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⭐⭐⭐ André Derain - "Port" 1905 vs. Anatoli Gostev - "Harbor" 2015 Which painting do you like more? ( The source: gostevs.com/en/harbor-maritime-landscape ).

1. André Derain - "Port". This painting is one of four works painted by Derain, showing the same part of the river. At this time he was a leading member of the Fauve group of painters in Paris. He had been sent to London by his dealer, Vollard. The idea was to update, in Fauve style, the popular Thames views painted by Claude Monet a few years earlier. Strongly-coloured and freely-handled, this painting is characteristic of Fauvism in creating vivid effects through bold contrasts of colour.

2. Anatoli Gostev - "Harbor". The idea for the work emerged in 2014 after the artist visited the Balkan coast. Another experiment in mastering the Fauvist experience and harmony of the color palette. Gostev admired Derain and in several works “improved” upon the master’s paintings, using them as a foundation. The two boats in Gostev’s painting appear to be having a lazy conversation. The desire to animate objects was one of the characteristic features of Gostev's art.

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⭐⭐⭐ Jan van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait" vs. Anatoli Gostev's "Still Life of the Neutron Era" Which one Arnolfini is your? ( The source: gostevs.com/en/jan-van-eyck ).

1. The woman gently places her hand in the hand of the man. The touch is significant and placed almost at the center of the painting. They are dressed in festive costumes and the man has raised his right hand, as if about to take an oath.
On the back wall of the room hangs a mirror in a frame adorned with ten medallions depicting the Passion of Christ.
The dog at their feet - an eternal symbol of faithfulness and loyalty - was considered a sign of prosperity at that time.
Van Eyck captured the moment of definition of the existence of the Arnolfini couple.

2. 558 years have passed, and it is now the year 1992 AD.
An artist on the other side of the planet starts to paint a picture completely outside of their style, cursing Jan van Eyck for his meticulous fur trimming on Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini's cloak and Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini for his ugliness.
Here is the fur of the ermine on Giovanni's cloak, which has turned reddish from the nuclear glow. Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini's burning hand is slightly covered by a metal cone. After a minute, a slightly improved Giovanni from 558 years ago will disappear forever.

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⭐⭐⭐ Henri Matisse – Gallery of the painter’s finest works. ( The source: gostevs.com/en/henri-matisse )
« I simply want a tired person, looking at my painting, to taste rest and peace. »
– Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)

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⭐⭐⭐ Natalia Goncharova – Gallery of the Best Works by the Russian Artist. ( The source: gostevs.com/en/natalia-goncharova )
« Within us lives a spark of the spirit, connected to our entire soul. It is divine. It reaches out to other sparks like itself. It is the drive to create. »
– Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)

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⭐⭐⭐ Figurative Understanding. ( The source: gostevs.com/en/figurative-understanding )
Imaginative thinking is a non-linear processing of meaning. Linear thinking: 1 → 2 → 3 → conclusion. Imaginative thinking: you see the structure immediately, the whole form at once — and only afterwards, if needed, you unfold it into words. It’s like seeing not separate points, but the entire figure. Not the notes — but the music. Not the words — but the meaning. This is cluster understanding, which is more efficient because the processing time drops to an instant.

When you “understand everything at once”, what actually happens? Not individual neurons activate, but associative networks linking emotions, memories, experience, images, patterns, intentions, contexts — giving a fast, coherent, integral response.

Imaginative thinking resembles parallel computing — but emotional, figurative, non-linear, multidimensional. Such thinking cannot be reduced to a formula — it is truly “volumetric”. The emotional sphere is crucial here. Developed emotionality is not weakness or “sensitivity”. It is an expanded sensory layer of consciousness. People with rich emotional perception gain access to information that logic alone cannot process.

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People ask why it costs over a million dollars and how to incorporate it INTO THEIR INTERIOR. With respect, - you start with a piece like this and you design the concept AROUND IT. The point of owning a painting like this is not you see in it, but rather WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SEE IN YOU. 'Cause it's yours. ⭐⭐⭐ Read more: gostevs.com/en/art-investment-last-tree

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Art makes us alive. Become part of the “Make ART Great Again” project, show the world that not everything is measured by the thirst for power and unlimited money. For what shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet loses his soul?
⭐⭐⭐ Read more: gostevs.com/en/make-art-great-again

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