Art - is part of the spiritual culture of man, a form of artistic activity of society, a figurative expression of reality. Consider the most interesting facts about art.
Interesting facts: painting
Not everyone knows that art originates from the time of primitive people, and many of those who are aware of this are unlikely to think that the caveman owned a polychrome painting.
In 1879, the Spanish archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautola discovered the ancient cave of Altamira, in which polychrome painting was present. Nobody believed Sautola, and he was accused of forging the creations of primitive people. Later in 1940, an even more ancient cave with a similar painting was opened - Lascaux in France, it was attributed to 17–15 thousand BC. Then all the charges against Southol were dropped, but already posthumously.
Raphael "Sistine Madonna"
The true picture of the canvas "Sistine Madonna", created by Raphael, can be seen only a good look at it. The art of the artist deceives the observer. The background in the form of clouds hides the faces of angels, and on the right hand of St. Sixt shows six fingers. Perhaps this is due to the fact that his name in translation from Latin means "six".
And Malevich was not the first artist to paint Black Square. Long before him, Ally Alphonse, a man known for his eccentric antics, exhibited in the Vinien Gallery his work “The Battle of the Negroes in a Cave in the Deep Night,” which was a completely black canvas.
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Picasso "Dora Maar with a cat"
The famous artist Pablo Picasso had an explosive temperament. His love for women was fierce, many of his lovers were killing themselves or going to a psychiatric hospital. One of these was Dora Maar, who endured a break with Picasso and later found herself in a hospital. Her portrait of Picasso wrote in 1941, when their relationship was severed. The portrait "Dora Maar with a Cat" in 2006 was sold in New York for 95.2 million dollars.
When writing the picture "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, he paid special attention to the images of Christ and Jude. He spent a very long time in search of models, as a result, for the image of Christ Leonardo da Vinci found a man among the young singers in the church, and only three years later he was able to find a person to write the image of Judas. He was a drunkard, whom Leonardo found in a ditch and invited him to the inn to write a picture. Later, this man admitted that he had already posed for the artist once, several years ago, when he sang in the church choir. It turned out that the image of Christ and Judas, by coincidence, was written from one person.
Interesting facts: sculpture and architecture
- Initially, an unknown sculptor worked unsuccessfully on the famous statue of David, which was created by Michelangelo, who failed to finish the job and abandoned it.
- Few had wondered about the position of the legs on a horse sculpture. It turns out that if a horse is standing on its tails, then its rider died in battle, if one hoof is raised, then the rider died from battle wounds, and if the horse stands on four legs, then the rider died a natural death.
- On the famous statue of Gustov Eiffel - the Statue of Liberty, 225 tons of copper were used. And the weight of the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro - the statue of Christ the Redeemer, made of reinforced concrete and soap stone, reaches 635 tons.
- The Eiffel Tower was created as a temporary exhibit dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Eiffel did not expect that the tower will last more than 20 years.
- An exact copy of the Indian mausoleum of the Taj Mahal was built in Bangladesh by the millionaire film producer Asanullah Moni, which caused great discontent among the Indian people.
- The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, the construction of which lasted from 1173 to 1360, began to decline even during construction due to the small foundation and washing away by groundwater. Its weight is about 14453 tons. The ringing of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the most beautiful in the world. According to the original design, the tower was to be 98 meters high, but it was possible to build only 56 meters high.
Interesting Facts: Photography
- Joseph Niepce was created the world's first photograph in 1826. After 35 years, the English physicist James Maxwell managed to take the first color photograph.
- Photographer Oscar Gustaf Reilander used his cat to determine the light in the studio. Then there was still no such invention as an exposure meter, so the photographer watched the pupils of the cat, if too narrow - put a short shutter speed, and if the pupils dilated - increased the shutter speed.
- The famous French singer Edith Piaf often gave concerts in military camps during the occupation. After the concerts, she was photographed with prisoners of war, whose faces were then cut from photographs and pasted into fake passports, which Edith handed to prisoners during her second visit. So many captives managed to escape on forged documents.
Interesting facts about contemporary art
Sue Webster and Tim Noble
British artists Sue Webster and Tim Noble made an entire exhibition of garbage sculptures. If you just look at the sculpture, then only a heap of garbage is visible, but with a certain lighting of the sculpture, different projections are created that personify different images.
Rashad Alakbarov
The Azerbajana artist Rashad Alakbarov uses shadows from various objects to create his paintings. In a certain way he arranges objects, directs the necessary lighting to them, thus a shadow is formed, from which a picture is created as a result.
three-dimensional painting
Another unusual method of creating paintings was invented by the artist Ioan Ward, who makes his drawings on wooden canvases using molten glass.
More recently, the concept of three-dimensional painting has appeared. When creating a three-dimensional picture, each layer is filled with resin, and a separate part of the picture is applied to each layer of resin. Thus, a natural image is obtained, which is sometimes difficult to distinguish from a photograph of a living being.
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