In the very center, the […]