Mustaches for men are something sacred and untouchable. Such beauty grows for a long time and takes care of it even longer. Sometimes men are so proud of facial hair and get used to it that they wear it for years, decades or all their lives. Many actors, directors and singers also did not escape a similar fate.
And since famous people they are almost always in sight, their mustaches become almost a trademark and few people can imagine them without a familiar element on their faces. Let's pretend and see.
Mikhail Boyarsky
Probably, Boyarsky is the most famous mustachioed man in our country. But even with his mustache there were incidents. “Before the filming of the film “D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers”, I long and painfully grew a mustache, but on the very first day, curling them, the make-up artist burned the pride of the musketeer. I had to glue artificial ones until my own grew back, ”Boyarsky said.
He began to grow a mustache at a young age and without them he looked like this.
Another world-famous barbel. True, his mustache is unlikely to make anyone smile.
Stalin grew them out as soon as the opportunity arose, and has never shaved them off since. A general secretary without a mustache can only be seen at a young age.
Igor Nikolaev
Long blond curls and a dark mustache - this is the invariable image of the singer. However, he himself claims that he did not create an image on purpose, but he no longer imagines himself without a mustache. “I think all changes should relate to creativity, what is inside a person. And what grows on the face is already from the field of physiology, ”said Nikolaev.
“Since I grew a mustache, I have shaved it only once, before taking the oath.”
Nikita Mikhalkov
A director without a mustache is not represented not only by the audience, but also by own daughter. Once Nadia Mikhalkova said in an interview: “I would be upset if he shaved them off. Previously, I did not like what pricks when dad kisses. And now I like dad so much that I can’t imagine him without a mustache.”
But the director and actor began his career as a beardless one.
Leonid Yakubovich
The TV presenter has become a kind of brand of the Field of Miracles program, and of the entire First Channel, largely thanks to his mustache. In one of the programs, a participant working as an insurance agent insured Yakubovich's mustache.
Leonid Arkadyevich grew a fashion accessory at a fairly mature age.
Many of the actor is familiar precisely in the stage image with a signature mustache.
But in life, Chaplin did not wear a mustache and looked not at all like a comedian, but like an attractive playboy.
For a long time, many historians believed that the Fuhrer wore a mustache with a brush, following fashion. This myth was dispelled by the writer Alexander Fry, who served with Hitler. Like all other colleagues, Hitler was ordered to trim his mustache, because they could interfere with putting on a gas mask.
Until that moment, the future Fuhrer wore a lush Prussian mustache.
Hitler was completely beardless only in his teens.
Hulk Hogan
The wrestler is the bearer of Fu Manchu's signature mustache, without which it is already impossible to imagine him.
It is not surprising that Hogan decided to grow a mustache: without them, he does not look like an awesome wrestler, but a cute bumpkin.
The genius of mathematics and physics became the prototype of a real professor thanks to his tousled hair and thick mustache.
Einstein never shaved his mustache, so without them you can only see him in childhood photographs.
Queen vocalist most time wore a characteristic mustache.
Sometimes Freddie shaved off his mustache. For example, in the last clip, filmed shortly before his death, he appears without a mustache.
Sacha Baron Cohen
The British actor grew a mustache for the role of the Kazakh journalist Borat, and this is how he remained in the memory of the audience.
Now Cohen goes without a mustache.
Clark Gable
In most films, the American actor starred with a mustache, which definitely gave his image more masculinity.
However, even without the mustache, Gable also appeared on the screens.
The surrealist mustache is perhaps the most recognizable in the world.
Just like many others, Dali grew a mustache at the first opportunity, so his shot without a mustache is a real rarity.
Saddam Hussein
The mustache of the former leader of the Iraqi Republic became so inseparable from his image that, hiding from the Americans, he even shaved it off, leaving one beard.
Like other Eastern men, Hussein grew a mustache as soon as the opportunity arose, and therefore, in a beardless state, he can only be seen in childhood.
The Cuban revolutionary sported perhaps the most iconic mustache and beard.
Ernesto Che Guevara shaved for quite some time until he threw himself into the abyss of the revolution.
Alexander Lukashenko
Once, Lithuanian oppositionists opposed Lukashenka's visit to their country with banners with the inscription "Mustached entry is prohibited."
Alexander Druz
Master What? Where? When?" made a mustache his invariable attribute, which many consider even a talisman.
Shaved Friends can only be seen in the photo of youthful times.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The German philosopher and writer grew such a dense and unusual mustache that he became an example for many of his contemporaries to follow.
Without a mustache, Nietzsche did not look so serious and intimidating at all.
