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 […]
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 […]
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.
The painting “Antibes in the Morning” by the founder of Impressionism, Claude Monet, painted in 1888, strikes the eye with its extraordinary airiness, lightness of traced strokes, amazing saturation of colors. Antibes in Monet’s time was a small town on the French coast of the Mediterranean, between Cannes and Nice. The canvas of the world […]