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How Chinese artists went around at the Sotheby’s auction of Pablo Picasso himself
Over the past decades, China has rapidly burst into all spheres of human life. Fine art was no exception. So, in 2011, at the Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, for the first time, Chinese artist Zhang Datsyan (1899–1983) became the most expensive master of the world, moving Pablo Picasso himself from the pedestal, who for many years ranked first in the art rating. Continue reading
Esoteric surrealism in mysterious fiction paintings that help to look into
It is no secret to anyone that human nature is mysterious, and can manifest itself both from the light and from the dark side. Therefore, it is very difficult to overestimate the unique paintings of the Polish surrealist painter Tomash Alain Koper in terms of philosophical overtones inherent in each of his paintings. In them, everyone can recognize himself, or rather, the state of his inner self. We are so accustomed to conceal our essence under the mask that sometimes it seems that this mask has already grown to us forever. And only sincere feelings are sometimes able to break it …
Inspired by human nature and the mysteries of the universe, Tomas Koper lives in a world of rich imagination. Continue reading
How talented women, worthy places in history, remained in the shadow of their men
There is a myth that artists do not get along with artists and therefore marry only mere mortals. But there are many couples in which more or less equally known as artists are both husband and wife, such as the Delone spouses, or in which the artist and artist coexisted happily, like the Serebryakovs or Mavrina and Kuzmin. However, it also happens that a woman succeeds in becoming famous as an artist only after escaping from the shadow of her man … Or that her talent is discovered much later, while studying the biography of a man. Continue reading
