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Arts, if not to take into account the realist, has always been, is and will be strange. But some other picture of the country.
There are works of art that seem to hit the audience over the head, and osharashivaya amazing. Others drawn into meditation and the search for semantic layers, secret symbols. Some paintings are covered with mysteries and mystical riddles, and other surprise exorbitant price.
Website carefully reviewed all of the major achievements in the world of painting and chose from them two dozen of the most bizarre pictures. We have deliberately not included in this collection of Salvador Dali, whose work is fully fall under the format of the material, and the first to come to mind.
It is understood that the "strangeness" - a rather subjective and everyone has their amazing pictures, knocked out of the series of other works of art. We will be happy if you share them in the comments and tell them a little bit.
"Scream»
«Scream" is considered to be a landmark event expressionism and one of the most famous paintings in the world.
There are two interpretations of image: it is the hero himself engulfed in horror and cries silently, pressing his hands to his ears; or the hero covers his ears from sounding scream around the world and nature. Munch painted four versions of "Scream", and there is a version that this picture - the fruit of manic-depressive psychosis, which affects the artist. After treatment in the clinic Munch did not return to work on the web.
"I was walking along a path with two friends. The sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red I paused, feeling exhaustion, and leaned on the fence - I looked at the blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city. My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety, feeling an infinite scream piercing nature "- Edvard Munch told about the history of the painting.
"Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? »
At the direction of the Gauguin painting to be read from right to left - the three main groups of figures illustrate the questions posed in the title.
Three women and a child represent the beginning of life; Group average daily existence symbolizes the maturity; in the final group, according to the artist, "an old woman approaching death appears reconciled and dedicated his reflections" at her feet "strange white bird ... represents the futility of words».
Deeply philosophical picture postimpressionist Paul Gauguin was written by him to Tahiti, where he had fled from Paris. Upon completion of the work, he even wanted to commit suicide, "I believe that this cloth surpasses all my previous and I never will create something better or similar." He lived another five years, so it happened.
«Guernica»
"Guernica" is the scene of death, violence, brutality, suffering and helplessness, without specifying their immediate causes, but they are obvious. The story goes that in 1940, Pablo Picasso was summoned to the Gestapo in Paris. It just came about the picture. "You did?" - "No, you did it».
A huge fresco painting "Guernica", written by Picasso in 1937, tells the story of the volunteer units of the Luftwaffe raid on the town of Guernica, in which six thousandth the city was completely destroyed. The picture was written just a month - the first days of work on a painting by Picasso worked for 10-12 hours, and already in the first outline could be seen the main idea. This is one of the best illustrations of the nightmare of fascism, as well as human cruelty and grief.
"Arnolfini Portrait»
The famous picture entirely filled with symbols, allegories and various references - up to the signature 'Jan van Eyck was here ", turned the painting is not just a work of art, and historical document, confirming the reality of the event, which was attended by the artist.
Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao allegedly Arnolfini and his wife is one of the most difficult works of Western painting school of the Northern Renaissance.
In Russia in the past few years the picture has gained great popularity due to the Arnolfini portrait likeness with Putin.
"Seated Demon»
Painting Mikhail Vrubel surprising way the demon. His sad face does not look like a universal idea, it should look like an evil spirit.
This is an image of strength of the human spirit, inner struggle, no doubt. Tragically his hands clasped, Demon sits surrounded by flowers, his eyes staring into the distance. The composition emphasizes the tightness of his figure, as if sandwiched between the upper and lower beams of the frame.
The artist spoke about his most famous painting, "The demon - a spirit not so much evil as suffering and sad, with all the spirit of this powerful, majestic."
"The Apotheosis of War»
The metaphor of war in the film given to the author so accurately and profoundly that every skull lying in the pile, you begin to see people, their fate and the fate of those who these people will never see. Vereshchagin himself sarcastically called the painting "Still Life" - it shows a "dead nature." All details of the picture, including the yellow color, symbolizing death and devastation. A clear blue sky emphasizes the deadness of the picture. The idea of "The Apotheosis of War" is expressed as swords and scars from bullet holes in the skulls.
Vereshchagin - one of the main Russian battle painters, but he drew war and battle, not because he saw in them the beauty and greatness. On the contrary, the artist was trying to convey to people their negative attitude to the war.
Once Vereshchagin in the heat of emotion said: "Most of battle paintings will not write - basta! I'm too close to my heart accept the fact that I write, vyplakivayu (literally) Mount each wounded and dead. " Perhaps the result of this exclamation was a terrible and fascinating painting "The Apotheosis of War».
