Graphic works of Russian artists. School encyclopedia. Village life of Dmitry Lyovin

We have been planning to make a rating of the most expensive works on paper by artists of the orbit of Russian art for a long time. The best motive for us turned out to be a new record in Russian graphics - 2.098 million pounds for a drawing by Kazimir Malevich on June 2

Publishing our ratings, we really like to hang around with all sorts of reservations to warn of possible questions. So, the first principle: only original graphics. Second: we use the results of open auction sales for works by artists included in the orbit of Russian art, according to the site's database (perhaps gallery sales were at higher prices). Third: of course, it would be tempting to put $ 3.7 million in first place for Arshil Gorka's Husatonic. As you know, he himself strove in every possible way to be considered a Russian artist, not shying away from hoaxes, took a pseudonym in honor of Maxim Gorky, etc .; in 2009, Gorki's works were shown by the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery at the exhibition "American Artists from the Russian Empire", we included it in the AI ​​database of auction results, but starting with it the rating of Russian graphics is unfair on formal grounds. Fourth: one sheet - one result. For this rating, we selected only works consisting of one sheet; a formal approach would force us to take into account three more items, each of which was sold as a single lot: 122 original ink drawings for the "Book of the Marquise" by Konstantin Somov, two folders with 58 drawings and gouaches for "The Brothers Karamazov" by F. M. Dostoevsky by Boris Grigoriev and part of the collection of Yakov Peremena. Fifth: one author - one work. If we formally took the top 10 by price (excluding the results of Gorka and prefabricated lots), then there would be five sheets of Kandinsky, three of Chagall and one each of Malevich and Serebryakova. Boring. Sixth: we analyze the period from 2001 to the present day. Seventh: the price rating was compiled in dollars, the results in other currencies were converted into dollars at the exchange rate on the day of trading. Eighth: all results are given taking into account the seller's commission.

Kazimir Malevich's drawing "Peasant's Head", which is a preparatory sketch for the lost painting "Peasant Funeral" in 1911, quite expectedly became the top lot of Sotheby's Russian auction on June 2, 2014 in London. Malevich's works appear on the art market extremely rarely, "The Peasant's Head" is the first work put up for auction since the sale of "Suprematist Composition" for $ 60 million at Sotheby's in 2008, and one of the last significant things of the artist in private collections. This sketch was one of 70 works exhibited by the artist in Berlin in 1927, and then left in Germany in order to save them from the ban and artificial oblivion that would inevitably await them in Russia. The work came to the auction at Sotheby’s from some powerful German private collection of the Russian avant-garde. Almost all the lots of this collection were gone with an excess of the estimate, but Malevich's drawing was simply out of competition. For him they gave three times more estimate - 2.098 million pounds. This is by far the most expensive graphic work of a Russian artist.

The list of the most expensive graphic works by Wassily Kandinsky includes as many as 18 original drawings worth over a million dollars. His watercolors in their abstract message are in no way inferior to paintings. Let us recall that it is precisely from the graphic work of Kandinsky - "The First Abstract Watercolor" of 1910 - that it is customary to count the history of modern abstract art. As the legend says, once Kandinsky, sitting in the semi-darkness of his workshop in Munich and looking at his figurative work, could not distinguish anything on it except color spots and shapes. And then he realized that he had to abandon objectivity and try to capture through the color of the "movement of the soul." The result was a work devoid of any connection with the outside world - "The first abstract watercolor" (Paris, Georges Pompidou Center).

Kandinsky's canvases are rare on the market and are very expensive, but the graphics will perfectly fit into any collection and will look dignified in it. Production graphics can be afforded for several thousand dollars. But for the original drawing, which, for example, is a sketch for a famous painting, you will have to pay several times more. The most expensive watercolor Untitled (1922) was sold during the 2008 art boom for $ 2.9 million.

Marc Chagall was an unusually productive artist for his time. Today, Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons are assisted by an army of assistants, and Mark Zakharovich has single-handedly created thousands of original graphic works for 97 years of his life, not to mention circulation works. Our database of Chagall's auction results includes more than 2000 original works on paper. This artist is steadily growing in price, and the investment prospects for buying his works are obvious - the main thing is that the authenticity of the work is confirmed by the Chagall Committee. Otherwise, the work may almost be burned (this is precisely what the Chagall Committee threatens to the owner, who recently sent a painting for examination to Paris, which turned out to be a fake). So the choice should only be made in favor of unconditionally authentic graphics. Its price can reach 2.16 million dollars - this is how much was paid in May 2013 for the drawing "Horsemen" (paper on cardboard, gouache, pastel, colored pencils).

