Behind any artist, even the most avant-garde one, there are the spirits of the great creators of the past. In the evolution of painting, this inheritance can be traced by the opposite tack. Impressionists refused to be similar to the representatives of realistic art. Expressionists, in turn, found Impressionists too sentimental and impotent. Each subsequent movement, even though it wasn't a…

In 1656, the Amsterdam appraisers came to describe the property of the finally ruined Rembrandt. In their inventory, in particular, it was mentioned that large rooms on the top floor of the artist's house were for some reasons divided into tiny rooms. By that time, the years of glory and financial well-being of Rembrandt had been left behind, he had almost no customers, no apprentices, he only…