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Famous surrealist artists

Frida Kahlo - Famous surrealist artists. Painting "Self-portrait on the border between Mexico and the United States", 1932.

Frida Kahlo de Rivera. Famous surrealist artists

The most famous artist who worked in the surrealist style is Frida Kahlo de Rivera, a bright Mexican woman who is remembered by the world for her love of flowers and communism. At the same time, most forget about other women who devoted themselves to art and plunged headlong into the depths of unreal dreams and the unconscious. Meet the geniuses of female surrealism. Read the full article

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Leonora Carrington, muse of the surreal of two continents

Leonora Carrington. Art 110. Leonora Carrington (1917–2011). In Russia she is mainly remembered as one of Max Ernst’s friends, while in the world she is glorified both as an outstanding master and theorist of surrealism, and as one of the significant figures of world feminism. The "Women's Awareness" poster she created in 1973 now occupies an important place in the iconography of the women's movement. Read the full article

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Spanish colonial art

Unknown master. Madonna and Child and Bird. 1745. The winner is always stronger. Together with the warrior’s boot, a new order, a foreign philosophy, comes to the conquered lands. And no matter how much the defeated people want to preserve their identity, gradually local traditions are mixed with foreign rules. And a new culture is being formed - unique, original, interesting. This is how Spanish colonial art emerged. Read the full article

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Artists who died young

The fatal role of the number 37 is usually discussed in relation to poets and writers. Among the famous artists there are also many who died at this age or did not live to see it. Who knows what heights they would have reached if they had more time on earth? Read the full article

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The Oceanian art

Mask KEPONG A KEPONG. The art of Oceania, which covers some 1,800 cultures and languages, has fallen out of fashion for some time. Last April, according to Victor Teodorescu, he had the opportunity to win a moment of public attention at an auction dedicated to the art of the region's aborigines. Read the full article

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Stephanie Kilgast: transforming trash into art

Sculptor Stephanie Kilgast. The problem of environmental pollution is of great concern to the public. People all over the world strive to minimize damage to the environment. Everyone does their own thing: they sort garbage every day in order to send it for recycling; refuse to use materials that take a long time to decompose. And artists make their contribution to preserving the environment. One of them is the French sculptor Stephanie Kilgast. With her talented hands, the girl transforms garbage into works of art and makes original compositions based on empty cans. Read the full article

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Samuel Anderson Robb: master of the "living" tree

  Baseball player from the Folk Art Museum. The fate of Samuel Anderson Robb, one of the most eminent woodcarvers working in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was predetermined. The son of a Scottish shipwright was interested in wood from an early age, then in his youth he became an apprentice to the then famous shipwright Thomas Brookes. During the day, the guy worked hard in the workshop, honing his technique and learning the basics of the craft, and in the evenings he studied at the National Academy of Design and took classes at the Cooper Institute. Read the full article

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The first underwater museum in Europe, Atlantico

The first underwater museum in Europe, Atlantico.

The first underwater museum in Europe, Atlantico. World problems against the backdrop of stunning landscapes

In 2017, the amazing Atlantic Museum opened in Colorados Bay on Lanzarote, one of the large islands of the Canary archipelago. The underwater gallery is located on an area of about 2.5 square kilometers. Its exhibits are installed at a depth of 12 to 15 meters - you can get into the exhibition hall only with scuba gear or by purchasing a seat on an excursion boat with a bottom made of transparent material. Read the full article

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Giacomo Balla the famous Italian futurist

Screen for Stravinsky's ballet. 1915. Giacomo Balla is a great painter of the 20th century, a representative of the first wave of Italian futurism, one of the the most influential masters of the last century. Giacomo Balla's work is an attempt to convey dynamics, to grasp the very essence of movement. His paintings are lyrical, full of light and rhythm. Read the full article

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Seo Young-Dyuk - Korean sculptor

Installation of the sculptor's works. In an effort to create something of their own, authentic and unique, artists sometimes go to extremes. Someone nails themselves to Red Square, someone carves fallen autumn leaves...

