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Today we present to your attention twenty paintings that are worthy of attention and recognition. These paintings were painted by famous artists, and they should be known not only by the person who is engaged in art, but also by ordinary mortal people, since art paints our life, aesthetics deepens our view of the world. Give art its due place in your life...

1. "The Last Supper". Leonardo Da Vinci, 1495 - 1498

Monumental painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting the scene of the last meal of Christ with his disciples. Created in the years 1495-1498 in the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

The painting was commissioned by Leonardo from his patron, Duke Lodovico Sforza and his wife Beatrice d'Este. The coat of arms of Sforza is painted on the lunettes above the painting, formed by a ceiling with three arches. The painting was begun in 1495 and completed in 1498; work was intermittent. The date of commencement of work is not exact, since "the archives of the monastery were destroyed, and an insignificant part of the documents that we have dated 1497, when the painting was almost completed."

The painting became a milestone in the history of the Renaissance: the correctly reproduced depth of perspective changed the direction of development of Western painting.

It is believed that many secrets and hints are hidden in this picture - for example, there is an assumption that the images of Jesus and Judas are written off from one person. When Da Vinci painted the picture, in his vision, Jesus personified goodness, while Judas was pure evil. And when the master found “his Judas” (a drunkard from the street), it turned out that, according to historians, this drunkard had served as a prototype for painting the image of Jesus a few years before. Thus, we can say that this picture captured a person in different periods of his life.

2. "Sunflowers". Vincent van Gogh, 1887

Name of two cycles of paintings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. The first series was made in Paris in 1887. It is dedicated to lying flowers. The second series was completed a year later, in Arles. She depicts a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. Two Parisian paintings were acquired by van Gogh's friend Paul Gauguin.

The artist painted sunflowers eleven times. The first four paintings were created in Paris in August - September 1887. Large cut flowers lie like some strange creatures dying before our eyes.

3. "The ninth wave". Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky?, 1850.

One of the most famous paintings by the Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky is kept in the Russian Museum.

The painter depicts the sea after the strongest night storm and people who were shipwrecked. The rays of the sun illuminate the huge waves. The largest of them - the ninth shaft - is ready to fall on people trying to escape on the wreckage of the mast.

Despite the fact that the ship is destroyed and only the mast remains, the people on the mast are alive and continue to fight against the elements. The warm tones of the picture make the sea not so harsh and give the viewer hope that people will be saved.

Created in 1850, the painting "The Ninth Wave" immediately became the most famous of all his marinas and was acquired by Nicholas I.

4. "Nude Maja". Francisco Goya, 1797-1800

Painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, painted around 1797-1800. Pairs with the painting "Maja dressed" (La maja vestida). The paintings depict maja - a Spanish townswoman of the 18th-19th centuries, one of the favorite objects of the artist's image. Maja Nude is one of the earliest works of Western art depicting a completely naked woman without mythological or negative connotations.

5. "Flight of lovers." Marc Chagall, 1914-1918

Work on the painting “Above the City” began in 1914, and the master applied the finishing touches only in 1918. During this time, Bella turned from a beloved not only into an adored spouse, but also the mother of their daughter Ida, forever becoming the main muse of the painter. The union of a rich daughter of a hereditary jeweler and a simple Jewish youth, whose father made a living by unloading herring, can only be called a misalliance, but love was stronger and overcame all conventions. It was this love that inspired them, lifting them to heaven.

Karina depicts Chagall's two loves at once - Bella and dear Vitebsk. The streets are presented in the form of houses, separated by a high dark fence. The viewer will not immediately notice a goat grazing to the left of the center of the picture, and a simple man with his pants down in the foreground - a humor from the painter, breaking out of the general context and romantic mood of the work, but this is the whole Chagall ...

6. "The face of war." Salvador Dali, 1940

Painting by Spanish artist Salvador Dali, painted in 1940.

The painting was created on the way to the USA. Impressed by the tragedy that broke out in the world, the bloodthirstiness of politicians, the master starts work on the ship. Located in the Boijmans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.

Having lost all hope for a normal life in Europe, the artist leaves his beloved Paris for America. War covers the Old World and seeks to take over the rest of the world. The master does not yet know that staying in the New World for eight years will make him truly famous, and his works - masterpieces of world art.

7. "Scream". Edvard Munch, 1893

The Scream (Norwegian Skrik) is a series of paintings created between 1893 and 1910 by the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. They depict a human figure screaming in despair against a blood-red sky and a highly generalized landscape background. In 1895, Munch created a lithograph on the same subject.

The red, fiery hot sky covered the cold fjord, which, in turn, gives rise to a fantastic shadow, similar to some kind of sea monster. Tension distorts space, lines break, colors don't match, perspective is destroyed.

Many critics believe that the plot of the picture is the fruit of a sick fantasy of a mentally ill person. Someone sees in the work a premonition of an ecological catastrophe, someone solves the question of what kind of mummy inspired the author to do this work.

8. "Girl with a pearl earring." Jan Vermeer, 1665

The painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (Dutch. "Het meisje met de parel") was written around 1665. Currently stored in the Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, the Netherlands, and is the hallmark of the museum. The painting, nicknamed the Dutch Mona Lisa, or Mona Lisa of the North, is written in the Tronie genre.

Thanks to the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring by Peter Webber, a huge number of people far from painting have learned about the wonderful Dutch artist Jan Vermeer, as well as his most famous painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring.

9. "Tower of Babel". Pieter Brueghel, 1563

Famous painting by Pieter Brueghel. The artist created at least two paintings on this subject.

The painting is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

There is a story in the Bible about how the inhabitants of Babylon tried to build a high tower in order to reach the sky, but God made them speak different languages, ceased to understand each other, and the tower remained unfinished.

10. "Algerian women." Pablo Picasso, 1955

"Women of Algeria" - a series of 15 paintings created by Picasso in 1954-1955 based on the paintings of Eugene Delacroix; the paintings are distinguished by the letters assigned by the artist from A to O. "Version O" was written on February 14, 1955; for some time it belonged to the famous American art collector of the 20th century, Victor Ganz.

Pablo Picasso's "Women of Algiers (version O)" was sold for $180 million.

11. "New planet". Konstantin Yuon, 1921

Russian Soviet painter, master of landscape, theater artist, art theorist. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. People's Artist of the USSR. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree. Member of the CPSU since 1951.

This amazing, created in 1921 and not at all characteristic of the realist artist Yuon, the painting “New Planet” is one of the brightest works that embodied the image of the changes that the October Revolution became in the second decade of the 20th century. A new system, a new way and a new way of thinking of the newly born Soviet society. What awaits humanity now? Bright future? This was not yet thought about then, but the fact that Soviet Russia and the whole world is entering an era of change is obvious, as is the rapid birth of a new planet.

