Gallery of digital paintings based on famous artists

The paintings placed in this were created in the same way as in the previous section. Under them is my signature, as they differ significantly from the originals, which are also given here for comparison. Next to my signature is the name of the artist who created the original painting. Currently, this section presents paintings based on the motives of Russian avant-garde artists Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Ivan Klyun, American artist Mark Rothko, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and Israeli artist Yakov Agama. ‎

The original paintings by the artists are on the left sideand my works are on the right.‎

Brief biographies of these artists are also provided for the information of site visitors. More detailed information about them can be found online.

He chose to become an artist relatively late - at the age of 30. In many ways, this happened under the influence of the exhibition of the Impressionists, held in Moscow in 1896.

In 1896, he refused the position of Privatdozent offered by Dorpat University and left for Munich to study art. Since 1897, he studied painting in a private studio, but two years spent there did not bring him satisfaction. There, Kandinsky also did not succeed too much and his talent did not shine with at all.‎

In 1898 he participated in exhibitions of the Odessa Association of South Russian Artists. In 1900 he entered the Munich Academy of Arts. In 1901, he created the Falanga Art Association, organized a school under it, where he himself taught. In 1910 and 1912 he also participated in exhibitions of the art association "Jack of Diamonds". During these years, he developed an innovative concept of the "rhythmic" use of color in painting.

In 1911 he wrote the famous treatise "On the Spiritual in Art", moving from figurative painting to pure abstraction. ‎

After the revolution of 1917, he was actively involved in social work: he participated in the organization of the protection of monuments, the creation of the Museum of Visual Arts and the Russian Academy of Art Sciences (RAHN). In December 1921 he left to organize a branch of the Russian Academy of Arts in Berlin. There, he participated in the First Exhibition of Russian Art in Germany. In Berlin, he began teaching painting, and from the summer of 1922 he worked at the Bauhaus, becoming a prominent theorist of the school.

In the interwar period, he received worldwide recognition as one of the leaders in abstract art. In 1928, the artist took German citizenship, but when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and closed the Bauhaus, he emigrated to Paris. In 1939 he took French citizenship. He died on December 13, 1944 in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was buried in Neuilly's New Cemetery, near Paris.‎

From 1946 to 1961, on the initiative of the artist's widow, the Kandinsky Prize was awarded in Paris (in the Russian Federation, it was revived in 2007 as an annual national award in the field of contemporary art). In 1976, Nina Kandinsky published a book of memoirs "Kandinsky and I". She bequeathed many of the artist's works to the Pompidou Center in Paris. In 2017-2020 at international auctions, paintings by Kandinsky were sold at a price of tens of millions of dollars.‎

Parents saw their son's talent and supported his desire to go to art school. In 1895 the family returned to Kyiv. It was there that Kazimir Malevich went to study at the Art School. His teacher, the famous artist Pimonenko, considered him as one of the most talented students. But in 1896 another move took place: this time to Kursk. When moving to Kursk, Kazimir, as the eldest son, who was already 18, decided to go to work. He used his talent for drawing on the railway, where he worked as a draftsman. Soon he fell in love, and in 1899 he married a Polish woman, Kazimira Zgleits.

Despite all the family and work affairs, Kazimir Malevich did not give up his dream of becoming an artist. From 1905 he made two attempts to enter the Moscow Art School, but did not pass the selection. He returned to Kursk again to the railroad, but in 1907 Kasimir's mother opened her own restaurant in Moscow. This is how the Malevich family decided to move there.‎

Because of his constant unsuccessful attempts to enter the Art School conflicts began within the Malevich family. Soon, his wife left him, leaving two children. Since 1908, the process of divorce began. Malevich needed to formalize the divorce in order to marry the new woman in his life. In 1909 he married again - to Sofia Rafalovich. With his new wife, he settled in Nemchinovka, her father's estate, in the Moscow province.

After his personal life stabilized in 1909, Malevich increasingly began to attend various creative circles. From 1911 he participated in exhibitions and also worked as an illustrator in magazines. Later, he also worked as a decorator in the theater, and also illustrated books and textbooks. One day, leaving work, he saw a boy with a huge black backpack that completely hid the owner. It was so huge, but at the same time it had the perfect square shape. Thus, Malevich had the idea for his most famous painting. Malevich "Black Square" painted in 1915 and exhibited it for the first time in St. Petersburg (Petrograd). In 1917, Casimir was included in the Union of Painters of Moscow, although he never received a professional art education.

