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Description of the painting by Victor Borisov-Musatov "Hazel bush"

The picture was painted in oil on canvas in 1905 in the last year of the artist's life. The canvas relates to post-impressionism. Borisov-Musatov is known for his landscapes, which are covered with a haze of unreality. Hazel bush is a painting that was painted on the terrace of Tarus, where the artist lived and was buried. He loved the landscapes of those places, especially the mighty waters of the Oka River.
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Description of the painting by Peter Rubens "The patronage of the Roman woman"

Rubens is a singer of love of life in its most primordial, deepest manifestation, not recognizing the framework, conventions and stupid rules imposed on man by society. Paradoxical as it may seem, he also considers the plot of “Roman love of the Roman woman” through the prism of his perception of the world. ... Young Perot’s father was imprisoned for a crime that can no longer be called.
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Description of the painting Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin "Behind the Samovar"

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin is a Russian artist who wrote in the spirit of symbolism, using for his paintings some images from Russian folk tales - animals, people in an unusual setting. Viewers of the last century know the artist as the author of the painting “Bathing the Red Horse”, popular in the Soviet Union, but the creator had many other wonderful works, one of which was the painting “Behind the Samovar”, written in 1926.
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Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Armageddon”

Roerich is a Russian artist, publicist, extremely versatile person who gave the world a huge number of paintings. He was distinguished by indefatigable energy, the desire to try everything that life could offer him, as well as intolerance to evil in all its manifestations. Armageddon is one of his paintings, deeply symbolic and reflecting the artist's attitude to what was happening in the world.
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