Painting by Kramskoy “The Mermaids”

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1. 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 […]...
2. Painting by Kramskoy “For Reading: Portrait of S. Kramskoy, Wife” 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 […]...
3. 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 […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. 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 […]...
6. 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 […]...
7. 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 […]...
8. 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 […]...
9. 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 […]...
10. 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 […]...
11. Composition on Kuindzhi’s painting “Night” “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper,” perhaps, the most famous picture of AI Kuindzhi. The creation of the painting in 1880 was a real sensation. To the general public she was delighted from the very moment of her appearance. The picture was admired by I. Kramskoy and I. Polonsky, I. Turgenev and D. Mendeleev. The impression […]...
12. Painting by I. N. Kramskoy “Christ in the Desert” Reproduction of “The Christ in the Desert” painting by I. Kramskoy hangs in my room above the table. Friends, coming to me on a visit, ask in surprise: did I become a zealous Christian? And they are even more surprised at the unexpectedly negative answer. It seems to me that the picture, lovingly painted by […]...
13. 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 […]...
14. 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 […]...
15. 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 […]...
16. 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 […]...
17. 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 […]...
18. 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 […]...
19. Painting by I. N. Kramskoy “Peasant with a Bridle” I. N. Kramskoy – one of the outstanding painters, artists who turned to the theme of the people, the life of the peasants. As if alive, faces of the peasants from the paintings of Kramskoy stand before us, each with his own individual character, each busy with the usual business. Unforgettable image of a peasant […]...
20. Painting by Aivazovsky “View of Constantinople under moonlight” The picture of I. Aivazovsky appeared after several of his visits to Turkey. Impressions from this state were so vivid that he wanted to reflect them in his picture. The author several times depicted this city in his paintings, because he considered him the most beautiful, even more beautiful, than Venice. Hardly anyone of the […]...
21. Painting by Aivazovsky “Moonlit Night: The Bathhouse in Feodosia” 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 […]...
22. 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 […]...
23. Painting Rzhevskaya “Music” Antonina Leonardovna Rzhevskaya is a remarkable Russian artist who is a member of the “Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions”. Antonina Leonardovna – the second and last female artist, who became an exhibitor of this creative association, however, later she ceased to be his member, because of disagreement with their program. Rzhevskaya was born in a […]...
24. Painting by Aivazovsky “Neapolitan Bay in the moonlight” Being in constant search of sources of inspiration for writing his paintings, Aivazovsky very often made trips to the Black Sea. Accordingly, after these trips, there were such famous paintings as “St. George’s Monastery”, “Storm on the Black Sea” and many others. Once Aivazovsky decided to get out of Russia and went on a trip […]...
25. Painting by Vasiliev “In the Crimean Mountains” The presented picture is one of the last in the work of Fedor Vasiliev. Crimea at first did not attract the young artist, which he did not fail to notice in one of the letters to Kramskoy. Vasilyev was desperately bored in Russia. In the Crimea, he was urgently sent by doctors – the boy […]...
26. Painting by Aivazovsky “St. George Monastery” The artist Aivazovsky is known throughout the world for many pictures with marine themes. He gave preference to writing paintings on the Black Sea. One of his most famous works is the painting “St. George’s Monastery,” which he wrote at the very beginning of his work. At that time, Aivazovsky was very young, so in […]...
27. The Painting Plastov “Hay mowing” In A. Plastov’s painting “Haymaking” we see people of different generations who work on a hot summer day. They are simple country people, they mow the grass for hay blanks for the winter. All of them, from the old man to the young boy, are absorbed in their work, because they know how important it […]...
28. Painting by Firsov “The Young Painter” Painting Firsova “Young Painter”, written in the eighteenth century, at the same time the genre painting was almost unknown and did not enjoy enough popularity, so it was not recognized. Because of this picture, almost two centuries, no one knew. Before Firsov began to paint pictures, he was engaged in the fact that he was […]...
29. The composition of Perov’s painting “The Sleeping Children” The picture “Sleeping children” great painter Vasily Grigorievich Perov wrote in the distant 1870. The famous canvas is among the best works of the author and is highly regarded all over the world, both by art connoisseurs and professional critics. The picture is written quite simply, without superfluous delights. Given the style of writing, the […]...
30. Painting by Aivazovsky “Fishermen on the beach” Beginning to paint Aivazovsky’s painting, depicting the sky, or as he called it after his teacher at the Academy of Arts, M. N. Vorobyov – air. Whatever the size of the canvas, Aivazovsky wrote “air” in one session, even if it stretched to 12 hours in a row. It was by such a titanic effort […]...
31. The Painting by Rubens “The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus” The collection of paintings by the famous artist Peter Paul Rubens, which is considered the world heritage, was replenished with one more work. The canvas “The Abduction of the Leucippus’ Daughters”, which for a long time was considered a forgery, after research turned out to be a real original, and was written by the hand […]...
32. The composition of Levitan’s painting “Winter in the Forest” Levitan from the age of 16 became a famous artist. His paintings made the viewer worry. I believe that Levitan’s success lies in his love for the rich Russian nature. In the life of the artist, on the contrary, at this time, not the best of times. He lost his parents. He had to conquer […]...
33. Painting by Aivazovsky “Chaos Creation” “At the art exhibition in Aiivazovsky in Rome, the paintings were recognized as the first.” The Neapolitan Night “,” The Storm “and” Chaos “made so much noise in the capital of fine arts, that the halls of nobles, public gatherings and dens of artists were announced with the glory of the Novorossiysk landscape painter, the […]...
34. Painting Manet “Breakfast on the grass” “Breakfast on the grass” – a picture of the great French artist-impressionist Edward Manet (1832-1883). The original title of the painting is “Bathing”. The picture became really scandalous and was subjected to great criticism, but now occupies an honorable place among the masterpieces of world painting. The picture “Breakfast on the grass” was written in […]...
35. Painting by Bryullov “A Girl Gathering Grapes” “A Girl Gathering Grape in the Neighborhood of Naples” is a famous painting by the Russian artist Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (1799-1852). The painting was written in 1827. Canvas, oil. Dimensions: 62 x 32.5 cm. Located in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. The painting “A Girl Gathering Grapes” was written by Karl Bryullov after visiting […]...
36. Painting by Claude Monet “The impression of the rising sun” The picture with the original name “Sea” was foreseen for a great future. Despite the clearly defined date, 72 Monet was mistaken, since the work was written in 1873 in Le Havre, where a wonderful view of the port was opened from the window of a small hotel. In 1874, the painting was being prepared […]...
37. 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, […]...
38. Painting by Shishkin “Pine” The picture “Pines, illuminated by the sun” I. I. Shishkin wrote in 1886. This period was especially fruitful for the artist, because he worked hard on sketches, trying to find the right ways to solve the most difficult tasks that he prepared for painting. Some of the artist’s large landscapes have clearly outgrown the scope […]...
39. The Painting by Van Gogh “Four wilted sunflowers” There are such works of art that drift through the galleries of the whole world and become almost synonymous with the name and method of painting the artist. The painting “Sunflowers” by Vincent Van Gogh is an excellent example. Important is not only the connection between the artist and the painting, but also the artist’s […]...
40. Painting Grabar “March Snow” Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar is known not only as an artist, but also as an art historian and critic. Grabar’s creative path was very difficult and contradictory. His works were characterized by two picturesque genres – landscape and portrait. And one of the main themes of landscape painting by Grabar was the theme of Russian winter […]...