In 1919, Malevich moved to Vitebsk, where he began working with Marc Chagall to create a new revolutionary, avant-garde art. In 1923, the artist went to Petrograd, where he headed the Art Museum, where he was engaged in research, as well as pedagogical work. In 1927 he moved to Kyiv.
At that time, Ukrainization was going on in Ukraine, and since the beginning of the 1920s, Malevich's questionnaires increasingly often indicate «Ukrainian» in the nationality column. In Ukraine, Malevich actively collaborated with local artists, taught at the institute, organized exhibitions, including foreign ones. ‎

With the aggravation of the political situation in the USSR, repressions also affected Malevich. In 1930 he was arrested in Kyiv, as he was a non-partisan. It was also against the artist that he had Polish roots, and at that time the Stalinist authorities were looking everywhere for the «Polish conspiracy», «Pilsudski's supporters». But due to the patronage of many famous people, already at the end of 1930, Malevich was released.

Since 1933, serious health problems began: prostate cancer. The artist died in 1935, the body was cremated, and the ashes were buried in the family estate in Nemchinovka. ‎Kazimir Malevich is a revolutionary in Russian and world art. His «Black Square», painted in 1915, is criticized and misunderstood by many, but for more than a hundred years it has remained a masterpiece of the world art.

From 1903 to 1907 he studied at the Art School of F.I. Rerberg, where he met Kazimir Malevich. It was then that the friendship between Malevich and Klyun blossomed. In 1911, Klyun was one of the founders of the "Moscow Salon" and a participant in the society's exhibitions. Since 1912, Klyun has been a participant in all avant-garde exhibitions. He began to sign his paintings with the pseudonym "I. Klyun."‎

In 1915 he participated in the First Futurist Exhibition. Following Malevich, he worked in the style of cubo-futurism, but he tried to invent his own version of the style, in which he succeeded brilliantly. In 1916-1917 he made several dozen Suprematist compositions. ‎

After the revolution, Klyun was actively involved in public artistic life and participated in the preparation of city of Moscow for the new holidays. In 1921 he begins teaching and leads the course «Discipline of color». Concurrently, he is in charge of a ceramic workshop. In 1919, he participated in the state exhibitions «Non-objective creativity and Suprematism» in Moscow, where he exhibited sixty-two works under the general title «The Art of Color», including Suprematist paintings and graphics, as well as non-objective sculptures.

In 1921 he was elected a corresponding member of the State Academy of Artistic Sciences, joined the «World of Art» society, and in 1922 he took part in the First Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin. In the early 1920s, Kliun moved away from Suprematism and created spherical compositions, in which geometry was replaced by a smooth flow of forms. His job as an accountant continues to be combined with his analytical work on color and form.

In the mid-1920s, he created his own style, which he called "constructive realism", continued to work in it until the mid-1930s and exhibited his works according to the "light-color principle". He participated in the exhibition of the society "4 Arts" (1926) and exhibits the non-objective design "Electrification" at the second exhibition of the society (for which he is severely criticized). In 1928, a theoretical article by Kliun "Cubism as a pictorial method" was published. In 1928-1930 he designed and illustrated a number of issues of "Unpublished Khlebnikov". He continued his research in the field of art theory. He took part ‎in the exhibitions "Artists of the Russia Federation for 15 years".‎

Presented at exhibitions in 1933–1934 Klün's work has been heavily criticized for being formalistic. At the debate "On realism and naturalism in art" in 1934, he announced his transition to the position of socialist realism. However, he does not work in this style; on the contrary, his work of the 1930s clearly reflects the influence of surrealism.

Mark Rothko moved to the USA with his father in 1913. The decision to move was made by his father - he was afraid that his son would be taken into the tsarist army. A little later, Marcus' mother and sister moved as well. The family was reunited, but the unity did not last long - a few months later, Marcus' father died of cancer. This blow undoubtedly influenced the sensitive nature of the future artist, which was reflected in his works. ‎

Studying at school was easy for Marcus - the intellectual preparation that his father provided helped him. After graduating from school with honors, he received a grant to Yale University. Enrolling there in 1921, the future artist studied natural and exact sciences, philosophy, economics and sociology. A year later, the grant money received ran out - and with this, countless ordeals of the student began. This period, however, did not last long - in 1923 Markus dropped out of school. ‎

Visiting his friend at the Artists' League of New York, Rothko found him creating a painting from nature. For Marcus, this was the impetus - this is how his formation as an artist began. The young Rotkovich painted pictures in different styles, first in a realistic spirit, a little later (in the 40s of the last century) in the style of European surrealism. Many of his paintings were inspired by ancient myths.

