Millions of people admire the works famous artists of the past. Their amazing colors, the play of shadow and light, the skill with which the smallest details are so carefully written out. But do we consider paintings carefully enough? Do we see everything that the artist wanted to show us? At first glance, it only seems that these are just landscapes, portraits, historical and biblical stories. The most amazing secrets of history, the secrets of their creators, can be encrypted in them, and under a layer of paint of one picture, a completely different one can be hidden. Only a thorough study and analysis carried out by specialists can lift the veil of these secrets for us, but sometimes they can’t do it, and riddles famous paintings remain undiscovered for future generations.
Even those masterpieces of painting that seem to us well known and studied almost by millimeters have their own secrets. Almost every significant work of art has a mystery, a "double bottom" or a secret story that you want to uncover. Today we will share a few of them.
Brueghel's Proverbs
The painting "Flemish Proverbs" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder can be called one of the biggest and most fascinating puzzles. The artist depicted a land literally inhabited by Dutch proverbs!
Approximately 112 idioms are recognized in the picture, some of them are known to you and me. Try searching for: "armed to the teeth", "swim against the current" or "beat your head against the wall". Perhaps you can figure out the rest? For example, those who talk about human stupidity or, on the contrary, about foresight?
Music of sin?
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1500-1510. This picture caused a lot of controversy from the moment it was born, which continue after 500 years. One of the topics for research was the right side of the triptych, called "Musical Hell", which depicts the torment of sinners in hell, who are tormented using musical instruments. The attention of researchers was attracted by the notes written by the artist on ... the buttocks of one of the sinners. The notes were arranged in a modern way and ... a melody from the underworld sounded, which became a sensation.
And this is how the music played according to the notes from the picture sounds:
Two muses of one artist?
One of the most famous paintings by Rembrandt "Danae" was nicknamed "two-faced". Shooting in x-rays showed that Danae's face was written twice: the first time it was an image similar to Saskia, the painter's deceased wife, and the second, later, resembles the face of his other beloved Gertje Dirks, who became the artist's girlfriend after Saskia's death.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Danae, 1636-1647.
Dali's revenge
The painting "Figure at the Window" was painted in 1925, when Dali was 21 years old. Then Gala had not yet entered the life of the artist, and his sister Anna Maria was his muse. The relationship between brother and sister deteriorated when he wrote in one of the paintings "sometimes I spit on a portrait of my own mother, and it gives me pleasure." Anna Maria could not forgive such outrageousness.
In her 1949 book Salvador Dali Through the Eyes of a Sister, she writes about her brother without any praise. The book infuriated El Salvador. For another ten years after that, he angrily remembered her at every opportunity. And so, in 1954, the painting "A young virgin indulging in Sodomy with the help of the horns of her own chastity" appears. The pose of the woman, her curls, the landscape outside the window and the color scheme of the painting clearly echo the Figure at the Window. There is a version that this is how Dali took revenge on his sister for her book.
Two sides of every person
Old Fisherman, Tivadar Kostka Chontvari, 1902. An old tired fisherman is a portrait of an ordinary person, like all of us and no more. What is the mystery here? No one could understand it during the life of the artist. And its essence is that an Angel and a Demon live in each of us, in the soul of each there is God and there is the Devil. Attach a mirror to the middle of the picture and you will see that in each person there can be both God and the Devil.
Austrian Mona Lisa
One of Klimt's most significant paintings depicts the wife of the Austrian sugar magnate Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. All Vienna discussed the stormy romance between Adele and the famous artist. The wounded husband wanted to take revenge on his lovers, but chose a very unusual way: he decided to order a portrait of Adele from Klimt and force him to make hundreds of sketches until the artist starts to turn away from her.
Gustav Klimt, "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer", 1907.
Bloch-Bauer wanted the work to last several years, and the model could see how Klimt's feelings fade away. He made a generous offer to the artist, which he could not refuse, and everything turned out according to the scenario of the deceived husband: the work was completed in 4 years, the lovers had long cooled off towards each other. Adele Bloch-Bauer never found out that her husband was aware of her relationship with Klimt.
