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“The Power (Force) of Death”
William Holbrook Byrd, 1889-1890.
Depictions of Death calmly entering and taking life are common, but here Death assumes the same dynamic pose as a tiger with an outstretched eagle. Death's foot rises on the elephant, indicating her complete victory over the giant beast. In the background we see other large predators killed; for Death always defeats even the mightiest.
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“Shostakovich's First Symphony”
Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov, 1935.
The painting was painted under the impression of what he heard on the radio. P. Filonov was mesmerized by the musical form of Shostakovich's symphony. The union of fine art and music is an area of exceptional expressiveness of the emerging new image of the epoch of that time. The artist managed to visualize the melody that touched his feelings and mind.
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"Art Critic"
Raoul Hausmann, 1919-1920.
With his painting The Art Critic, Hausmann mocks the labor of journalists, whose opinions can be bribed with the ease of spring fluff. It turns out that people's fates can be ruined by banknotes embedded in logically linked letters?
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"Professor Poirier with a dismembered corpse"
Georges Chiquotot, 1886.
Not much is known about Chiquotot's life: he graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, but then for some reason decided to study medicine and entered the Higher Medical School and in 1908 headed the Department of Radiology at Broca Hospital. Shikoto can be called one of the first French radiologists.
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"Awakening after opium"
Albert Matignon, 1911.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, narcotic drugs were perceived both in the West and in Russia as merely ordinary medicines. The destructive consequences associated with them remained at that time still thoroughly unexplored and unrecognized. And such pictures were copied in the form of postcards and widely distributed in different countries.
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"The Death of Paganini"
Edward Okun, 1898.
In Okun's painting we see the figure of the devil, who, apparently believing that the moment of reckoning has arrived, plays the violin by the dead virtuoso's body. Okun gave his painting a second title, "Paganini's Dream," perhaps referring to the story of Giuseppe Tartini, the Italian composer who claimed to have written his "Devil's Sonata" after dreaming of Satan playing the violin.
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"Fresh Air"
James Franco
In 2011, a woman named Aimee Davidson purchased a "masterpiece" worth $10,000. The painting, which even its owner will not be able to see, is called "Fresh Air" by James Franco, who is trying to take conceptual art to a whole new level.
Along with the painting, the woman received a prospectus with a description of the work, made by the author, and a guarantee of the authenticity of the masterpiece. It is recommended to place the invisible painting on the wall, not occupied by other works of art, so that viewers are not distracted from contemplating the work of the master. Next to the picture, the author of the painting offers to place its description, so that guests know what exactly to admire to please the owners of the house.
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"Argentina"
Santiago Caruso, 1982.
Artist and illustrator Santiago Caruso was born in Quilmes, Argentina. His work can be classified as surrealist with elements of avant-garde and symbolism. Santiago Caruso gives preference in his works to dark themes, fantastic, supernatural and mystical subjects, and it is illustrations of books with corresponding themes that brought him fame.
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"The Witch"
Alfred Cuban, 1900.
Alfred Kubin is one of those whose work has turned out to be associated with the motifs of madness. At the age of ten, Alfred attempted suicide when his mother died. Suicidal tendencies apparently did not leave him for some time. His freedom from the psychiatric hospital was helped by artists he knew, as well as the writer Hermann Hesse, who vouched for Kubin.
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"Death looking through the window of one dying man"
Jaroslav Panuška, 1900
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"Barbarians"
Max Ernst, 1937.
Barbarians, according to Ernst, represent a combination of under-living and over-living. What they do not have, do not know and hate in advance is the average life on earth, humanity in its humility, its relativity and nobility. They are the children of Hell and Paradise, a monstrous mixture of both.
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“Untitled (Three Nudes)”
Mark Rothko, 1934.
Painting of the famous American artist, a leading representative of abstract expressionism, one of the creators of color field painting.
Not everyone is given to appreciate his work on its merits and to discover in his paintings the secret meaning. However, their value reaches prohibitive heights.
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"Inferno"
Franz von Stuck, 1908.
The title of Franz von Stuck's painting Inferno refers to Dante Alighieri's medieval epic describing hell. In the artwork, Stuck used traditional symbols of hell such as the serpent, the demon and the flaming pit, but through the dissonance in colors and stylized poses, the work takes on a modern character
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"The Beating of the Babies"
Léon Conyers, 19th century
When King Herod learned of the birth of the Messiah, he became angry and frightened for his future. At first, he wanted to slyly find out the exact location of the God-baby in order to get rid of what was thought to be a rival for the royal throne. Having failed in his search, the hard-hearted ruler decided to commit a terrible crime
According to the Gospel of Matthew, the fear of losing the throne pushed the Jewish king to kill in cold blood all the boys of Bethlehem, whose age at least roughly coincided with the age of the newly born Jesus Christ.The canvas depicts the moment of the massacre of the innocents. Crowds of women with infants in their arms are rushing everywhere. The armed soldiers who pursue them faithfully carry out the cruel order, taking away the crying babies and massacring them on the spot
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"At the Gates of Hell"
Giacomo del Po, 1703.
The artist was mainly engaged in decorating the mansions of Neapolitan nobility with symbolic and allegorical subjects. Giacomo also worked in Naples, where he painted frescoes for the Palatine Chapel in the Royal Palace. In modern times, his painting "At the Gates of Hell" has graced the covers of many rock releases.
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"Red Egg"
Oskar Kokoschka, 1941.
The painting is an example of acute political satire, the artist's reaction to the Munich Agreement that shook him, which, having satisfied the territorial claims of Germany, Hungary and Poland to Czechoslovakia, actually led to the partition of the country.
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"Rebirth"
Tomasz Alain Koper, 2010.
Tomasz studied mechanical engineering at the Wroclaw University of Technology, but his vocation has always been painting. The artist paints oil on canvas surrealist paintings where he reflects human nature and the mysteries of the universe.
"In my work, I try to reach the subconscious. I want to hold the viewer's attention for a longer moment. To make him reflect, to make him think."
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"Blue Lovers"
Marc Chagall, 1914.
The painting "Blue Lovers" is clearly phantasmagorical. Space and objects are distorted as if in a dream. The color blue for Chagall is the embodiment of the Mother of God, the kingdom of heaven. It is this color that the artist used to convey the feeling of love, happiness and tenderness.
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"Madonna spanking the Christ child in front of three witnesses"
Max Ernst, 1926.
The beginning of a new stage in his work was marked by the painting "Madonna, spanking the infant Christ in front of three witnesses", painted in 1926. In general, this picture is still considered one of the most shocking in his work. But it is also interesting because Ernst here is just beginning to search for his own artistic style.
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"Cold"
Remedios Varo, 1948.
A painting of an interesting surrealist artist who had to flee France for Mexico to save her talent and her art from Nazi persecution. Despite being close to such creative geniuses of surrealism as Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo Remedios Varo was able to develop her own, unique style, which is difficult to confuse with any of her contemporaries.
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