Descriptions of the Paintings

When inventing the plots for his future paintings, Jean Gerome used to turn to historical motifs starting from ancient times and up to the present. He learned to manipulate the plots, making them leave a lasting impression on the audience....

Otto Dix was one of the most prominent and famous portrait painters of his time. The representatives of so many professions wanted their portraits to be painted by Dix. However, this one, the portrait of Sylvia Harden, was an exception in every way....

This painting was created in the very year when Hitler came to power. Dix was afraid to criticize the Third Reich openly, but he secretly hated it....

The left side of this painting has something terrifying the viewer, who subconsciously feels that the worst of it is still ahead....

Otto Dix was an artist whose creation developed in different directions - from expressionism to Dadaism, and in this painting he appeared as a representative of a so-called "New Materiality" movement, reflecting the mood that gripped people in a troubled time for Germany just after the...

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was born on December 2, 1891 in the city of Gera and in the family of a metallurgist and a seamstress. The future painter got his education at the School of Applied Arts in Dresden as an interior fitter....

Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) was English artist, member of the Royal Society of Watercolors, and a disciple of the Pre-Raphaelites....

Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914) was born into an artistic family; he grew up being surrounded by the devoted followers of Pre-Raphaelite style....

With this painting, Christian Krohg turned to the topic of motherhood. Most of the paintings with similar plots are traditionally characterized by sentimentality and embellishment of maternal day-to-day life. But Krohg, being a follower of naturalism, did not accept idealization in any form, and...

Krohg wrote his "Fresh Bread" painting in 1879, when he teamed up with other young compatriot painters, among whom he met the like-minded people. Christian Krohg used to portray the side of Norwegian life that Bohemians either could not or did not want to see....