Secrets of the Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-1498.
Leonardo da Vinci fresco "The Last Supper" 1495-1498. For more than 5 centuries of existence, the famous fresco has been destroyed and restored more than once (the last restoration lasted 21 years!). Many looked for secrets in it and found them - where did the "extra" hand with a knife come from? From whom did Leonardo write Jesus and Judas?
Technologist Slavisa Pesci received visual effect overlaying its own translucent mirror reflection over the original, which revealed two additional figures along the edges of the picture and a woman with a baby standing to the left of Jesus.
Musician Giovanni Maria Pala interpreted the bread and hands on the table as musical notation.
Researcher Sabrina Sforza Galitzia believes she has solved a puzzle in The Last Supper that predicts global flood, which will begin on March 21, 4006 and will be the beginning of a new era for humanity.
Van Gogh's yellow bedroom
Vincent van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1888-1889.
In May 1888, Van Gogh acquired a small workshop in Arles, in the south of France, where he fled from the Parisian artists and critics who did not understand him. In one of the four rooms, Vincent sets up a bedroom. In October, everything is ready, and he decides to paint Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles. For the artist, the color, the comfort of the room was very important: everything had to suggest thoughts of relaxation. At the same time, the picture is sustained in disturbing yellow tones.
Researchers of Van Gogh's creativity explain this by the fact that the artist took foxglove, a remedy for epilepsy, which causes serious changes in the patient's perception of color: the entire surrounding reality is painted in green-yellow tones.
Fraud in painting
Sometimes the search for secrets on the canvases of famous artists reveals deceit, voluntary or involuntary. This is what happened to Rembrandt's The Night Watch (1642). In fact, the day watch was depicted! Just for a couple of hundred years, during which the picture wandered through different halls, until it fell into the hands of art historians, it managed to become covered with a thick layer of soot that darkened the entire background. After a thorough cleaning of the surface, details were found confirming the "daytime version" - the shadow from the captain's hand falls in such a way that it can be assumed that the picture depicts a patrol that entered the city streets no later than 2 pm.
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, 1642.
Vincent van Gogh misled everyone with his "Self Portrait with a Pipe", in which he depicted himself with a bandaged ear. The ear was really damaged, but not the right, but the left. The deception is obvious and, most likely, accidental - he simply wrote himself, looking in the mirror.
Vincent van Gogh, Self Portrait with a Pipe.
And one more deception, which is familiar to all of us from childhood on candy wrappers. The famous "Morning in the Pine Forest" (1889) by Ivan Shishkin, the greatest master landscape. The artist, who painted landscapes beautifully, was afraid that the bears would not come out of him "alive" and truly touching. Therefore, he resorted to the help of another master animal painter Konstantin Savitsky, who knew how to draw bears like no other. Initially, the names of both authors were on the canvas, but ... Tretyakov ordered the name of the animal painter to be washed away.
Ivan Shishkin, "Morning in the Pine Forest", 1889.
Secrets of the Mona Lisa
The famous "Gioconda" exists in two versions: the nude version is called "Monna Vanna", it was painted by the little-known artist Salai, who was a student and sitter of the great Leonardo da Vinci.
Many art critics are sure that it was he who was the model for Leonardo's paintings "John the Baptist" and "Bacchus". There are also versions that dressed in a woman's dress, Salai served as the image of the Mona Lisa herself.
The generally accepted opinion is that the Mona Lisa is perfection and her smile is beautiful in its mysteriousness. However, the American art critic (and part-time dentist) Joseph Borkowski believes that, judging by the expression on her face, the heroine has lost a lot of her teeth. While examining enlarged photographs of the masterpiece, Borkowski also found scars around her mouth. “She is so ‘smiling’ precisely because of what happened to her,” the expert believes. “The expression on her face is typical of people who have lost their front teeth.”
capsized boat
At the New York Museum contemporary art in 1961, Henri Matisse's painting "The Boat" was exhibited. Only after 47 days did someone notice that the painting was hanging upside down. The canvas depicts 10 purple lines and two blue sails on a white background.