The Lying Nude pastel is not only the most expensive graphic work of Zinaida Serebryakova, but also her most expensive work in general. The theme of the nude female body was one of the main themes in the artist's work. Serebryakova's nudes evolved from images of bathers and Russian beauties in a bathhouse in the Russian period of creativity to lying naked, more in the spirit of European art in the Paris period. Looking at the beautiful, sensual, idealized naked Serebryakova, it is difficult to imagine how tragic the fate of the artist was - her husband died of typhus, leaving her with four children in her arms; I had to live from hand to mouth and, in the end, emigrate to Paris (as it turned out, forever), leaving the children in Russia (only two were able to be transported to France later, the other two had to be separated for more than 30 years).

Zinaida Serebryakova cultivated perfect, eternal, classical beauty in her works. Pastel in some way even better conveys the lightness and airiness of her female images, in which there is almost always something of the artist herself and her children (daughter Katya was one of her favorite models).

The rather large Reclining Nude pastel was purchased during the art boom in June 2008 for £ 1.07 million ($ 2.11 million). No other work since then has managed to break this record. Interestingly, in the top 10 auction sales of Zinaida Serebryakova only nude, and three works are just pastels.

At the London auction of Sotheby’s on November 27, 2012, dedicated to the painting and graphics of Russian artists, the top lot was by no means a painting, but a pencil drawing on paper - "Portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold" by Yuri Annenkov. Eight participants argued for the work in the hall and on the phones. As a result, the drawing, estimated at 30-50 thousand pounds, cost the new owner several tens of times more expensive than the estimate. The result of 1.05 million pounds (1.68 million dollars) overnight made the "Portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold" the most expensive graphics of the author and took the third place in the list of the highest auction prices for Annenkov's works in general.

Why was the interest in the portrait so strong? Annenkov is a brilliant portrait painter who left images of the best figures of the era - poets, writers, directors. In addition, he was very talented in graphics: his manner combined the techniques of classical drawing with avant-garde elements of cubism, futurism, expressionism .. He succeeded as a theater and film artist, as a book illustrator. The public's attention was certainly attracted by the personality of the model in the portrait - the famous director Vsevolod Meyerhold. And to top it all off, this drawing comes from the collection of the composer Boris Temkin, a native of Kremenchug, who emigrated to the United States and became a famous American composer, a four-time Oscar winner for his musical work in cinema.

One of the main artists of the World of Art association, Lev (Leon) Bakst, of course, should have been on our list of the most commercially successful graphic artists. His exquisite theatrical works - sketches of costumes for the best dancers of the era, scenery for performances - give us today an idea of ​​what a splendid spectacle Diaghilev's Russian Seasons was.

Bakst's most expensive graphic work, The Yellow Sultana, was created in the year that Diaghilev's ballet first toured the United States. By that time, Bakst was already a well-known artist, the recognizable style of his theatrical works became a brand, his influence is noticeable in fashion, interior design and jewelry. Sensual nude "The Yellow Sultana", which grew out of his theatrical sketches, caused a fierce battle between the two phones at Christie's auction on May 28, 2012. As a result, the figure reached 937,250 pounds ( 1 467 810 dollars) taking into account the commission, despite the fact that the estimate was 350-450 thousand pounds.

The world of noble nests, foggy manor parks and graceful young ladies strolling along the alleys, which are disappearing into oblivion, appears in the works of Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov. Some call his style "an elegy in painting", he is characterized by dreaminess, quiet melancholy, sadness for a bygone era. For Borisov-Musatov, the noble estates were the world of the present, but there is something otherworldly in his representations of this world, these parks, verandas and ponds seemed to be dreamed of by the artist. He seemed to have a presentiment that soon this world would not be and he himself would not be (a serious illness took the artist away at the age of 35).

Victor Borisov-Musatov preferred pastels and watercolors to oil painting, they gave him the necessary lightness of the stroke and haze. The appearance at the Russian auction of Sotheby’s in 2006 of his pastels "The Last Day" was an event, since the main works of Borisov-Musatov are in museums, and only about a dozen of works have got to the open auction for all the time. Pastel "The Last Day" comes from the collection of V. Napravnik, son of the Russian conductor and composer Eduard Napravnik. This pastel was depicted on the "Portrait of Maria Georgievna Napravnik" by Zinaida Serebryakova, now kept in the Chuvash Art Museum. In the monograph "Borisov-Musatov" (1916) NN Wrangel mentions "The Last Day" in the list of the artist's works. So, undoubtedly, the genuine thing quite expectedly reached a record price for an artist of 702,400 pounds, or 1,314,760 dollars.

