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The high art of scams: 9 of the loudest scandals about fakes of world masterpieces

07-11-2024

The high art of scams: 9 of the loudest scandals about fakes ...

Perhaps, there is no masterpiece in art that they would not try to repeat. Legendary works have been forged at all times. Some — ...

"Sir" and "mister" - what is the difference and why these words should not be confused

07-11-2024

"Sir" and "mister" - what is the difference and why these ...

Surely you've heard how in movies people are politely addressed using the words "sir" and "mister"? And although these words have a ...

20 trends from zero, which are nice to say goodbye to

07-11-2024

20 trends from zero, which are nice to say goodbye to

In the summer of 2002, Avril Lavigne released a video for the song Sk8er Boi, and all teenage girls around the world started ...

How King Minos insulted the gods, and they forced his wife to give birth to a Minotaur bull

06-11-2024

How King Minos insulted the gods, and they forced his wife to ...

Greek mythology is full of sex, cruelty and incredible intricacies of plots. In addition to promiscuous sexual relations, there is ...

20 cases when people regretted a tattoo very much

06-11-2024

20 cases when people regretted a tattoo very much

Sometimes you see a tattoo on a person and think: "Why did he do it at all?". A familiar feeling? If you have never experienced it, ...

What modern people would take with them to the "afterlife"

06-11-2024

What modern people would take with them to the "afterlife"

Funerary implements in archaeology and anthropology are objects that were buried with the body, and researchers have learned quite ...

Wandering of a lonely astronaut on the wreckage of civilization

06-11-2024

Wandering of a lonely astronaut on the wreckage of civilization

Scott Listfield is an American artist known for his paintings in the genre of pop surrealism. His melancholic canvases depict a ...

How Fyre Festival became the worst music festival in history

06-11-2024

How Fyre Festival became the worst music festival in history

Tickets to the Fyre Festival music festival cost several thousand dollars. The event promised to be grandiose, but something went ...

Style and swing: what the participants of the Monterey Jazz Festival looked like in 1969

06-11-2024

Style and swing: what the participants of the Monterey Jazz ...

The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It was founded on ...

The project "People matching artworks" Austrian photographer Stefan Dragana

05-11-2024

The project "People matching artworks" Austrian photographer ...

Stefan Dragan hunting for interesting shots in a Museum as street photographers on the streets, turning their observations in ...

Amazing actress Sarah Bernhardt, who loved both female and male roles

05-11-2024

Amazing actress Sarah Bernhardt, who loved both female and ...

Divine Sarah — that's how the public called one of the most famous actresses of the late XIX — early XX century Sarah ...

23 photos of items from the past that will have you feeling nostalgic

05-11-2024

23 photos of items from the past that will have you feeling ...

They say that the past is always necessary to leave in the past. But sometimes you want to remember how it all happened, to plunge, ...

Scandalous erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt

04-11-2024

Scandalous erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862. He was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most famous participants of the Vienna ...

15 of the strangest paintings sold for a lot of money

04-11-2024

15 of the strangest paintings sold for a lot of money

Kazimir Malevich said that he wrote the "Black Square" while under the influence of "cosmic consciousness". We do not know what the ...

"An oak tree was cut down near Lukomorye": dark fantasy art

04-11-2024

"An oak tree was cut down near Lukomorye": dark fantasy art

Usually we present Pushkin's eternal classic "Ruslan and Lyudmila" in a very positive form — beautiful fairy-tale illustrations, ...

Polaroid erotica by Kirsten Thies van den Oudenaarde

03-11-2024

Polaroid erotica by Kirsten Thies van den Oudenaarde

Today, a professional photographer is associated by everyone with a fabulously expensive SLR camera. Photographer from Belgium ...

Lay beautifully wood — art

03-11-2024

Lay beautifully wood — art

Is it possible to laying wood to name a form of art? Turns out you can. Because in the world there are such people, which gently ...

Hot babes illustrated by comic master Dave Stevens

03-11-2024

Hot babes illustrated by comic master Dave Stevens

American illustrator Dave Stevens is known primarily as the creator of the cult comic book Rocketeer. More than one generation of ...

"The Curse" by Amadeo Modigliani

03-11-2024

"The Curse" by Amadeo Modigliani

The memory of the Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani is imprinted in his strange nickname Modi (from the French maudit — "damned"), ...

What secret was hidden behind the appearance of the legendary band of the 90s " Enigma»

02-11-2024

What secret was hidden behind the appearance of the legendary ...

Everyone probably knows the music of the band "Enigma". But today, for many, this is just a" hello from the 90s", but a quarter of ...

15 cases, when the star decided to change the image, but something went wrong

02-11-2024

15 cases, when the star decided to change the image, but ...

A bad haircut or wrong hair color — something that can happen to anyone of us. But, it turns out, with similar troubles faced ...

10 popular characters, the original meaning of which few people know

02-11-2024

10 popular characters, the original meaning of which few ...

The characters in this collection know and have seen everything. But not all people know about their origin and meaning. Offer a ...

Hippies and the Summer of Love in California 1967

02-11-2024

Hippies and the Summer of Love in California 1967

Long hair, colored ribbons, peace signs, the smell of marijuana and natural nudity are the hippie culture that swept California in ...

"Naked Truth": an unusual nude from the artist Viktor Lyapkalo

02-11-2024

"Naked Truth": an unusual nude from the artist Viktor Lyapkalo

It is known that most artists celebrate beauty. Even those who consider themselves hyperrealists prefer an ideal female body. But ...

With your own hands: Processed images of the pre-digital era

01-11-2024

With your own hands: Processed images of the pre-digital era

The desire to modify the image obtained with the camera is as old as the photograph itself — only the methods have changed. ...

Simple everyday joys in the paintings of Yakut artist Andrey Chikachev

01-11-2024

Simple everyday joys in the paintings of Yakut artist Andrey ...

Paintings should not only give aesthetic pleasure, but also create a mood. The ability to influence people with art is the secret ...