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“Two Mothers. Adopted and Native Mother”
Vladimir Makovsky, 1905
The artist took the subject for the painting from real life. According to the artist, this case occurred in the family of his acquaintance. A childless intellectual couple adopted a boy, however, five years later his birth mother came to them and began to claim her rights to the child. The picture shows very well how the happiness of several people can be destroyed in one minute.
The adopted boy clearly did not know that he was adopted. Makovsky depicted him frightened and perplexed. The child considers his parents to be his own and cannot understand why a strange aunt wants to take him away. He clings to the one who raised him, his real, though not biological, mother.
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The portrait of Helena Tejedor by Ignasi Monreal for Interlope Magazine, 2022
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Ani Millen, an artist and photographer from Ireland, creates beautiful and gloomy pictures in which the main role belongs to women. In Ani's works there is no place for joyful emotions. Mostly it is pain, sadness, longing and regret!
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Support
Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn has created an impressive sculpture to draw attention to the issue of global warming. Installed outside the Hotel Ca`Sagredo, the eight-meter arms rise out of the water and support the wall of the building.
The hands, according to the artist's idea, symbolize the two sides of man - the creative and the destructive - and the sculpture is designed to evoke both hope and fear!
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“We only go out at night”
Stephen Mackie, 2014.
Contemporary British self-taught artist Stephen Mackie, combining classical motifs from the first half of the 19th century with a surrealist vision of the world in his works.
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My bed
British artist Tracey Emin exhibited her bed, in which she spent several depressive days. During them she had intimate relationships with people she didn't know, didn't eat and drank only alcohol.
The art object is as frank as possible: used condoms, yellow stains on the bedding, filled ashtrays.
So far, the success of the installation, which sold for 4.3 million dollars, has angered artists and viewers, who complain that everyone can display their bed. To which Emin replies: “But they didn't!”
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Andrew Scott Experiments
Andrew Scott, a rising talent in the art world, has earned recognition for his unique works featuring shards of glass and conceptual changes in frame design.
Blurring the boundaries between his paintings and the frames in which they are placed, Scott brings his work to life by combining realism with imagination!
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"The Conclusion"
Alexandra Buchkuri, 1936.
A husband who suspected his wife of infidelity tied her naked to a harnessed horse and drove her around the village, whipping her with a whip. The locals also participated in this process, laughing at the unfortunate woman, calling her names and pelting her with stones and sticks. The saddest thing about this situation is that the woman being bullied could have been innocent. She could have been lied to by envious people or other ill-wishers, someone could have misunderstood something, or maybe the husband himself wanted to get rid of his unwanted wife in this way.
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Fragile balance
Artist Hadi Rahnavard used 93,000 matches to lay out a traditional Afghan carpet to show the fragility of peace in an Afghan society plagued by military conflict!
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Today let's get acquainted with the magnificent works of Julian Voss-Andre, an artist from Germany
He creates incredible disappearing sculptures that delight the public all over the world. He himself calls his works "quantum art"!
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Alimena
Flora Borsi is an artist and female photographer whose work has been highly praised at Hasselblad. Her work is based on photomanipulation. She creates truly impressive images centered on personality, relationships, emotions and dreams.
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“The Eunuch's Dream”
Jean-Jules Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, 1874.
The man holds a large opium pipe in his hand, so we can safely assume that all his visions appeared under the influence of this intoxicating substance.Next to the naked beauty can be seen an infant who holds a knife - a symbol of castration. It is this instrument that was used to circumcise the flesh, and it is this instrument that forever deprived the eunuch of his masculinity.Despite the fact that the hero is surrounded by luxury goods, the viewer realizes that he is deeply unhappy at heart. He is trapped: trapped both in his mutilated body and in de facto slavery far from his homeland and his loved ones.
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“The Punishment of the Gossip Girl”
Salvador Díaz Ignacio Ruiz de Olano, 1910.