Frank Zappa
The rock musician also invented the signature mustache shape.
And so Zappa was a decent young man.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
The mustache has become such a familiar part of the actor's appearance that, without looking at the photo, you can wonder if he has them.
David Suchet
Everyone knows the British actor in the image of Hercule Poirot with a small mustache.
Seeing a photo of Suchet without a mustache, you can even experience a slight disappointment.
Danny Trejo
Mustaches with lowered tips, like many of the heroes of our reportage, have become calling card actor.
We consider "lambersexual" portraits XIX century together with Sofia Bagdasarova.
Lambersexual (from the English lumberjack - "lumberjack") - a brutal man with a beard. Nowadays, a beard is a symbol of masculinity, a way to emphasize one's own individuality, to stand out from the crowd. In the middle and in the second half of the 19th century in Russia, a beard was also worn in order to show the difference between its owner and those around him..
At that time, only completely “free” people could afford not to shave - those who were not in the service of the state. (Yes, even representatives of simple classes - the clergy, merchants, peasants and Old Believers.)
For others there were special laws and rescripts. Under Nicholas I, only officers could wear mustaches, and officials were required to shave their entire faces smoothly. Only by going on promotion, they could afford short sideburns - and then only if the authorities were supportive.
“At the same time, His Majesty deigned to command: not to allow any oddities in both mustaches and sideburns, observing that the former were not lower than the mouth, and the latter, if not reduced to the mustache, then also not lower than the mouth, shaving them on the cheeks against it."
Hairstyle instruction. War department order
Isaac Levitan. Painting by Valentin Serov. 1893. Tretyakov Gallery
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Painting by Ivan Kramskoy. 1872. Tretyakov Gallery
Mark Antokolsky. Painting by Ivan Kramskoy. 1876. Russian Museum
The vegetation on the face of a metropolitan resident was considered a sign of freethinking and was not approved by the authorities. By the second half of the 19th century, intellectuals, representatives of the liberal public, began to intensively grow beards. As the famous memoirist Elizaveta Nikolaevna Vodovozova writes, “they didn’t want to look like, as they put it then, like “chinovals” or “chinodrals”, they didn’t want to wear an official stamp”. Growing a beard was a clear challenge to total state control.
After retiring, clean-shaven artillery lieutenant Leo Tolstoy grows a beard - one of the most recognizable in Russian art. Petrashevets Alexey Pleshcheev, exiled simple soldier in the Orenburg battalion, upon returning from exile, he soon starts magnificent vegetation on his face. Graduate of the Maritime cadet corps Vasily Vereshchagin, having gone into civilian life and completely surrendering to painting, happily joins the ranks of the bearded men. There are countless examples. A beard meant belonging to a "free" profession - a writer, journalist, artist, architect; "barefoot" face - the presence of a demanding boss with stupid rules.
Lev Tolstoy. Painting by Ivan Kramskoy. 1873. Tretyakov Gallery
Alexey Pleshcheev. Painting by Nikolai Yaroshenko. 1887. Kharkov Art Museum
Vasily Vereshchagin. Painting by Ivan Kramskoy. 1883. Tretyakov Gallery
In the same era, Slavophilism spread: among thinking people this meant a return to "old Russian traditions" in fashion. They recalled that before the law of Peter the Great of 1705 “On shaving beards and mustaches of all ranks to people, except for priests and deacons, on taking a fee from those who do not want to fulfill it, and on issuing signs to those who paid the fee” a beard was an indispensable sign of a real Russian person.
This was in line with the European fashion trend: Mustaches, sideburns and beards become a popular accessory for the Victorian man in the 1850s. It is believed that the long residence of the British among the mustachioed Indians contributed to this, as well as Crimean War and the massive return of overgrown veterans. Prior to this, in Europe, facial hair was also considered a symbol of the revolutionary spirit and political provocation.
Apollo Mike. Painting by Vasily Perov. 1872. Tretyakov Gallery
Vladimir Solovyov. Painting by Nikolai Yaroshenko. 1892. Tretyakov Gallery
Vsevolod Garshin. Painting by Ilya Repin. 1884. Metropolitan Museum of Art
The position of the state regarding beards softened in
Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich dressed as an ataman of the 17th century Zaporizhzhya Cossacks at a costume ball. 1903.
In the 21st century, bearded men are back in trend.
Historical figures with mustaches are not uncommon different shapes(from a lush mustache to a small mustache), mustachioed politicians are also known. Almost every country has TV presenters and actors with mustaches.