Alexander Deineka was a brilliant graphic artist; at the initial stages of his career, graphic art attracted him even more than painting, primarily by its propaganda potential. The artist worked a lot as a book and magazine illustrator, created posters. Later, this "magazine-poster work" tired him, he began to work more and more in painting, in monumental art, but the acquired skills of a draftsman turned out to be very useful - for example, when creating preparatory sketches for paintings. "Girl Tying a Ribbon on Her Head" - a sketch for the painting "Bather" (1951, collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery). This is the most expensive work of Deineka today belongs to the late period of creativity, when the artist's style from the avant-garde searches of the 1920s and 30s had already strongly evolved towards socialist realism. But Deineka was sincere in socialist realism. The power and beauty of a healthy human body is one of Deineka's favorite themes. "The Girl Tying the Ribbon" refers us to his naked, similar to the Greek goddesses - Soviet Venuses who find happiness in work and sports. This is a drawing of the textbook Deineka, and therefore it is not surprising that it was sold for a record 27,500,000 rubles (1,012,450 dollars) at the Sovcom auction.

Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev emigrated from Russia in 1919. Abroad, he became one of the most famous Russian artists, but at the same time in his homeland he was forgotten for many decades, and his first exhibitions in the USSR took place only in the late 1980s. But today he is one of the most demanded and highly appreciated authors on the Russian art market, his works, both pictorial and graphic, are sold for hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars. The artist was extremely hard-working, he believed that he could handle any topic, any order.

Probably the best known are his cycles "Race" and "Faces of Russia" - very close in spirit and differing only in that the first was created before emigration, and the second was already in Paris. In these cycles, we see a gallery of types ("faces") of the Russian peasantry - old men, women, children gaze gloomily at the viewer, they attract the eye and at the same time push him away. Grigoriev was by no means inclined to idealize or embellish those whom he wrote, on the contrary, sometimes he brings the images to the grotesque. One of the "faces", executed in gouache and watercolors on paper, became the most expensive graphic work of Boris Grigoriev: in November 2009, at Sotheby's auction, they paid $ 986,500 for it.

And, finally, the tenth author in our list of the most expensive works of Russian graphics - Konstantin Somov. The son of the curator of the Hermitage's collections and a musician, a love for art and everything beautiful was instilled from childhood, having studied at the Academy of Arts with Repin, Somov soon found himself in the World of Art society, which promoted the cult of beauty close to him. Especially this craving for decorativeness and "prettiness" manifested itself in his numerous drawings based on the images of the gallant era, the interest in which was observed in the work of other world artists (Lancer, Benois). "Somovskie" marquises and gallant gentlemen on secret dates, scenes of social receptions and masquerades with harlequins and ladies in wigs refer to the aesthetics of Baroque and Rococo.

Prices for Somov's works on the art market began to grow at a phenomenal and not always understandable pace since 2006, some of his paintings exceeded estimates by 5, or even 13 times. His painting costs millions of pounds. As for the graphics, here Somov's best result so far is 620,727 dollars - this is just one of the drawings of the "gallant" series "Masquerade".

On April 22, 2010 at Sotheby’s in New York, 86 works - paintings and drawings - by almost two dozen authors were sold as a single lot number 349. This sale, by the way, introduces confusion into the auction statistics of those artists whose works were included in this lot. Yes, the collection is very valuable in itself, it has a long, complex and tragic history, and, on the one hand, it is good that the collection fell into the same hands. But, on the other hand, if someday the owner decides to sell individual works, then for most authors no price level simply does not exist. After the deafening "artillery preparation" that preceded the sale of the collection, it could have appeared, but no, and if resold it would work in a huge minus.

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Graphics is the most ancient type of visual art. The first graphic works are considered to be rock paintings of a primitive man, reflecting his view of the world around him. The papyrus books of the ancient Egyptians contained graphic symbols (hieroglyphs) and illustrations. From ancient times, wonderful examples of graphics in the form of paintings on vases and ceramic vessels have come down to us.