Seo Young-Dyuk: Korean sculptor who creates masterpieces from bicycle chains

South Korean artist Seo Young-Dyok also found an unusual material for creating his sculptures - bicycle chains welded together in a special, proprietary way. How he constructs his giant, realistic installations from them is a secret, but the work is truly impressive. Read the full article

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Stepan Erzya is a man who did not break the axe

Stepan Erzya at work.

Stepan Erzya is a man who did not break the axe. Biography of the sculptor

Stepan Erzya is not like most sculptors who use stone or metal as a material. Erzya preferred to turn wood into sculpture. Stepan Erzya, a famous Russian sculptor, was born in 1876 in the village of Bayevo, then still in the Simbirsk province. His real name is Stepan Dmitrievich Nefedov, but he entered the history of art under the pseudonym “Erzya,” taken from the name of the Mordovian nation of the same name to which he belonged. One of the sculptor’s teachers was Konstantin Korovin (whose painting “Veranda” recently went at auction for 560 thousand euros). Read the full article

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Rashad Alakbarov: shadow painter

Rashad Alakbarov artist. Modern artists, trying to stand out from their numerous colleagues, invent the most unimaginable ways to do this. But only a few manage to truly capture the public’s imagination. Baku-based artist Rashad Alakbarov is one of them. Despite having an artistic education, he burst into the highest cultural and creative society without touching canvases or paints. It was enough to show the world one single painting-installation “Flight to Baku”. Even critics were delighted, amazed by Alakbarov’s skill, who chose only light, shadow and... garbage to create works of art. Read the full article

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John Collier is the consummate British portrait painter

Queen Guinevere, we celebrate the arrival of spring.

John Collier is the consummate British portrait painter of the Victorian era

John Maler Collier (January 27, 1850 April 11, 1934) is a famous British artist of the late XIX early XX centuries, an outstanding master of the historical and portrait genres. He was one of the most famous representatives of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the history of English art. Among the best masterpieces of his work there are many portraits of prominent contemporaries and paintings on mythological themes. The master's biography is a worthy example of the successful career of a hardworking and talented artist. Read the full article

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Countess d'Haussonville.

Biography, creativity, the best paintings of the artist

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (born August 29, 1780 died January 14, 1867) is a famous French artist of the first half of the 19th century, who became the most prominent academician of his time. Jean Ingres's paintings are made in the neoclassical style. He considered the era of the Italian Renaissance to be the highest flowering of the visual arts and sought to return to painting its former beauty. In the works of this author, epic scenes from history, mythology and literature come to life. His portraits are no less highly regarded. Read the full article

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Nicholas Roerich artist, traveler and enlightened sage

Treasure of angels. 1905. Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh was a great painter of the XIX-XX centuries, a tireless traveler, teacher, philosopher and writer, scientist, poet and outstanding public figure, enlightened by the Teacher humanity. The paintings of Nicholas Roerich, his work are a true miracle, the brightest world phenomenon. The scale of his personality is incredible, and his biography will inspire seekers of mystical, sacred knowledge for a long time to come. Read the full article

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Nicholas Roerich artist, traveler and enlightened sage

Treasure of angels. 1905. Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh was a great painter of the XIX-XX centuries, a tireless traveler, teacher, philosopher and writer, scientist, poet and outstanding public figure, enlightened by the Teacher humanity. The paintings of Nicholas Roerich, his work are a true miracle, the brightest world phenomenon. The scale of his personality is incredible, and his biography will inspire seekers of mystical, sacred knowledge for a long time to come. Read the full article

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Edvard Munch is a nightmare maker and anxiety singer

Edvard Munch. Painting Scream, 1893.

Edvard Munch is a nightmare maker and anxiety singer

Edvard Munch (born December 12, 1863 died January 23, 1944) is a world famous Norwegian painter, expressionist and symbolist, the author of the "picturesque horror", the creator of the famous painting "The Scream". His work is imbued with motives of anxiety, horror, death, jealousy, despair, but at the same time in many of his works the anthem of life sounds, there is hope and attempts to break out of the psychological abyss. Munch went down in art history as a brilliant painter and emotional graphic artist, the father of Expressionism and one of the forerunners of surrealism. Read the full article

#Edvard Munch #Scream #picturesque horror #horror art