12. "Sistine Madonna". Raphael Santi, 1754

Painting by Raphael, which has been in the Old Masters Gallery in Dresden since 1754. Belongs to the generally recognized peaks of the High Renaissance.

Huge in size (265 × 196 cm, as the size of the painting is indicated in the catalog of the Dresden Gallery) the canvas was created by Raphael for the altar of the church of the monastery of St. Sixtus in Piacenza, commissioned by Pope Julius II. There is a hypothesis that the painting was painted in 1512-1513 in honor of the victory over the French, who invaded Lombardy during the Italian Wars, and the subsequent incorporation of Piacenza into the Papal States.

13. "Penitent Mary Magdalene". Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), painted around 1565

A painting painted around 1565 by the Italian artist Titian Vecellio. Belongs to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Sometimes the date of creation is given as "1560s".

The model of the painting was Giulia Festina, who struck the artist with a shock of golden hair. The finished canvas greatly impressed the Duke of Gonzaga, and he decided to order a copy of it. Later, Titian, changing the background and posing of the woman, painted a couple more similar works.

14. "Mona Lisa". Leonardo Da Vinci, 1503-1505

Portrait of Mrs. Lisa del Giocondo, (ital. Ritratto di Monna Lisa del Giocondo) - a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, located in the Louvre (Paris, France), one of the most famous paintings in the world, which is believed to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a silk merchant from Florence, Francesco del Giocondo, painted around 1503-1505 .

According to one of the put forward versions, "Mona Lisa" is a self-portrait of the artist.

15. “Morning in a pine forest”, Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich, 1889.

Painting by Russian artists Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Savitsky painted the bears, but the collector Pavel Tretyakov erased his signature, so that one is often indicated as the author of the painting.

The idea for the painting was suggested to Shishkin by Savitsky, who later acted as a co-author and depicted the figures of cubs. These bears, with some differences in posture and number (at first there were two of them), appear in the preparatory drawings and sketches. The animals turned out so well for Savitsky that he even signed the painting together with Shishkin.

16. "We didn't wait." Ilya Repin, 1884-1888

Painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin (1844-1930), painted in 1884-1888. It is part of the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The painting shown at the 12th traveling exhibition is part of a narrative cycle dedicated to the fate of the Russian populist revolutionary.

17. Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876.

Painting painted by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1876.

The place where the painting is located is the Musée d'Orsay. The Moulin de la Galette is an inexpensive tavern in Montmartre where the students and working youth of Paris gathered.

18. Starry night. Vincent van Gogh, 1889

De sterrennacht- a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, written in June 1889, with a view of the predawn sky over a fictional town from the east window of the artist's dwelling in Saint-Remy-de-Provence. Since 1941 it has been kept at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is considered one of Van Gogh's best works and one of the most significant works of Western painting.

19. "Creation of Adam". Michelangelo, 1511.

Fresco by Michelangelo, painted around 1511. The fresco is the fourth of nine central compositions on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The Creation of Adam is one of the most outstanding mural compositions in the Sistine Chapel. In endless space, God the Father flies, surrounded by wingless angels, with a fluttering white tunic. The right hand is extended towards Adam's hand and almost touches it. Lying on a green rock, Adam's body gradually begins to move, awakens to life. The whole composition is concentrated on the gesture of two hands. The hand of God gives the impulse, and the hand of Adam receives it, giving life energy to the whole body. By the fact that their hands do not touch, Michelangelo emphasized the impossibility of connecting the divine and the human. In the image of God, according to the artist, not a miraculous principle prevails, but a gigantic creative energy. In the image of Adam, Michelangelo sings of the strength and beauty of the human body. In fact, it is not the very creation of man that appears before us, but the moment at which he receives a soul, a passionate search for the divine, a thirst for knowledge.

20. "Kiss in the starry sky." Gustav Klimt, 1905-1907

Painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, painted in 1907-1908. The canvas belongs to the period of Klimt's work, called "golden", the last work of the author in his "golden period".

On a rock, on the edge of a flower meadow, in a golden aura, lovers stand completely immersed in each other, fenced off from the whole world. Due to the uncertainty of the place of what is happening, it seems that the couple depicted in the picture is moving into a cosmic state that is not subject to time and space, beyond all historical and social stereotypes and cataclysms. Complete solitude and the man's face turned back only emphasize the impression of isolation and detachment in relation to the observer.

Source - Wikipedia, muzei-mira.com, say-hi.me

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High art is a complex and incomprehensible thing for many. Renaissance painting with its ideal image attracts many admirers, but it is not easy for everyone to believe that the works of Picasso and Kandinsky can really cost fabulous money. The abundance of naked people in the picture is another mystery, as well as the paradox that good paintings do not have to be beautiful.

website I learned the answers to several curious questions about painting by looking into the works of art critics and culturologists.

1. Is painting really that expensive?

Every now and then we hear about the crazy sums laid out for this or that picture. But in fact, such money is the lot of very few works. Most artists have never seen huge amounts of money. Art historian Jonathan Binstock believes that there are only about 40 authors in the world whose paintings are valued by a sum with many zeros.

Brands rule art

Here is perhaps the most striking example. You've probably heard of the graffiti artist Banksy. The acute social orientation of the works and the biography, covered with a halo of mystery, did their job. Today, Banksy is an artist whose work is valued at multi-digit sums. His painting "Girl with a Balloon" was sold for £ 1.042 million. And the whole world started talking about the performance of its destruction immediately after the sale.

Banksy is a brand and brands sell well. In this way, The cost of a painting is largely determined by the fame of its author.

The successful sale of one painting is the key to the success of others

An artist may be unlucky for a long time, he will vegetate in poverty and obscurity, unable to profitably sell his work. But as soon as he manages to sell one of his paintings for a lot of money, you can be sure that the price of his other works will skyrocket.

Rarity, scarcity, uniqueness

The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer is called priceless today. Not so many paintings belong to his brush - only 36. The artist wrote quite slowly. Lost in 1990, the Dutchman's painting "Concert" is now estimated at about $ 200 million. Rarity and scarcity canvases affects the fact that their prices are simply sky-high.

The legendary Van Gogh is a super brand. There are few paintings by the artist, and it is obvious that he won't do anything anymore. His work is unique.

10 years ago, Malevich's Suprematist Composition was sold for $60 million. Perhaps, if not for the crisis, it would have sold for $100 million. Paintings by Malevich in private collections without exception, and when the next time a thing of this class appears on the market is unknown. Maybe in 10 years, maybe in 100.

