Painting by Kramskoy “For Reading: Portrait of S. Kramskoy, Wife”

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1. Painting by Kramskoy “Portrait of PM Tretyakov” As far as I know, Kramskoy and Tretyakov were friends who met in 1869. In addition to the paintings bought by Tretyakov for his gallery from Kramskoy, and there were not a few of them (only about 12 were ordered for portraits), they were joined by friendly meetings and correspondence on the themes of political […]...
2. Painting by Kramskoy “Portrait of I. Shishkin” According to historians and critics, Kramskoy, was famous for his portraits. His portraits reflect those times in which the artist lived. He painted the people of those people who surrounded him. Portraits, which he painted, most accurately reflect the character of a person and his uniqueness. This is the secret of his paintings. Portrait of […]...
3. Consolidation of the painting by Kramskoy “Kramskoy, writing a portrait of her daughter” This painting is a self-portrait, which was written in 1884. This was the last work of the artist in this genre, written in the south of France, on the shores of the Azure Sea. It was there that Doctor Botkin recommended to go to the artist. Kramskoy was ill and forced to be treated, in […]...
4. Painting by Kramskoy “Portrait of A. Suvorin” Kramskoy, painted a portrait of Suvorin in 1881. Suvorin was the publisher of the newspaper Novoye Vremya, and personally asked his friend Kramskoy to draw it. According to historians, this picture caused delight, but provoked a scandal. They said that in the portrait there are repulsive features of the protagonist. Kramskoy had to prove to […]...
5. Painting by Kramskoy “Portrait of Kuindzhi” Always rejoicing in someone else’s luck, in 1877 Kramskoy turns to Repin with an enthusiastic letter about the portrait of AI Kuindzhi written by him. After a passionate, professionally profound analysis of Repin’s painting, Kramskoy writes: “For the first time in my life I envied a living person, but not the unworthy envy that distorts […]...
6. Painting by Kramskoy “Polesovshchik” Kramskoy, like many other artists, touches on the theme of the peasantry in his work. Creating portraits of peasants, he shows himself a good portraitist, who knows how to accurately convey the emotions and emotions of his characters. In the picture “Polesovshchik” we see a man who comes out of the forest thicket, his clothes […]...
7. Painting by Kramskoy “Portrait of the philosopher Solovyov” 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 […]...
8. Painting by Repin “Portrait of the artist Kramskoy” I. Repin first heard about I. Kramskoy even before coming to Sankt Petersburg and admission to the IAH, when in the summer of 1863 he painted churches in the village of Sirotino in the Voronezh province with an iconographic artel. Their acquaintance took place in the winter of 1863 in the Drawing School of the […]...
9. Painting by Kramskoy “Portrait of Leo Tolstoy” Tranquilism blows from the portrait of Kramskoy IN, which depicts the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Painter tried to convey the power that possessed a powerful writer in fact. What seems most important to me when I look at the picture? Did she help understand the soul of her favorite word master? How incredibly amazing […]...
10. Painting by Kramskoy “The Mermaids” In the 1870s Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy was engaged in the organization of the Association of Wanderers and was his spiritual leader. At the same time he was attracted by the theme of the beauty of the lunar Ukrainian night, as if mesmerized by the mystery of the moonlight. The picture of Kramskoy “The Mermaid” is […]...
11. The Painting Rokotov “Portrait of the Stream” When looking at a portrait, you readily believe that it is an “Angel descended to earth.” Rokotov left us a portrait of a beautiful woman, with a slightly sad look, she seemed to “go away” and think about something. everything in this portrait is harmonious – and black, brooding eyes, a line of eyebrows, a […]...
12. Painting by Kramskoy “Nekrasov in the period of the Last Songs” 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 […]...
13. Painting Serov “Portrait of the artist Levitan” Serov wrote many portraits of famous personalities of the time. For each, he chose the situation and a certain position. The artist does not have similar paintings, he treated his every posing person in his own way. He was able to convey the inner world and the mood of man with the help of canvas […]...
14. Painting by Serov “Portrait of Hirschman” Artist Serov liked to paint portraits of famous people. With the help of paints and a brush, he accurately depicted the mood and character of a person. In his portraits one can accurately determine how the person depicted in the picture lived. The picture “Portrait of Hirschman” is represented by a woman, whose appearance can […]...