For a long time, only writing and calligraphy were considered graphics. In the Middle Ages, book graphics became widespread: handwritten books were decorated with magnificent drawings and miniatures, and the creation of fonts turned into a hotel area of ​​art.

Outstanding graphic artists and their notable works

The greatest master of the Western European Renaissance, Albrecht Durer, is one of the founders of engraving. His most famous copper works are The Knight, Death and the Devil (1513), St. Jerome in his cell "and" Melancholy "(1514).

The great Italian artist and scientist of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, was an inimitable draftsman. His vast graphic heritage includes: preparatory drawings for paintings, images of animals and plants, illustrations for technical developments, drawings for treatises.

Technique and types of graphics

Drawing is the basis of all types of graphic art. Typically, a graphic is drawn on a piece of paper that plays the role of space. To create his works, the artist can use a whole arsenal of tools: pencil, ballpoint pen, charcoal, ink, ink, sanguine (red-brown pencils made of kaolin and iron oxides), colored chalk, sauce (one of the varieties of pastels), watercolor, gouache.

The main instrument of European drawing during the late Gothic and Renaissance eras was the pen. At the end of the 17th century, they began to use graphite pencils to create drawings, drawings, sketches. In graphics, canvas is practically not used, since watercolors and gouache do not fit well on it. Color in graphic images is used much less than in paintings. The main graphic means of graphics are line, spot, chiaroscuro, stroke and point.

Graphics have the same wide variety of genres as painting. But here the genre of portrait and landscape is more common, to a lesser extent - still life, historical, everyday and others. Graphics are traditionally divided into monumental (poster, wall graphics), easel (drawing and printmaking), book (illustrations, postcards), as well as computer graphics, which, however, stands aside, since it does not use traditional materials.

Graphic art is distinguished by a wide variety of techniques that the artist uses in pure form or in various combinations. There are two types of graphics by technique: drawing and printed graphics (printmaking). The drawing is created only in a single copy. In ancient times, artists used papyrus, parchment, and from the 14th century they began to draw on paper.

On the contrary, printed graphics exist in many copies. For replication, an engraving is used - a drawing on a solid material, which is covered with paint, and then printed on a sheet of paper. Depending on the material, different types and techniques of engraving are distinguished: woodcut (woodcut), linocut (drawing carved on linoleum), etching (metal engraving), lithography (stone engraving). With the advent of engraving, the printed book appeared and book graphics began to develop. Today, the development of graphics does not stop, new genres and techniques are emerging, but, as in ancient times, graphics remain an important component of the visual arts in our life.

Graphics is a kind of fine art.

The term "graphics" comes from the Greek word "grapho" - I write. The main visual aids of graphics are line, stroke, spot and point. The main color is black, although other colors can be used as an aid.

M. Vrubel. Illustration for the tragedy of A.S. Pushkin "Mozart and Salieri"
The background of the paper in graphics plays the role of space, which is important for a graphic drawing.
Graphics, in spite of the more stingy language in comparison with painting, is distinguished by its great possibilities of depicting and conveying emotions. One has only to remember the drawings of the young artist Nadya Rusheva. They fascinate with their lightness, precision and depth of images. You can read about this artist.

N. Rusheva "Pushkin and Pushchin"
Many famous artists used the possibilities of graphics: Bilibin, Bruegel, Van Gogh, Watteau, Vrubel, Goya, Quarenga, Leonardo da Vinci, Alphonse Mucha, Rembrandt, Titian, Somov, Hokusai, etc.

F. Tolstoy "To the game of Cupid" Tinted paper, pencil, sepia, whitewash

The genres of graphics are basically the same as the genres of painting. But here the portrait genre and landscape are more common, and to a lesser extent - the historical, everyday and other genres.

M. Demidov "Portrait of S. Rachmaninoff"

V. Favorsky "Mikhail Kutuzov" (1945). From the series "Great Russian Generals"

V. Favorsky "Pushkin Lyceum" (1935)

The landscape in the graphic drawing "does not play" with colors, but surprises with the subtlety of feelings and stimulates the imagination.

S. Nikireev "Dandelions"

Graphic works of world famous artists

Graphic art is diverse and attracts artists with the ability to convey feelings and thoughts using only a pencil or felt-tip pen. This opportunity captivates not only the graphic artist creating the work of art, but also the viewer.

