Author of quotes: Vasily Vereshchagin
In my observations of life during my various wanderings around the world, I was especially struck by the fact that even in our time people kill each other everywhere under all kinds of pretexts and in all kinds of ways. Killing en masse is still called war, and killing individuals is called capital punishment. Everywhere the same worship of brute force and the same inconsistency... and this is done even in Christian countries in the name of one whose teaching was based on peace and love.
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MegaMozg 16-04-2024 / 03:24
If not pneumonia, working in the air, there will be happiness. Winter glory. Only the Germans to starve, not the etudes to write. It is important would Prusakov withdraw such cold weather.
Quote Explanation: 2 Feb 1888 Vereshchagin wrote from Rostov one of its main buyers - entrepreneur and philanthropist Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, founder of the famous Tretyakov gallery... "Cockroach" in Russia are traditionally called red cockroaches.
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MegaMozg 08-04-2018 / 09:30
... except for Raven, a still life, translated from the French - a dead nature.
Quote Explanation: The most famous of his that is a kind of business card of the painter – thousandfold publicized in magazines, textbooks and books on art "Apotheosis of war" - can also be attributed to the battle, or rather post-battle paintings. On the frame the inscription: "Dedicated to all great conquerors, past, present and future". The painting depicts a pyramid of human skulls on the background of ruined cities and charred trees, among the hot steppes; around the pyramid hovering crows. All details of the picture, including the yellow color paintings, symbolizing death and destruction. Clear blue sky emphasizes the deadness of the picture. The idea of "Apotheosis of war" also vividly Express the scars from swords and holes from the arrows on the turtles.
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MegaMozg 08-04-2018 / 09:29
More battle pictures will not write - Basta! I'm too close to my heart accept what I write, viplachivau (literally) Woe to every wounded and the dead.
Quote Explanation: After finishing a series of paintings about the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, in a letter to his friend, the art critic Vladimir Stasov.
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MegaMozg 08-04-2018 / 09:27