The artist painted two sails for a reason, the second sail is a reflection of the first one on the surface of the water. In order not to be mistaken in how the picture should hang, you need to pay attention to the details. The larger sail should be at the top of the painting, and the peak of the sail of the painting should be directed to the upper right corner.
Henri Matisse, The Boat, 1937.
Two "Breakfasts on the Grass"
Artists Edouard Manet and Claude Monet are sometimes confused - after all, they were both French, lived at the same time and worked in the style of impressionism. Even the name of one of Manet's most famous paintings, "Breakfast on the Grass", Monet borrowed and wrote his "Breakfast on the Grass".
Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863.
Claude Monet, Breakfast on the Grass, 1865.
How many more secrets secret ciphers and messages, erroneous interpretations and deceptions hide the paintings of great artists? Who knows, maybe they will be revealed literally tomorrow, or maybe only by the next generation of researchers.
Even those masterpieces of painting that seem familiar to us have their secrets. By and large, in almost every significant work of art there is a mystery, a "double bottom" or a secret story that you want to uncover.
Revenge of Salvador Dali
The painting "Figure at the Window" was painted in 1925, when Dali was 21 years old. Then Gala had not yet entered the life of the artist, and his sister Ana Maria was his muse. The relationship between brother and sister deteriorated when he wrote in one of the paintings "sometimes I spit on a portrait of my own mother, and it gives me pleasure." Ana Maria could not forgive such shocking. In her 1949 book Salvador Dali Through the Eyes of a Sister, she writes about her brother without any praise. The book infuriated El Salvador. For another ten years after that, he angrily remembered her at every opportunity. And so, in 1954, the painting "A young virgin indulging in Sodomy with the help of the horns of her own chastity" appears.
The pose of the woman, her curls, the landscape outside the window and the color scheme of the painting clearly echo the Figure at the Window. There is a version that this is how Dali took revenge on his sister for her book.
Two-faced Danae
Many secrets of one of Rembrandt's most famous paintings were revealed only in the 60s of the twentieth century, when the canvas was illuminated with X-rays. For example, the shooting showed that in the early version, the face of the princess, who entered into a love affair with Zeus, looked like the face of Saskia, the wife of the painter, who died in 1642. In the final version of the painting, it began to resemble the face of Gertier Dirks, Rembrandt's mistress, with whom the artist lived after the death of his wife.
Van Gogh's yellow bedroom
In May 1888, Van Gogh acquired a small workshop in Arles, in the south of France, where he fled from the Parisian artists and critics who did not understand him. In one of the four rooms, Vincent sets up a bedroom. In October, everything is ready, and he decides to paint Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles. For the artist, the color, the comfort of the room was very important: everything had to suggest thoughts of relaxation. At the same time, the picture is sustained in disturbing yellow tones. Researchers of Van Gogh's creativity explain this by the fact that the artist took foxglove, a remedy for epilepsy, which causes serious changes in the patient's perception of color: the entire surrounding reality is painted in green-yellow tones.
Toothless perfection
The generally accepted opinion is that Mona Lisa is perfection and her smile is beautiful in its mysteriousness. However, the American art critic (and part-time dentist) Joseph Borkowski believes that, judging by the expression on her face, the heroine has lost a lot of her teeth. While examining enlarged photographs of the masterpiece, Borkowski also found scars around her mouth. "She is so" smiling "precisely because of what happened to her," the expert believes. "The expression on her face is typical of people who have lost their front teeth."
Major on face control
The audience, who first saw the painting "Major's Matchmaking", laughed heartily: Fedotov filled it with ironic details that were understandable to viewers of that time. For example, the major is clearly not familiar with the rules of noble etiquette: he appeared without the proper bouquets for the bride and her mother. And the bride herself was discharged by her merchant parents into an evening ball gown, although it was daytime (all the lamps in the room were extinguished). The girl obviously tried on a low-cut dress for the first time, is embarrassed and tries to run away to her room.