In general, it is obvious: buyers are ready to pay fabulous money for extremely rare items.

Innovation is expensive

One of the works of Richard Prince in the direction of "artistic borrowing".

Painting takes on the function of a landmark

Today, the level of cultural tourism is growing, and painting performs the function Attraction. Tourists line up for hours at famous museums. And in order to declare itself and claim world-class fame, the gallery must certainly own the originals of famous and popular painters.

Artificially created centers of cultural tourism are also growing, for example, in the Middle East and in China. Recently the royal family Qatar entered into a private transaction for $ 250 million- all in order for the country to have a picture Cezanne "The Card Players".

When there is everything, art begins to pull

In 2017, billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev sold this painting to Leonardo da Vinci for $450 million. Now this is the most expensive deal in the world of painting.

When you have 4 houses and a G5 plane, what else is there to do? It remains only to invest in painting, because it is one of the strongest currencies».

Painting by Georges Seurat "Canal at Gravelines, Great Fort Philippe".

Fragment of Michelangelo's fresco "Creation of Adam".

Even the ancient Greeks believed that the naked body is incredibly beautiful.

In art, most often nudity - it's a symbol. A symbol of new life, sincerity, the helplessness of a living being, as well as life and death.

Besides, nothing causes such strong emotions the viewer, like nakedness. It could be interest, embarrassment, shame, or admiration.

4. Why is everything so flat and generally unrealistic?

Painting by Czech artist Bohumil Kubishta “The Hypnotist”.

Perhaps one of the most common accusations against modern masters sounds like this: artists have forgotten how to seem to convey reality. Hence the misconception that objects look flat.

But let's look, for example, at the canvases cubists. They break the perspective, but depict objects at the same time from different angles and even at different times. Therefore, it cannot be said that the image on the canvas is two-dimensional.

It is no longer necessary to draw “looks like” - a photograph can do this. Therefore, it is necessary to look for an answer to the question of why the artist in this or that picture depicted reality as flat, it is necessary in the very author's idea. Removing some details of the image, the artist focuses on others. Simplifying the image, he makes it more expressive. The artists of naive painting did not have an academic education. Pirosmani and Rousseau were only self-taught, but their paintings attracted those who had already seen everything and who were bored with traditional painting. Such pictures were like a breath of life-giving simplicity.

But professional avant-garde artists of the 19th–20th centuries had an art education behind them and a strong base. They are could write any way but at some point decided to do it this way imitating the primitivists. As they say, this was intended, because this is a completely new (and therefore interesting for those who are tired of the old) way of influencing the viewer.

Artists would have done a great job with a painting in the spirit of academic classicism, and that is why it was boring for them. Young Picasso painted touching and rather realistic portraits. But a mature artist has chosen for himself a path that shocks, invigorates the eye, which helps to demonstrate a cool coloristic flair and a sense of form.

Opinion: to say that pictures must certainly be beautiful is the same as saying that real cinema is only a romantic comedy or a melodrama with a happy ending. And psychological dramas, action films, thrillers - this is not a movie at all. Agree, there is logic in this.

Art (including painting) must speak the language of its time. And in order to enjoy any picture, even a realistic one, you need to know what is depicted on it. At exhibitions, we usually read the captions to the canvases and even use the audio guide.

What painting is close to you?

*Painting lasts in its own way. Martin Heidegger

*Painting is the knowledge of the world, accessible only to a long human experience. Dream and memory at the same time. And the penetration into the science of caresses, which the ardor of a young lover neglects. Louis Aragon

* In painting, as in other genres of art, there is not a single technique that could be adjusted to a verbal formulation. Auguste Renoir

*Humanity has always cherished those works of art where the drama of the human heart or simply the inner character of a person is expressed with the fullest possible. Often the image of one character alone is enough for the name of the artist to remain in the history of art. Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy
*It's not about learning to draw, it's about learning to think. Stendhal (Henri-Marie Bayle)

*The world is ultimately around us, not in front of us. The depth of the pictorial image comes from nowhere, settling down, growing on the canvas. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

*Successive actions cannot, as such, become objects of painting; it must be content with simultaneous actions, or bodies which, by their position, imply action. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

* If a picture excites rumors, and even animated ones, it means that there is something in it; therefore, art can play a role of a somewhat higher order than the decoration and entertainment of life. Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy

*Each picture must be one of a kind and must be a new image in a series of representations of the human mind about the world. Henri Matisse

* "And then I saw a crow in the snow. A crow sits in the snow and puts out one wing, it sits like a black spot in the snow. So I could not forget this spot for many years. Then I wrote to boyar Morozova"
"The essence of a historical picture is guessing" Vasily Ivanovich Surikov.

* About the progress of Repin's work on the painting: "He will suddenly become angry, inflamed with all his soul, grab a palette and brushes and begin to write on the canvas as if in some kind of rage"
"What is art? Or, closer: what are artists? A part of a nation that freely and spontaneously set itself the task of satisfying the aesthetic needs of its people."
"..the highest judicial authority for the artist has always been and will be the impression that thousands of viewers endure from the picture." Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy.

* "Each student in the summer should write sketches and study from all sides what he has chosen as his specialty; in addition, both in winter and in summer, he should have a notebook and an album with him in order to learn to draw in them everything that will stop his attention on himself, and not rely on his memory and imagination ... "
"The landscape should be not only national, but further local. All of the above will be guaranteed by my many years of experience and all my desire to serve my native landscape, and I hope that the time will come when all Russian nature, alive and spiritual, will look from the canvases of Russian artists." AND. Shishkin

* "I want to be like this - carefree, in this century they write everything difficult, nothing encouraging. I want something encouraging and I will write only encouraging" Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov.

