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 […]
Year of painting: 1895. Dimensions of the painting: 176.5 x 106.5 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: urban landscape. Style: impressionism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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 […]
Year of painting: 1917. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: religious painting. Style: expressionism. Gallery: no data.
Year of painting: 1873. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: no data. Writing technique: no data. Genre: landscape. Style: impressionism. Gallery: no data.