Publications by tag: эжен делакруа

The turning point from classical to modern in Russian art took place in long-forgotten past that is covered with fluffy archival dust. But at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, this was the most acute confrontation with ad hominem attacks. The miriskusniki destroyed reputations and overthrew the former idols from their pedestals. Outraged by such barbarism, Repin defended “those thrown…

France was convulsed with the war. Therefore, national museums received very little money to try to buy the enviable masterpieces from the private collection of Edgar Degas into the museum exposition. When the artist died in 1917, they had to organize three auctions to sell more than 2,000 collected paintings, drawings and watercolors. Nevertheless, people visited the sales even in the midst of…

The history of art is full of examples when paintings were ravaged with fire and sword. They were cut into parts by the artists themselves, the sellers, the circumstances or the elements. But the surviving fragments (at times – very tiny ones and, of course, with new titles) continue to attract, excite and impress to this day – even more than many unscathed canvases, that weren't even touched by…

A study is an exercise painting that helps the painter better understand the object he or she paints. It is simple and clear, like sample letters in a school student’s copybook. Rough and ready, not detailed, with every stroke being to the point, a study is a proven method of touching the world and making a catalogue of it. However, in art history, the status of the study is vague and open to…