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10-August-2026 Monday
Tatyana Yablonskaya painted the sunniest picture of the USSR, but there were secrets in her life that she kept secret from outsiders.
09-August-2026 Sunday
Glazunov painted this painting in secret for several years, hiding the canvas under cloth. When it was finally seen, it caused a scandal throughout Moscow.
09-August-2026 Sunday
The pictures on the stamps we collected as children. What culture did we absorb?
06-August-2026 Thursday
Arkhip Kuindzhi consulted with Dmitri Mendeleev and spent years studying optics to make his paintings "glow."
26-May-2026 Tuesday
Serebryakova went to Paris for three months and never returned. Why did she leave her children and family?
26-May-2026 Tuesday
When photography was invented, artists thought they were finished. But the opposite happened—a new art emerged.
25-May-2026 Monday
Pirosmani sold everything he had and filled the street with flowers for a woman he'd seen only once. The hero of the song "A Million Scarlet Roses"
25-May-2026 Monday
Why do soup cans and comic books hang in museums and cost millions? 5 artists who came up with this idea.
24-May-2026 Sunday
Gustave Courbet spent six months in prison for tearing down a monument to Napoleon. How did this story end?
24-May-2026 Sunday
Expressionism That Will Turn You Inside Out: Learning to Define This Style
23-May-2026 Saturday
El Greco left Italy because he called Michelangelo a bad artist.
23-May-2026 Saturday
How does symbolism differ from modernism?
22-May-2026 Friday
A Japanese artist was jailed for an engraving. What was so unforgivable about it?
22-May-2026 Friday
How to Read a Religious Painting If You Don't Know the Bible: 7 Simple Symbols
21-May-2026 Thursday
Edvard Munch painted four versions of "The Scream" and almost erased one. What was in the fifth?
21-May-2026 Thursday
Why did people hate the Pre-Raphaelites?
20-May-2026 Wednesday
Turner tied himself to the mast of a ship during a storm in order to paint a picture.
20-May-2026 Wednesday
How to distinguish Rococo from Baroque. A comparison using two paintings.
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