Why Freedom is naked
According to the art critic Etienne Julie, Delacroix painted the face of a woman from the famous Parisian revolutionary - the laundress Anna-Charlotte, who went to the barricades after the death of her brother at the hands of royal soldiers and killed nine guards. The artist depicted her bare-chested. According to his plan, this is a symbol of fearlessness and selflessness, as well as the triumph of democracy: naked breasts show that Svoboda, like a commoner, does not wear a corset.
non-square square
In fact, the "Black Square" is not at all black and not at all square: none of the sides of the quadrangle is parallel to any of its other sides, and to none of the sides of the square frame that frames the picture. BUT dark color is the result of mixing various colors, among which there was no black. It is believed that this was not the negligence of the author, but a principled position, the desire to create a dynamic, mobile form.
Melodrama of the Austrian Mona Lisa
One of Klimt's most significant paintings depicts the wife of the Austrian sugar magnate Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. All Vienna discussed the stormy romance between Adele and the famous artist. The wounded husband wanted to take revenge on his lovers, but chose a very unusual way: he decided to order a portrait of Adele from Klimt and force him to make hundreds of sketches until the artist starts to turn away from her. Bloch-Bauer wanted the work to last several years, and the model could see how Klimt's feelings fade away. He made a generous offer to the artist, which he could not refuse, and everything turned out according to the scenario of the deceived husband: the work was completed in 4 years, the lovers had long cooled off towards each other. Adele Bloch-Bauer never found out that her husband was aware of her relationship with Klimt.
The painting that brought Gauguin back to life
Gauguin's most famous canvas has one feature: it is "read" not from left to right, but from right to left, like Kabbalistic texts that the artist was interested in. It is in this order that the allegory of the spiritual and physical life of a person unfolds: from the birth of the soul (a sleeping child in the lower right corner) to the inevitability of the hour of death (a bird with a lizard in its claws in the lower left corner). The painting was painted by Gauguin in Tahiti, where the artist fled from civilization several times. But this time life on the island did not work out: total poverty led him to depression. Having finished the canvas, which was to become his spiritual testament, Gauguin took a box of arsenic and went to the mountains to die. However, he did not calculate the dose, and the suicide failed. The next morning, he staggered to his hut and fell asleep, and when he woke up, he felt a forgotten thirst for life. And in 1898, his affairs went uphill, and a brighter period began in his work.
old fisherman
In 1902, the Hungarian artist Tivadar Kostka Chontvari painted the painting "Old Fisherman". It would seem that there is nothing unusual in the picture, but Tivadar laid a subtext in it, which was never revealed during the life of the artist. Few people thought of putting a mirror in the middle of the picture.
In each person there can be both God (the right shoulder of the Old Man is duplicated) and the Devil (the left shoulder of the old man is duplicated).
Mystical riddles paintings
Any picture painted by a person carries the information that the artist put into it, the one who painted it. But not just drawing, although it is also very important point, and with what thoughts, he painted it. What is the point, the information he put into it.
During the time of Pushkin, the portrait of Maria Lopukhina was one of the main "horror stories". The girl lived a short and unhappy life, and after painting the portrait she died of consumption. Her father Ivan Lopukhin was a famous mystic and master of the Masonic lodge. That is why rumors spread that he managed to lure the spirit of his dead daughter into this portrait. And that if young girls look at the picture, they will soon die. According to the version of salon gossips, the portrait of Mary killed at least ten noblewomen of marriageable age ...
The philanthropist Tretyakov put an end to the rumors, who in 1880 bought the portrait for his gallery. There was no significant mortality among the visitors. The conversations subsided. But the sediment remained!
