December 3, 1961 at the New York Museum Contemporary Art A significant event occurred - Matisse’s painting “The Boat”, which had been hanging upside down for 46 days, was properly rehung. It is worth saying that this is not an isolated funny incident associated with paintings by great artists.

Pablo Picasso painted one of his famous portraits in less than 5 minutes

Once, one of Pablo Picasso’s acquaintances, looking at his new works, sincerely said to the artist: “Sorry, but I can’t understand this. Such things simply don’t exist.” To which Picasso retorted: “You and Chinese you don't understand. But it still exists." However, many did not understand Picasso. Once he suggested to the Russian writer Ehrenburg, his good friend, paint his portrait. He happily agreed, but before he could sit down in a chair to pose, the artist announced that everything was ready.

Ehrenburg expressed surprise at the speed of execution of the work, because not even 5 minutes had passed, to which Picasso replied: “I have known you for 40 years. And all these 40 years I have been learning to paint portraits in 5 minutes.”

Ilya Repin helped sell a painting he didn't paint

One lady bought at the market for just 10 rubles absolutely mediocre picture, on which the signature “I. Repin” proudly appeared. When the art connoisseur showed this work to Ilya Efimovich, he laughed and added “This is not Repin” and signed his autograph. After some time, an enterprising lady sold the painting unknown artist with the autograph of the great master for 100 rubles.

The bears in Shishkin’s famous painting were painted by another artist

There is an unspoken law among artists - professional mutual assistance. After all, each of them has not only favorite stories and strengths, but also weak points, so why not help each other. Thus, it is known for certain that for the painting “Pushkin on the Seashore” by Aivazovsky, the figure of the great poet was drawn by Repin, and for Levitan’s painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki" the lady in black was painted by Nikolai Chekhov. The landscape painter Shishkin, who could draw every blade of grass and needle in his paintings, when creating the painting “Morning in pine forest“The bears didn’t turn out at all. That’s why Savitsky painted the bears for Shishkin’s famous painting.

A piece of fiberboard, over which paint was simply poured, became one of the most expensive paintings

The most expensive painting in the world in 2006 was Jackson Pollock's Number 5, 1948. At one auction the painting went for $140 million. This may seem funny, but the artist didn’t really “bother” with the creation of this painting: he simply poured paint over a piece of fiberboard laid out on the floor.

Rubens encrypted the date of creation of his painting using the stars.

For a long time, art historians and scientists could not establish the date of creation of one of the most famous paintings Rubens - painting “The Feast of the Gods on Olympus”. The mystery was resolved only after astronomers took a closer look at the picture. It turned out that the characters in the picture were located in exactly the same order as the planets were located in the sky in 1602.

The Chupa Chups logo was drawn by the world famous surrealist

In 1961, Enrique Bernata, owner of the Chupa Chups company, asked artist Salvador Dali to come up with an image for a candy wrapper. Dali fulfilled the request. Today this image, although in a slightly modified form, is recognizable on the company's lollipops.

It is worth noting that in 1967 in Italy, with the blessing of the Pope, it was released with illustrations by Salvador Dali.

The most expensive painting Flour brings misfortune

Munch's "The Scream" was sold at auction for $120 million and is today the most expensive painting by this artist. They say that Munch life path which is a series of tragedies, put so much grief into it that the picture absorbed negative energy and takes revenge on the offenders.

One of the Munch Museum employees once accidentally dropped a painting, after which he began to suffer from terrible headaches, which led this man to suicide. Another museum employee, who was unable to hold onto the painting, ended up in a terrible situation just a few minutes later. car accident. And a museum visitor who allowed himself to touch the painting, after some time, burned alive in a fire. However, it is possible that these are just coincidences.

Malevich's "Black Square" has an "older brother"

"Black Square", which is perhaps the most famous painting Kazimir Malevich, is a canvas 79.5 * 79.5 centimeters, on which a black square is depicted on a white background. Malevich painted his painting in 1915. And back in 1893, 20 years before Malevich, Alphonse Allais, a French humorist writer, painted his “black square”. True, Allais's painting was called "The Battle of the Negroes in deep cave dark night."

Christ and Judas in Da Vinci's painting have the same face

They say that the creation of a painting " last supper"required titanic efforts from Leonardo da Vinci. The artist quickly found the person from whom the image of Christ was painted. One of the singers was chosen for this role church choir. But da Vinci searched for “Judas” for three years.

Once on the street the artist saw a drunkard who was unsuccessfully trying to get out of a cesspool. Da Vinci took him to one of the drinking establishments, sat him down and began to draw. Imagine the artist’s surprise when, having opened up his thoughts, the drunkard admitted that he had already posed for him several years ago. It turned out that this was the same singer.

