"Self-portrait with a damaged eye"
Francis Bacon, 1972.
There was an occasion in the artist's life when he nearly lost an eye. One of his lovers, Peter Lacey, gave him a severe beating. However, he had broken up with Lacey long before he painted Self-Portrait with a Damaged Eye. So what did the author want to tell us with his work? To retell a biographical episode from 15 years ago?
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Walter Potter is an English taxidermist known for his taxidermy compositions with anthropomorphic animals imitating human life.
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"Ecstasy"
Vladislav Podkovinsky, 1894.
The painting "Ecstasy", exhibited immediately after completion of the work, immediately acquired a halo of scandalousness. Raging critics, who believed that the artist depicted the female orgasm, brought Podkovinsky to a nervous breakdown. The furious master came to the gallery and slashed the canvas with a knife.
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“Skeletons fighting over smoked herring”
James Ensor, 1891.
James Ensor is considered an outstanding symbolist painter, one of the greatest representatives of avant-garde artists of the 20th century. A special place in the subject of his paintings are masks, which appear in 1879 as an attribute of carnival. But the most significant paintings on this theme were created in 1887-1891. One of them was called “The struggle of skeletons for smoked herring”.
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"Death Comes for the Elderly Lady"
Series by American photographer Duane Michals, 1969
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Mood: light nude)
Spaniards Anton and Aiguabella create layered panels in a calm pastel palette.
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"Bubonic Plague"
Richard Tennant Cooper, c. 1912 г.
The painting depicts a giant hand symbolizing the deadly disease that roams the dark streets of London at night and preys on all living things. People, pets and rats try to hide or escape, but in vain. Death is close at hand and knows no mercy.
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"A water troll that feeds only on young girls"
Theodor Kittelsen, 1880s.
Kittelsen's drawings of trolls are famous throughout the world. He knew Norwegian trolls better than anyone and spent his life drawing them.
Kittelsen's daughter, Igrid, wrote in her childhood memoirs: "We never saw trolls up close in the forest, but we knew very well that they were hiding nearby and waiting for us".
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A monument to a rabbit eating a man has appeared in the Czech Republic.
It reminds of Francisco De Goya's painting "Saturn devouring his son"
Adam Trbušek.
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"You gotta hit her right in the heart!.."
Drawing of a scene from the movie "Pulp Fiction"
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"Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Violin"
Arnold Boecklin, 1872.
According to the story, Böcklin painted the figure of death playing a violin after a friend asked the artist what he was listening to during a séance. This painting became very popular, and many masters, such as Hans Thoma and Lovis Corinth, created similar self-portraits with the figure of death.
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"Solace (Death)"
Pyotr Stakhevich, 1883-1885.
Stakhevich also gave the painting a second title, "Death," leaving no doubt as to what kind of figure is depicted in the center of this enigmatic composition. These two titles make it clear that death, who covers the empty bed with a white shroud, is shown here as a friend who comes to put an end to human anxiety.
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“The Kiss”
Jan France de Beauver, 1916.
In 1914, De Beauver began illustrating Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil for the wealthy art collector Speltinx. Under his contract with the client, he was obliged to paint 157 gouaches by 1924.It is this series of illustrations that is regarded as the artist's major work. The illustration The Kiss, painted in 1916, is one of the best paintings in this series.
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