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  1. Kazimir Malevich
    Founder of his own abstract style - Suprematism - Kazimir Malevich Severinovich born on 23 February 1878 (according to other sources - 1879), in Kiev…
     
  2. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
    French critic Edmond Abu wrote in 1855: "Monsieur Corot - the sole and exclusive artist beyond genres and schools, and he does not imitate anything, even nature…
     
  3. Vincent Van Gogh
    His childhood in the countryside, forever imprinted in his heart with love for nature and landscape with figures "working people…
     
  4. Jean-Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
    In Gericault attract realism gift poeticizing fact, the breadth of his courageous epic style, passion for life, pervades his work humanism…
     
  5. Jean Antoine Watteau
    Famous brothers Goncourt wrote about the artist in 1856: "Watt - the great poet of the eighteenth century…
     
  6. Pieter Bruegel
    Flemish Vasari - Karel van Mander in his "Book of Painters", published in 1604, called Bruegel native of Breda, a small town on the border of present-day Belgium and Holland…
     
  7. Vladimir Makovskiy
    Makovsky - one of the most popular Russian artists of the genre painters of the second half of XIX century…
     
  8. Giovanni Bellini
    1433-1516) - an outstanding painter, belonging to the Venetian school, one of the founders of the High Renaissance…
     
  9. Raffael da Urbino
    Bernini considered the first among the great Raphael, and likened his "great sea, absorbing water of all rivers…
     
  10. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
    's Parents put him to study Latin in school, Leiden University, referring to his subsequent admission to the city or public service, so that later he could assist them…
     
  11. GOSI
    1020-1090)The highest flowering of medieval Chinese culture reached in VII-XIII centuries, in times of education of two major states - Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279)…
     
  12. Peter Paul Rubens
    The famous painter Delacroix said: "We need to see Rubens and Rubens copy must be: for Rubens - God!"In the pink of Rubens M…
     
  13. Henri Rousseau
    Eluard called Rousseau a great artist, who "forced to live the clouds and the leaves on the trees and at the same time knew how to write a dream…
     
  14. Amedeo Modigliani
    Well-known critic Paul Yusson wrote in 1922 about Modigliani:After Gauguin, he is undoubtedly the best knew how to express in his work a sense of tragic, but he has this feeling was more intimate and usually devoid of any exclusivity…
     
  15. Boris Kustodiev
    "Great Russian artist - and with a Russian soul," - said about him the other well-known painter - MV Nesterov…
     
  16. Mihail Vrubel
    Brilliant, original artist XIX - early XX century, MA Vrubel were subject to monumental painting, easel painting, drawing, sculpture…
     
  17. Ilya Repin
    Wherever I go, whatever amused, no matter how admired, no matter what he enjoyed - it is always and everywhere in my head, my heart, my desires - the best and most secret…
     
  18. JOSEPH TURNER
    In the history of world art Turner entered as the father of a fundamentally new relationship to blossom, the creator of the rare light-air effects…
     
  19. Hokusai Katsushika
    is independence from the government and all the benefits "- so he wrote the great Japanese artist…
     
  20. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
    Today the art of Tiepolo is considered the most significant phenomenon in the late baroque paintings…
     

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