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Description of Arkhip Kuindzhi's painting “Sunset Effect”

When the color in the picture turns into light, we can say with great certainty that you have a canvas in front of you by Arkhip Kuindzhi. It would seem that there is a canvas, oil paints, and suddenly there is a real glow from somewhere, as if there was some invisible lamp under the canvas. It seems that it was the light that became the main character of the artist’s paintings.
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Description of the painting by Gustave Courbet “The Man with the pipe”

The painting was painted in 1846 - 1849. Courbet was a true master of portraits. Interestingly, he himself was a model for paintings. The artist managed to write many self-portraits in which one can feel how his skill is gradually growing. We see a fairly young man with half-closed eyes. The pallor of his face is effectively shaded by a shock of hair of a pleasant brown color.
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Description of Ilya Repin's painting "The Hunchback"

Ilya Repin, a world-famous Russian artist who does not require a presentation, was famous for his preparatory paintings, which testified to his special approach to his beloved work, even after the artist’s death many preparatory sketches for his famous paintings were found. The painting “The Hunchback” of 1881, It was also a sketch for his famous painting “Religious procession in the Kursk province” 1880-1883.
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