Alexei Komarov is a talented animal painter (that is, an artist depicting animals). To draw animals, you need a lot to know not only about their appearance, but also about habits, features. All this knowledge helped Komarov create vivid and expressive canvases – such as “Flood”. This is a whole colorful story about a hare … Read more
Bogayevsky developed the romantic theme of Lorren’s works – the theme of distant wanderings, the discovery of a harmonious land where the ideal man lives. This topic is devoted to the painting “Ships” (1912). The canvas is surprising in the accuracy of the transfer of the spirit of the works of Claude Lorrain, it is … Read more
The idea of writing a picture “In Russia” from the author arose 10 years before and was originally called “Christians.” The artist reflects on the fate of the Russian people and on the fate of their country. Not for nothing in the plot there are peripeteias that develop, from antiquity to modernity. Here we see … Read more
The end of the summer was KF Yuon’s favorite time of the year. The theme of the August evenings in the works of KF Yuon appeared in the 1920s, when the artist bought a village house in the village of Ligachevo, which is near Moscow. The painting “August Evening: The Last Ray Ligachevo” was written … Read more
Repeatedly VM Vasnetsov resorted to religious themes in his works. The painting “Only Begotten Son The Word of God” is presented in the form of a fresco in the Vladimir Cathedral. This work is devoted to the concept of “freedom”. On the central part of it, the artist painted Jesus Christ in youth. He is … Read more
About the famous artist P. P. Konchalovsky it is known that he was also a wonderful gardener, skillfully and lovingly grew different flowers. And on his canvas “Lilac in a Basket” he painted a fragile and tender spring bouquet. You can guess that these branches of the lilac are only recently cut off: you can … Read more
In 1876, Repin returned from France to Russia. The first winter Repin spend in the parents’ house in Chuguevo. “I did not make a mistake that I came here for the winter,” he writes to Stasov, “Only in winter the people live freely with all interests, urban, political and family… And Chuguev himself is a … Read more
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is an academician, professor, painter, landscape painter and this is not all his merits. One of his earliest works is the painting “A View on the Island of Valaam”. It was written in 1858 and simply plunged contemporaries into ecstasy. Thanks to this canvas, the Petersburg Academy of Arts awarded the author … Read more
Kramskoy portrayed his wife in this portrait, drawing it in 1869. As I know, he was very fond of his family and was attached to it, Kramskoy believed that the family is a fortress in which he could rest from his troubles with which he faced in life. His many works were created thanks to … Read more
In early 1868, Manet proceeds to the portrait of Zola; this is an occasion to express gratitude to the writer who so bravely defended the artist. It is only natural that Manet intends this canvas for the Salon. Zola several times comes to pose in the painter’s studio, in the same workshop, which is easier … Read more