Descriptions of the Paintings

The portrait of F. M. Dostoevsky was painted by V.G. Perov by order of the patron and founder of the famous gallery Pavel Tretyakov....

Rene Magritte lived in a sort of very individual reality, and his pictures were the only earthly and truthful matter for him. Transferring to the something worldly, something completely ordinary and uninteresting on his canvases, he reminds himself of his existence. Right at this moment. Right now....

The seal of the "illegitimate" haunted Perov from his birth and until the time when the great artist ceased to be someone's son and became himself - a bright and extraordinary personality....

Back in the past, Golconda was a name of the fortress in the center of India, a place where diamonds were mainly traded. Nowadays, only ruins remained from it, and today “Golconda” is just the name of one of the pictures by Rene Magritte....

The picture was written in a difficult period for the artist. He survived the collapse of family life and found solace only in being drunk. Only occasionally did the master delight the audience with truly successful works....

“The False Mirror” was painted by Rene Magritte in two copies. The original one was created back in 1928 (although 1929 is mentioned in some sources); the second version is dated 1935, but it gained less popularity in comparison to its original version....

In the history of Russian art, it is quite difficult to find a more tragic figure than Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov....

The visible combined with the hidden always creates some dissonance in the mind of the viewers. The work titled "The Human Condition" evokes mixed feelings, contradicting each other. Rene Magritte created many interpretations of this composition, of which this particular one was the most...

The painting "The Rooks Have Come Back" is the most famous work by Savrasov. Immediately after the show, the canvas was purchased by P. Tretyakov for his collection....

Unlike many other surrealists, Rene Magritte attached great significance and paid increased attention to the titles of his own creations. He used to say, "names should be chosen in such a way that they do not provide any opportunity to place their own pictures in the field of the...