Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi, a famous Russian and Ukrainian landscape painter, painted the painting “Early Spring” in 1895. In the foreground of this remarkable work, the artist depicted a river that is throwing off its winter ice shackles. Winter is losing ground, the ice is badly cracked and will soon melt completely. Many thawed patches, also […]
Year of painting: 1887. Dimensions of the painting: 17.3 x 10.8 cm. Material: paper. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: impressionism. Gallery: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
The rebellious “Itinerants” “mainly rebelled against the restriction of plot freedom – the creators themselves wanted to choose themes for their canvases,” voicing “new problems, offering new aesthetics. One of the characteristic plot trends of that time was the image of a person on the brink of death, his withering, exhaustion of vitality. The most […]
The order for the portrait of the Russian classic Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov came to Kramskoy from Pavel Tretyakov – the great philanthropist wanted to collect portraits of all the outstanding people of his time, and, of course, did not pass by the famous poet, editor, publicist. In 1875, Nekrasov was diagnosed with an incurable disease […]
Year of painting: 1528. Dimensions of the painting: 172 x 124 cm. Material: wood. Writing technique: oil. Genre: religious painting. Style: Northern Renaissance. Gallery: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Even in his youth, Ivan Kramskoy was greatly influenced by the personality and work of Alexander Ivanov, his ascetic path in art. Shocked by the painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People”, Kramskoy defined the highest task of art for himself: “A real artist has a tremendous work to do … to put a […]