John Sargent's homeland ( Sargent, John Singer), the son of American immigrants - Florence. And he studied painting in Paris, the greater part of his life in London. Sargent - one of the first artists in Europe, cosmopolitan, brilliant dandy. According to him, the samples in the works for him has always been Velasquez, Gainsborough, Van Dyck (Roden even named Sargent, not without irony, Van Dyck of our times).

His work is in large part due to European the art. He gained...

Mikalojus Čiurlionis
(1875-1911)

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born September 22, 1875.
father of the future artist was the son of farmer from the southern part of Lithuania - Dzūkija. His future father of the boy tied to art, namely music, played the organ.
Future artist's mother Adele was born in a German family of evangelists who fled Germany because of religious persecution.
3 years later after the birth family Mikalojus moved to Druskininkai....

? ? ? While looking at all my mustache, I, hiding behind them, do my thing.

< span>? second month in Moscow reigns Salvador Dali. In the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin exhibited 25 of his paintings from the museum - Theater in Figueres and about 90 pages with graphics. Around the museum zmeitsya long many-turn, hinges on the tail of the Roerich Museum, where the nervous and hide, no one species has undergone this? Terrible monster. ? Strong spirit, courageously clinging...

Beautiful girl, afraid to stir, sits in a chair. She knows that the artists need to sit still. But this time she tries in vain. Tridtsatipyatitiletny sleazy man, all smeared with paint, during the session did not even glance at it. With the distorted face of the voltage directly from the bottles he pours the paint onto the paper, frantically spreads her patch of cotton and scratched lines nails. Ten minutes later, he simply brush or finger prints signed "A. Zverev," smiles with relief...

George Guryanov - Kerel, 1991



Timur Novikov - Heliogabalus, 1991 (clickable)



Timur Novikov - Apollo, trampling Red Square, 1991



Bella Matveeva - Georgian Prince, 1989; Sleep, 1989



Timur Novikov - Venus, 1992 (clickable)



Olga Tobreluts - Hercules, a series of" Labors of Hercules ", 1995 (clickable)


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