Articles about Russian art
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Progressive ideas and moods of an epoch, following the Tatar-Mongolian yoke have found the reflection in painting of the first half of the XV century...
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Vilen Karakashev belongs to a galaxy of the artists, that played the major role in the development of poster art, that began together with the social changes in life of the country in 1960th years...
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The Russian fine arts until recently has represented a harmonious blend of national art cultures...
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Undoubtedly, he works in extremely realistic manner. And at the same time, plots of his canvases are so fantastic, that they remind of creation of myths...
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In 1918 the special “Commission on disclosing monuments of old Russian painting” has been organized in the All-Russian restoration commission...
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Grabar Igor Emmanuilovich (1871-1960) was the Russian painter, critic, the national artist of RSFSR, the full member of the Academy of sciences of the USSR (with 1943) and Academy of arts...
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A famous sage, a wise philosopher, a master who excelled in decoration of manuscripts and the best of icon-painters', such were the words of the educated monk ...
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In one of the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow there is a work which ranks among the greatest achievements of world art — the icon entitled The Holy Trinity...
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Dionysius was well-known even in his youth and worked all over Muscovy. Other than this, little is known about his life...
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The work of Ivan Nikitin played an important role in the establishment of eighteenth century Russian portraiture as an artistic phenomenon of not merely national but also European significance...
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Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897), one of Russia’s most remarkable landscape painters, who proceeded from romantic traditions in his never ending searchings...
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The Great Karl, he was called by his contemporaries. His masterpiece, The Last Day of Pompeii, an enormous composition painted in Italy in 1830—1833, was a real triumph...
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Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich was an artist of versatile talents who lived an eventful life. He spent his first forty years in Russia, the land of his birth, devoted several years to expeditions...
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is works combine seemingly disharmonious elements. They reveal a rapturous perception of feminine beauty, and at the same time a touch of kind irony towards his model...
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Nikas Safronov was born on April 8, 1956 in Ulyanovsk. He studied in a nautical school in Odessa, an arts school in Rostov-on-Don and an arts institute in Lithuania...
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Looking at the works of Rudolph Khachatrian, you understand that this man has had several lives. Moreover, recalling your long-time admiration for his creative work...
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Stepan Pimenov, one of the great Russian sculptors of the early nineteenth century, was born the son of a humble St. Petersburg customs official...
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A.G.VENETSIANOV'S "Peasant Woman Carding Flax" is a pearl of the Kalinin collection. At first glance this girl appears to be beautiful — regular features, a high forehead, large blue eyes, and the face a soft oval...
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The distinguished Russian painter Vassily Perov was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, and received his artistic training in Moscow where he lived and worked most of his life.
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Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli was one of several artists whose talent flourished in Russia. During the early part of Rastrelli's stay there, he profited from the times themselves, when, as Pushkin said, "young Russia came of age with Peter's genius"
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The work of Fedot Shubin, like that of all the greatest eighteenth century masters, does not belong only to its own age. Covering a broad range of genres—portrait, monumental and decorative sculpture...
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For a long time the life of Fyodor Rokotov, the most poetic portraitist of the eighteenth century, remained a riddle. Having been very famous during his life, Rokotov was forgotten for a whole century after his death...
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"I am a history painter," says Fyodor Usypenko, one of the artists who created the huge diorama entitled "Alexander Suvorov's Alpine Campaign". Led by Suvorov, the many-thousand strong Russian army...
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If someone had told the son of a Moscow merchant who became a land surveyor and then a clerk that he was destined to play a historical role in Russian art, he would have shrugged his shoulders and said that he was merely an amateur.
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Arkady Plastov was born into a peasant family in 1893. He attended the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture and in 1917 returned to...
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It so happened that within the space of two or three months this year, a one-man show of Alexander Shilov's paintings was held in two capitals—Moscow and Paris
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Almost until recently the term Georgian art was applied only to the art which has arisen in Georgia after introduction of Christian religion and developed in an epoch of formation of feudal state that replaced a slaveholding formation.
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Anton Losenko was born in the Ukrainian town of Glukhovo, into the family of a peasant. At the age of seven, having a good voice and musical ear, he was taken into the court choir in St. Petersburg.
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Dmitry Levitsky was one of the most important and versatile artists of the eighteenth century. His brilliant, refined portraits most fully reflected the...
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Vladimir Borovikovsky, one of the talented and original artists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was born in Mirgorod, in the Ukraine.
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He was born into the family of a military musician. The boy's precocious talent for drawing prompted his parents to send him to the Academy of Arts.
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Ivan Martos was born in the village of Ichne in the Chernigov region of the Ukraine. At the age of twelve he was sent to the Academy of Arts, where for eight years he studied sculpture under Nicolas Gillet
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Orest Kiprensky, the great portraitist of the early nineteenth century, was born in the Ora-nienbaum district of Petersburg Gubernia, on an estate belonging to the ...
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The Shchedrin family, like the Bryullov and Ivanov families, was a kind of artistic dynasty. Silvestr Shchedrin was born in St. Petersburg. His father, Feodosy, was a well-known sculptor...
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One of the founders of the Russian genre painting, Alexei Venetsianov, was born into a not particularly well-off merchant family in Moscow. His father traded in fruit-bushes.