"They say: art is not science, not mathematics, that it is art, moods and that nothing can be explained in art - look and admire. In my opinion, this is not so. Art is explainable and very logical, you need and you can know about it, it is mathematical "In this case, it can be explained. It is possible to prove exactly why the picture is good and why it is bad" Nikolai Petrovich Krymov

* "A painter who studies the diversity of things in nature, thereby comprehends their relationship, determines the location of a thing in the world, i.e. the being of a thing" Kuzma
"Colors are annoying and soothing, screaming, arguing with each other and living affectionately one next to the other. In their struggle or agreement, there is the effect of color on a person through the sense of sight." Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin

* "Time takes the trouble to finish my works."
"Color complements the painting with decorations, but she is no more than a court lady from her retinue"
"Drawing does not mean just making contours; drawing does not consist only of lines. Drawing is also expressiveness, internal form, plan, modeling."
"In every head, the first thing to do is to make the eyes speak."
"Only in nature can one find beauty, which is the great object of painting; there one must look for it and nowhere else."
"No remorse if you copy the ancients. Their works are a common property, from where everyone can take what they like. They become our property when we know how to use them, Raphael, tirelessly imitating them, remained himself."
"More decisiveness in the use of colors, more flexibility in tones. More confusion in the poses of the pages; they are too calculated. The gilding is lighter in the shadows and more delicate. In general, less symmetry."
"The outer contours should never deepen ... they are convex ... To achieve a perfect form, one should not resort to square and angular volumes: one must create a rounded shape and without protruding internal details. When there is only one figure in the picture, it must be modeled in relief and thus look for a painterly effect."
"I have been reproached, and perhaps rightly, that I repeat my compositions too often, instead of creating new works. Here are my thoughts on this matter: most of the works I loved in terms of plot seemed to me worthy of labor and make they are even better, repeating or finishing them better, as often happened with my first paintings and, by the way, with the Sistine Chapel. When an artist, by virtue of his love of art and the efforts expended by him, has the right to hope to leave his name to future generations, he will tirelessly try to make his works more beautiful, or at least less imperfect. An example for me is the great Poussin, who often repeated the same plots.
"The drawing contains more than three-quarters of what painting is. If I had to put a sign over my door, I would write:" Drawing School ", and I'm sure I would create painters." Ingres

* "It is difficult to take two or three tones exactly together, five is even more difficult, and to take everything exactly as you feel with your eye is incredibly difficult. Educate the eye a little at first; then open the eye wider, and in the end everything that enters the canvas must see together, and then what is not exactly taken will be out of tune, like a wrong note in an orchestra. An experienced artist sees everything at the same time, just as a good conductor hears the violin, the flute, the bassoon, and other instruments at the same time"
"I like to start from the thickest dark places. This does not allow me to get into whitishness. The color will be rich, thick." Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin

* "The use of the entire range of light intensity, the maximum allowed by the entire palette, and the use of the entire register of colors and color shades is possible only on the basis of knowledge of various techniques of technology.
These shades and saturation with color strength and luminosity in painting are highly dependent on texture preparation at each stage of work.
Painting that does not breathe in each of its colors with a thousand shades that enrich it, is dead painting.
The energy of colors, as well as the energy of form and expression, also carries the energy of impact.
Student, timid, though sincere, but protocol work is only the ABC of art. Only when the painter, as a result of long searches, reaches two or three decisive strokes of the brush, simply and clearly solving the problem of form and color, does the necessary degree of persuasiveness appear. Laconism in painting, as in speech, is often desirable as the shortest path to exhaustive clarity: it banishes everything doubtful, confusing and overloading on its straightforward path. "K. Yuon

* "Painting is life itself. In it, nature appears before the soul without intermediaries, without covers, without conventions. Poetry is intangible. Music is intangible. Sculpture is conditional. But painting, especially in landscape, is something real. Poets, musicians, sculptors "I don't want to belittle your glory. Your lot is also beautiful. But let everyone be rewarded with justice!"
If we cast a glance at the surroundings, whether it be a landscape or an interior, we will notice that between the things that appear to our eyes, there is a kind of connection created by the atmosphere enveloping them and various reflections of light, which, so to speak, involve each object in a certain general harmony"
"What a miracle - to admire in painting what you don't admire in reality."
"Painting is a non-talkative art, and this, in my opinion, is its considerable merit."
“The most stubborn realist is nevertheless forced, when conveying nature, to resort to certain conventions of composition or manner. Speaking of composition, he cannot simply take a single piece or even several pieces and make a picture out of it. One must put an idea into it in order to present to the viewer something more than a random connection of unrelated parts, without this there would be no art.When a photographer shoots a landscape, you always see only one part cut out from the whole; the edge of the picture here is as interesting as the central part; you you can only imagine the whole landscape - you see only a piece that seems to be chosen at random. The secondary here claims the same attention as the main one; more often than not, this secondary is the first thing that catches the eye and offends them. More indulgence is required for the imperfection of reproduction in a photographic image rather than in the creation of a creative imagination.The photographs that make the most impression are those in which In some cases, due to the imperfection of the very method of accurate transmission, certain gaps are left, resting places for the eye, which allow it to focus attention only on a small number of objects. If the eye had the power of a magnifying glass, photography would be unbearable: we would notice all the leaves on a tree, all the tiles on the roof, and all the moss on the tiles, all the insects, etc. And what to say about the unpleasant views that a real perspective gives rise to , - they are less unpleasant, perhaps, in the landscape, where the parts protruding forward can be enlarged, even beyond measure, without offending the eye in the way that happens with human figures! The most stubborn realist must correct in the picture this inflexibility of perspective, which distorts the appearance of objects precisely because of its accuracy.
"Artists who are not colorists are engaged in coloring, not painting. Painting, in the proper sense of the word, if we are not talking about monochrome paintings, contains the idea of ​​color as one of its necessary foundations, along with chiaroscuro, proportion and perspective." Eugene Delacroix

* "Technique is the language of the artist; develop it tirelessly, to virtuosity. Without it, you will never be able to tell people your dreams, your experiences, the beauty you have seen." Pavel Petrovich Chistyakov

* "God is the Immeasurable, and I feel Him in me. Only in him I believe. I do not believe in what I touch, nor in what I see. My brain, my mind seems to me only a brief doubtful reality. Only I consider my inner feeling to be eternal and definite.
"Contact the great masters. They teach us not to create poor art...."
"Color must be thought out, inspired, dreamed out."
"The whole value of my works lies in the fact that I opened for them the door leading to the sacrament. I composed the images, and now they should develop themselves"
"The sky through the branches, it's pearls and gems"
"Painting is passionate silence." Gustave Moreau

* "The whole secret is in the general luminosity. The light comes, as it were, from inside the canvas itself. Look at the Venetians, everything is flooded with one light, and it’s as if the artist paints with one paint. Why, after all, inside a single golden color there is a feeling of red draperies or green foliage? Titian only saturates the shadow with color, and the light in the whole picture writes with almost the same color, one tone. The plane of the picture, the depth and the play of light are preserved at the same time! "Nikolai Mikhailovich Romadin

*"When you try to conscientiously follow the great masters, you see that at certain moments they all plunge deeply into reality. I mean that the so-called creations of the great masters can be seen in reality itself, if you look at it with the same eyes and with the same feelings that they ... Reality - this is the eternal basis of genuine poetry, which can be found if you search hard and dig the soil deep enough ... "Van Gogh

*"Everyone is trying to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand birdsong?"
"Painting is an occupation for the blind. An artist paints not what he sees, but what he feels."
"Why try to understand art? You don't try to understand what a bird sings about..."
A millionaire came to Picasso's studio. 3a was interested in a picture painted in a cubic manner:
- What is shown here?
- Two hundred thousand dollars - the artist answered.

