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 […]
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 […]
Painting by the remarkable Russian impressionist Konstantin Korovin “Crimea. Gurzuf “refers to the so-called” Crimean “period of the artist’s work. He loved to visit his dacha in the Crimea, where he felt extraordinary inspiration. It is known that the artist has several paintings dedicated to a small resort town called Gurzuf. In the painting “Crimea. […]
Year of painting: 1905. The dimensions of the painting: 180 x 180 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: symbolic painting. Style: modern. Gallery: National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy.