Publications by tag: boris kustodiev

Viewers are always keen to look behind the scenes to see the magic of creating a masterpiece. Some see the romantic appeal in strict order, others – in creative chaos, yet others – in comfort and serenity. Arthive collected images of workshops and studios of 44 famous artists. Choose the interior that speaks to you and write about it in the comments. Tell us what your creative atmosphere is and…

Aivazovsky and sausages, Van Gogh and geranium, Klein and gold bars… ARTHIVE flashes back to some artists’ professional fees that were too curious and offbeat even by standards of such a bizarre, unpredictable, and hardly explicable phenomenon as the art market.

It is impossible to ignore this color. It is the most preferable, explicit and eloquent. It was the first to be applied in the art history not to speak of the chromatic scale. It has attracted the attention since early ages because of its nature and the nature of human beings; that is the reason why it is associated with so vital concepts as blood and fire. Absorbing all the natural senses, the…

The Royal Academy of Arts in London marks the historic centenary of one of the most momentous events in modern world history by the project Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932. Unordinary research of this period will be on display to public: exhibition comprises famous and rarely exhibited art works by Kandinsky, Malevich, Brodsky, Chagall, Rodchenko and other artists.