Gustave Courbet's work is dedicated to his grandfather, after the funeral of which, the artist dawns on the idea of capturing this event on canvas. Many of those present were eager to be in the picture. And so it happened. As the artist said afterwards, it was very difficult to place so many people in his small workshop.
The painting "Danae" is one of the most popular mythological works of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. According to an ancient myth, the beautiful Danae was imprisoned by his father Ariksy in a copper tower. So strictly he treated his daughter, trying in every possible way to protect his daughter from the birth of his son.
Petrov-Vodkin is a Russian and Soviet artist, graphic artist, art theorist, writer and teacher. Accidents brought him, as well as many artists, into the art - at first he met two icon painters, watching whom he felt a desire to take up a brush, and then his mother slipped his son’s drawings to the famous sculptor, who was so impressed with Petrov-Vodkin’s work that he took him with him to St. Petersburg and gave a brilliant education.
Or else this picture is called "The Caledonian Boar". This plot from Greek mythology inspired Rubens to write 4 canvases of a similar scene of hunting for a wild boar, from various angles and at different moments of the hunt. The Kalidon boar, a huge, ferocious and terrible beast, was the son of a Cromion pig. The name is associated with the town of Crommion, where the pig went on a rampage, destroying crops and killing ordinary people.
Vereshchagin is merciless in portraying losses and victories. Vereshchagin is perhaps the only artist who was not subject to narcissism, and he could fairly truthfully depict the truth of military life on his canvases. And if Aivazovsky often depicted sea battles, then Vereshchagin depicted land fights on his canvases and mostly Asian.
Marc Chagall the famous artist and graphic artist was born in Vitebsk into a simple Jewish family, this is his pseudonym, his real name is Moisha Segal. He wrote in different styles and genres, trying to show the world from different angles. Joy, sadness, despondency, freedom, reason, madness, etc., all his work is endowed with. Sometimes, a mixture of feelings on the canvas splashes over the edge.
