In 2020, the walls of the houses are decorated with paintings, amazing masterpieces are found on the asphalt in the parks around the world, and the work of artists who create amazing works in the genre of optical illusion. A bright representative of the direction is the Ukrainian painter Oleg Sheuplyak, whose creations "with a double bottom" are not immediately revealed in complete glory before looking.
But not only modern masters of the brush are able to hit the imagination of connoisseurs of painting by their own works, because the history of the visual art knows other examples of curious masterpieces - mysterious and frankly strange, shrouded legends or forcing people to peer in the seen.
This time, the editors of 24cmi will tell about the most unusual paintings created by the artists of the past.
"Phenomenon of facial and vases with fruit on the seashore"
Once at the beginning, it was already on painting, in which the optical illusion became an integral element of the composition, where, as in the works of the artist, the shop, the film was capable of appearing simultaneously by the Abris of the head, and the leaves - to turn into a sparrow on the branch, cannot be forgotten about Salvador Dali. This Spaniard became the first representative of the metamorphosis style close to surrealism, which was reflected not only in painting and schedule of the master, but also in the sculptures created by him.Private interest is an oil-written canvas given with a peculiar name "Phenomenon of facial and vases with fruits on the seashore", completely, however, reflecting the essence of transformation in the picture. The viewer sees the usual still life at first glance, where in the center of the composition there is a white vase with fruit. Her leg suddenly appears as a grotesque pendant, but a beautiful human face, on top of delineated or hair, or the sandy beach, or even mountain varnish with a city located at the foot. Looking around, the attentive connoisseur of painting will find a couple of dogs on the canvas.
Later on the "Metamorphosis path" in the work, Mexican Oktavio Okampo, who became famous for surrealism in the genre of surrealism.
"Old fisherman"
So not recognized in the homeland Hungarian self-taught artist Tivadar Kostnik Chongwari, who heard crazy because of the oddities in communicating and behavior, as well as the tendency to asceticism, most of his life wrote in the stylistry of expressionism. However, he applied to his own creations and to symbolism ahead with mythical surrealism, and to magical realism.
He wrote like landed, and the imaginable imagination of unusual canvases, but not found an understanding of the Hungarian pharmacist, who independently comprehended the wisdom of the visual art after a sudden illusion, did not achieve and did not share the work.
Here is a riddle taped in the painting "Old Fisherman" written in 1902 in 1902, have solved after the death of the Master. At the beginning of the last century, it is unlikely that anyone would have to make a thought to attach to the canvas with a picture of a sticky old man, remotely resembling the shabby filin, a mirror.
But after simple manipulations, the author's idea becomes an obvious idea: in each person there are two starts, both divine and demonic, and only it depends on him, which side will take the top in the incessant struggle.
"Waterloo Bridge. Fog effect "
Curious and original works will be found in the creative piggy bank of Claude Monet, which became one of the founders of impressionism and not throwing to write even after two operations in the eyes. Among the representatives of the genre of Monet, as no other, sought to achieve the utmost realism of their own creations, because he paid a lot of time experiments with various technicians and visual techniques, achieving the desired reliability of visual effects.Limit realism is also characteristic of his work "Waterloo Bridge. Fog effect. " As if in reality overtwit-dense, impermeable to the gloomy, the viewer, near the looking clock, first unable to disassemble anything on it, except for smears applied by oil.
Only by making a couple of steps back, the connoisseur will be able to detect the disappearing through the foggy saboan-air-air and as if the contours gradually created from the whipped dairy foam, gradually folding in a solid composition. Here and the distribution of the London Bridge stretching over the Thames, and the political state of water, and sliding along it barely noticeable silhouettes of boats, symbolizing the dynamics of life in the frozen reality of the painting.
"Night terrace cafe"
As in the case of the "old fisherman," it happens that the external simplicity of the artist depicts on canvas later detect something hidden, inaccessible at first glance. It happened with the "Night Terrace Cafe", in September 1888, by Vincent Van Gogh, the unusual paintings of which still rewrite with gouache and butter wishing to comprehend the author's visual techniques.
The Netherlands artist himself, who worked mainly in the postpressionism stylist and famous for his life, not so many paintings, as ambiguous actions (one of which, presumably, led to his death), did not tolerate ordinary. And in the Creating Creation, Van Gogh also managed in a simple, as it seems to the viewer, the composition to avoid banality.