"American Gothic»
Grant Wood. 1930 oil. 74 × 62 cm.
Painting a grim image of the father and daughter full details that indicate the severity of Puritanism and misoneism images of people. Angry faces, forks in the middle of the painting, old-fashioned, even by the standards of 1930 clothes, clothes seams on the farmer, the same shape of the fork, as a symbol of the threat that is addressed to all those who encroach. The web is full of gloomy details that make shiver from neuyuta.
"American Gothic" - one of the most recognizable images in American art of the XX century, famous art meme XX and XXI centuries.
Interestingly, the judges of the competition at the Chicago Art Institute apprehended "Gothic" as "a humorous Valentine" and residents of Iowa terribly offended by Wood for what he portrayed them as an unpleasant light.
"Lovers»
Painting "Lovers" ("Lovers") exists in two versions. On one canvas man and woman, whose head bundled in white cloth, kissing and the other - "look" at the viewer. Picture surprises and fascinates.
Two figures without faces Magritte convey the blindness of love. About blindness in every sense: in love no one can see, do not see their real persons and we, and in addition, the lovers - a mystery, even to each other. But this apparent clarity, we will still continue to look at magrittovskih lovers and think about them.
Almost all the paintings of Magritte - a puzzle that is completely impossible to unravel, as they raise questions about the essence of being. Magritte always speaks of deceptive appearances, its hidden mystery, which we usually do not notice.
"Walk»
"Walk" - a self-portrait with his wife Bella. His favorite is hovering in the sky and look to carry off in flight and Chagall, standing on unstable ground, if only touching her toes shoes. In the other hand Chagall bird - he is happy, it also has bird in the hand (probably his paintings) and two in the bush.
Usually extremely serious in his painting Marc Chagall wrote a delightful manifesto of his own happiness, filled with allegories and love.
"Garden of Earthly Delights»
"Garden of Earthly Delights" - the most famous triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, gets its name from the central part of the subject is devoted to the sin of lust.
The painting is full of fantastic shapes, structures, images of monsters, like hallucinations gained their flesh - everything that can be called hell caricatures of reality, to which the author looks searchingly, very sharp look.
Some scholars have wanted to see in the triptych picture of human life through the prism of the vanity of earthly love, others - a celebration of sensuality. However, simplicity and a certain detachment, which interpreted the individual figures in the painting, as well as favorable attitude to this work the Church authorities make sure that its contents could be the glorification of bodily pleasures.
To date, none of the existing interpretations of the paintings are not considered the only true.
"Three-age women»
This work of Klimt at the same time conveys a sense of both joy and sorrow. It was written by three figures the life story of a woman: carelessness, peace and despair.
Young female image organically woven into the pattern of life, the image of an old woman stands out from it. The contrast between the stylized image of a young woman and an old woman naturalistic way acquires a symbolic meaning: the first phase of life brings with it endless possibilities and metamorphosis, the last - the permanence and the conflict with reality.
The cloth does not let go, it gets into the soul and makes us think about the depth of the message of the artist, as well as the depth and the inevitability of life.
"Family»
Schiele was a disciple of Klimt, but, like any good student, he did not copy his teacher and was looking for a new one. Schiele's much more tragic, strange and frightening than Gustav Klimt. In his works, a lot of what could be called pornography, various perversions, naturalism and at the same nagging despair.
"Family" - his latest work, which brought despair to the absolute, even though it is the least weird looking its picture. The artist painted her before his death, 28 years after the Spaniard from the death of his pregnant wife Edith. On the canvas depicts the author himself, his wife and their never-born child.
"Two Frida»
History of difficult life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo became widely known after the film "Frida" with Salma Hayek in the title role. Kahlo painted mainly self-portraits, and explains it simply: "I am writing myself because I spend a lot of time alone and because I am the one theme that know best».
Not a single self-portrait of Frida Kahlo smiles: serious, even mournful face, bushy eyebrows grown together, faint mustache on tight-lipped. The ideas of the artist is encrypted in details, background, figures that appear next to the image of the author on the canvases. Symbols Kahlo draws on national traditions and is closely connected with Indian mythology of pre-Hispanic period.
In one of his best paintings, "Two Frida" she expressed male and female, joined in her single circulatory system and demonstrate its integrity.
"Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog »
When considering the picture at close range the viewer sees nothing but the web, which caused frequent thick oily smears. The magic works is revealed when we begin to gradually move away from the web to a greater distance.
