Masterpieces of world painting

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 artist, a senior researcher at the Mlime. A.S. Pushkin, the keeper of the museum of the sculpture of the XIX - XX centuries, and the curator of a number of exhibitions in the Pushkin Museum, will help to find out how the art of painting changed their forms, why the artists turned to certain plots, by what means they embodied the desired images, and perfectly picked up Illustrations form a visual series that allows you to more deeply and more fully into the magical world of painting.
This perfectly illustrated reference book:
• will introduce the art of Western European painting in all the variety of its genres, techniques and styles.
• Give the opportunity to make a fascinating time in time and trace the whole history of the development of fine art - from Primitive times until 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 techniques of famous masters
• Talk about how the picture is born