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Balthus (1908-2001)

Real name - Baltasar Klosovskiy.
Balthus was born in Paris in an artistic family. Young artists of the past few years in Paris, Geneva and Berlin. Although Balthus did not receive special education, he meticulously and thoroughly studied the paintings of old masters by copying their paintings in the Louvre. In early works Balthus painting shows the influence of Courbet, Reinhardt and the masters of the Italian Renaissance.

At first, an artist fascinated surrealistic effects, from which soon declined. Balthus always works in the figurative, outwardly quite realistic manerer. But the story and the mood of his paintings are far from realism. In his works Balthus created a distinctive, poluprizrachny the world, balancing on the border of dream and reality. This world is completely saturated with a sense of pain and vague forebodings, populated by young devushkai barely vstupishvimi at the time of puberty. The action (or rather inaction) of paintings, slowly, as if in a dream, unfolding in a rigorous, half-empty interior: looks of the audience brought their young the inmates in seductive poses, sleeping or mechatyuischie, idly playing with a cat or a melancholy view their reflection in the mirror. It should be noted that the legacy of Freud has had a significant impact on the development of art of the twentieth century, and since the mid 20th was actively claimed Surrealist painters and their circle. Muzynaya His first exhibition was held in 1956 in Ny-York, the Museum of Modern Art. He worked for the theater, which was reflected in his paintings, often constructed as a mise en scene. His works are in major museums around the world.