Notable mustachioed politicians and historical figures
Alternating periods of hairiness and shaving male faces can be viewed as the alternation of a certain fashion in a particular historical period. As you know, the vegetation on the face of the representative of the stronger sex emphasizes his brutality, adorns his appearance. Nevertheless, regardless of fashion, there have always been personalities under whose noses a mustache flaunted. Naturally, the mustache of not an ordinary citizen, but a historical figure or a prominent politician attracted special attention. It was this detail of appearance that was often their hallmark.World-famous Adolf Hitler wore a small mustache that was exclusively under his nose. It is known that during military service he had a lush Prussian mustache, but he had to trim it so that it would not interfere with putting on a gas mask. Since then, he always had a "brush" mustache under his nose.
The owner of a beautiful lush mustache was Joseph Stalin. Historians believe that they allowed him to divert attention from vertically challenged and some facial imperfections. The beautiful mustache on the face of the brilliant mathematician Einstein was a great addition to the image of a disheveled scientist.
The overthrown Saddam Hussein has always been distinguished by his "trademark" mustache. So that they would not betray him, while Hussein was hiding from US persecution, he shaved them off and was left with only a beard. Cuban Che Guevara is another prominent historical figure who wore a beard and mustache.
The current president of Belarus wears a mustache. An integral part of the image was a big mustache for Budyonny. He treated them quite jealously, wishing that only he had such a mustache shape. Vasily Chapaev was famous for his magnificent sergeant-major mustache. In all films and in numerous portraits, you can see him with just such a mustache. Mustache German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche can be called "dense". However, many people liked them. There was even a fashion for the same mustache shape as his.
As you know, Peter I introduced the fashion for shaving, but, wanting not to quarrel with the army and the church, he left the wearing of a mustache for officers and the wearing of mustaches and beards for the clergy. Peter I himself also wore a mustache. It is known that another Russian tsar, Nicholas II, also wore a beautiful mustache.
It is impossible not to recall the very unusual mustache of Salvador Dali. This famous extraordinary artist, according to him own words, he himself was delighted that every day he saw their reflection in the mirror.
TV presenters and actors with mustaches
The king of silent films, the world-famous Charlie Chaplin, considered the mustache an adornment of his face and a great addition to the created image of the "little tramp." In his opinion, these small mustaches made him look older. One of the greatest American actors Clark Gable believed that a mustache is simply necessary to create a masculine image. He starred with a mustache in most films. 
It is impossible to imagine the famous Mikhail Boyarsky without a hat and without a mustache, which always distinguish him from the crowd. Actor and director Nikita Mikhalkov is the owner of a very beautiful mustache. Even his daughters get the impression that their father has always had a mustache.
Symbol modern television, a wonderful TV presenter, the brand of Channel One - all these words refer to Leonid Yakubovich, and this is the merit of his mustache. Numerous fans have repeatedly paid tribute to this decoration of his face. One of the participants in the TV show "Field of Miracles" even insured the host's mustache, knowing that he smokes a pipe and can ruin them.
Another famous TV presenter with a barbel was Vlad Listyev. His lush mustache has always been liked by women. He himself liked to dress beautifully, choosing light-colored suits, and even twisted his chic mustache a little.
It is not known why Alexander Druz, who is the master of the game “What? Where? When?" It is possible that his luxurious mustache is his talisman, although the mustache may be a common habit. The fact that Alexander's mustache is popular is confirmed by numerous jokes about them.
The most famous person to wear a mustache
It is quite difficult to unambiguously answer the question of which of the famous barbels is the most famous. According to one of the opinions, such a person is Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. For everyone famous portraits, surviving photographs and rare video chronicles, this statesman we see with a lush mustache. Many believe that such a mustache and pipe made his image more wise, representative and were the so-called "trick".Well, here's a biography of Salvador Dali. Salvador is one of my favorite artists. I tried to add more dirty details delicious interesting facts and quotes from friends from the master's entourage, which are not available on other sites. Available short biography artist's work - see navigation below. A lot is taken from the film Gabriella Flights "Biography of Salvador Dali", so be careful, spoilers!
When inspiration leaves me, I put my brush and paint aside and sit down to write something about the people I am inspired by. So it goes.
Salvador Dali biography. Table of contents.
Characters
The Dalis will spend the next eight years in the United States. Immediately upon arrival in America, Salvador and Gala threw a grandiose orgy of PR action. They had a costume party in a surreal style (Gala sat in a unicorn costume, hmm) and invited the most prominent people from the bohemian party of their time. Dali quite successfully began to exhibit in America, and his shocking antics were very fond of the American press and the bohemian crowd. What, what, but they have not yet seen such a virtuoso-artistic shiz.
