Masterpieces of world painting. Kortunova N.D.

Everyone is trying to understand the painting. Why are they not trying to understand the singing of birds? " - once said the famous artist Pablo Picasso, hinting that the art of painting is fine, but cannot read. In fact, often coming to the museum and admiring the paintings of the great masters, we ask about the questions: “What did the artist mean?”, “What do these or other symbols or details mean in the picture?”, “Why did the artist portray this plot?” , In what technique is this or that canvas? ”, In what year and in what genre is the picture is written?”, And, in the end, “How do artists write paintings?” The viewer cannot do without commentary art historian.

The book written by the artillery, a senior researcher at the Mlime. A.S. Pushkin, the keeper of the museum of the sculpture of the 19th - 20th centuries, and the curator of a number of exhibitions in the MiCH, will help to find out how the art of painting changed their forms, why the artists turned to certain plots, what means they embodied the desired images, and perfectly selected Illustrations form a visual series that allows you to more deeply and more fully into the magical world of painting.

This beautifully illustrated reference book:

- will introduce the art of Western European painting in all the variety of its genres, technician and styles;

- will provide an opportunity to make a fascinating trip in time and trace the whole history of the development of fine art - from primitive times to the beginning of the 20th century and find out how and why its forms changed, and which of the great artists played the most significant role in this;

will reveal the secrets of picturesque techniques and tricks of famous masters;

- tells about how the picture is born.