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The creativity of Anish Kapoor will not leave anyone indifferent. The sculptor uses an intuitive language of form and color to create stunning, literally and figuratively, works in the genre of public art and abstractionism. He regularly finds himself in the spotlight of critics, as well as in scandals and curious stories.

Realism is a trend in the fine arts, architecture, and literature, whose representatives proclaimed the desire to faithfully reproduce reality as the main principle of their work. Despite the considerable, by the standards of art history, and age, it still retains its relevance, and its artistic language is used by masters worldwide.

True love for art is impossible without tenderness for the world, plants, and animals. Perhaps that is why among artists, there are so often people with a deep personal connection with our more minor brothers. Purring cats, aggressive dogs, friendly deer, and even eccentric anteaters appear in paintings in the style of animalism. For some artists, they became not only pets but also a kind of totem animals in the image of which the artists see themselves. We have collected the most exciting stories of friendship between our four-legged pets and masters of painting.

Ukrainian-American sculptor Oleksandr Archipenko is considered one of the pioneers of cubism in sculpture. Even during his lifetime, the technical innovations of the master gained recognition and were actively used by other sculptors. He even managed to conquer the emptiness for artistic purposes and make it an essential element of the plastic image. Unfortunately, fate decreed that Arkhipenko had to spend almost all his adult life away from Ukraine. Despite this, he passionately loved his homeland and worried about its future.

Decorative still life is one of the youngest subgenres of painting and graphics. Unlike classical still life, its main task is to depict stylized images of "dead nature," emphasizing shape, color, and texture rather than its ideal copies. The emergence of a new subgenre became possible due to numerous experiments of avant-garde representatives. Despite the simplicity, stylized still lifes managed to win their place in the sun: they can be seen in the portfolio of famous masters and on the walls of contemporary fine art galleries.

Jeff Koons is one of the highest-paid artists of our time. Fans consider him a successor of Andy Warhol's ideas and detractors - a kitschy artisan who turned the basic principles of fine art in favor of commerce. But no matter what, the work of Jeff Koons always attracts the attention of critics and admirers of beauty. It excites, provokes, and causes a lot of vivid emotions. Koons' work is believed to belong to the neo-pop art style.

Oleksandr Murashko was one of the first to foresee the onset of a new era in the history of Ukrainian fine art and took an active part in the cultural life of our people. His active civic position and selfless work in the name of the revival of Ukraine eventually brought him a martyr's crown. Master of painting, mentor, and public figure - this is how world history remembered Murashko of art

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Despite the war, we continue our work with those authors who remained in the country and continue to send their paintings around the world.

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In a large family of styles and trends in the visual arts, primitivism (other names: naive art, naive art) has always stood aside. We can safely assume that it is as ancient as art itself, as well as the very desire to speak the language of artistic forms. The deceptive simplicity of style hides a powerful ideological concept that can reveal the deepest and most sincere aspirations of the human soul. In the era of easel painting, primitivism goes underground, giving way to younger and more ambitious trends. But already in the 19th century, artists found a philosophical justification for naive art, rediscovering it for European art.