A. Durer "Self-portrait" (1500). Alte Pinakothek (Munich)
Largest European artist Albrecht Durer(1471-1528), left a great legacy of drawings - about a thousand: landscapes, portraits, sketches of people, animals and plants. This artist was most fully revealed precisely in the graphic drawing, tk. in paintings, he was not always free from the arbitrariness of customers.
Dürer constantly practiced in arrangement, generalization, construction of space. His animalistic and botanical drawings are distinguished by high skill of execution and observation. Most of his drawings are meticulously detailed. In his prints and paintings, he repeatedly repeated the motives of graphic works.

A. Durer "Praying Hands" (about 1508)

Katsushika Hokusai "Self-portrait"
Katsushika Hokusai(1760-1849) - the great Japanese artist ukiyo-e (images of the changing world), illustrator, engraver. He is the author of many graphic drawings and engravings.

Katsushika Hokusai The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1823-1831)

Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky(1886-1964) - Russian and Soviet graphic artist, master of portrait, woodcut and book graphics, art critic, set designer, monumental painter, teacher and theorist of fine arts, professor.

Known for his cycles of graphics and engraving, as well as illustrations for the works of A.S. Pushkin, to "The Lay of Igor's Campaign", translations of Marshak, stories of Prishvin and Tolstoy, etc.
In his plastic vision, Favorsky is close to the Byzantine mosaicists, to Michelangelo, Vrubel.

V. Favorsky. Illustration for "Little Tragedies" by A.S. Pushkin
Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519). "Universal Man": Italian artist and scientist, inventor, writer, musician, one of the largest representatives of the art of the High Renaissance.

Alleged Self-Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
The artist constantly recorded the results of his observations of the world around him in sketches, sketches performed in various techniques (Italian pencil, silver pencil, sanguine, pen, etc.), achieved sharpness in the transfer of facial expressions, physical features and movements of the human body, bringing everything to ideal matching the spiritual atmosphere of your composition.

Leonardo da Vinci. Sketch of the head of a young girl (Angel's head for the painting "Madonna of the Rocks")

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (1490). Academy of Venice Gallery (Italy)
This drawing was created to determine the proportions of the (male) human body, as described in the treatise on architecture by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius.
Vitruvian Man- the figure of a naked man in two superimposed positions: with arms and legs spread apart, inscribed in a circle; with arms outstretched and legs brought together, inscribed in a square. The drawing and explanations for it are sometimes called "canonical proportions".
The drawing was made with a pen, ink and watercolors using a metal pencil, the dimensions of the drawing are 34.3 × 24.5 centimeters.
Drawing is both a scientific work and a work of art, it exemplifies Leonardo's interest in proportion.

Caricature

A specific graphic genre is caricature (satirical drawing, caricature).
Caricature is one of the oldest types of drawing. It reflects the problems of society and from early times served as a certain method of self-affirmation over the offender. So they mocked the enemies, so the people mocked their rulers or enslavers. Usually it was a drawing with gross distortions of the offenders' features or with horns, a tail, etc. drawn on. The origin of caricature in Russia took place in the 17th century. with folk popular prints.
Caricature in a satirical or humorous form and currently depicts any social, socio-political, everyday phenomena, real faces or characteristic types of people.
A modern caricature is a satirical or humorous drawing, an iso-anecdote. By subject matter, political cartoons, social, everyday, etc. are distinguished. The genre of cartoons is developing all over the world.

Capitalism through the eyes of Herluf Bidstrup, Danish cartoonist ((1912-1988)
Famous Russian cartoonists: Cheremnykh, Rotov, Semyonov, Brodaty, Deni, Kukryniksy, Efimov.

Kukryniksy (from left to right: Porfiry Krylov, Mikhail Kupriyanov, Nikolay Sokolov)

Kukryniksy caricature
Cartoon(fr. charge) - a kind of caricature; a satirical or good-natured humorous image (usually a portrait), in which the external resemblance is observed, but the most characteristic features of the model are highlighted. Caricatures can depict people, animals and various objects. Unlike caricatures, cartoons do not ridicule the hero's shortcomings, they are good-natured, make people smile, but not laugh at the depicted ones.

Cartoon on Maxim Galkin
Another type of caricature is the grotesque.
Grotesque(fr. grotesque, literally - "bizarre", "comic" - a kind of artistic activity, comically or tragicomically generalizing and sharpening a life plot through a combination of the real and the fantastic. Grotesque is also inherent in other types of art: literature, painting, music. In fact, grotesque is inherent in a certain artistic thinking, it is a kind of gift. Aristophanes, F. Rabelais, E. T. A. Hoffman, N. V. Gogol, M. Twain, F. Kafka, M. A. Bulgakov, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote in the genre of grotesque.But in this article we only consider the grotesque in the visual arts.

