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.
What is beauty, how beauty and morality correlate, how to merge ethical and aesthetic in art are the subject of constant reflections of Kramskoy. And it is in the context of these reflections that one can understand the meaning of both famous and mysterious “Unknown”. In the legacy of Kramskoy, “Unknown” was destined to become […]
The portrait of Vera Nikolaevna Tretyakova is designed as a one-figure composition. Large format, full-length image of a model are traditional features of a ceremonial portrait. But Kramskoy sought to rethink the scheme of the ceremonial portrait, abandoning decorative effects, “posing, noise, shine”, which, according to the artist, was “the essence of the portraits required […]