Drawing has its roots in very early years human civilization.

First artists

First artists were on earth cavemen. Found on the walls of caves in southern France and Spain colored drawings of animals that were made between 30,000 and 20,000 BC.

Many of these drawings surprisingly well preserved, because the caves were unknown to many.

Ancient people painted wild animals that they saw around them.

Ancient drawing technique

Human figures, very immature in their execution technique, but drawn as if in living poses, were discovered in Africa and in the eastern Spain.

Cave artists painted the caves with a variety of bright colors.

What paints were used in ancient times?

Earthen soil was used as dyes ocher(various iron oxides - from bright yellow to dark orange) and manganese(metal element).

They were crushed into powder, mixed with fat, animal lard and applied with some semblance tassels.

Sometimes dyes, crushed into powder and mixed with lard, were filled wooden sticks, which became like " colored pencils».

And what were the brushes made of?

Cavemen had to do tassels made from animal hair or plant fibers and sharp, honed flint incisors for scratching lines.

Early civilization

One of the earliest civilizations appeared in Egypt, and then there were artists who painted paintings. Many works of art were created for decoration pyramids and tombs of pharaohs and others important people.

On the wall canvas Tomb artists immortalized scenes from human life. They used watercolor paints and whitewash.

Development of the art of painting

Other ancient civilization - Aegean- has also reached a significant level of development art of painting.

Their artists in a free and graceful style, they depicted the life of the sea, animals, flowers, sports games.

Their drawings were made on wet plaster. This special kind drawing we now call frescoes.

Rock paintings

About 15 thousand years ago, primitive painters decorated the Lascaux cave in southwestern France with rock paintings. The walls of the cave are completely covered with unusual images of animals - bulls, bison, rhinoceroses, horses, deer, painted in true size with ocher, soot and outlined in dark contours - more than 500 images in total.

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For many, remembering artists and their paintings seems like an impossible task. Over hundreds of years, history has written down the names of many artists whose names are well-known, unlike their paintings. How to remember the artist's personality and style? We have prepared brief description for those who want to understand fine arts:

If the paintings show people with big butts, you can be sure it's Rubbens

If people in beautiful clothes relax in nature - Watteau

If men look like curly-haired women with hairy eyes - This is Caravaggio

If a painting with a dark background shows a person with a beatific expression or a martyr - Titian

If the painting contains multi-figure compositions, many people, objects, Christian and surreal motifs - this is Bosch

If the painting contains multi-figure compositions and complex plots, but they look more realistic than Bosch’s paintings, rest assured that this is Bruegel.

If you see a portrait of a person against a dark background in dim, yellow light - Rembrandt

Biblical and mythological scenes depicting several plump cupids - Francois Boucher

Naked, pumped up bodies, perfect shapes - Michelangelo

Ballerinas are drawn, this is Degas

Contrasting, sharp image with gaunt and bearded faces - El Greco

If the painting shows a girl with a unibrow, this is Frida

Quick and light strokes, bright colors and depictions of nature – Monet

Light colors and rejoicing people – Renoir

Bright, colorful and rich - Van Gogh

Dark colors, black outlines and sad people - Manet

The background is like from the movie “The Lord of the Rings”, with a light blue fog. Madonna's wavy hair and aristocratic nose - Da Vinci

If the body depicted in the painting has an unusual shape - Picasso

Colored squares like an Excel document – ​​Mondrian

On December 3, 1961, a significant event took place at the New York Museum of Modern Art - Matisse’s painting “The Boat,” which had been hanging upside down for 46 days, was properly rehung. It is worth saying that this is not an isolated funny incident associated with paintings by great artists.

Pablo Picasso painted one of his famous portraits in less than 5 minutes

Once, one of Pablo Picasso’s acquaintances, looking at his new works, sincerely said to the artist: “Sorry, but I can’t understand this. Such things simply don’t exist.” To which Picasso retorted: “You don’t even understand Chinese. But it still exists." However, many did not understand Picasso. Once he invited the Russian writer Ehrenburg, his good friend, to paint his portrait. He happily agreed, but before he could sit down in a chair to pose, the artist announced that everything was ready.

Ehrenburg expressed surprise at the speed of execution of the work, because not even 5 minutes had passed, to which Picasso replied: “I have known you for 40 years. And all these 40 years I have been learning to paint portraits in 5 minutes.”

Ilya Repin helped sell a painting he didn't paint

One lady bought at the market for only 10 rubles a completely mediocre painting, on which the signature “I. Repin” proudly flaunted. When the art connoisseur showed this work to Ilya Efimovich, he laughed and added “This is not Repin” and signed his autograph. After some time, an enterprising lady sold a painting by an unknown artist with the autograph of the great master for 100 rubles.

