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.
Year of painting: 1544. The dimensions of the painting are 114 x 175 cm. Material: panel. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: Northern Renaissance. Gallery: Prado, Madrid, Spain.
In the last years of his life, Kramskoy was remembered by his contemporaries surrounded by young people (their grown-up children and their friends). The striving for “gratifying” (Valentin Serov’s expression), for light, air, pure colors, which took possession of the young generation of Russian artists, was not alien to Kramskoy, the patriarch of the Itinerants. […]
The canvas by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper”, according to the artist, is the main work of his entire life, it was to write this masterpiece that he went all his life. At an exhibition dedicated only to her, which was held in 1880, she became a real sensation. Kuindzhi concentrated all his […]
“Moonlit Night” is perhaps the most spectacular of Kramskoy’s “nocturnes”. A woman in a white dress sits on a bench under the tall poplars of an old moonlit park. Kramskoy gave the heroine of the painting features of similarity with Elena Tretyakova, the wife of Sergei Tretyakov (brother of the gallery founder), who bought “Moonlit […]