Category: Descriptions of pictures
An essay on the painting by Makovsky “The lodging house”
Pictures of Makovsky can be attributed to the art of the Wanderers. His works are characterized by the manifestation of care and understanding, the joy and emotion of the “little man”. Some of his paintings can be attributed to the struggle of the rich and the poor, it is in this contrast that he gets…
Composition on Kuindzhi’s painting “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper”
Painting Arkhip Kuindzhi “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper” was written in 1880 and immediately found a huge response from a wide audience. This picture was very small in size, in some strange way, attracted everyone’s attention, who looked at it. The painting depicts a night that plunges the whole neighborhood into darkness. And the moon,…
Composition on Shishkin’s painting “Noon: In the Suburbs of Moscow”
This picture, the eminent artist wrote in 1869. It was her very first acquired P. Tretyakov. It symbolizes a new stage in Shishkin’s work and it is called the first masterpiece of a landscape painter. The canvas presents a typical Russian landscape. On the street noon and literally just passed the summer rain. On an…
The Painting Nechitailo “Motherhood”
In the painting by VK Nechitailo “Motherhood”, a young girl is depicted holding a long-awaited little child in her arms. She sits with her back to the window and bright summer sunlight illuminates the entire room and the face and mom and baby. Just look, with what tenderness and love the woman looks at the…
Painting by Serov “Portrait of Mikhail K. Oliv”
In 90 years, the skill of Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov in terms of portraits reached its heyday. He wrote one of his best works “Portrait of MK Olive.” Marie Konstantinovna Oliv is a well-known patron and cousin of SI Mamontov. It was this painting that compared Serov with other outstanding and famous masters of painting. The…
The Painting by Roerich “Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru”
Jawaharlal Nehru together with his daughter Indira Gandhi visited the Roerichs’ house in Kullu in May 1942. The great Indian first met and talked with the great Russian artist and thinker Nikolai Roerich, his wife Helena Roerich, and all the members of this great family who made a huge contribution to the friendship and cooperation…
Painting Vrubel “The Demon Seated”
It is worth noting that the great Russian artist Mikhail Vrubel is in itself a rather complex artist, which is not accidental in his film “The Demon Seated” turned to the image of Lermontov’s demon. Vrubel dreamed of a high monumental style. For him, the tragedy of an ideal person is close – a person…
The composition of Levitan’s painting “Quiet abode”
One of the most famous works of Isaak Levitan “Quiet abode” was written in 1890 in the genre of “church scenery.” What could be simpler than this picture? Summer morning. Windless weather, calm, cool river surface smoothly skirting a wooded toe. Through it will be thrown a thin bridge over the perches. Because of the…
The Painting Marushkin “Strigunok”
About Oleg Pavlovich Marushkin (1938) could not find much information. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad (Petersburg), from which came out a lot of outstanding artists. He created sketches of the “Feast on the Neva” painting for the banquet hall of the Nevskaya Hotel in Leningrad. Painting “Strigunok” – apparently, the…
Composition on Kuindzhi’s painting “Birch Grove”
The skill of AI Kuindzhi convey the accuracy of what he saw, it amazes. Thinly noting the game of light, as it is displayed on objects, lies on the grass, shines in the bright sky, the artist animated each his canvas, as if he inhaled the soul in them. Such talent expanded the possibilities to…