Among all the portraits of Repin, a special place is occupied by the porters of his family members. And it is justified by the fact that in such portraits the painter experiments most of
Work on the portrait always required painters extra strength and attention. After all, it was necessary to display the human soul, its power and significance, which prompted the artist to take up the brush
Laktionov Alexander Ivanovich – Soviet artist, whose paintings are very realistic and depict the life of ordinary people. Of all his paintings, the canvas “Letter from the Front” written to me in 1947, that
One of Vasnetsov’s first paintings was a picture from the epic cycle “After the Battle of Igor Svyatoslavovich with the Polovtsians.” The reason for creating this work was the legend “The Lay of Igor’s
Vasnetsov Victor Mikhailovich – Russian architect, artist, master of folklore and historical painting. First of all, many are known for their ability to reflect the folk spirit of folklore in painting. Looking at the
The work of the outstanding painter of the late XIX – early XX century Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov is very diverse. At the beginning of his creative activity, the artist painted pictures of the everyday
Painting by KF Yuon “Russian Winter: Ligachevo.” 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
“Pieta” (“Grieving”) was written by Svyatoslav Roerich in the year of the death of his brother Yuri Nikolaevich. The Biblical theme – the mourning of Christ – served as a means for revealing the
Ilya Shishkin’s canvas “Forest Distances”, written in 1884, refers to the period of the artist’s life, when his talent unfolded with all its depth and power. Being in a depressed state after the recent
Victor Mihajlovich Vasnetsov loved oral folk art and many heroes and plots for his paintings he drew from epics and fairy tales. In his paintings Vasnetsov tried to show the beauty and originality of