Lyrical grotesque

"Pictures of the graphic"

Graphics is a type of visual art that uses lines, strokes, spots and dots as the main visual means.
Pictures of the graphic. Color can also be used in graphics, but, unlike painting, it plays a supporting role here.

Pictures of the graphic. When drawing with graphics, no more than one color is usually used (except for the main black), in rare cases - two). In addition to the contour line in graphic art, a stroke and a spot are widely used, also contrasting with the white (and in other cases also colored, black, or less often textured) surface of the paper - the main basis for graphic works. By combining the same tools, tonal nuances can be created. The most common distinguishing feature of graphics is the special relation of the depicted object to space, the role of which is largely played by the background of the paper (in the words of the Soviet graphic artist V. A. Favorsky, “the air of a white sheet”).

Pictures of the graphic. The most ancient and traditional form of graphic art is drawing, the origins of which can be seen in primitive rock paintings and in antique vase painting, where the basis of the image is a line and a silhouette. In the tasks of drawing, there is a lot in common with painting, and the boundaries between them are mobile and largely arbitrary: watercolors, gouache, pastels and tempera can be used both to create works that are both graphic and pictorial in style and nature.

Pictures of the graphic. Graphic art includes both drawing itself and printed works of art (engraving, lithography, etc.), based on the art of drawing, but having their own visual means and expressive capabilities.
Pictures of the graphic. In graphics, along with completed compositions, natural sketches, sketches for works of painting, sculpture, architecture (drawings by Michelangelo, L. Bernini in Italy, O. Rodin in France, Rembrandt in Holland, V.I. Bazhenov in Russia) have independent artistic value. ... Not possessing such a volume of completeness of possibilities as painting, in creating a spatial illusion of the real world, graphics with great freedom and flexibility vary the degree of spatiality and flatness; for graphic works, the thoroughness of the volumetric-spatial construction, the thoroughness of the development of the finest elements of texture and the identification of the structure of the object may be characteristic.

The heritage of graphic art is diverse. It is noted for the works of such world famous artists as Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Gustave Dore (1832-1883), Japanese artists Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) and the engraver and draftsman Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849), whose work had a significant impact on European art of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

The most famous contemporary graphic artist is the Dutch artist Maurice Escher, who was one of the first to depict fractals and became famous after the publication of the book "Grafiek en Tekeningen", in which he himself commented on 76 of his best works.
So, we've looked at the historical roots of graphic arts and modern graphics.
Graphic art can be an independent section of the fine arts.
Pictures of the graphic, gave the basis and development of such wonderful types of fine arts as.

Pictures of the graphic. Graphic drawing. This is a complete art. Graphics has a long and rich history. Painting graphics is an ancient form of art. Graphic art is our present day. The graphic artist is respected and loved.

Many are addicted to graphics. Collect graphic drawings. The painting graphics are interesting and captivating.
Contemporary decorative art also cannot be imagined without graphics and graphic images. Sketches, sketches, drawings allow the artist to think in an interesting and original way. Pictures, graphics and drawing are the basis of the creativity of any professional master.
Graphics, drawing, graphic image, graphic drawing can be performed on the basis of various materials. Graphics on paper. Graphics on a tree. Graphics on metal. Graphics on fabric. Graphics on glass. Graphics in the sand.

The skilful graphic image captures and captivates the viewer no worse than multi-colored paintings painted in oils or watercolors.
Pictures of the graphic. The graphics are beautiful on their own. The graphics are interesting. The graphics are captivating. Graphic drawings of such masters as Michelangelo are considered priceless works of drawing art, graphic art.

Pictures of the graphic. Modern graphics.
Modern graphics have their own masters. Many specialize in graphic design and have been doing graphics all their lives.
Modern graphics has both its fans and its connoisseurs. Graphic drawings are readily purchased by many amateurs and collectors. Graphic work can also be very expensive. Graphic art is not cheap and not an outcast in art. Graphic paintings are their own wonderful world in the visual arts.