"Hands Resist Him"
This painting was painted by Bill Stoneham. The scandal began after one of the exhibitions. Mentally unbalanced people viewing this picture became ill, they lost consciousness, began to cry, etc. It all started in 1972, when the painting was drawn by Bill Stoneham from an old photograph of him at the age of five found in the Chicago house where he lived at the time (first photo).
The painting was first shown to the owner and art critic of the Los Angeles Times, who later died. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not. The painting was then purchased by actor John Marley (died 1984). Then the most interesting begins. The picture was found in a landfill among a pile of garbage. The family that found her brought her home and already on the first night a little four-year-old daughter ran into her parents' bedroom screaming that the children in the picture were fighting. The next night that the children in the picture were outside the door. The next night, the head of the family set the video camera to turn on according to movement in the room where the picture hung. The camcorder worked several times.
The painting was put up for auction on eBay. Soon, alarming letters began to come to the mail addresses of eBay administrators with complaints of deterioration in health, loss of consciousness, and even heart attacks. There was a warning on eBay (as well as in this post), but people are known to be curious and many ignored the warning.
The painting was sold for 1025 USD, the starting price was 199 USD. The page with the picture was visited over 30,000 times, but mostly just for fun. It was bought by Kim Smith, who lived in a small town near Chicago. He was just looking for something for his newly renovated art gallery on the Internet. When he came across "Hands Resist Him" he thought at first that it was painted in the forties and would be perfect for him as an exhibit.
"Lilies"
Impressionist Claude Monet painted a landscape with water lilies. When the artist and his friends were celebrating the completion of the painting, a small fire broke out in the studio. The flame was quickly filled with wine and did not attach any importance to this. And in vain ...
Only a month the picture hung in a cabaret in Montmartre. And then one night the place burned to the ground. But the "Lilies" managed to save.
The painting was bought by the Parisian philanthropist Oscar Schmitz. A year later, his house burned down. The fire started from the office, where the ill-fated canvas hung. It miraculously survived.
Another victim of Monet's landscape was the New York Museum of Modern Art. The Water Lilies were brought here in 1958. Four months later, here, too, it flared up not like a child. BUT damn picture strongly charred. Now NASA specialists are ready to restore it using space technology.
"Scream" Artist Edvard Munch
A masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was stolen in broad daylight from a museum in Oslo. A very tasty morsel: there is a picture $70 million! But something tells me that it is unlikely that the villains will have a chance to squander this money. After all, "Scream" takes revenge on those who offend him.
The museum tells how one worker accidentally dropped the painting. From that day on, he began to have a terrible headache. The pain got worse, and the guy committed suicide. And the museum visitor just touched the "Scream" with his finger. And what do you think? In the evening, a fire started in his house, and the man was burned alive.
"Adoration of the Magi"
The Dutch artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder painted The Adoration of the Magi for two years. He "copied" the Virgin Mary from his cousin. She was a barren woman, for which she received constant cuffs from her husband. It was she who, as simple medieval Dutch gossiped, "infected" the picture. Four times "Magi" were bought by private collectors. And each time the same story was repeated: in a family for 10-12 years no children were born ...
Finally, in 1637, the painting was bought by the architect Jacob van Campen. By that time, he already had three children, so the curse did not really scare him.
The artist and author of the painting "The Crying Boy", the father of the child depicted on it, mocked his son by lighting matches in front of the baby's face. The fact is that the boy was consumed by fire until death. And the man in this way tried to achieve brightness, vitality and naturalness of the canvas. The boy was crying - the artist was drawing. One day the kid shouted at his father: "You yourself burn!" A month later, the baby died of pneumonia. And a couple of weeks later, the charred body of the artist was found in his own house next to a painting of a crying boy that survived the fire.
Probably the most famous bad picture of the Internet space with the following story: A certain schoolgirl (often referred to as Japanese) painted this picture before opening her veins (jumping out the window, eating pills, hanging herself, drowning herself in the bathroom). If you look at her for 5 minutes in a row, the girl will change (eyes will turn red, hair will turn black, fangs will appear).
