Whenever you start drawing, you discover that everything has already been drawn by someone. And masterfully.

Rembrandt wrote ‘Portrait of a Brother’s Wife’ long before Annenkov wrote ‘Portrait of an Old Woman’.

In 1617, Robert Flad (a doctor, astrologer, mystic from the UK, author of an engraving on the creation of the world) created the engraving “Darkness”, in the form of a black square. In 1843 Bertal (cartoonist, author of illustrations, France, real name D.Arnu Charles Albert) wrote a work “View on La Hoge under the cover of night”, doing, practically, the same. In 1854, Gustave Dore (engraver, cartoonist, France), similarly depicted “The Murky History of Russia”. In 1882, Paul Bille (playwright, France) named a similar painting “The Battle of the Negroes in the Cave of the Deep Night”. This joke and only job brought him fame. In 1915, the “Black Suprematist Square” by Casimir Malevich was exhibited, in which, true, elements of the joke are absent. And there are many examples of this, but they do not diminish the talent of each master.

Personally, I am more interested in the artists themselves.

For this reason, some of the works presented on the site contain references to past masters whose ideas they repeat (contain) directly or indirectly. And, practically, to every such work there is a pencil drawing “In the guest of artists”.