The characterization of types and settings, perfected by Kustodiev, in the images of festivities in the provincial Volga cities, makes it possible to create real masterpieces. In the painting “Walking on the Volga” in 1909, the public on the embankment is depicted as if from somewhere from the side and from above, in order to […]
Year of painting: 1831. The size of the painting: 64 x 78 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: romanticism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Year of painting: 1876. Dimensions of the painting: 55.3 x 46.4 cm. Material: oil. Writing technique: canvas. Genre: landscape. Style: realism. Gallery: private collection.
Year of painting: 1950. Dimensions of the painting: 46 x 37 cm. Material: no data. Writing technique: no data. Genre: abstract painting. Style: abstract expressionism. Gallery: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain.
At the first traveling exhibition, which opened in 1871 in the halls of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Kramskoy declared himself an original group of works, the center of which was the romantic canvas “Mermaids” on the plot of Gogol’s story “May Night” The painting was conceived in Ukraine, in the village of […]
Researchers of the work of the famous Russian and Soviet impressionist artist Konstantin Korovin distinguish a special, “flower” period of his work, which falls on the beginning of the twentieth century. At this time, the painter especially often turned to you flower still lifes. It is to this period of Korovin’s work that this painting […]