The bears in Shishkin’s famous painting were painted by another artist

There is an unspoken law among artists - professional mutual assistance. After all, each of them has not only favorite stories and strengths, but also weaknesses, so why not help each other. Thus, it is known for certain that for the painting “Pushkin on the Seashore” by Aivazovsky, the figure of the great poet was drawn by Repin, and for Levitan’s painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki" the lady in black was painted by Nikolai Chekhov. The landscape painter Shishkin, who could draw every blade of grass and needle in his paintings, did not get bears when creating the painting “Morning in a Pine Forest.” That’s why Savitsky painted the bears for Shishkin’s famous painting.

A piece of fiberboard, over which paint was simply poured, became one of the most expensive paintings

The most expensive painting in the world in 2006 was Jackson Pollock's Number 5, 1948. At one auction the painting went for $140 million. This may seem funny, but the artist didn’t really “bother” with the creation of this painting: he simply poured paint over a piece of fiberboard laid out on the floor.

Rubens encrypted the date of creation of his painting using the stars.

For a long time, art historians and scientists could not establish the date of creation of one of Rubens’s most famous paintings - the painting “The Feast of the Gods on Olympus”. The mystery was resolved only after astronomers took a closer look at the picture. It turned out that the characters in the picture were located in exactly the same order as the planets were located in the sky in 1602.

The Chupa Chups logo was drawn by the world famous surrealist

In 1961, Enrique Bernata, owner of the Chupa Chups company, asked artist Salvador Dali to come up with an image for a candy wrapper. Dali fulfilled the request. Today this image, although in a slightly modified form, is recognizable on the company's lollipops.

It is worth noting that in 1967 in Italy, with the blessing of the Pope, a unique version of the Bible with illustrations by Salvador Dali was released.

The most expensive painting Flour brings misfortune

Munch's "The Scream" was sold at auction for $120 million and is the artist's most expensive painting today. They say that Munch, whose life path was a series of tragedies, put so much grief into it that the picture absorbed negative energy and takes revenge on the offenders.

One of the Munch Museum employees once accidentally dropped a painting, after which he began to suffer from terrible headaches, which led this man to suicide. Another museum employee, unable to hold onto the painting, was involved in a terrible car accident just a few minutes later. And a museum visitor, who allowed himself to touch the painting, after some time was burned alive in a fire. However, it is possible that these are just coincidences.

Malevich's "Black Square" has an "older brother"

“Black Square,” which is perhaps the most famous painting by Kazimir Malevich, is a canvas 79.5 * 79.5 centimeters, on which a black square is depicted on a white background. Malevich painted his painting in 1915. And back in 1893, 20 years before Malevich, Alphonse Allais, a French humorist writer, painted his “black square”. True, Allais’s painting was called “The Battle of Negroes in a Deep Cave on a Dark Night.”

Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci.

Once on the street the artist saw a drunkard who was unsuccessfully trying to get out of a cesspool. Da Vinci took him to one of the drinking establishments, sat him down and began to draw. Imagine the artist’s surprise when, having opened up his thoughts, the drunkard admitted that he had already posed for him several years ago. It turned out that this was the same singer.

The first artists on earth were cavemen. Colored drawings of animals have been discovered on the walls of caves in southern France and Spain, which were made between 30,000 and 20,000 BC. Many of these drawings are surprisingly well preserved because the caves were unknown for many centuries. Ancient people painted wild animals that they saw around them. Human figures, very immature in their execution technique, but drawn in seemingly living poses, were discovered in Africa and eastern Spain.

Cave artists painted the walls of caves with a variety of bright colors. The dyes used were earthen ocher (iron oxides of various colors - from bright yellow to dark orange) and manganese (a metallic element). They were crushed into powder, mixed with fat, animal lard and applied with some kind of brush. Sometimes dyes, crushed into powder and mixed with lard, were filled with wooden sticks, which became like “colored pencils.”

Cavemen would have made brushes from animal hair or plant fibers and sharp, honed chisels from flint for scratching lines. One of the earliest civilizations appeared in Egypt, and then there were artists who painted pictures. Many works of art were created to decorate the pyramids and tombs of pharaohs and other important people. On the wall paintings of tombs, artists immortalized scenes from human life. They used watercolors and whitewash.

Another ancient civilization - the Aegean - also reached a significant level of development of the art of painting. Their artists worked in a free and graceful style; they depicted sea life, animals, flowers, and sports games. Their drawings were made on wet plaster. This special type of painting is now called frescoes. So you see that drawing has its roots in the very early years of human civilization.