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Recently I went to the Shishkin Museum, where we were shown many paintings by the famous artist. In general, the museum is not bad: inside it is quite beautiful and harmonious, there is a comfortable wardrobe, several spacious rooms where Shishkin's paintings hang. However, if you go to the museum of famous paintings by a famous artist in order to see famous paintings by a famous artist, then unfortunately they will not be able to satisfy your desire here. Basically, the museum tells about the creative...

Gouache, the French word is water paint, splash, more dense and matte than watercolor. The composition includes finely ground pigments based on a water-glue mixture (gum arabic, wheat starch, dextrin and others) also, the paint contains impurities of whitewash (chalk). This ancient method of painting, representing one of the varieties of watercolor, was first developed in the works of the artist Paolo Pino. Nowadays it has become popular again and is used both on paper and on silk and other materials...

Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin was born on November 14, 1894, passed away on January 30, 1986. Soviet Arctic explorer. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1937, 1940). Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1938). Honorary member of the Geographical Society of the USSR (1938). Rear Admiral (1943). Honorary citizen of the Yaroslavl region. Papanin participated in the Civil War of 1920. On August 17, 1920, a detachment of 11 men under the command of A.V. Mokrousov landed from a boat near Kapsihor to fight in the rear of Wrangel, who became the head of the Crimean rebel army...

There are a lot of murals in my town. One of them is located in Bragino. I often see this painting while walking and it always touches my feelings. I saw a few murals but this one is my favourite. He is not like the others. While other paintings show us a beautiful nature or something like that, this one shows us a woman. The woman holds an ammunition in her hands. This mural must have been timed to coincide with Victory Day. Victory Day is a very significant...

Here you can see the "Seal of Ivan Karovi". It was discovered in 1950 during excavations on the territory of Zaryadye and dated by epigraphic signs to the XV century. After studying the history of the household of Prince I. Y. Patrikeev in Zaryadye and the pedigrees of the nobles of the XV – XVI century, it turned out that the owner of this seal was a representative of the Tver princely court Ivan Ivanovich Karova Yakhontov, the second son of I.K. Yakhont Levashov, a descendant of boyar Alexander Mikulich Levash, who served in Tver...

Naive art has made a significant contribution to the artistic culture of many countries. In France, naive art appeared at the beginning of the XX century. First of all, Henri Rousseau's paintings belonged to him. Being a postal employee by profession, he did not receive special education. Nevertheless, his paintings could compete with the works of professional artists, due to the feeling and energy they carried.[1] In Russia, it had a tremendous impact on the artistic...

It seems that the era of Peter I and refrigerators are incompatible things. The king himself did not even suspect the existence of such a device, until in 1716 he went on a visit to the palace of the Danish king Frederick IV. The refrigerator, which he was surprised to find at a party, of course, did not look like a modern one. It was something like a thermos - a glass vessel with a silver flask inside, into which either crushed ice was poured or hot water was poured. And food or drinks were placed in the flask, which needed to be cooled or heated...

Oil paint is considered the main universal material for full-color painting. With this paint, the artist can easily change and get any color, for which it is enough to mix the available colors. Most often, oil paints are painted on linen or cotton canvas, or on a wooden panel. Oil paint consists of pigment particles suspended in oil, which forms a dense opaque film when dried. In the Art-Kvartal online store you can buy oil paints in sets or by the piece, in tubes or jars. The composition includes vegetable oil from nuts or seeds...

Dear guests, today we are exploring one of the best museums in Moscow - the Moscow City Museum. You can find a lot of interesting exhibits there. After all, there are a lot of archeological finds. Let’s take a closer look at one of them. Here you can see a large stone tile. This is a tombstone with the name of Caspar von Elferfeldt. It’s in German. It's hard to imagine, but this tombstone dates back to 1571...

Pastel is a graphic and pictorial technique in which colored crayons or rimless pencils are used to create works of art. Pastel is a unique technique of art. It has in common with graphics the use of lines and shading in the process of painting, and with painting - a wide variety of expressive possibilities. Pastels of most varieties are made by pressing. The basis for its production is a coloring pigment and a binder. Depending on the chemical composition and properties, there are 4 main types of pastel: • dry, • oil, • wax, • watercolor...

Naïve art is a style of painting, very close in perception to a child's drawing. The simplicity of forms and plots is the hallmark of this stylistic direction. Naïve art began to be perceived as a separate artistic direction only in the 20th century, when the collection and commercial interest in such works increased significantly. Nowadays this term is most often understood as good-natured paintings depicting the life of an ordinary person. Frida Kahlo is considered one of the artists of this trend...

Naive art is one of the directions of primitivism of the 18th-21st centuries, including both amateur art (painting, graphics, decorative art, sculpture, architecture) and the fine arts of self-taught artists. Naive art has made a significant contribution to the artistic culture of many countries. In Russia, especially in recent decades, it has received aesthetic recognition. The most prominent representative at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as in the first decade of Soviet power, was Yefim Chestnyakov...