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Vincent Van Gogh,
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe,
1889
MOST FAMOUS WORKS
1. Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
2. Starry Night
3. Irises
Vincent Van Gogh is a Dutch artist, and one of the greatest
names of post-impressionism. During his lifetime, he
produced more than 2,100 works including those portraying
life of peasants and moving landscapes. However,
picturesque sunflowers and irises are those that became the
most famous.
Unfortunately, the life of the artist himself was painted
in gloomy tones of absinthe, anxiety and poverty. In
addition to his talent, Van Gogh went down in history for
the notorious episode in which his ear was cut off. It is said
to have occurred during a quarrel between Van Gogh and
Gauguin, another famous post-impressionist artist. In a
rage of insanity caused by the quarrel, Van Gogh cut off his
earlobe, and then put it into an envelope and presented it
to his favorite prostitute named Rochelle. Another version
has it that Gauguin, experienced in fights among sailors,
slashed off Van Gogh's ear in the midst of a quarrel, and
later came up with a story in an attempt to avoid the
blame, that the enraged Vincent had maimed himself.
Following this incident, Van Gogh was confined to a mental
institution where he produced several works, including the
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe. At that time the
artist was only 35 yeas old. The bandaged head is crowned
with his favorite bristling-fur-lined hat, his trademark pipe
in his mouth, a fixed 'one thousand yard' stare, and bright,
strongly contrasting colors add a touch of anxiety to the
picture.
Even though the regulator is persistently adopting new initiatives to limit smoking, they
have not yet reached art. While you cannot see tobacco product advertised on TV or in
magazines, cigarettes and smoking pipes can still be found on pictures by famous artists.
We invite you to "enjoy" tobacco on pictures by Van Gogh, Picasso and other famous masters.
Salvador Dali,
The Sleeping Smoker ,1973
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Salvador Dali is one of the most famous surrealist artists. Author of
many pictures filled with hidden meanings and allegories, director of
several films, owner of an eccentric mustache, and designer of the
Chupa Chups brand logo, Dali has long since been more than an artist,
but rather someone who personifies a global cultural environment.
The Sleeping Smoker has Dali's signature featurein it: reality is
exaggerated, morphing into super-reality; images exist contrary to
common sense, collide and overlap with one another. The theme
of sleep and dream popular with Dali and all surrealists comes into
play. Freud's theory of the existing human subconscious mind was
very popular at that time – a place where all our secret desires and
fears are collected and cannot be controlled by us. But during sleep,
our subconscious mind manifests itself fully in the form of dreams.
Inspired by Freud's ideas, Dali introduced to art an instrument of
"irrational ignorance" – a total description of visions.
"HOW DO YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND MY PICTURES, WHEN I MYSELF AT
THE MOMENT OF PAINTING DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEM EITHER. THE FACT
THAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY OWN PICTURES DOES NOT MEAN THAT
THESE PICTURES HAVE NO MEANING; ON THE CONTRARY, THEIR MEANING
IS SO PROFOUND, COMPLEX, COHERENT, AND INVOLUNTARY THAT IT
ESCAPES THE MOST SIMPLE ANALYSIS OF LOGICAL INTUITION."
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MOST FAMOUS WORKS
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4. Persistence of Memory
5. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around
a Pomegranate One Minute Before Awakening
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