15. Painting by Kramskoy “Moonlight Night” The painting “Moon Night” was written by I. Kramskoy in 1880. Night landscapes are not uncommon in the artist’s work (we recall his “May Night”, “Evening at the Dacha”, “Divine Divination”). And in “Moonlit Night” – one of his most famous paintings – Kramskoy again takes up the solution of a complex coloristic task. He […]...
16. Co-operation on the painting “May Night” by Kramskoy Kramskoy painted the painting “May Night” in 1871, based on the work of N. Gogol. When creating this picture, the artist needed to plunge into the motif of Ukrainian fairy tales, to their magical moonlit nights, overgrown ponds, as well as mermaids and witches. The picture shows the river bank. The night, the dark time […]...
17. Painting by Kramskoy “Mina Moiseyev” I. Kramskoy painted a portrait of “Mina Moiseyev” in 1882, he was an etude to the canvas “An Old Man with a Bridle,” written the following year. The work was created in the village of Siverskaya near St. Petersburg. As an outstanding portraitist, the artist tried to capture not only the external features of a […]...
18. The composition of Vrubel’s painting “Portrait of Artsybushev” In the late 1890s – in this extremely fruitful period for Vrubel – he creates several outstanding works of the portrait genre. First of all, the portraits of KD Artsybushev and his wife (the latter is not finished). Artsibushev is a business associate and a close acquaintance of Savva Ivanovich Mamontov. lover of art; Vrubel […]...
19. Painting by Ge “Portrait of Tolstoy” Karl Bryullov is a famous artist who paints portraits of people. Among his works there is a picture called “Portrait of Count A. Tolstoy.” It occupies a special place in the work of the painter, so let us dwell in detail on its description. In the picture, against the background of nature, depicts the famous […]...
20. Painting by Kiprensky “Portrait of the boy Chelishchev” The famous Russian artist Orest Adamovich Kiprensky is a world-famous portraitist. In the development of romanticism and a new style of painting, his painting “The Portrait of the Chelishchev Boy” played a big role. In this work, the artist depicted a twelve-year-old boy. For a clearer selection of facial features and for the viewer not […]...
21. Painting by Repin “Portrait of Mussorgsky” In the painting, the artist portrayed the famous composer Mussorgsky. According to historical data, it is known that the portrait was painted in 1881, for several sessions. It is known that at the time when the portrait was being drawn, the composer was mortally ill and was treated in the Nikolaevsky military hospital. Many critics […]...
22. Painting by Repin “Portrait of the Critic Stasov” The talented publicist and critic V. V. Stasov with IE Repin has for many years been closely connected. The best portrait of V. Stasov was written by Repin for two days in May 1883 in Dresden, during a period of joint travel abroad by a critic and artist. In this portrait Stasov is already an […]...
23. 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 […]...
24. Painting by Repin “The Reading Girl” This portrait was painted by the famous Russian painter Ilya Repin, in a new, more realistic style. Life is presented as it really is, without unnecessary details and ornaments. There is an opinion that the heroine of this portrait is the sister-in-law of the great artist. In the middle of the canvas depicts a young […]...
25. Painting by Borovikovsky “Portrait of E. N. Arsenieva” Another master of the portrait and a Russian artist of Ukrainian origin is Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich. His pen belongs to a lot of portraits, but our attention was riveted to a portrait of Catherine Nikolayevna Arsenyeva. It was written in 1796. The author’s great talent was not only his ability to accurately convey facial features, […]...
26. The composition of Perov’s painting “Portrait of Dostoyevsky” When you look at the portraits made by Perov, you can much better know those who are depicted on them. Here is the image of the great playwright Dostoevsky, whose mysterious story is evident from his works, becomes more understandable and open to his admirers. And the whole secret is that Perov does not seek […]...
27. Painting by Repin “Portrait of Tretyakov” Among a number of portraits of IE Repin, one of the most remarkable is the portrait of Pavel Tretyakov, the founder of the gallery of Russian artists who later became a real national treasure. Tretyakov, who deeply respected and appreciated Repin’s work, acquired many of his paintings. Repin, in turn, deeply appreciated the ascetic activity […]...
