Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov really wanted to collect in his gallery as many portraits of outstanding people in Russia. He was very fond of and appreciated the work of Alexei Nikolaevich Nekrasov. Upon learning of his illness, he asked Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy more than once to carry out similar orders to draw a portrait of the … Read more
The picture shows a large woman in a rich apparel. The interior provides an opportunity to imagine the device of a rich cell for a noble person: on the walls of the icon, on the tablecloth tablecloth. The girl sitting in the back of the princess in monastic robes looks timidly at her from under … Read more
There are several variants of Perov’s painting “Pugachev’s Court” or “Pugachev’s revolt”. In 1879, a version of the picture appeared, where the image of Pugachev appears more significant – in the pseudo-Petra III one feels a man of great will, mind and temperament. Pugachev sits on the porch of the landlord’s house, surrounded by a … Read more
KF Yuon is a wonderful landscape painter. In his paintings he showed his love for nature, he created a generalized image of the Motherland. In his autobiographical essay, Yuon wrote: “In these pictures I tried to convey the majestic and monumental and poetic sound of Russian nature. I was looking for solemn notes, which were … Read more
Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich – a famous Russian landscape painter of the second half of the 19th century, perhaps one of his most popular paintings is “Morning in a Pine Forest.” The peculiarity of the image of nature in Shishkin’s works characterizes him as a talented draftsman, because no detail is deprived of attention, and if … Read more
Negative nineties successfully passed into the picture of Ilya Glazunov “The market of our democracy.” A great Russian artist, combines in his work realism and symbolism. His paintings impress the viewer with the large size and straightforwardness of the plot. “The market of our democracy” is a very large picture. The spectator will be surprised … Read more
Painting by IK Aivazovsky “Moonlit Night: Bathing in Feodosia” Under the name of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, one immediately recalls one of the artist’s most famous works – the painting “The Ninth Wave”. The master of battle scenes, the “painter of the Main Naval Staff”, Aivazovsky is considered the best in creating a stormy sea, played … Read more
In the painting by S. Yu. Zhukovsky, “Before the terrace” is depicted a bright summer landscape. Immediately striking incredible combination of colors and shades, which the author filled his work. In the foreground of the picture we see a large table covered with a white tablecloth and two carved chairs. The shawls thrown on the … Read more
1823, shortly after his arrival in Italy, Bryullov wrote “Italian Morning”. The painting is exhibited at the exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. “Morning” brought him wide fame. The picture won everybody – the Italian, and then the Russian audience, members of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists and, finally, … Read more
The painting “The Permanence of Memory,” written by the great Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali in 1931, differs, like many of his works, with a special style and profound subtext, which is filled with a multitude of incredible meanings. “Consistency of memory” – one of the most famous and replicable works of Salvador Dali. Because of … Read more