In 1940, Markus Rotkovich, fearing the anti-Semitic sentiments that prevailed at that time, played it safe and changed his name to a shorter one - Mark Rothko. The year 1947 became a landmark in the fate of the artist - he found his own style. Rothko completely abandoned the depiction of the details of the surrounding life "as is" and began to create in the style of abstract expressionism. In the 1950s and 60s, Mark Rothko decorated famous buildings. In 1961, the artist's personal exhibition was organized by the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 1964, Rothko completely abandoned natural lighting in his studio, and since then, paintings with depressing shades have come out from under his brush - gray, purple, brown. Rothko married twice: first, to jewelry designer Edith Sachar, and later, to middle-class Protestant Mary Alice Beistle, who was 19 years younger than him. From two marriages, the artist had two children - a daughter and a son. ‎

Mark Rothko was subject to depression and, alas, could not overcome it. On February 25, 1970, his assistant, having come to the gloomy studio of the artist, found Rothko dead - Mark cut his wrists. The artist was buried at East Marion Cemetery in New York State. ‎

One of Rothko's most famous paintings is Orange, Red, Yellow (above in the top row is a photo of this painting)‎. The artist created it ten years before his death - during his heyday. The painting made its way through several galleries in the New and Old Worlds, and in May 2012 it was sold at Christie's auction for a gigantic sum of $86.9 million. Critics are still arguing how reasonable and fair this price was. The fate of Mark Rothko leaves no one indifferent - and the stronger is the interest in the paintings, executed in an abstract style.

Among them are the kinetic composition A Thousand Gates in the Garden of the Presidential Palace in Jerusalem (1972) and a huge musical fountain in the Parisian quarter of La Defense (1975).

His work is exhibited in major cities around the world: New York, Miami, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Paris and Chicago, as well as at the White House in Washington. And in Israel - in the residence of the President, as well as in the Israel Museum and in the Tel Aviv Museum.‎

Yakov Agam is one of the founders of the school of kinetic art, a figure of world significance, who created a unique and completely new language in the visual arts.

He created a Museum dedicated entirely to his work in Rishon Lezion in 2020. His ‎relief, fan-shaped canvases allow the viewer to constantly discover something for themselves when changing the viewing angle of these works.

At the age of 19, she entered the Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts to study the traditional Japanese style of painting. There she studied for a year, and then became interested in experiments with abstraction. At that time, abstract art was gaining momentum in New York. Yayoi strove for recognition and at the age of 19 (in 1958) moved to the United States. A year after the move, she held her first solo exhibitions in New York, at the Brata Gallery, and in Boston, at the Nova Gallery. At both exhibitions, she made her debut with a series of paintings that would later become known as "Endless Networks". Critics praised these works and gave ‎positive reviews of Yayoi Kusama's work in numerous publications.‎

Yayoi Kusama lived in New York from 1958 to 1973. In America, she was successful, but in the 1970s, the artist was forced to return to Japan to deal with mental health problems.‎ After her return, Yayoi remained relatively unknown for a long time. Only in 1993, 20 years after returning to her homeland, she was again seen in public at the opening of the Venice Biennale. Her project, a dazzling mirrored room filled with pumpkin sculptures that looks like an elaborate pumpkin patch, was a huge success. In 1994, at the age of 65, Yayoi created a massive pumpkin installation consisting of a huge yellow sculpture with black dot patterns, which was installed on the Japanese island of Naoshima.

Despite the fact that the artist suffers from mental disorders and voluntarily lives in a ‎psychiatric clinic in Japan, this does not prevent her from continuing to work and collaborate with well-known brands. Yayoi Kusama collaborates with fashion houses and design companies, creating unique, recognizable and very expensive pieces for them. In 2012, the artist covered a collection for Louis Vuitton with bright polka dots - dresses and tops, bags and glasses, shoes and scarves. In 2017, she opened the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Shinjuku, Tokyo. ‎