First in front of us appear strange semicircle passing through the middle of the picture, and then we see a clear outline of the boats, but if we move about two meters, then we will arise and build a logical chain linking all the work.
"Number 5, 1948»
The strangeness of this picture is that the fabric of the American leader of abstract expressionism, which he painted, pouring paint on the decomposition on the floor a piece of fiberboard - the most expensive painting in the world. In 2006 at Sotheby's paid for it $ 140 million. David Giffen, a film producer and collector, sold it to Mexican financier David Martinez.
"I continue to move away from the usual tools of the artist, such as easel, palette and brush. I prefer sticks, shovels, knives and pouring paint or paint mixture of sand, broken glass, or something else. When I'm painting inside, I did not realize what I was doing. Understanding comes later. I have no fear of change or destruction of the image, because the picture living its own life. I just help her get out. But if I lose contact with the painting, it turns dirt and mess. If not, then it is pure harmony, ease how you take and you give ».
"A man and a woman in front of a pile of excrement»
Good name. And who would have thought that this work tells us of the horrors of civil war.
The painting was done on a sheet of copper for the week between 15 and 22 October 1935. According to Miró, is the result of attempts to portray the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, the painting of the period of concern. On the canvas depicts the figure of man and woman stretching to each other's arms, but not moving. Increased sexual organs and ominous colors were described by the author as "full of disgust and loathing of sexuality».
"Erosion»
Polish neosyurrealist known worldwide for its amazing paintings, which combine reality, creating new. It is difficult to consider it very detailed and somewhat heartwarming work on one, but it's the size of our material. We recommend to read more.
"Hands oppose it»
This work, of course, can not be counted among the masterpieces of world art, but that it is strange - it is a fact.
Around the picture with the boy doll and palms pressed against the glass, is legendary. From "because of this picture die" to "her children alive." It looks really scary picture that creates in people with weak mentality a lot of fears and fantasies.
The artist also insisted that the painting depicts himself at the age of five, the door - view of the dividing line between the real world and the world of dreams, and a doll - a guide who will be able to hold the boy through this world. Hands are the alternative of life or ability.
Painting gained fame in February 2000, when it was put up for sale on eBay with a history that tells that the painting - "Haunted". "Hands oppose him" bought for 1025 dollars, Kim Smith, who then was just swamped with letters from the horror stories and the requirements of the burn pattern.
via # image8811860
There are works of art that seem to hit the audience over the head, and osharashivaya amazing. Others drawn into meditation and the search for semantic layers, secret symbols. Some paintings are covered with mysteries and mystical riddles, and other surprise exorbitant price.
Website carefully reviewed all of the major achievements in the world of painting and chose from them two dozen of the most bizarre pictures. We have deliberately not included in this collection of Salvador Dali, whose work is fully fall under the format of the material, and the first to come to mind.
It is understood that the "strangeness" - a rather subjective and everyone has their amazing pictures, knocked out of the series of other works of art. We will be happy if you share them in the comments and tell them a little bit.
"Scream»
«Scream" is considered to be a landmark event expressionism and one of the most famous paintings in the world.
There are two interpretations of image: it is the hero himself engulfed in horror and cries silently, pressing his hands to his ears; or the hero covers his ears from sounding scream around the world and nature. Munch painted four versions of "Scream", and there is a version that this picture - the fruit of manic-depressive psychosis, which affects the artist. After treatment in the clinic Munch did not return to work on the web.
"I was walking along a path with two friends. The sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red I paused, feeling exhaustion, and leaned on the fence - I looked at the blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city. My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety, feeling an infinite scream piercing nature "- Edvard Munch told about the history of the painting.
"Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? »
At the direction of the Gauguin painting to be read from right to left - the three main groups of figures illustrate the questions posed in the title.
Three women and a child represent the beginning of life; Group average daily existence symbolizes the maturity; in the final group, according to the artist, "an old woman approaching death appears reconciled and dedicated his reflections" at her feet "strange white bird ... represents the futility of words».
Deeply philosophical picture postimpressionist Paul Gauguin was written by him to Tahiti, where he had fled from Paris. Upon completion of the work, he even wanted to commit suicide, "I believe that this cloth surpasses all my previous and I never will create something better or similar." He lived another five years, so it happened.
«Guernica»
"Guernica" is the scene of death, violence, brutality, suffering and helplessness, without specifying their immediate causes, but they are obvious. The story goes that in 1940, Pablo Picasso was summoned to the Gestapo in Paris. It just came about the picture. "You did?" - "No, you did it».