28. Painting by Kiprensky “Portrait of Alexander Pushkin” Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin deservedly called the Sun of Russian poetry. And this is how we see it on the shoe of Orest Kiprensky’s work. This artist had the glory of one of the best portrait painters, and that is why Anton Delvig ordered to depict his friend – the great poet AS Pushkin. Contemporaries found […]...
29. The Painting by Van Gogh “Portrait of Papa Tangi” Julien-Francois Tanguy played an important role in the life of the Parisian Impressionist artists. He sold them paints in his small shop, but sometimes, realizing that due to total lack of money they could not pay for the goods, offered the necessary in exchange for the paintings. For good nature and sympathy, the artists affectionately […]...
30. The Painting by Tropinin “The girl’s head. Etude to the portrait of Ershova with her daughter” The talent and artistic skill of Vasily Tropinin were such that many took his portraits for the works of Rembrandt, so much in them there was a striking color and power of illumination. Graceful female heads gave him the glory of “Russian Dream”. Vasily Andreevich occupied in the Moscow cultural life that niche, which before […]...
31. Painting by Kramskoy “Unknown” Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich was born in 1837 and died in 1887. He was born in a middle-class family in the provincial town of Ostrogozhsk. He liked to draw from childhood, discovered outstanding abilities and studied at the Academy of Arts, but after receiving the Small Gold Medal for the program picture “Moses exudes water from […]...
32. Painting Serov “Portrait of Dragomirova” Among the portraits painted at the end of the 1880s, the portrait of Sophia Dragomirova is a kind of evidence of the growth of Serov’s glory. C Sophia Drahomirova Serov met in the workshop of Repin. Sofya Mikhailovna Dragomirova (in the marriage of Lukomskaya) wrote to I. Grabar. “I remember that when I arrived in […]...
33. Painting by Bryullov “Self-portrait” What would I say about myself if I had the opportunity? And if I had guessed that my descendants could read it, and those who like me, and even those who I might not like? The truth, or what I would like to see the truth? Self-portrait is very similar to the autobiography. Both there […]...
34. Painting Vrubel “Portrait of Mamontov” Vrubel has relatively few portraits, although he was a keen physiognomist, not worse, for example, Serov; the portrait resemblance was given to him jokingly, and he expressed with remarkable acuity the individual. But there is a special feature in his portraits – the propensity to lift those he writes over the ordinary, to bring to […]...
35. The composition of Vrubel’s painting “Portrait of the artist’s son” Vrubel was happy when he had a son named Sawa. The joyful father found an art talent in the newly born child, assured his relatives that Savvushka “is unusually staring.” In the portrait, the boy is depicted sitting in a wicker from a vine, leaning on white and pink cushions of the finest fabric. Behind […]...
36. Painting by Kramskoy “Unfortunate sorrow” What family did without loss of a close relative? Who does not know how hard it is to bury a native person, knowing that you will not see him again, you will not touch him, will not you talk with him? A special grief of the mother, it can not be compared to anything, there […]...
37. The Painting by Tropinin “Portrait of a Son” When the father looks at his son, he sees someone who will fulfill all his dreams and aspirations. But in the portrait of my son VA Tropinin, I noticed a completely different view of the child. As if, the author has already achieved the desired, what is planned. And this picture is like an ode, […]...
38. Painting by Kramskoy “Christ in the desert” Paintings on religious themes occupy a large place in the work of artists of all times and peoples. Scenes from the Bible, motifs inspired by biblical stories always excited the imagination of artists. One of the significant moments of the history of Christ is his stay in the desert. Christ went there to decide how […]...
39. Painting by Repin “Portrait of Rubinstein” IE Repin, who was very fond of music, painted portraits of many outstanding musicians. The portrait of the composer and conductor Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein, who was a friend of the artist, Repin wrote many times. The last portrait was written from 1909 to 1915 after the death of the composer. This portrait is solemn, monumental. […]...
40. The Painting by Serebryakova “Self-portrait with two daughters” Zinaida Serebryakova is one of the first Russian women painters who have entered themselves in the history of painting. Its creativity, which has not fallen under any influence, is independent enough and original. The picture “Self-portrait with daughters” is written quickly, easily. The impression that two little daughters, having caught the moment, clung to their […]...