In fact, it is clear that the picture is clearly not drawn by hand, as many like to say. Although no one gives clear answers how this picture appeared.
Svetlana Taurus
Now it hangs modestly without a frame in one of the shops in Vinnitsa. "Rain Woman" is the most expensive of all works: it costs $500. According to the sellers, the painting has already been bought three times, and then returned. Clients explain that they are dreaming about her. And someone even says that he knows this lady, but does not remember where. And everyone who has ever looked into her white eyes will forever remember the feeling of a rainy day, silence, anxiety and fear.
Where did unusual picture, said its author - Vinnitsa artist Svetlana Telets. “In 1996, I graduated from the Odessa Art University. Grekova, - Svetlana recalls. - And six months before the birth of "Women" it always seemed to me that someone was constantly watching me. I drove away such thoughts from myself, and then one day, by the way, not at all rainy, I sat in front of a blank canvas and thought what to draw. And suddenly she clearly saw the contours of a woman, her face, colors, shades. In an instant, I noticed all the details of the image. I wrote the main thing quickly - I managed it in five hours. It felt like someone was holding my hand. And then I painted for another month.”
Arriving in Vinnitsa, Svetlana exhibited the painting in the local art salon. Art connoisseurs approached her every now and then and shared the same thoughts that she herself had during her work.
“It was interesting to observe,” says the artist, “how subtly a thing can materialize a thought and inspire it in other people.”
A few years ago, the first customer appeared. A lonely businesswoman walked around the halls for a long time, looking closely. Having bought "Woman", she hung it in her bedroom.
Two weeks later, a night call rang out in Svetlana's apartment: “Please pick her up. I can not sleep. It seems that there is someone in the apartment besides me. I even took it off the wall, hid it behind the closet, but I can’t do it all early. ”
Then a second buyer appeared. Then a young man bought the painting. And he didn't last long either. He brought it to the artist himself. And he didn't even take the money back.
"Venus with a Mirror" Velasquez
Velazquez's painting "Venus with a Mirror" also enjoyed deservedly notoriety. Everyone who bought it either went bankrupt or died a violent death. Even museums did not really want to include its main composition, and the picture constantly changed its "registration". The case ended with the fact that one day a crazy visitor attacked the canvas and cut it with a knife.
Van Gogh and Alice's rabbit hole
Eschatology for the illiterate
The eras of the early and classical Middle Ages in Europe (VI-XIV centuries) are the time of the dominance of monastic cartography. The monastic map, the so-called mappa mundi (“map of the world” in Latin), is a mixture of time and space, myths and realities of the Oikoumene known at that time. About 1100 monastery maps have survived to this day, about 600 of them were made before the 14th century.
1. How Salvador Dali got revenge on his sister
“Figure at the Window” is a painting painted by Dali back in 1925, when he was only 21 years old. At that time, his muse was Ana Maria. Dali once wrote in his painting "sometimes I spit on a portrait of my own mother, and it gives me pleasure." After this, the relationship between brother and sister was completely ruined, because Ana could not forgive him for this. When in 1949 the book “Salvador Dali Through the Eyes of a Sister” was published, in which Dali was depicted without any praise, he became furious and remembered her for a long time. The painting “Young virgin indulging in Sodomy with the help of the horns of her own chastity” appeared in 1954, so Dali annoyed his sister for her book. If you look closely, you can see some similarities with the painting "Figure at the Window".
2. Danae two-faced
In the 60s of the twentieth century, the secret was revealed famous painting Rembrandt. When the painting was illuminated with X-rays, they found that the face was very similar to Saskia, the painter's wife, who died in 1642. In the final picture, the face looks like Rembrandt's mistress, Gertier Dirks. The artist lived with her after his wife died.
