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Основная тема творческой деятельности И. В. Торопова посвящена казачеству. Эта тема волнует автора с самых ранних лет. Первые рисунки появились от впечатлений после прочитанных книг И. В. Гоголя «Тарас Бульба» , В. М. Шукшина «Я пришёл дать вам волю» и В. Я. Шишкова «Емельян Пугачев». Иван Торопов пишет как исторические картины, так и портреты казаков современников.

Человеку свойственно себя украшать, и порой в стремлении выделиться он может зайти слишком далеко. Для мира моды характерны не только изысканные туалеты, но и перепроизводство, масштабные экологические проблемы и слепое поклонение брендам. Мода превозносит узкий круг людей, создающих тренды и влияющих на умы миллионов. Мода заставляет потреблять, не задумываясь о последствиях.

М.В. Ломоносов, как великий ученый-энциклопедист, прекрасно понимал, какую роль в развитии русской культуры играет изобразительное искусство. Из всех его видов и жанров на первый план он выдвигал монументальное искусство мозаики. В мозаике его привлекала возможность передать кубиками из смальты тончайшие оттенки цветов.

Автопортрет – это особый жанр в живописи, своего рода диалог художника с миром и способ понять себя самого. Серия автопортретов написанных в разные годы, дает представление о жизни художника, отражает важные вехи и поворотные моменты в его биографии, свидетельствует о мастерстве и духовном совершенствовании, становясь своеобразными мемуарами. В этом красочном мини-альбоме представлены автопортреты знаменитых живописцев, написанные в разные периоды их жизни: Леонардо да Винчи и Микеланджело, Рафаэля и Рембрандта, Веласкеса и Пармиджанино, Гойи и Курбе, Мане и Моне, Ван Гога и Гогена, Сезанна, Мунка и других.

Автор книги – известный писатель Анри Перрюшо, исследователь творчества французских художников-импрессионистов, таких как Поль Сезанн, Огюст Ренуар, Винсент ван Гог, Поль Гоген, Анри де Тулуз-Лотрек, Жорж-Пьер Сёра.

«Окна, зеркала и крылья бабочки» – сборник эссе о знаменитых художниках (от Апеллеса и Боттичелли до Василия Кандинского и Сальвадора Дали); о различных стилях и направлениях в изобразительном искусстве, об индивидуальной манере мастера и о том, как создавались мировые шедевры.

Книга «Погружение в музыку» (известная также под названием «Тайны гениев-2, или Волновые пути к музыке») знакомит читателя с особенностями творчества знаменитых композиторов, раскрывает секреты различного воздействия той или иной музыки на слушателя, обращается к вечным темам добра и зла, смерти и бессмертия, любви, страсти, одержимости.

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the “icebreaker”. For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European Surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate for the status of the Master of the American School. During the many upheavals in his life in Nez York in the 1950s and 60s, Pollock lost his bearings – success had simply come too fast and too easily. It was during this period that he turned to alcohol and disintegrated his marriage to Lee Krasner. His life ended like that of 50s film icon James Dean behind the wheel of his Oldsmobile, after a night of drinking.

Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes in the naked bodies of men and women. He rarely conceived his human forms in attitudes of immobility or repose. Michelangelo became a painter so that he could express in a more malleable material what his titanesque soul felt, what his sculptor's imagination saw, but what sculpture refused him. Thus this admirable sculptor became the creator, at the Vatican, of the most lyrical and epic decoration ever seen: the Sistine Chapel. The profusion of his invention is spread over this vast area of over 900 square metres. There are 343 principal figures of prodigious variety of expression, many of colossal size, and in addition a great number of subsidiary ones introduced for decorative effect. The creator of this vast scheme was only thirty-four when he began his work. Michelangelo compels us to enlarge our conception of what is beautiful. To the Greeks it was physical perfection; but Michelangelo cared little for physical beauty, except in a few instances, such as his painting of Adam on the Sistine ceiling, and his sculptures of the Pietà. Though a master of anatomy and of the laws of composition, he dared to disregard both if it were necessary to express his concept: to exaggerate the muscles of his figures, and even put them in positions the human body could not naturally assume. In his later painting, The Last Judgment on the end wall of the Sistine, he poured out his soul like a torrent. Michelangelo was the first to make the human form express a variety of emotions. In his hands emotion became an instrument upon which he played, extracting themes and harmonies of infinite variety. His figures carry our imagination far beyond the personal meaning of the names attached to them.

What is the social merit or purpose of all those bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines? Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, ever since Antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, the economy and the corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zest of humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention it deserves.

The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the elegant and hedonistic life-style of a wealthy, glamorous and privileged elite in Paris between the two World Wars. Combining a formidable classical technique with elements borrowed from Cubism, Lempicka’s art represented the ultimate in fashionable modernity while looking back for inspiration to such master portraitists as Ingres and Bronzino. This book celebrates the sleek and streamlined beauty of her best work in the 1920s and 30s. It traces the extraordinary life story of this talented and glamorous woman from turn of the century Poland and Tsarist Russia, through to her glorious years in Paris and the long years of decline and neglect in America, until her triumphant rediscovery in the 1970s when her portraits gained iconic status and world-wide popularity.

What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle Époque and its legalized brothels? They have merely been inhibited and buried by the nowadays political correctness and the aggressive one-eyed morality.