aesthetic assessment
City Pictures
The world of colors and romance of urban everyday life. The plots are diverse, inspiring authors to create pictures of cities in the world. The city is beautiful in the light of night lamps, and in the rays of the bright sun. A stranger swiftly swept through the puddles. But the first autumn leaf circled over the tiled roofs, personifying the inevitable change of seasons.
You are presented with oil paintings depicting the city and city streets.
There are as many plots as there are creative ideas in the mind of a talented author, and each of them can become a pretext for creating a real masterpiece – a charming canvas, ready to become a real decoration of your living room, bedroom, hallway. Continue reading
Baroque
Baroque – (Portuguese. Baroco – freaky, bad, wrong, spoiled). The term “baroque” has many meanings in the history of art. Among them are narrower, to indicate artistic styles in art of various countries of the XVII-XVIII centuries, or broader – to identify ever-renewing trends of a restless, romantic worldview, thinking in expressive, dynamic forms, or generally as a poetic metaphor: “Baroque man” , “Baroque era”, “Baroque world”, “Baroque life”. Finally, in every time, almost in every historical art style, they find their “Baroque period”.
In the most famous sense, Baroque is a historical artistic style, which was spread initially in Italy in the middle of the XVI-XVII centuries, and then partially in France, as well as in Spain, Flanders and Germany of the XVII-XVIII centuries. The Baroque Style is remarkable in that for the first time in the history of world art, seemingly unconnectable components were combined in it: Classicism and Romanticism. Until the turn of the 16th-17th centuries, Classicism and Romanticism existed as two independent, in all opposing artistic directions, two trends of artistic thinking. Continue reading