3. Bedroom in Arles by Van Gogh
Van Gogh was often misunderstood by artists and critics. In 1888 he had to flee to the south of France, where he set up a workshop. He equips one of the four rooms as a bedroom. In the fall, the idea comes to him to paint Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles. He wanted to portray the comfort of the room, so that at the sight of all thoughts arose only about rest. The researchers of his work noticed that the picture was made in yellow tones and explained this by the fact that Van Gogh took a remedy for epilepsy - foxglove, and it, as you know, changes the perception of color and a person sees everything in green-yellow tones.
4. Perfection without teeth
Mona Lisa is perfection, and her smile is flawless and mysterious. Most people think so, but not an art critic from America. Joseph Borkowski, a dentist by profession, having carefully studied the enlarged photographs, said that the heroine had lost many teeth in her life. He also found scars around his mouth. The expert believes that her famous smile is very typical for those people who were left without front teeth.
The painting of the artist Fedotov "Major's Matchmaking" greatly amused the audience. There are ironic details in the picture that were understood by observers of that time. For example, the major clearly lacks the rules of etiquette inherent in the nobility: he came without bouquets for his bride and her mother, as was expected. The parents put on an evening dress for the bride, even though it is daytime (the lamps in the room are not lit). In the picture, we see that the girl, most likely, put on a low-cut dress for the first time, so she is very embarrassed and tries in every possible way to run away and hide from everything that is happening.
Etienne Julie, the famous art historian, believes that Delacroix copied female face with the famous revolutionary in Paris - Anna Charlotte. After the tragic death of her brother at the hands of royal soldiers, Anna went to the barricades and heroically killed nine guards. In the picture we see a revolutionary with a bare chest. The naked chest symbolizes selflessness and fearlessness and demonstrates to everyone that Svoboda does not put on a corset like a commoner.
7. Non-black square
The "Black Square" is very popular, although many do not even realize that it is not black and not at all square. In a quadrilateral, none of the sides is parallel to any other, and not even parallel to any of the sides of the frame in which the picture is framed. Many people think that the square is black, but in fact the color was obtained by mixing different colors, and there was no black at all. As art historians say, this was the principled position of Kazimir Malevich, as he strove to make a mobile, dynamic form.
8. Old fisherman
The artist Tivadar Kostka Chontvari from Hungary in 1902 painted the painting "Old Fisherman". It may seem to many that there is nothing unusual in the picture, but the artist laid a subtext in his picture, which was never revealed during his lifetime. Few would have thought to put a mirror in the middle of the picture. Tivadar Kostka Chontvari wanted to show that both God and the Devil can be present in any person.
9. Secret romance
Klimt on his canvas depicted the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a sugar magnate from Austria. Many were surprised and discussed the novel famous artist and Adele. The husband was terribly angry and decided to take revenge on his lovers in an unusual way. Bloch-Bauer ordered a portrait of his wife from Klimt and ordered to make a huge number of sketches so that the artist began to turn out of her. He planned that the work would continue for several years and thus the feelings of lovers would fade away. Ferdinand made a tempting offer, which the artist could not refuse, and everything turned out as the deceived husband had planned. The work lasted 4 years and during this time the lovers lost their feelings for each other, and Adele never found out until the end of her days that her husband was aware of the relationship with Klimt.
10. Came back to life thanks to a painting
Gauguin is famous for his painting “Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?" which has one peculiarity: it is necessary to read the canvas from right to left, and not from left to right, as everyone is used to. The whole allegory of the spiritual and physical life of a person goes in this order: at the beginning, the soul is born (the child sleeps in the corner), and at the end the inevitable hour of death comes (the bird holds the lizard in its claws). During his lifetime, the artist often fled to Tahiti from civilization, and wrote his work. At that moment, life in Tahiti did not work out from the very beginning: global poverty caused the artist to become depressed. After he finished his canvas, Paul Gauguin took arsenic and went to the mountains to commit suicide. But since he did not calculate the dose, the idea of \u200b\u200bsuicide failed. In the morning he reached the hut and fell asleep, and after waking up he felt a thirst for life. Since 1898, a white streak began in his work and things went up.