The heroines are clearly gossiping, and the object of their gossip is apparently a lady in a bright lilac dress walking away in the background of the painting.But, as we know, any act has consequences, which is what happened to one of the gossipers. The slanderer was punished by her own dog, who went to the hem of her dress to do a little need. Surprisingly, the dog owner was so engrossed in gossiping that she didn't even notice that she was being punished.
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Los Angeles-based artist Sam Keller creates ironic works that criticize consumer society.
For example, he covers a crushed aluminum Coca-Cola can with Swarovski crystals. In this way, the trash acquires a value many times higher than the price of the original product from the store!
The original ice cream
Mohammad Seymari, he is a meta-universe architect, head of the creative team at Abu Dhabi fashion brand Fendi, and also the founder of Abginah architectural media.
Seymari combines anything with carpets using AI. The newest project is ice cream with original carpet prints!
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Quentin Massys “The Ugly Duchess,” 1513.
What is the basic intent and joke of the painting? Massais reinforces his sarcasm not only by the ugliness of the old woman, but also by her outfit and details of her behavior. The headdress on the woman is the height of fashion at the turn of the 16th century, a hint that despite her advanced age, the lady still wants to remain fashionable. The hat is complemented by a neckline, from which the old lady's faded charms peek out. So the person clearly wants to draw attention to herself, which always looks ridiculous.
The portrait is considered an artist's fantasy. However, there is an assumption that the heroine still had a prototype. This is Countess Marguerite, who in 1335-1365 years ruled the independent Tyrolean county. However, there are no images of Marguerite. Contemporaries called her either beautiful or ugly, so there is no unequivocal opinion.
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"Infinity"
Sculpture by contemporary artist Anthony James from the Portals series, consists of titanium, glass and LED lights.
I note that all other series of James' work is typical, where the "concept" prevails over both the content and its artistic execution.
Perhaps this is due to the fact that this work, as well as the entire Portals series, was inspired by Plato's Dialogues, primarily the dialog Timaeus
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Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic is a Serbian artist working at Berlin-based design studio SIXMOREVODKA.
In addition to working on studio projects, Kevic-Dzurdjevic paints girls in a recognizable psychedelic style, somewhere reminiscent of Disco Elysium artwork - with bright spots of color giving an elusive feeling of something ethereal!
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Johnson Tsang is a sculptor from Hong Kong
He makes his sculptures from clay or stainless steel. His works are not only a demonstration of the plastic properties of the material, but also a vivid example of the author's immense talent and imagination!
The artist does not put the production of his sculptures "on a stream", so any of his work, offered for sale, becomes an object of hunt for private collectors.
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"Cheerleaders"
Norman Rockwell, 1952.
The illustrator depicted cheerleaders sitting in shock after a game. The home team lost to their opponents by only one point, but it's still a loss, so the girls are confused and depressed. They obviously did not expect such a result.
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Sculptural novels where beauty meets chaos
Petah Koin is an artist whose works are not just sculptures, but a novel written in the language of materials, where beauty and destruction, life and death are woven together in an intricate pattern.
These are not just aesthetic objects, they are powerful statements about the female experience, the fragility of life and the inevitability of change. They make us think about the complex relationship between beauty and ugliness, life and death, strength and weakness!
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“The Execution of Jane Grey”
Paul Delaroche, 1833.
Jane Grey was popularly nicknamed “the queen of nine days”. Despite her monarchical origins, she was only fourth in line among all the heirs to the throne, so she did not have a high chance of succeeding to the throne.At the time, 15-year-old Edward VI was in power, and the direct heir to the throne was his older sister Mary. But the terminally ill king appointed Jane, who shared the Protestant faith with him, as his successor. After the monarch's death, Jane was on the throne for only nine days. Mary led a rebellion, which ended successfully for her. And Jane Grey was executed with her husband.
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“Death playing the violin”
Frans Franken the Younger, 1625.
The subject of the painting is the so-called Dance of Death, a late medieval artistic genre intended to remind viewers of the inevitability of death. Such paintings most often depicted skeletons dancing either by themselves or with living people. Sometimes the story takes place in a cemetery, sometimes just on the street or anywhere else.
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