"The night terrace of a cafe", in which initial art historians saw only the effect of the Canvas "Avenue de Clichi in the evening" Frenchman Louis Louis, of course, distinguishes an amazing writing technique. After all, when creating a picture depicting the night, Van Gogh did not use a black paint gram. But it is noteworthy not by that.
Later, studying the composition, the researchers have noticed references to the famous Leonardo da Vinci "Last Supper". At hidden meaning, according to experts, indicates as a strange tunic of the waiter in a cafe standing against the background of the crossing of the window frame, and the number of visitors in which it is already difficult to see 12 followers of the religious teachings of Christ.
Portrait of Maria Lopukhina
Among all sorts of masterpieces of the visual art, there are also those that have acquired the status status not due to the unusual forms of items displayed on them (which are forced to look for a true meaning in the picture a true meaning and an outstanding idea), and because of the rumors-related rumors and legends. An example of such an artistic work is the picture of Vladimir Borodinovsky, a Russian portraitist who lived in the XVIII-XIX centuries and wring his left hand in 1803 by Maria Lopukhin in 1803.Created in 1797 by a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, the canvas externally little is able to surprise. Is that impressive realism and portrait similarity. But it is noteworthy a picture of bad glory walking around her.
So, they said that the portrait of a beautiful girl takes the youth of young maids who looked at him, and even drives into the grave. The reason for the malfunction of the creation, who sent (according to salon gossip) to the light at least a dozen heiress of noble names, was looking for the fact that he had heard the sign of mystical affairs Father Lopukhina, Ivan Tolstoy, managed to sharpen the spirit of the deceased daughter in canvas. Only the acquisition of Pavel Tretyakov portrait to the collection made bad rumors to dull.
"Creek"
The creativity of the Norwegian Edward Minka in 1863 was filled with the motives of loneliness and death tolerance, amazingly combined with the striking desire for life. The artist's work included in the first adherents of expressionism have repeatedly become the subject of fierce discussion and condemn critics and colleagues. Together with a saturated personal life, abounding stresses due to problems in love relationship, it led to a mulk into a psychiatric clinic.
Perhaps the next attack of the manic-depressive disorder, from which the author suffered, and was reflected in the most famous work - the picture "Creek". This canvas, according to a number of connoisseurs of fine art, leaves a painful impression of irresistible hopelessness.
According to the legends walking around this work, all people, one way or another contacting the picture, fought badly. Owners allegedly ruined and died. Two museum employees died (one committed suicide, and the other fell under the car) after the munk masterpiece dropped. Also, some kind of person who kept in his hands this work of art, burned alive just every other day.
"Apotheosis of War"
There are unusual paintings, like the "scream" of the mock immersing the viewer who looks at them into sad thoughts. They force to see and the meaning that the author did not invest in his own creation at all. So, the difficult feelings are drunk and a person looking at the canvas of the Russian artist-Batalist Vasily Vereshchagin "Apotheosis of War".
The painter not only had a number of military conflicts, which dropped out the Russian Empire in the second half of the XIX century, but also participated in combat clasions and was injured. Yes, and Vereshchagin died, whose creativity absorbed the valor of Russian soldiers and officers, as well as an unsightly tragedy of armed slaughter, during the Russian-Japanese war. The artist exploded along with the Petropavlovsk battleship on the enemy mine on April 13 (according to a new style) of 1904.
"Apotheosis of War", the creator himself called "still life", which displays "dead nature" with sad sarcasm. The theme of death and despair, unchanged with any war, clearly visible in the grief of skulls, towering in the foreground of the picture. In yellow paints reflecting the soreness of the composition. In stiff, deprived of the life of trees. In embarrassing what to get used to this burift, corners. And in the destroyed city, which is seen by a dumb reproach to mankind in the wars.
But it is amazing what art historians and connoisseurs recognize, if there is a long time to peer into the canvas, the depth and emotionality of the picture begin to penetrate inside the viewer. And for each insistered skull, he begins to see a separate crippled fate, torn away by someone else's will. To break away from the "dead still life" with each minute it only becomes more difficult.