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Description of the painting “Dragonfly” by Ilya Repin

Despite the numerous genre-intensive work, Repin often created portraits just for the soul. It stands out especially among the canvases. Depicting members of his family, a cheerful image of the master’s daughter. While in Penati, 1884 (near St. Petersburg), where his favorite summer cottage was located, the painter creates a canvas with a funny name “Dragonfly” (posed by her daughter Verochka).
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Description of the painting Nikolai Krymov “First Snow”

The painting was painted in 1917. Even in the first paintings of Krymov one can feel the vision of Russian nature through the eyes of a city dweller. Not everyone can see the beauty between the roofs of houses. You need to be a real artist to feel the secret life in the bustle of the city. In the picture of Krymov we see the land on which the first snow fell.
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Description of the painting by Salvador Dali "Anthropomorphic bread"

Salvador Dali is a surrealist who at one time excited the minds of the people of his time. But even today contemporaries argue about the significance of his paintings and try to unravel the artist’s crazy personality. Many of his works are those that horrify and amaze every imagination. Such a picture is “Anthropomorphic bread”, written in 1932.
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Description of Anthony Van Dyck's Self Portrait

One of the Hermitage’s best paintings, Van Dyck’s self-portrait, shows us an artist in a creative, uninhibited person who makes a living impression of embodied art, a little rebellious, out of a series of everyday images, and it is through this especially attractive. The aristocratic appearance is emphasized by the masterful play of light making pale skin with the dignity inherent in the embodiment of a thin nature, sensitive and therefore sensual, emotionally elevated and therefore deep.
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Description of the painting by Klimt Gustav Water Snakes

Gustav Klimt from 1904 to 1907 was engaged in writing two paintings with almost the same plot: “Water Snakes I” and “Water Snakes II.” The kind of these paintings, or rather these feminine figures, draws the viewer into the world of sweet fantasies, enchanting all men with their appearance and youth, causing a rapid heartbeat and rapid pulse.
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