Sensation of audacity, youth, faith in life penetrate the canvas “What a spacious space” written in “Penates”. The girl and the student found a tide on the shore, which turned into a squall, and they gaily choose from the waves. The girl laughs, holding a hat from a strong wind, and the student, having opened … Read more
The painting by I. E. Grabar “Winter Landscape” was written in 1954. on it the painter depicted a winter landscape in all its beauty and charm. The canvas depicts a winter landscape. we see a forest winter glade covered with snow. In the clearing grow birches covered with hoarfrost, and small fir-trees. You look at … Read more
In this picture, there is a theme of loneliness. On a bare, impregnable rock, at dusk, in the midst of snow and ice, stands a lone pine. We see a gloomy canyon illuminated by the moon and an endless, snow-covered distance. It seems that in this cold kingdom there is nothing alive. But against the … Read more
The hardest of all Surikov was given his last work – “Stepan Razin”. Razin – the leader of the peasant movement, mighty, courageous, a man of great will, uniting numerous detachments of the insurgent Cossacks and peasants who made bold hikes to the lower reaches of the Volga, along the Caspian Sea. It is interesting … Read more
Probably everyone has their favorite season. First of all, we recall a warm summer or a joyful spring. But in the picture of the famous Russian artist Popov, one of the first days of winter is depicted so lightly and with love that he begins to want this cold time to come soon. A simple … Read more
“November 1919. The Red Messenger is on the pillars of light, I stand on the balcony of the London house that we occupy, from where we can see the square and the side streets, the leaden, gloomy sky in the whole atmosphere is something extraordinarily heavy, ominous: people dark and gray scurry along the streets … Read more
Ilya Efimovich Repin is a great Russian artist. He became famous for his genre paintings and portraits, full of severe drama. The more interesting to see his picture, filled with other emotions and feelings – love and cheerfulness. This is the “Autumn Bouquet”. It would seem that this name should have a still life or … Read more
Due to his special sensitivity and nervous penetration, Levitan was able to absorb all the thoughts and feelings that burned his peers and comrades. Having made them in his individual, to him one inherent lyricism, he poured it all out in a long series of paintings that reflected the aspirations of a whole generation. Levitanov’s … Read more
Portraits of his daughter in Mylnikov’s work have a special place. He constantly returns to this image, admiring purity, spontaneity, girlish grace. And, perhaps, few of contemporary artists have managed to convey so intimately the complexity and immediacy of the child’s world. In the works “Verochka is sick” (1955), “Verochka” (1955), “Portrait of a daughter” … Read more
In 1885, Kramskoy takes care of Repin, defends his “Ivan the Terrible,” which reminded the Russians of the fate of the heroes of the Narodnaya Volya. And in the same year he painted a portrait of Vladimir Solovyov, who bravely opposed the death penalty of the First Martovites. The philosopher and poet Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev … Read more