A huge fresco painting "Guernica", written by Picasso in 1937, tells the story of the volunteer units of the Luftwaffe raid on the town of Guernica, in which six thousandth the city was completely destroyed. The picture was written just a month - the first days of work on a painting by Picasso worked for 10-12 hours, and already in the first outline could be seen the main idea. This is one of the best illustrations of the nightmare of fascism, as well as human cruelty and grief.
"Arnolfini Portrait»
The famous picture entirely filled with symbols, allegories and various references - up to the signature 'Jan van Eyck was here ", turned the painting is not just a work of art, and historical document, confirming the reality of the event, which was attended by the artist.
Portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao allegedly Arnolfini and his wife is one of the most difficult works of Western painting school of the Northern Renaissance.
In Russia in the past few years the picture has gained great popularity due to the Arnolfini portrait likeness with Putin.
"Seated Demon»
Painting Mikhail Vrubel surprising way the demon. His sad face does not look like a universal idea, it should look like an evil spirit.
This is an image of strength of the human spirit, inner struggle, no doubt. Tragically his hands clasped, Demon sits surrounded by flowers, his eyes staring into the distance. The composition emphasizes the tightness of his figure, as if sandwiched between the upper and lower beams of the frame.
The artist spoke about his most famous painting, "The demon - a spirit not so much evil as suffering and sad, with all the spirit of this powerful, majestic."
"The Apotheosis of War»
The metaphor of war in the film given to the author so accurately and profoundly that every skull lying in the pile, you begin to see people, their fate and the fate of those who these people will never see. Vereshchagin himself sarcastically called the painting "Still Life" - it shows a "dead nature." All details of the picture, including the yellow color, symbolizing death and devastation. A clear blue sky emphasizes the deadness of the picture. The idea of "The Apotheosis of War" is expressed as swords and scars from bullet holes in the skulls.
Vereshchagin - one of the main Russian battle painters, but he drew war and battle, not because he saw in them the beauty and greatness. On the contrary, the artist was trying to convey to people their negative attitude to the war.
Once Vereshchagin in the heat of emotion said: "Most of battle paintings will not write - basta! I'm too close to my heart accept the fact that I write, vyplakivayu (literally) Mount each wounded and dead. " Perhaps the result of this exclamation was a terrible and fascinating painting "The Apotheosis of War».
"American Gothic»
Grant Wood. 1930 oil. 74 × 62 cm.
Painting a grim image of the father and daughter full details that indicate the severity of Puritanism and misoneism images of people. Angry faces, forks in the middle of the painting, old-fashioned, even by the standards of 1930 clothes, clothes seams on the farmer, the same shape of the fork, as a symbol of the threat that is addressed to all those who encroach. The web is full of gloomy details that make shiver from neuyuta.
"American Gothic" - one of the most recognizable images in American art of the XX century, famous art meme XX and XXI centuries.
Interestingly, the judges of the competition at the Chicago Art Institute apprehended "Gothic" as "a humorous Valentine" and residents of Iowa terribly offended by Wood for what he portrayed them as an unpleasant light.
"Lovers»
Painting "Lovers" ("Lovers") exists in two versions. On one canvas man and woman, whose head bundled in white cloth, kissing and the other - "look" at the viewer. Picture surprises and fascinates.
Two figures without faces Magritte convey the blindness of love. About blindness in every sense: in love no one can see, do not see their real persons and we, and in addition, the lovers - a mystery, even to each other. But this apparent clarity, we will still continue to look at magrittovskih lovers and think about them.
Almost all the paintings of Magritte - a puzzle that is completely impossible to unravel, as they raise questions about the essence of being. Magritte always speaks of deceptive appearances, its hidden mystery, which we usually do not notice.
"Walk»
"Walk" - a self-portrait with his wife Bella. His favorite is hovering in the sky and look to carry off in flight and Chagall, standing on unstable ground, if only touching her toes shoes. In the other hand Chagall bird - he is happy, it also has bird in the hand (probably his paintings) and two in the bush.
Usually extremely serious in his painting Marc Chagall wrote a delightful manifesto of his own happiness, filled with allegories and love.
"Garden of Earthly Delights»
"Garden of Earthly Delights" - the most famous triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, gets its name from the central part of the subject is devoted to the sin of lust.
The painting is full of fantastic shapes, structures, images of monsters, like hallucinations gained their flesh - everything that can be called hell caricatures of reality, to which the author looks searchingly, very sharp look.
