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The melancholy “blue” period of Pablo Picasso's work
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David Bowie and “Selfie-portrait” by Egon Schiele, 1911
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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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“Minotaur with a dead horse in front of a cave”
Pablo Picasso, 1953.
For Picasso, the bull-headed monster was a symbol of the duality of human nature, and in his painting he depicted lust and cruelty. Although the kindness of the Minotaur's eyes and his smile are strangely appealing, he holds a horse crushed by his own hands, reaching out toward a girl who looks at him in fright. To the left, out of the darkness of the cave, another pair of hands can be seen in a pleading gesture.
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“A witch reading her magic book”
Félicien Rops, 1909
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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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