After the death of his first wife in 1626, Rubens marries a second time, his wife becomes the daughter of his friend, young Elena Faurment, with whom he lived a happy 10 years of life until his death. During this period, she very often posed for her husband's portraits, helping her to create world masterpieces.
Gustave Courbet's work is dedicated to his grandfather, after the funeral of which, the artist dawns on the idea of capturing this event on canvas. Many of those present were eager to be in the picture. And so it happened. As the artist said afterwards, it was very difficult to place so many people in his small workshop.
The well-known work of the talented artist Kazimir Malevich "The Lumberjack" was created by him during 1912-1913. As paints, the artist preferred oil. He called this painting "Imitation of the Icon," implying its similarity with Etudes of fresco painting. However, the golden color preference was quite straightforward, crude and not particularly convincing in icon painting, so Malevich called this genre of paintings "labor."
The painting “Sunset” is made in the traditional “Savras style”. The artist sketched one of his favorite times of the day - sunset. In this picture, most of it is hidden by dense vegetation and trees, but this is done solely in order to fully reveal the beauty of color and the riot of colors.
The painting was painted in 1918, which is considered the year of still lifes in the work of a famous artist. Letters of the author to his mother will help to better understand what prompted the creation of such a picture. From them it becomes known that Petrov-Vodkin was tired of life in such difficult times. He was increasingly visited by thoughts about the place of man on earth and specifically his role for humanity.
One of the most famous and influential Russian artists, Kazimir Malevich, who is considered the founder of one of the early manifestations of abstraction - supermatism, left behind a great legacy in the field of art. In addition, Malevich was also a wonderful philosopher, he reflected on painting and on various phenomena in this area.