When Picasso was asked why he didn't decorate his house
with his own paintings, he replied: "I can't afford them!"

I am finishing your portrait,” Picasso said to the man he was painting. Now try to be like him.

Picasso leads guests through his exhibition.
- This is my self-portrait. This is a portrait of my wife.
- I hope you don't have children?

"An artist is a person who writes what can be sold. And a good artist is a person who sells what he writes"

"There are artists who turn the sun into a yellow spot. But there are also those who, using their art and mind, turn the yellow spot into the sun"

"And among the people there are more copies than originals." Pablo Picasso

"If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would immediately faint and lose consciousness." Mrs. Picasso

*"The difference between surrealists and me is that I am a surrealist"
"Painting a picture is either easy or impossible"
"When I paint pictures, I feel crazy. The only difference between me and crazy is that I'm not crazy." Dali

* The illustrator Favorsky, when he made illustrations for books, drew a dog in the corner. When the editor began to resent why the dog was here, he proved every time that the dog was simply necessary for this illustration. But in the end, having finished with the disputes, he agreed to remove the dog from the picture. When asked why you draw this dog every time, he replied: "And if there was no dog, he would have found fault with something else" Favorsky

* "In essence, there is no beautiful style, no beautiful line, no beautiful color, the only beauty is the truth that becomes visible." Oh. Rodin

* "A landscape painter can work calmly - nature never insists on similarity." R. G. de la Serna

* "The significance of an artist is measured by the number of new signs that he introduces into the plastic language." A. Matisse

* "The light of art will influence numerous hearts, illuminate them with new love. At first this feeling will be unconscious, but then it will purify the human consciousness." Roerich

* "Drawing is not a form, but a way of seeing it." Degas

* A work of art - fog sculpted into an image.
* Beauty is not a need, but an ecstasy. It is not an image that you would like to see, and not a song that you would like to hear, but an image that you see even if you close your eyes, and a song that you hear even if you close your ears. D.H. Gibran

* An artist is a person who turns away from reality because he is unable to reconcile himself to the refusal to satisfy his instincts that it demands; he opens up space for his selfish and ambitious designs in the realm of fantasy. Freud Sigmund

*Good artists create, great artists steal, and good artists deliver on time... Steve Jobs

*Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood. Picasso Pablo

*Everyone has the right to change, even artists. Picasso Pablo

*When will you realize
That you are not a son of the earth,
But the traveler through the universes,
When you understand that a person is born,
To melt out of the world
Necessity and reason -
Universe of Freedom and Love, -
Then only You will become a Master. Maximilian Voloshin

* The artist is a liar, but art is true. Andre Maurois

*It was neither fun nor sad - it was beautiful...Vincent van Gogh

* An artist is a focus of consciousness of things and phenomena reflected in him. M.A. Voloshin

* Autobiographies of artists in those places where it is told about how they achieved fame are usually drawn out. Ulrich Erkenbrecht

* Anti-classical art, if it can be called art at all, just the art of lazy people. It is the doctrine of those who want to create without labor and learn without study. French artist of the 19th century Jean Ingres

* God is just another artist. He invented a giraffe, an elephant, a cat. He has no established handwriting. It just keeps trying to create things. Pablo Picasso

* At twenty-five, anyone can be talented. The whole point is to be talented at fifty. Edgar Degas, French painter

* In our age, newspapers try to make the public judge a sculptor not by his sculptures, but by how he treats his wife; about an artist by the size of his income, and about a poet by the color of his tie. Oscar Wilde

* I have enough of an artist in me to draw freely in my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination embraces the world. A. Einstein

* Each social stratum is curious in its own way, and the artist can depict with equal interest the manners of the queen and the habits of the dressmaker. M. Proust

* The highest praise for an artist is when you forget about praise before his work. Gotthold Lessing

* Yes, madam, Nature [in the paintings - D.D.] creeps in. The answer of the artist J.A. McNeill Whistler "a, to the phrase of one lady that a certain landscape reminds her of his paintings

* For an artist of the fifteenth century, the description of the deathbed was as sure a means of gaining popularity as for the artist of the twentieth century - the description of the bed of love. Aldous Huxley

* The only praise that should be given to an artist is to buy his work. French Impressionist painter Pierre Renoir
* If you take a closer look at his work, it is noticeable that they look like a carefully drawn flight path of a shell-shocked fly. Marina Rodna about the paintings of the American abstract artist Jackson Pollock

* If there is absolutely nothing beautiful in the appearance of a woman, they say that she has beautiful eyes. If an artist is defiantly untalented - that he is sincerely devoted to his work. Critic Stanislav Zelvensky about Stas Namin's photo exhibition

* If you look good and are well dressed, you do not need a goal in life. Robert Pant, American fashion designer

* Thirst for profit has not yet created a single artist, but killed many. Alston

* Painting is the profession of the blind. The artist paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what what he sees means to him. Pablo Picasso

* We care about the creative dissatisfaction of artists! Stanislav Jerzy Lec

* INTELLECTUAL - a person who speaks complexly about simple things; An ARTIST is a person who simply talks about complex things. Charles Bukowski

* A true artist creates the next work because he is not satisfied with the previous one. Dmitry Shostakovich

* Every artist who depicts the sky as green and the grass as blue must be sterilized. Adolf Gitler

* When I have to make fun of nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have seen at least one picture. English landscape painter John Constable

* When I was a child, my mother told me: "If you become a soldier, you will be a general; if you become a monk, you will be the Pope." Instead, I became an artist and slid down to Picasso. Pablo Picasso

* When [artist] Diego Rivera protested changes to his mural at the Rockefeller Center, Nelson Rockefeller allegedly convinced him simply by saying, "This is my wall." Eugene McCarthy

* COLLAGE - a clever way of transferring to the canvas a variety of household items, which the artist does not want to depict in the usual way. Marina Rodna

* CONCEPTUAL ART - the art of artists who seem to express deep philosophical ideas in absolutely everything they do, even if everyone else does not see any ideas in it at all. Marina Rodna

* Only in failure does the artist recognize his true attitude to creativity, only after the defeat does the commander see his mistakes. S. Zweig

* Any portrait drawn from the heart is a portrait of the artist, not the one who posed for him. Oscar Wilde

* Any good artist who strives to create true masterpieces must first be able to take my wife away. Salvador Dali

