A triptych inspired by medieval painting: painted surfboards

Sensual Portraits of Virgins Painted on Gold Leaf: Traditions of Icon Painting in the Paintings of Manuel Nunez

Gold has always been the standard of respectability and luxury. In the past, it was often used by old masters in icon-painting and painting works. Our contemporaries, painters, continue to use it in their work. So, the brilliance and nobility of the precious metal was taken as a basis by the American artist Manuel Nunez, who creates delightful female portraits. His gallery of portrait painting with the use of gold leaf will surely impress and will not leave indifferent even the most demanding

Famous contemporaries of Repin in the photo and in painting: what were the people in real life, whose portraits the artist painted

Ilya Repin was one of the greatest portrait painters in world art. He created a whole gallery of portraits of his outstanding contemporaries, thanks to which we can draw conclusions not only about how they looked, but also what people they were - after all, Repin is rightfully considered the finest psychologist who captured not only the external features of posing, but also the dominant features their characters. At the same time, he tried to distract himself from his own attitude to the posing and grasp the inner deep essence of whether

Painted surfboards. Pyrography by Peter Walker

Motorists and bikers, cyclists, skateboard fans and surfers - they are all so different, but at the same time so the same. In particular, with regard to your favorite "toy", it is also a leisure, hobby, sport, the meaning of life. They invest a lot of money in tuning their "baby", try to dress up and embellish her, like a beloved girl, gradually turning an ordinary vehicle into a work of art. Surfboard art painted by Australian

Unusual hotel in the Netherlands, inspired by a painting by Claude Monet

The Dutch city of Zaandam played a special role in Russian history: Peter I lived and studied shipbuilding here, working as a carpenter at a local shipyard. The house-museum dedicated to the life of the tsar was for a long time almost the only local attraction, but quite recently a real architectural miracle appeared here - a 4-star hotel built by Inntel Hotel. It is notable for the fact that it resembles a large pile of houses assembled into a single giant "puzzle

Painted graffiti on painted walls. Creativity Jessica Hess (Jessica Hess)

Whatever one may say, and no matter how talented, original, unusual the graffiti on the walls, pillars and fences are, they still continue to be considered vandalism, hooliganism, albeit with the prefix "art", and from time to time they chase street art masters for damage public property. But the most ardent adherents of this art form stubbornly continue to decorate city real estate with their arts, and the most cautious and unusually thinking paint graffiti on … painted walls. How is it