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Vasily Demut-Malinovsky occupies one of the leading places among the masters of Russian monumental sculpture of the first half of 19th century. His works echoed the heroic epoch of the 1812
Progressive ideas and moods of an epoch, following the Tatar-Mongolian yoke have found the reflection in painting of the first half of the XV century...
Vilen Karakashev belongs to a galaxy of the artists, that played the major role in the development of poster art, that began together with the social changes in life of the country in 1960th years...
The Russian fine arts until recently has represented a harmonious blend of national art cultures...
Undoubtedly, he works in extremely realistic manner. And at the same time, plots of his canvases are so fantastic, that they remind of creation of myths...
In 1918 the special “Commission on disclosing monuments of old Russian painting” has been organized in the All-Russian restoration commission...
Grabar Igor Emmanuilovich (1871-1960) was the Russian painter, critic, the national artist of RSFSR, the full member of the Academy of sciences of the USSR (with 1943) and Academy of arts...
A famous sage, a wise philosopher, a master who excelled in decoration of manuscripts and the best of icon-painters', such were the words of the educated monk ...
In one of the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow there is a work which ranks among the greatest achievements of world art — the icon entitled The Holy Trinity...
The work of Ivan Nikitin played an important role in the establishment of eighteenth century Russian portraiture as an artistic phenomenon of not merely national but also European significance...
Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897), one of Russia’s most remarkable landscape painters, who proceeded from romantic traditions in his never ending searchings...
The Great Karl, he was called by his contemporaries. His masterpiece, The Last Day of Pompeii, an enormous composition painted in Italy in 1830—1833, was a real triumph...
Nikolay Konstantinovich Roerich was an artist of versatile talents who lived an eventful life. He spent his first forty years in Russia, the land of his birth, devoted several years to expeditions...
is works combine seemingly disharmonious elements. They reveal a rapturous perception of feminine beauty, and at the same time a touch of kind irony towards his model...
Nikas Safronov was born on April 8, 1956 in Ulyanovsk. He studied in a nautical school in Odessa, an arts school in Rostov-on-Don and an arts institute in Lithuania...
Looking at the works of Rudolph Khachatrian, you understand that this man has had several lives. Moreover, recalling your long-time admiration for his creative work...
Stepan Pimenov, one of the great Russian sculptors of the early nineteenth century, was born the son of a humble St. Petersburg customs official...
A.G.VENETSIANOV'S "Peasant Woman Carding Flax" is a pearl of the Kalinin collection. At first glance this girl appears to be beautiful — regular features, a high forehead, large blue eyes, and the face a soft oval...
The distinguished Russian painter Vassily Perov was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, and received his artistic training in Moscow where he lived and worked most of his life.
Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli was one of several artists whose talent flourished in Russia. During the early part of Rastrelli's stay there, he profited from the times themselves, when, as Pushkin said, "young Russia came of age with Peter's genius"
The work of Fedot Shubin, like that of all the greatest eighteenth century masters, does not belong only to its own age. Covering a broad range of genres—portrait, monumental and decorative sculpture...
For a long time the life of Fyodor Rokotov, the most poetic portraitist of the eighteenth century, remained a riddle. Having been very famous during his life, Rokotov was forgotten for a whole century after his death...
"I am a history painter," says Fyodor Usypenko, one of the artists who created the huge diorama entitled "Alexander Suvorov's Alpine Campaign". Led by Suvorov, the many-thousand strong Russian army...
If someone had told the son of a Moscow merchant who became a land surveyor and then a clerk that he was destined to play a historical role in Russian art, he would have shrugged his shoulders and said that he was merely an amateur.
Arkady Plastov was born into a peasant family in 1893. He attended the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture and in 1917 returned to...
It so happened that within the space of two or three months this year, a one-man show of Alexander Shilov's paintings was held in two capitals—Moscow and Paris
Almost until recently the term Georgian art was applied only to the art which has arisen in Georgia after introduction of Christian religion and developed in an epoch of formation of feudal state that replaced a slaveholding formation.
Anton Losenko was born in the Ukrainian town of Glukhovo, into the family of a peasant. At the age of seven, having a good voice and musical ear, he was taken into the court choir in St. Petersburg.
Dmitry Levitsky was one of the most important and versatile artists of the eighteenth century. His brilliant, refined portraits most fully reflected the...
Vladimir Borovikovsky, one of the talented and original artists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was born in Mirgorod, in the Ukraine.
He was born into the family of a military musician. The boy's precocious talent for drawing prompted his parents to send him to the Academy of Arts.
Ivan Martos was born in the village of Ichne in the Chernigov region of the Ukraine. At the age of twelve he was sent to the Academy of Arts, where for eight years he studied sculpture under Nicolas Gillet
Orest Kiprensky, the great portraitist of the early nineteenth century, was born in the Ora-nienbaum district of Petersburg Gubernia, on an estate belonging to the ...
The Shchedrin family, like the Bryullov and Ivanov families, was a kind of artistic dynasty. Silvestr Shchedrin was born in St. Petersburg. His father, Feodosy, was a well-known sculptor...
One of the founders of the Russian genre painting, Alexei Venetsianov, was born into a not particularly well-off merchant family in Moscow. His father traded in fruit-bushes.
Vasily Demut-Malinovsky occupies one of the leading places among the masters of Russian monumental sculpture of the first half of 19th century. His works echoed the heroic epoch of the 1812