* Memoirs are the best source of information. Reading them is a pleasure; besides, a pleasant surprise awaits you: it turns out that a great artist is not only endowed with skillful hands, but is also able to think quite reasonably without the prompting of a critic. Marina Dana Rodna

* I've always been suspicious of artists who achieve success before they die. John Murray Fitzgibbon

* A real artist is a tuning fork, he can only strike one note - his own. Olga Muravieva

* A real expert, wanting to maintain his reputation, immediately after the death of a famous artist tries to publish a complete catalog of his works as soon as possible, after which their prices begin to rise uncontrollably. If any of the artist's works is not included in this capital document, it will subsequently be very difficult to prove not only authenticity, but also its very existence. Marina Rodna

* One should not be especially afraid to attribute to the artists of the past an ideal that they never had. Admiration is impossible without an admixture of illusion, and to understand a perfect work of art means, in general, to re-create it in your inner world. The same works are reflected differently in the soul of contemplators. Each generation is looking for new emotions in the creations of the old masters. The most gifted spectator is the one who finds, at the cost of several successful false interpretations, the most tender and strongest emotion. Therefore, humanity has a passionate attachment mainly to such works of art and poetry, which contain dark places that allow for the possibility of different understanding. A. France

* Some become critics because they are incapable of being artists, in the same way that a man becomes an informer because he is incapable of being a soldier. Gustave Flaubert

* Some artists paint flowers. I draw what the flowers think. Sylvester Stallone

* Education is disastrous for anyone who has the makings of an artist. Education should be left to officials, and even they are tempted to drink. George Moore

* You see, three-quarters of humanity thinks more about what they are shown than about how it is done. English landscape artist John Sell Cotman

* Why shouldn't art be beautiful? The world is already full of trouble. French Impressionist painter Pierre Renoir

* The truth is always there, you have to invent only lies. Georges Braque, French artist

* Vocation can be recognized and proved only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist brings to their peace and well-being. L.N. Tolstoy

* Spent an unhappy morning comparing himself to Raphael. Benjamin Haydon, English painter, diary entry

* Raphael was commissioned to paint the Vatican not because he was a great artist, but because his uncle was a papal architect. Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister

* REALISM - scrupulous reproduction of all the details of the depicted object. It is undertaken so that each viewer understands what exactly the artist wanted to portray. Marina Rodna

* Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am left alone with myself, I lack the courage to consider myself an artist, in the great, ancient sense of the word ... I am just an entertainer who understands the needs of his time. Pablo Picasso in 1971

* The situation here is ideal: bankers only talk about paintings, artists only talk about money. Unknown appraiser about art auctions

* Only bad artists write too much. A. Matisse

* Good painting is like good cuisine: you can feel the taste, but you can’t explain it. French artist and writer Maurice de Vlaminck

* A good artist does not need to name a picture, a bad one must. Polish proverb

* Whether the artist wants it or not, the apple will still fall to the ground. Film director Andrey Konchalovsky

* ART SCHOOL - a place where young girls pass the time between college and marriage. American artist Thomas Hart Benton

* ARTIST - one who makes things that people do not need. Andy Warhole
* An artist is a synthesis of theorist and practice. Novalis
* ARTIST -professional exhibitionist. Vincent Van Gogh

* An artist can even sometimes discover with amazement - as happened to Miro in a certain American gallery - that all the works exhibited there under his name are fakes. Even worse, he had to endure an even greater shock when he was dragged to court, where he had to prove that he was the same Miro. Marina Rodna

* The artist must be worthy of high society, and stay away from him. John Ruskin

* The artist must draw his plan with fire, but execute it with composure. Johann Winckelmann

* The artist thinks with a drawing. S. Dali

* An artist can even hang his paintings, but a writer can only hang himself. Eduard Dahlberg (full name John Emerich Eduard Dahlberg-Acton)

* The artist never abandons art, but it happens that art abandons the artist. G. Kozintsev

* The artist is obliged to be vain, but has the right to modesty. Karl Kraus

* ARTIST - a creature driven by demons. William Faulkner

* Everyone can offend an artist, but an artist can offend everyone at once! Unknown

* Artists are the only people in the world who truly live. The rest can only hope to go to heaven. American artist John French Sloan

* Artists have a duty to show us how good life is. Otherwise, we would have doubts. Anatole France

* Pop art artists insistently depict everything that everyone knows well, constantly sees, and would only be glad to forget. Marina Rodna

* Artists, drowning in ... a stream of verbiage about their work, in turn begin to come up with their own aesthetic theories. At the same time, a completely logical pattern is observed: the more philosophical and abstruse their speech becomes, the more ordinary and flat works they create. No wonder Matisse said that the artist "must cut out the tongue in order to express himself only with the help of a brush." Marina Rodna

* The goal of every artist is to stop the flow of life itself [in the picture] by artistic means and fix it in such a way that even after a hundred years, if someone takes a look, the action would again continue there, as in life. William Faulkner

* A person can be born a poet, but he is forced to make himself an artist. English poet Siegfried Sasson

* Man reveals himself in his works. In secular communication, he shows himself as he wants to appear, and you can correctly judge him only by his petty and unconscious actions and involuntarily changing facial expressions. Having appropriated this or that mask, a person eventually gets so used to it that he really becomes what he first wanted to seem. But in his book or in his picture he is naked and defenseless. His pretensions only emphasize his emptiness... No attempts at originality can hide mediocrity. A sharp-sighted connoisseur even sees in a sketch the innermost spiritual depths of the artist who created it. S. Maugham

* What is the difference between an artist and an amateur? Only the pain that I feel. The amateur seeks only pleasure in art. French symbolist painter Redon Odilon

* It takes a lot of imagination to become a photographer. Even the artist of imagination needs less, because he can invent. And in photography everything is so ordinary; you have to peer for a long time before you learn to see the ordinary. David Bailey

* I will write you more similar than you are. Max Liebermann, German artist

* I followed the rules until I hated them all. American abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler

* I go to the studio every day because one day I might meet an angel there. What if he comes and I don't? Philip Gaston, Canadian-born American artist

* [Michelangelo] Buonarotti praised them [Titian's paintings], saying that he liked the manner and coloring of Titian very much, but it is a shame that [artists] in Venice are not taught to draw well from the very beginning. Giorgio Vasari

* Thank God that I always want more than I can achieve. Michelangelo Buonarroti

* IMPROVEMENT - improvement is a trifle, but perfection is not a trifle. Michelangelo Buonarotti

* Creation can survive the creator: The Creator will leave, defeated by nature, However, the image imprinted by him will warm hearts for centuries. Michelangelo Buonarroti

* I am still studying. Michelangelo Buonarotti, favorite saying

* I finished the chapel that I painted. Dad is happy. Michelangelo Buonarotti, in a letter to his father about the famous Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

* I live in the hearts of thousands of souls
All those who love, and, therefore, I am not dust,
And mortal corruption will not touch me. Michelangelo Buonarroti

*Painting a good picture is no easier than finding a pearl or a diamond. It is difficult and life-threatening. Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother in 1888

* Despite all the explanations, your paintings have such an effect, as if you treated us to gasoline instead of wine. Georges Braque, impression from the first cubist paintings by Pablo Picasso

* She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like a vampire, she has died many times, and knows the secrets of graves. Walter Pater on the Mona Lisa

* Rembrandt painted about three hundred paintings, of which almost a thousand are in America.

