Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder ‘The Harvesters’. Oil on wood, 1565. New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Dutch have created Holland

The Dutch have created Holland
“God created the earth, the Dutch have created Holland” liked to say countrymen of the artist. Wheat fields on the hills burn with hot gold, illuminating the dark green valley and replacing the sun. So fabulous banquet halls covered with piles of treasure and the feasting did not need any other light source. Trees with neat round canopy lined up in neat rows along the roads. Sloping meadows covered with low, like moss, grass, suitable for games. Rectangular ponds explicitly created by human hands, and good wide roads, of course, took a lot of work. Ships glide on a flat surface of the Gulf. The sea – the great stormy element – now seems tame and is no more dangerous than a large mirror.
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Bear’s dreams. Dandelions. Batik paper painting by Anna Petrova

Batik paper painting by Anna Petrova
Talented artist from the city of Bryansk, Russia works in her author’s “batik paper” technique. She is the owner of her Art studio called “Warm space”. Unfortunately, there isn’t much information about the artist. However, that’s what she writes about herself: “I love living textured paper, especially natural handmade paper. I like to listen to it, it tells about itself, reveals its secrets, and allows us to find a new image. Drawing can be called an attempt to revive the paper, each sheet is unique, each of them – has its own story … I like to draw for kids, small children with their little world and warm atmosphere of faith in a miracle”.
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Music of bright spring. Oil on canvas. 2013. Russian impressionist painter Evgeny Gavlin

Russian impressionist painter Evgeny Gavlin lives and works in Moscow. He has graduated from Art graphics department of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Evgeny is a member of the Russian Union of Artists and the International Art Fund. He has participated in more than fifty group and solo art exhibitions. The colorful works of the artist are painted in pastous, relief way. The contrast colors are extremely important in for the artist. His favorite genres of painting are landscape and still lifes in the best traditions of impressionism. Paintings by Evgeny Gavlin are in private collections in Russia, France, Creat Britain, the USA, Germany, China, etc.
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The artist paints a bird with just one move. Owl inspired Pablo Picasso

Owl inspired Pablo Picasso
Noteworthy, Picasso brought with him to Paris a little owl from a resort town of Antibes. According to Memories of Francoise Gilot, he found it with a broken foot in the Chateau Grimaldi. Meanwhile, Picasso cured it and then kept in a cage in the kitchen of his apartment in Paris on the Great Augustinian street, along with pigeons and a canary. Large round eyes of owl reminded Picasso his own, however, the trail of superstitions attributed to owls, inspired in him a mystical feeling toward the bird. Indeed, he painted it, created sculpture, and made a great variety of owl ceramics. Besides, there are a few photos in which Picasso poses with his owl, and captured next to his owl art.
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Screen. Oil on canvas. 2006. Painting by Viktoria Kharchenko

Painting by Viktoria Kharchenko
Born in 1978 in the city of Mednogorsk, Russian artist Viktoria Kharchenko graduated from art school in the city of Kaluga. And later, in 1997 she graduated from the Kaluga College of Culture with a diploma in art teaching. From 1999 to 2005 Viktoria studied at the St. Petersburg Academic Art Institute named after Ilya Repin, the faculty of painting. She studied in the studio under the guidance of professor OA Yeremeyev. Viktoria Kharchenko is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia (since 2010).
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At the tram. Life in USSR. Nostalgic paintings about USSR by Angela Dzherikh

Nostalgic paintings about USSR by Angela Dzherikh, a talented artist from Donetsk. Talent for drawing appeared in early childhood of Angela. At the age of 27 she moved to Moscow, where she began her professional artistic activity. Currently, nostalgic paintings about USSR by Angela Dzherikh are in private collections of art lovers in Russia, Ukraine, Japan, USA and Europe. Meanwhile, the nature of these works is nostalgic. Her paintings belong to the era of the USSR and the people who are especially spiritual in purity and sincerity. People in her pictures fall in love, suffer, feel happy or sad, go about their daily chores. The images in her works are real and true, and the stories are very subtle. It seems that it is not just pretty pictures of the fantasy of the artist, but real memories from the past, so realistic they are and can raise long-forgotten memories from the depths of our own memory.
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A man in a straw hat with ice cream. Pablo Picasso. Ice cream in painting

Ice cream in painting
Throughout its history ice-cream inspired many artists, writers, poets and photographers. It appeared on the pages of books, paintings and photographs. This dessert as if destined to take its place in the arts to inspire artists. In some works ice cream – hidden in the picture as a barely perceptible detail chronicles, in others – has become almost the central part of the composition. Ice cream appeared in the works of Pablo Picasso – namely, in the painting “The man in a straw hat with ice cream,” painted in 1938 while relaxing on the sea in the south of France.
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