Publications by tag: love story in paintings

This love affair lasted four years and was tormenting, painful and devastating...

Jackson Pollock is considered one of the most famous representatives of the Abstract Expressionism movement and leading artists of the United States of the last century. The work of his wife, artist Lee Krasner, is less known to the general public, although ironically it was thanks to her support and perseverance that Pollock managed to gain recognition from critics and collectors. But she…

Amedeo and Jeanne lived together for a very short time, not very happily, and died two days apart.

Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was in love twice. His first relationship lasted for three years, and the second – 44. The first had hundreds of biographical and belles-lettres works (as well as articles in glossy magazines) written about, while the second one can boast only a few references. The first woman was older than Kokoschka, and the second one – much younger. He painted the first one…

The one who helped Francisco Goya reach the peak of his artistic career was María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Álvarez de Toledo y Silva Bazán, the Marquise of Villafranca and the Duchess of Alba. In short, Cayetana Alba. Her full name and titles were as pretentious, as their relationship – complicated.

The biographers of Rodin do not like to tell about his love affair with Camille Claudel. It is difficult to say whether he was a beautiful prince or an unhappy, honest, lifeless lover who has lost his head in this story. She was only a part of his long life. And at the same time it would not be able to tell almost anything about Camille without mentioning Rodin: he was a teacher, her only…

René Magritte is one of those rare artists whose biography is not replete with scandalous details or eccentric antics and practically fits into the simple formula “was born, studied, married”. Of course, except that we are talking about one of the most famous surrealists of all time. His personal life was so calm that it could even be called boring, if not for a couple of piquant moments that…

Stories from the artist’s family life only remained in the memories of his students and contemporaries — we extract them bit by bit.

The gentle, intelligent, beautiful Bella understood Chagall as no one else, and accepted him as he was.