In 1942, the surrealist publishes his autobiography " secret life Salvador Dali, written by himself. A book for unprepared minds will be slightly shocking, I say right away. It's worth reading though, it's interesting. Despite the obvious strangeness of the author, it is read quite easily and naturally. IMHO, Dali, as a writer, is pretty good, in his own way, of course.
However, despite the huge critical success, Gale again found it difficult to find buyers for the paintings. But everything changed when in 1943 a wealthy couple from Colorado visited the Dali exhibition - Reynold and Eleanor Mos became regular buyers of paintings by Salvador and family friends. The couple Mos acquired a quarter of all the paintings of Salvador Dali and later founded the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, but not in the one you thought, but in America, in Florida.
We started collecting his works, often met with Dali and Gala, and he liked us, because we liked his paintings. Gala also fell in love with us, but she had to maintain her reputation as a person with a difficult character, she was torn between sympathy for us and her reputation. (c) Eleanor Mos
Dali works closely as a designer, participating in the creation of jewelry and scenery. In 1945, Hitchcock invited the master to create scenery for his film Spellbound. Even Walt Disney was subdued magical world Dali. In 1946, he commissioned a cartoon that would introduce Americans to surrealism. True, the sketches came out so surreal that the cartoon will never appear at the box office, but later, it will still be finished. It's called Destino, a cartoon schizophasic, very beautiful, with high-quality art and worth it to watch, unlike the Andalusian dog (don't watch the dog, honestly).
Salvador Dali's quarrel with the surrealists.
While the entire artistic and intellectual community hated Franco, as he was a dictator who seized the republic by force. Dali nevertheless decided to go against public opinion. (c) Antonio Pichot.
Dali was a monarchist, he talked with Franco and he told him that he was going to restore the monarchy. So Dali was for Franco. (c) Lady Moyne
The painting of El Salvador at this time acquires a particularly academic character. For the paintings of the master of this period, the classical component is especially characteristic, despite the obvious surreal plot. The maestro also paints landscapes and classical paintings without any surrealism. Many paintings also take on a distinctly religious character. famous paintings Salvador Dali of this time - atomic ice, The Last Supper, Christ of Saint Juan de la Cruz, etc.
The prodigal son returned to the womb catholic church and in 1958 Dali and Gala got married. Dali was 54 years old, Galya 65. But, despite the wedding, their romance has changed. Gala turned Salvador Dali into a world celebrity, but although their partnership was much more than business, Gala loved young stallions to stand for an hour without a break, and Salvadorich was no longer the same. He no longer looked like the sexless extravagant ephebe she had known before. Therefore, their relationship by that time had noticeably cooled off, and Gala was increasingly seen surrounded by young gigolos and without El Salvador.
Many thought that Dali was just a showman, but this is not so. He worked 18 hours a day, admiring the local landscapes. I think he was in general common man. (c) Lady Moyne.
Amanda Lear, Salvador Dali's second great love.
Salvador, who had been burning all his life with burning eyes, turned into a shaking, unfortunate animal with a driven look. Time spares no one.
Death of Gala, Surrealist's wife.
Soon the maestro was waiting for a new blow. In 1982, at the age of 88, Gala died of a heart attack. Despite the rather cool recent times relationship, Salvador Dali, with the death of Gala, lost his core, the basis of his existence, and became like an apple with a rotten core.
For Dali, this was the strongest blow. As if his world was falling apart. It's a terrible time. The time of the deepest depression. (c) Antonio Pichot.
After the death of Gala, Dali rolled downhill. He left for Pubol. (c) Lady Moyne.
The famous surrealist moved to a castle bought for his wife, where the traces of her former presence allowed him to somehow brighten up his existence.
I think it was big mistake retire to this castle, where he was surrounded by people who did not know him at all, but in this way Dali mourned Gala (c) Lady Moyne.
Once a famous party-goer, Salvador, whose house was always full of people drunk on pink champagne, turned into a recluse who allowed only close friends to visit him.
He said - okay, let's meet, but in complete darkness. I don't want you to see how gray and old I've become. I want her to remember me young and beautiful (c) Amanda.
I was asked to visit him. He put a bottle of red wine on the table, a glass, put an armchair, and he remained in the bedroom with closed door. (c) Lady Moyne.
Fire and death of Salvador Dali
Fate, which had previously spoiled Dali with good luck, decided, as if in retaliation for all previous years, to throw a new misfortune to El Salvador. In 1984, a fire broke out in the castle. None of the nurses on duty around the clock responded to Dali's cries for help. When Dali was rescued, his body was 25 percent burned. Unfortunately, fate did not give easy for the artist death and he recovered, albeit emaciated and scarred from burns. Salvador's friends persuaded him to leave his castle and move to a museum in Figueres. Last years before his death, Salvador Dali spent surrounded by his art.
