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 […]
The founder of abstract art, Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky, began to seriously engage in painting at the age of thirty, leaving for this a brilliant legal career. He studied in Europe with venerable teachers of painting, trying to take their knowledge to the maximum, but at the same time he already had his own recognizable style. […]
Oscar Claude Monet is perhaps the most famous French painter, who left behind a huge artistic legacy, which is admired by many connoisseurs of pictorial art around the world. One of the most unusual and controversial of his works is the painting “Morning by the Sea”, which he painted in 1881. A great lover of […]