10 magical photographs of flowers illuminated by ultraviolet light

What the audience associated with the artist's giant flowers: Georgia O'Keeffe's magical feminine paintings

"The Mother of American Modernism" - as they called Georgia O'Keeffe - one of the most distinctive and brilliant artists in the history of world painting of the last century. She became interested in large-scale painting of flowers. It was these works that brought her wide fame and became the object of research of psychoanalytic scientists, who unequivocally saw erotic overtones and phallic symbolism in her canvases. It is noteworthy that the artist herself sharply protested against such an assessment and argued that in her

Portrait of Elizabeth II in Self-Isolation, the Mother Goddess and the Magical Worlds: Magical Realism Miriam Escofet

While the whole world was in uncertainty and tension due to the coronavirus epidemic, political upheaval and economic instability, artists continued to create masterpieces. In July 2020, a new official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by surrealist artist Miriam Escofet was unveiled digitally. The reactions to him were mixed

Flowers of life and other flowers in the paintings of Donald Zolan (Donald Zolan)

American artist Donald Zolan can be called one of the kindest, most positive and sensual contemporary painters. After all, such pictures that come out from under his brush can only be created by a very sensitive person with a large and loving heart. Interestingly, he himself has children?

The story of one portrait by Serov: how the fate of the "girl illuminated by the sun"

Valentin Serov was the most famous and fashionable portrait painter at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. and often wrote to order. But he had favorite models with whom he worked of his own accord. One of them was the artist's cousin Maria Simonovich, married to Lvov. Serov painted 8 portraits of her, but one of them is a real masterpiece. "Girl illuminated by the sun" outlived its creator and went down in the history of world painting. The face of this girl is familiar to many, but few people know how it developed

True colors of antique art in ultraviolet light

At the sound of the phrase "Antique sculptures", a warrior, a farmer, or Venus de Milo with snow-white skin, hair, and generally all entirely snow-white, instantly rises in front of my eyes. It's scary to think, but such a global thing as the color of antique ancient Greek statues, almost until today, was mistakenly thought to have long been unraveled. It turned out that everything is not at all as we mistakenly believed