5 years later, Salvador Dali died in a hospital in Barcelona from cardiac arrest. So it goes.
Such an end seems too sad for a man who was overflowing with life and so different from others. He was incredible person. (c) Lady Moyne
You tell Vrubel and Van Gogh.
Salvador Dali enriched our lives not only with his paintings. I'm glad he let us get to know him so intimately. (c) Eleanor Mos
I felt that a huge, very significant part of my life had ended, as if I had lost my own father. (c) Amanda.
Meeting with Dali for many was a real discovery of a new vast world, unusual philosophy. Compared to him, all these contemporary artists who try to copy his style look pathetic. (c) Ultraviolet.
Before his death, Salvador Dali bequeathed to bury himself in his museum, surrounded by his works, under the feet of his admiring admirers.
Surely there are people who don't even know he's dead, they think he just doesn't work anymore. In a way, it doesn't matter if Dali is alive or dead. For pop culture, he is always alive. (c) Alice Cooper.
Salvador Dali is famous Spanish painter 20th century, who painted his paintings in the style of surrealism. He brought out this genre on the new level. His works of art personified boundless fantasy. As a person, Salvador was very strange.
1. Trying to swing
Dali's life and his art took place during the heyday of jazz and its rapid transformation. No wonder Salvador loved given style music and made attempts to perform it independently. Dali tried several times to play swing drums, but he did not do it very well, after which the artist completely abandoned this business.
You can learn how to play swing drums by clicking on the link.
2. Dreams as inspiration
In order for the muse to come to Salvador Dali, he sometimes fell asleep near the canvas with a key in his hands. Having fallen asleep in this way, the artist’s muscles relaxed and the key fell, from which Dali immediately woke up, and until the dream had time to forget, he transferred the images he dreamed of to the canvas.
3. Strange accessories and costumes
In 1934, Salvador walked around New York with a very strange accessory, namely: with a two-meter loaf of bread on his shoulder. While visiting an exhibition of surrealism in London, he wore a diving suit.
4. Fear of grasshoppers
Salvador Dali had a phobia of grasshoppers. His peers knew about this and deliberately threw insects at him. In order for his friends to be able to switch from true fears to false ones, the artist told his peers that he was afraid of paper airplanes. In fact, Dali had no such fear. With age, the great artist developed new phobias: fear of driving cars and fear of people. With the advent of Gala's wife, all Dali's fears disappeared.
5. Message to the father
Salvador Dali fell out with his father after the death of his mother. As a result, the artist did a very strange thing: he sent his father a package with his sperm, along with an envelope that said: "This is all I owe you."
6. Window dressing
In 1939, Salvador Dali first gained infamy when he was commissioned to decorate the window of one of the famous expensive stores. Dali decided that the theme would be "day and night." In his creative work involved mannequins with real strands of hair cut from a corpse. There was also a bath tub, a black tub, and a buffalo skull with a bleeding dove in its mouth.
7. Collaboration with Walt Disney
From 1945 to 1946, Dali collaborated with Walt Disney on the short film Destino. At that time, it was not released and was not shown to the audience, as the picture was considered unprofitable. In 2003, this cartoon was released by Disney's nephew Roy Edward Disney. The picture won an Oscar
8. Chupa Chups packaging design
Salvador Dali was the creator of the package design for the famous Chupa Chups lollipops. He was asked about this by a friend and countryman of Enrique Bernard, the owner of a candy company. The logo, conceived and drawn by Dali in just an hour in 1969, is still used by the company to this day with minor changes.
Per this work the artist did not take the money, he asked to be given a box of "Chupa-Chups" every day for free. Such a large number of Dali could not eat lollipops, so he did the following strange thing: when he came to the playground, he licked the candies and threw them into the sand.
9. Mustache
In 1954, photographer Philippe Halsmon published a book called Dali's Mustache: A Photo Interview. It depicts not only Dali's mustache, but also naked female bodies, water and baguettes.
10. Pet
Salvador Dali chose a giant anteater as his pet. He walked with him around Paris, also came with him to secular receptions, after that it became a fashionable phenomenon for them to get an anteater, the species even almost disappeared from nature. Before the anteater, Dali kept a pygmy leopard as a pet.
11. Testament
Salvador Dali bequeathed to bury himself in such a way that anyone could walk on his grave. The embalmed body of the great artist is walled up in the field of the Dali Theater Museum.