* Only a Russian person, looking at a beautiful picture, can swear with admiration.

* A good picture among the screaming bad becomes bad; bad among good - good. Pablo Picasso

* I wanted to copy nature, but I couldn't. But I was pleased when I realized that although [in the picture] it is impossible to reproduce the sun, its radiance can be depicted with the color [of the whole picture]. Paul Cezanne

* Doing painting without having an innate talent is the same as throwing a seed into the waves. Paolo Veronese

* To depict an object means to master it. Painting is an act that gives a deeper knowledge and a more complete possession than sex, only sleep or death can compare with it. Modigliani

* Drawing is only a necessary evil, because proportions are easy to determine. Color is the goal, the beginning and the end of painting. German art critic Wilhelm Heinse

* Accuracy is not yet true. Henri Matisse on painting

It turns out that other images are hidden under the paintings of some famous artists. Sometimes, if you look closely, they are visible to the naked eye. But more often they are found by art historians while studying the paintings of famous masters or restorers working on the restoration of paintings. In our review, there are six most interesting cases when paintings were fraught with hidden images.

Answering the question about hidden paintings, scientists note that the reasons for their appearance on known canvases are different. Sometimes the artist simply did not like the original version, sometimes the picture had to be redrawn due to public opinion, and it also happened that the artists found themselves in financial distress, could not afford to buy a new canvas, and used old ones for their new works.

1. Bust of the monarch in the painting by Jean Auguste Ingres

On the left side of the painting by the French neoclassical artist Ingres "Portrait of Jacques Marquet, Baron de Montbreton de Norvin" (1811-12), which depicts the chief of police in Rome after the conquest of the city by Napoleon, even with the naked eye you can see the bust of a child's head. It is believed that this is a bust of the head of the son of Napoleon, whom his father proclaimed the king of Rome. In 1814, when Napoleon was finally defeated and abdicated, Ingres painted over the painting for political reasons and painted a new one on top of it.

2. Woman in Picasso's "Old Guitarist"

Pablo Picasso had a difficult period in 1901-1904, when he did not even have money to buy new materials for work. He often primed old canvases and used them to create new paintings. One of the most famous examples of pentimento in the works of Picasso is the painting "The Old Guitarist", in which a painted figure of a woman was discovered.

Art critics have previously noticed a fuzzy contour behind the guitarist's curved neck, but only by shining X-rays on the picture did they reveal an old image of a woman feeding a small child, and next to them are a bull and a sheep.

3. The bearded man in Picasso's Blue Room

Picasso's painting The Blue Room, painted in 1901, also contains a secret recently revealed by infrared optical tomography. If you put the picture vertically, a certain bearded man with many rings on his fingers is found under a layer of paint.

4. Shoulder strap in John Singer Sargent's "Portrait of Madame X"

"Portrait of Madame X", which is exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is considered a style icon due to the simple black clothes of the lady depicted on it, her stately figure and haughty facial expression. However, at one time this portrait was considered a scandalous insult to decency and had a very negative impact on the artist's career in Europe.

The woman in the portrait is the famous Parisian socialite Virginie Gautreau. The pallor of her skin, which was considered the epitome of beauty at the time, led one contemporary critic to describe Gautreau's skin tone as "cadaverous". This effect was achieved through the use of arsenic. Gautreau also tinted her hair with henna for greater contrast. To emphasize the unusual beauty of Gautreau, Sargent depicted her in a black dress, one of the straps of which coquettishly fell over her shoulder.

When the portrait was first exhibited at the Paris Salon, the public exploded with indignation, as the half-dropped shoulder strap was found to be very obscene. As a result, Sargent rewrote this detail of the dress, lifting it over his shoulder.

5. Woman at the window

In the National Gallery in London, in the process of restoring a canvas from the 1500s by an unknown artist, an unusual "make-up" was discovered. It turned out that the blonde in the picture is actually a brunette, and her hair color was rewritten by the artist over the original. Today, the painting has been restored to its original state and is housed in the National Gallery.

6. Whale in Hendrik van Antonissen's "Beach Scene"

When this seventeenth-century Dutch painting was donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum, it simply depicted a beach scene. However, art historians have been puzzled as to why the painting depicts a crowd gathered near the water for no apparent reason. After restoration, under a layer of paint, an image of a whale washed ashore was discovered. The whale is believed to have been painted over for aesthetic reasons in the 18th or 19th century.

Art connoisseurs will be interested to learn about.

These artists amaze with their talent and the way they create their hyper-realistic paintings. It's hard to believe, but these are not photos, but real paintings drawn with a pencil, paints and even ballpoint pens. We don't understand how they do it?! Just enjoy their creativity.

Omar Ortiz is a hyperrealist artist from Mexico with a Bachelor of Graphic Design. The main subject of his paintings are human figures, mostly naked women. In the picture, the artist distinguishes three elements: the figure of a man, draped fabrics, white color. A feature of Omar's work is a minimalist style, laconicism in the transfer of subtle curves and lines of the body, oil work.

Paul Cadden is a world-class contemporary artist from Scotland. For his work, Paul uses only white chalk and graphite, with which he can recreate almost any photograph, paying attention to imperceptible small details. As the artist himself admits, he does not come up with new details, but only emphasizes them, thereby creating the illusion of a new reality, which is often not visible in the original photographs.

Kamalky Laureano- the artist was born in the Dominican Republic in 1983, currently lives and works in Mexico City. Kamalki graduated from the School of Design and Art and specializes in creating hyper-realistic portraits. The scenes are difficult to distinguish from real photos, although they are painted with acrylics on canvas. For the author of his work - not just an imitation of photographs, but a whole life embodied on canvas.

Gregory Thielker- Born in New Jersey in 1979, studied art history and painting at the University of Washington. Moving to Boston became the starting point for his work on hyper-realistic cityscapes, which made him famous all over the world. Tilker's paintings are a journey by car on a cold rainy day. Inspired by the works of artists of the 70s, the author creates his realistic paintings using watercolors and oil paints.

