This picture is one of the brightest in the work of the painter. But it is fraught with a certain riddle. It’s hard enough to resist the charm of this wonderful portrait. His power is really intriguing. It helps to awaken the imagination, the desire to conceive characters. The viewer wants to come up with the life story of this family.
The scope of imagination, the grace of the models and the sad kind look of one of them on you and me. This is a painting by Renoir "Girls in Black." And why in black? It may be some kind of uniform for a female gymnasium, or these girls are present at the funeral and therefore black. Although no, it seems they are not at the funeral service, but somewhere in a restaurant.
Rafael is a recognized master of portraiture. True and genre scenes he turned out no less than portraits. Nevertheless, his portrait works are delightful. Before us is one of his, perhaps, the best works. This is a portrait of a cardinal. A portrait of a not yet old clergyman. A person is struck by whom he breathes calmness, confidence in his faith.
Canvases depicting saints were always in fashion. This was a success and many rich citizens of the Middle Ages really wanted to have a portrait of the Madonna or Christ in their home. But there were triple portraits. Rafael was the most exquisite painter of the Middle Ages and quite often executed orders with images of saints.
T. Not all works have survived to this day. One of the most famous and earliest self-portraits is the work created by the artist in 1840. Work on canvas, painted in oil, in an oval. Shevchenko’s self-portrait is one of the first works painted in oil. The painting depicts a young artist and poet. The romantic image was created in blue-green tones, with the addition of red.
1943 - a turning point in the entire Great Patriotic War. In that year, finally succeeded in what the Soviet people could only dream about two years ago - the Red Army was able to recapture the lands of eastern Ukraine from the enemy. Kharkov, Zaporozhye and other large cities of the Ukrainian Left Bank got rid of Nazi rule.