Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev, the son of the famous historian Sergei Solovyov, is a humanist, poet and philosopher who openly opposed the use of the death penalty for the murderers of Alexander II and a great friend of Ivan Kramskoy, who in 1881 painted his magnificent portrait. The artist depicted the thinker sitting in a carved […]
Since childhood, Wassily Kandinsky had a talent for seeing the world in a special way. Despite the fact that he studied to be a lawyer, received the title of associate professor, received the right to teach, Vasily makes a strong-willed decision and becomes an artist. The turning point in the life of the future artist […]
Year of painting: 1904. Dimensions of the painting: 24 x 32.6 cm. Material: cardboard. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: post-impressionism. Gallery: City Gallery in Lenbach House, Munich, Germany.
Year of painting: 1889. Dimensions of the painting: 43.5 x 30 cm. Material: cardboard. Writing technique: pencil, watercolor. Genre: allegory. Style: modern. Gallery: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.
Year of painting: 1819. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: romanticism. Gallery: Courtsy National Gallery, London, UK.
Claude Monet, the most famous representative of French impressionism, painted the canvas “Impression. Sunrise “in 1872. The exposure of this painting and the subsequent negative criticism of it gave the name to a whole trend in art. It all started with an exhibition in 1874 “Salon of the Outcast”. This exhibition featured works by artists […]