Lee Price- an artist from New York, graduated from the university with a degree in painting, is engaged in figurative painting. The main plot of Lee's work is the difficult attitude of women to food. The viewer, as if from the outside, is watching women who secretly eat something tasty, but harmful. The artist herself says that in her works she is trying to show the fact that women endow food with qualities that are not inherent in it, they seek solace in an inappropriate source. The pictures convey the absurdity of the situation, an attempt to escape from reality, to alleviate discomfort.

Ben Weiner born November 10, 1980 in Burlington, Vermont, graduated from the University of the Arts, paints in oils on canvas. The peculiarity of the artist's work is an unusual plot. Ben paints! First, the artist applies paints to the work surface, photographs them, and then paints a picture on canvas from the finished photo.

Born in 1950 in Northern California, he is known for his realistic acrylic paintings on canvas. As a child, the author shared a love of drawing with success in sports, but a back injury determined Ray's main occupation. As the artist admitted, drawing distracted him from constant back pain. Even in his youth, the master received wide recognition and many awards at art competitions.

Alyssa Monks lives and creates her paintings in Brooklyn, has become widely known for her realistic "wet" paintings. The artist uses filters such as water, glass or steam to create abstract designs. For her work, Alyssa often uses photographs from the personal archives of her family and friends. Women's faces and figures in the paintings are similar to each other - the artist often draws self-portraits, as she claims that it is "easier" for her to create the necessary plot.

Pedro Campos- hyperrealist from Madrid, began to paint in oils only at the age of 30 years. The artist creates his realistic still lifes using oil paint. Campos has worked as an interior designer, illustrator, art restorer of furniture, sculptures and paintings. The artist believes that it was his work as a restorer that helped him hone his skills.

Dirk Dzimirsky- an artist from Germany, born in 1969, received an art education, works in pencil technique. The artist draws pictures from photographs, without going into the smallest details, improvises a lot. Dirk says that when working on a painting, he represents a live model, so he uses the photo only for a thorough transfer of predetermined proportions. The author considers his main task to create a sense of the presence of the subject in the picture.

Thomas Arvid- American hyperrealist artist from New Orleans, who was born and raised in Detroit, has no formal education, a master of the so-called "oversized" still life. His series of realistic paintings "Wine Cellar" are corks, bottles, glasses with sparkling or deep red drinks. Authoritative critics and publications have noted more than 70 works of the artist. The master's paintings adorn not only the walls of wineries and prestigious wine salons, but also private collections and galleries.

Robin Eley Born in Britain, grew up and continues to live and work in Australia, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and was awarded the Doug Moran National Portrait Award. He creates his hyper-realistic paintings in oil, and considers the plot “people and cellophane” to be the main “horse”. The master works on one picture for about 5 weeks, 90 hours a week, almost every picture depicts people wrapped in cellophane.

Samuel Silva- Portuguese amateur artist without special education, who proves by personal example that you can create a masterpiece from anything. When creating paintings, the artist uses a palette of eight colors of ballpoint pens from Bic. Silva is a lawyer by profession, and considers her passion for drawing nothing more than a hobby. Today, a world-famous self-taught artist masters new painting techniques using paints, chalk, colored pencils, pastels, etc.

Gottfried Helnwein- Austrian artist, author of hyper-realistic paintings on social, political and historical topics, "a master of unexpected recognition", as the writer W. Burroughs called him. The author was educated at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, belongs to the artists of a high professional level. Somewhat controversial plots, surrealistic compositions brought him fame. Often the master depicted comic book characters in his paintings and admits that he “learned more from Donald Duck than in all the schools he studied in.”

Franco Clun is an Italian self-taught artist who prefers drawing with graphite to all other artistic techniques. His black and white realistic paintings are the result of Franco's independent study of various literature on drawing techniques.

Kelvin Okafor is a hyperrealist artist, born in 1985, lives and works in London. Kelvin graduated with a degree in fine arts from Middlesex University. The author creates his paintings with a simple pencil, the main theme of his work is portraits of celebrities.

Amy Robins is a British artist who uses colored pencils and thick paper for her hyper-realistic works. The artist has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in art and design and lives and works in Bristol. Little is known about the young author, but her works have already become famous all over the world, striking with their realism and technique.

Robert Longo- American painter and sculptor, born in Brooklyn in 1953, awarded the legendary Goslar Kaiser Ring. The artist draws his three-dimensional images of nuclear explosions, tornadoes, hurricanes and sharks with charcoal on paper. Longo is often referred to as the "artist of death". The famous painting Untitled (Skull Island) depicting a wave was sold at Christie's in London for $392,000.

Diego Fazio- self-taught artist, born in 1989 in Italy, has no art education, started with the development of sketches for tattoos, eventually developed his own drawing technique. The young artist was a participant in many international competitions, where he won prizes, was represented at exhibitions around the world. The artist works under the pseudonym DiegoKoi.

Bryan Drury born in 1980 in Salt Lake City, has a diploma from the New York Academy of Art, creates paintings in the genre of realism. The artist paints his paintings with oil paints. As the author admits, in his works he tries to focus on the organic qualities of the skin, its shortcomings.

Steve Mills is an American artist who sold his first painting at the age of 11. The artist creates his paintings with oil paints, focusing on the smallest details of everyday life, which we often do not notice in the eternal rush. The artist notes that he depicts objects as they are in real life, without changing and exaggerating their original form.

Paul Lung born in Hong Kong, draws with an automatic pencil on A2 sheets. A feature of the technique of creating paintings is the fundamental refusal to use an eraser, all works are drawn clean. The main "muses" of the artist are cats, although he also draws people and other animals. For each work, the author takes at least 40 hours.

Roberto Bernardi born in Italy, became interested in hyperrealism at the age of 19, worked as a restorer in the church of San Francesco. She uses oil paints to create paintings. The world fame for the artist was brought by a series of works depicting objects characteristic of the consumer society. Paintings with sweets, vending machines, refrigerator shelves are the artist's calling card, although his arsenal includes landscapes, still lifes and much more.

Juan Francisco Casas- Spanish artist who creates his paintings with a regular Bic ballpoint pen. Casas was a traditional artist who decided to prove to others that it was not the material for the work that mattered, but the way and technique of drawing. The very first exhibition of the creative Spaniard brought him worldwide fame. Most of the paintings of Casas depict his friends.

Teresa Elliott is an American artist who worked successfully as an illustrator for 26 years before creating realistic oil paintings. Teresa has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, having returned to classical art, she became famous all over the world thanks to her portraits, truthful to the smallest detail.