Pictures of the graphic. Modern graphics. Our gallery features a huge variety of graphic works. There are graphic works for every taste. Take a closer look at our graphic works. Graphics are a good magic fairy of modern art, but graphics are beautiful in and of themselves. A good graphic drawing or graphic composition can decorate any interior with its wonderful aura. Painting graphics is great!
Graphics won over not only artists. The graphic arts became a muse for the masters of modern poetry.
Graphics of a verse is a special way of writing a poetic text in its difference from a prosaic one.

“She began to kiss him all smeared with marmalade and on the tail and mane
and into the window of the Eliseevsky grocery store and into the Macintosh computer
And he deliberately substituted her one or the other (Lanita) floppy disk
while not forgetting to kiss her in every Kokhinor pencil. "

In modern poetry, there are many terms from the root word - "Pictures of graphics". For example: special poetry graphics, special poetry graphics, specific poetry graphics.
Graphics. Graphics permeates and permeates our entire life. They love graphics. They admire the graphics. They are fond of graphics. Some people are sick with graphics.
The most popular and well-known type of graphics is drawing. Any artist starts with graphics and graphic works.
Graphics. Paper. Pencil. What else is needed. Creativity, of course. Inspiration, of course.

"I take a pencil, graphite with the letter" T "
I begin to draw feelings.
And with a trembling hand on a white sheet
I destroy the laws of art. "

Pictures of the graphic. Graphics permeates and permeates our entire life. They love graphics. They admire the graphics. They are fond of graphics. Many are ill with graphics.

“With a sharp point I tear the paper to the holes
And the strokes don't rain.
Elixir drunk from the soul by death
Comes back gritting under the teeth. "

“Tough graphics! Torn to shreds - paper!
My fingers are already starting to go numb.
The unbelieving mongrel in his abandonment,
Suddenly capable of dying from melancholy. "

Pictures of the graphic. Graphic art decorates our lives. They love graphics. They admire the graphics. They are fond of graphics. Many are ill with graphics.

“Pain, guilt, regret, resentment, hopelessness,
Hope, anger, sinfulness, longing ...
And love, which did not take the given of freedom,
Unforgiveness, circling at the temple ... "

Graphics. Graphic art decorates our lives. They love graphics. They admire the graphics. They are fond of graphics. Many people see their happiness in the schedule.

“What happened? Not finished yet.
From the eclecticism of feelings turned out to be a daub.
I would burn these interweaving lines,
Reviving the Phoenix from the fire ... "

Graphics. Modern graphics.
Modern graphics have their own masters. Many artists specialize in graphic design and have been doing graphics all their lives.
Modern graphics have their fans and connoisseurs. Graphic drawings are readily purchased by many amateurs and collectors. Graphic work can also be very expensive. Graphic art is not cheap and not an outcast in art. Graphic art is its own wonderful world in the visual arts!

Pictures graphics! Modern graphics! Our gallery features a huge variety of graphic works by artists. There are graphic works for every taste. Take a closer look at our graphic works. Graphic art is a kind of magic fairy of modern art, but graphics are beautiful in and of themselves. A good graphic drawing or graphic composition can decorate any interior with its wonderful aura!
Pictures graphics! Painting graphics is great!

• Drawings by classic artists Dear users, you can download some of the artists' graphics in the rar archives. Large images. Update in the section "Graphics history".
• vk.com/site. Representation of the site "Graphics" in contact. There are many tutorial videos for artists in the community. New albums of classic graphics are constantly being added.

Works of the artists of the site "Graphic".

Graphics- on the one hand - an art form, on the other - an activity that is accessible to everyone, and all people from a young age are engaged in it. To create a graphic drawing, you only need to have a sheet of paper and a drawing material - a pencil or paint. That is, on the one hand, the schedule is publicly available.

But on the other hand, it is a complex art form that needs to be trained in the same way as painting or sculpture. This is the difficulty and simplicity of graphics. Everyone can draw, but only a few can become masters.
Graphics are divided into two types: printed (print) intended for replication; and unique, implying the creation of works in a single copy.

The most common distinguishing feature of graphics is the special attitude of the depicted object to space, the role of which is largely played by the background of the paper, “the air of a white sheet,” as the Soviet graphic artist VA Favorsky put it. A spatial sensation is created not only by areas of the sheet not occupied by the image, but often (for example, in watercolor drawings) and the background of the paper that appears under the paint layer.

We bring to your attention the section: Library for Artists.
In the "Library" you can download books on art, anatomy, art history, drawing lessons and painting for home study.

And also 100 issues of the magazine "Art Gallery" in djvu format.