Spring

Kiprensky – “Portrait of A. A. Chelishchev”

The masterpiece among the early portraits of 1808-1809 is the portrait of Alexander Chelishchev. In August 1812, fourteen-year-old Chelishchev was released with the rank of warrant officer from the Corps of Pages into the active army and received his baptism of fire in a fierce battle near Maloyaroslavets, when the city passed from hand to […]

Inspiration

Kandinsky Vasily – “Moscow I”

Wassily Kandinsky loved Moscow very much. He said that Moscow is a complex and mobile city. He called it a confusion, where events, destinies and people are intertwined. But at the same time, for him, Moscow is the most beautiful city on the planet Earth. Therefore, it is not surprising that his source of inspiration […]

Paintings

Kandinsky Wassily – “Composition”

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. […]