Rembrandt used the classic plot of the suicide of Lucretia. She decides to take her own life, as she was dishonored by the son of the emperor of Rome. The artist created two paintings. At an earlier time, we see a heroine who is just getting ready to inflict a mortal blow on herself. In her hands is a knife. On a later canvas, a wound has already been inflicted.
In France, they called small cafes on the water that connected light bridges to the coast over tiny islands. As a rule, these places were places for easy-going girls who came with cavaliers or alone, dressed provocatively and attracted customers voiced screams.
Pimenov is an impressionist, and, like all his colleagues, puts momentum at the forefront. A shining moment, containing the whole world and many meanings. Like most impressionists, his paintings are very cheerful, very bright, they catch in their frozen eternity some seconds from the life of ordinary people and show them to others.
The artist Trutovsky has one characteristic difference among many artists, any of his paintings were carefully prepared and executed. “Carols in Little Russia” is no exception. Before the next painting by the artist was declared finished, she experienced a huge number of sketches in pencil, watercolors and drawing all the details.
Despite the fact that the famous portrait painter was seriously ill, he did not show how the artists were wanderers, all the hardships and deprivations of the life of the people. On the contrary, winter for the artist is a fun sleigh ride, booths, carousels, festive festivities, brightness and brilliance. A direct contrast between gray and boring life.
The painting "Still Life" according to the signatures under it by the author himself was called - "Leek, Skull and Peaches", and was created in 1945. During this period, the artist creates a number of paintings of this kind, with the same plot, but with a change in some details. Among the heap of all kinds of triangles in the picture, the skull is clearly visible, the more pronounced the more its rounded shapes differ from the surrounding sharpness of the corners.