From Bosch to Van Gogh. Bazhenov V.M.

The history of painting is a powerful river of time consisting of names, styles and directions that originates in ancient times, in those days when people created their first paintings on the walls of the caves. This river with only one shore, the other is lost in infinity. Over time, a person’s idea of ​​the world of art and his place in it changed and formed. With the expansion of consciousness, the development of art was underway. Over the centuries, each picturesque style gave the soil a new, newly emerging style or direction, every great painter added something of its own, sometimes unique, to the achievements of earlier artists and influenced later masters. Painting, as a constant companion of human civilization, had a different purpose and role at all stages of human evolution.

The great masters of the past have created works for more than a century, which still delight the brilliance of painting and the flight of the spirit. The eras replaced each other, the new generations of artists were looking for new visual means and ways to reflect the changing reality. For centuries, the schools of painting, directions in art: Renaissance and Baroque, Rococo and Classicism, romanticism and realism, impressionism and symbolism, expressionism and surrealism changed. But from Bosch to Van Gog, the main task of the artist was to breathe life into the created image, line, color. The works of those who managed this became a masterpiece of world art. Artists whose immortal works are presented in this colorful mini-album, as if opening the door to us in their era, into the wonderful world of magical colors created by them.