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“Man in a Cauldron”
René Magritte, 1963.
It was the mystery, the sense of wonder that attracted Magritte and distinguished him from most of his fellow surrealists. He rigidly adhered to his canon of flat measurements and frozen images. What he wanted and what he achieved in his best works was not so much to challenge the viewer as to intrigue him to see life freed from the concrete and the present.
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“Adam in Three Persons”
Rudolf Hausner, 1974-1975.
The vertical composition consists of three faces - three states of consciousness. The upper figure is a child, it symbolizes the starting point of everything, the beginning of life. Below it are two stages: sleep - Adam with closed eyes - and wakefulness.
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“Leprosy”
Richard Cooper, 1910.
Lepers were particularly susceptible to bubonic plague and tuberculosis. The patient's weakened immune system would immediately fail. Therefore, people were afraid to meet the leper depicted in the painting, who wanders along the deserted street and rings a bell. The tragedy of the situation is intensified by the figure of a small child, who was left by the roadside by his parents who fled in a hurry.
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"The Duke and his mistress"
Eugène Delacroix, 19th century.
Louis, Duke of Orleans liked to seduce noble ladies of the court. Having slept with one of them, the morning he received in his bedroom her husband, who appeared to testify to the Duke of his honor; covering the head of the lady with a sheet. He exposed her whole body and, allowing her husband to look at and even touch him (without seeing his face), persistently asked if he liked this beautiful stranger; the husband was amazed by the beauty of her body; finally the Duke graciously released him, and the poor man went away, never knowing that he was admiring his own wife.
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“The Tourist”
Hans Rudolf Giger, 1982.
For the studio “Universal” Giger in 1982 creates several impressive pictures - preparations are underway for the dystopian sci-fi film “The Tourist”. However, Spielberg's “Alien” prevented the success of the movie.
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“Angel of Death”
Oras Vernet, 1851.
This depicts a dead young girl with a cross on her breast in the rays of heavenly light, she is taken under the arms of a black angel about to be carried away; and a young man is grieving at the bedside below. On the right is an open book, above it is an icon of the Mother of God with a branch, illuminated by a lamp. The subject of the painting is probably caused by the artist's personal grief - the death of his daughter Louise.
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“Portrait of Dorian Gray”
Ivan Albright, 1943.
Just by looking at the presented ugliness of the human form, one can understand all the clearly expressed negativism that this character evoked in its creators - the writer Oscar Wilde and the painter Ivan Albright. As Albright had his own reading of Wilde's novel, completely original and unusual, which he showed, and the portrait of Dorian Gray created by him is recognized today as canonical.
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“Heaven and Water I”
Mauritz Escher, 1938.
Why do we love magic tricks? Because they, safely for our psyche, make us feel the presence of magic for a few seconds. With Escher's paintings, in which the artist explored the regularities of space, the same thing happens. At first glance - beautiful paintings, but then we realize that something is wrong with the image, and then we begin to figure out where the artist “tricked” us.
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“A friendly embrace of the universe, the earth (Mexico), Me, Diego and Señor Holotl”
Frida Kahlo, 1949.
The couple divorced in 1939 but remarried under the influence of passion and admiration. Rivera once called Frida “the greatest fact of my life.” She, however, meaning almost killed her accident with a streetcar, said: “There were two accidents in my life: one was when the bus hit the streetcar, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
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“The Devil showing a woman to the people”
Ernst Greiner, 1898
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“The Drowned Woman”
Djordje Krstic, 1879.
Among the possible interpretations of what is happening in the painting is a fairly common plot of those times: an illegitimate child, the condemnation of society, the hopelessness of the situation, the despair that pushed the woman to suicide. In general, a social drama with a tragic ending.
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“The Plague on the Stairs”
Theodore Kittelsen, 1896.
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“The Hanged Men”
Leon Spilliart, 1912.
In the maelstrom of artistic life in the 1920s, Leon Spilliart stood apart. His slightly gloomy and melancholy paintings had all the hallmarks of classical Symbolism, although they did not have the “pessimism of despair” preached by the founding fathers of Expressionism.
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“Waiting”
Fritz Garis, 1916.
During World War I, Fritz Garis participated in the Imperial Austro-Hungarian War, creating donation stamps, propaganda postcards and posters. He was one of the first artists to create a semblance of comic strips in still imperial Germany.
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“A Saddle Saddled”
Pierre Soubleira, 18th century.
The hero of the story is a famous painter. He is insanely jealous of his wife. And when he has the need to leave home for a while, he draws a donkey on the intimate place of his wife, believing that this image will be erased during lovemaking, which means that she will be afraid to change him, not being able to hide his infidelity ...
However, the happy rival was another artist. And although the image of the donkey was erased, but the lover before it managed to carefully copy it on a piece of paper. But when drawing the donkey back on his body, he could not resist putting a saddle on it. Seeing the saddle loaded on the donkey, the cuckolded husband had only to recognize himself as the donkey....
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“The Great Flood”
Kurt Joseph-Désiré, 19th century
In the biblical book of Genesis, God flooded the earth, sparing only Noah and his family, who were tasked with building the ark. Everyone else perished in the great flood. Instead of illustrating Noah's life, the artist shows us a scene from the other side of the story.
The man saves the old father, ignoring the wife and son who are closer to him. The mother symbolizes life, the son symbolizes the future, and the old man symbolizes the past. By clinging to the past, the man loses life and the future.
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“Hands oppose him”
Bill Stoneham, 1972
Bill Stoneham's painting was painted from photogaphy in 1972. It has a curious and mystical story. It depicts a boy and a girl doll standing in front of a glass door with small hands pressed against the other side.
The author says that the painting depicts himself at the age of five, that the door is a representation of the dividing line between the real world and the dream world, and that the doll is a guide to lead the boy through this world. The hands represent alternative lives or possibilities.
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“Tragicomedy Box”
Jaroslav Herzhedowicz, 2013.
When asked where he gets his inspiration from, he replied that the arrival of both an image and an idea resembles an electrical discharge. It can be triggered by anything, such as the title of a song, a phrase in an old western, the way the outline of a city looks on the horizon, and so on. The most stable generator of inspiration is the sky with clouds.
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