Some scholars have wanted to see in the triptych picture of human life through the prism of the vanity of earthly love, others - a celebration of sensuality. However, simplicity and a certain detachment, which interpreted the individual figures in the painting, as well as favorable attitude to this work the Church authorities make sure that its contents could be the glorification of bodily pleasures.
To date, none of the existing interpretations of the paintings are not considered the only true.
"Three-age women»
This work of Klimt at the same time conveys a sense of both joy and sorrow. It was written by three figures the life story of a woman: carelessness, peace and despair.
Young female image organically woven into the pattern of life, the image of an old woman stands out from it. The contrast between the stylized image of a young woman and an old woman naturalistic way acquires a symbolic meaning: the first phase of life brings with it endless possibilities and metamorphosis, the last - the permanence and the conflict with reality.
The cloth does not let go, it gets into the soul and makes us think about the depth of the message of the artist, as well as the depth and the inevitability of life.
"Family»
Schiele was a disciple of Klimt, but, like any good student, he did not copy his teacher and was looking for a new one. Schiele's much more tragic, strange and frightening than Gustav Klimt. In his works, a lot of what could be called pornography, various perversions, naturalism and at the same nagging despair.
"Family" - his latest work, which brought despair to the absolute, even though it is the least weird looking its picture. The artist painted her before his death, 28 years after the Spaniard from the death of his pregnant wife Edith. On the canvas depicts the author himself, his wife and their never-born child.
"Two Frida»
History of difficult life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo became widely known after the film "Frida" with Salma Hayek in the title role. Kahlo painted mainly self-portraits, and explains it simply: "I am writing myself because I spend a lot of time alone and because I am the one theme that know best».
Not a single self-portrait of Frida Kahlo smiles: serious, even mournful face, bushy eyebrows grown together, faint mustache on tight-lipped. The ideas of the artist is encrypted in details, background, figures that appear next to the image of the author on the canvases. Symbols Kahlo draws on national traditions and is closely connected with Indian mythology of pre-Hispanic period.
In one of his best paintings, "Two Frida" she expressed male and female, joined in her single circulatory system and demonstrate its integrity.
"Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog »
When considering the picture at close range the viewer sees nothing but the web, which caused frequent thick oily smears. The magic works is revealed when we begin to gradually move away from the web to a greater distance.
First in front of us appear strange semicircle passing through the middle of the picture, and then we see a clear outline of the boats, but if we move about two meters, then we will arise and build a logical chain linking all the work.
"Number 5, 1948»
The strangeness of this picture is that the fabric of the American leader of abstract expressionism, which he painted, pouring paint on the decomposition on the floor a piece of fiberboard - the most expensive painting in the world. In 2006 at Sotheby's paid for it $ 140 million. David Giffen, a film producer and collector, sold it to Mexican financier David Martinez.
"I continue to move away from the usual tools of the artist, such as easel, palette and brush. I prefer sticks, shovels, knives and pouring paint or paint mixture of sand, broken glass, or something else. When I'm painting inside, I did not realize what I was doing. Understanding comes later. I have no fear of change or destruction of the image, because the picture living its own life. I just help her get out. But if I lose contact with the painting, it turns dirt and mess. If not, then it is pure harmony, ease how you take and you give ».
"A man and a woman in front of a pile of excrement»
Good name. And who would have thought that this work tells us of the horrors of civil war.
The painting was done on a sheet of copper for the week between 15 and 22 October 1935. According to Miró, is the result of attempts to portray the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, the painting of the period of concern. On the canvas depicts the figure of man and woman stretching to each other's arms, but not moving. Increased sexual organs and ominous colors were described by the author as "full of disgust and loathing of sexuality».
"Erosion»
Polish neosyurrealist known worldwide for its amazing paintings, which combine reality, creating new. It is difficult to consider it very detailed and somewhat heartwarming work on one, but it's the size of our material. We recommend to read more.
"Hands oppose it»
This work, of course, can not be counted among the masterpieces of world art, but that it is strange - it is a fact.
Around the picture with the boy doll and palms pressed against the glass, is legendary. From "because of this picture die" to "her children alive." It looks really scary picture that creates in people with weak mentality a lot of fears and fantasies.
The artist also insisted that the painting depicts himself at the age of five, the door - view of the dividing line between the real world and the world of dreams, and a doll - a guide who will be able to hold the boy through this world. Hands are the alternative of life or ability.
Painting gained fame in February 2000, when it was put up for sale on eBay with a history that tells that the painting - "Haunted". "Hands oppose him" bought for 1025 dollars, Kim Smith, who then was just swamped with letters from the horror stories and the requirements of the burn pattern.
via # image8811860
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