Description of the painting by James Whistler “Portrait of a Mother”

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1. Description of the painting by Igor Grabar “Portrait of O. Grabar-Dobrianskaya, the mother of the artist”Igor Grabar is a Russian post-impressionist artist. To paint the portrait oil paints and canvas were used. The painting, written around 1925, depicts the artist’s mother, frozen in a natural pose. A woman is dressed in a blue dress, decorated with a black tie. Such dresses were worn by many women of that era. The […]...
2. Description of the painting by Alexey Venetsianov “Portrait of a Mother”Venetsianov – Russian artist from a poor family, originating from Greece. His very name came from the nickname “Veneziano”, which was worn by his great-grandfather, who arrived in Russia. He was born in Moscow, worked at the forest department, was distinguished by great observation and attention to trifles. He preferred to write genre scenes from […]...
3. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Mother of the World”Carried away by Eastern philosophical and religious movements, Roerich considered it his duty to carry them through work to people who were far from them. Expressing himself through what he did best – through painting – he simultaneously popularized what he believed in. Even if people did not understand the meaning of the pictures, they […]...
4. Description of the painting by Rembrandt Harmens Van Rijn “Portrait of Rembrandt’s mother sitting at the table”Rembrandt is a Dutch painter, a representative of the golden age and one of the best masters. He was known during his lifetime, he had many students, among whom there are famous and talented artists, he preferred historical scenes and portraits. He loved to draw people, devoted almost all his work to this, not chanting, […]...
5. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Mother Picasso”The portrait of the mother of Picasso is written in a manner completely uncharacteristic of him. A bright representative of Cubism in painting, he painted a portrait of his mother gently, barely perceptibly, lacking in his traditional style. The picture is filled with love. The whole image of a woman just breathes warmth. It becomes […]...
6. Description of the painting by Alexander Deineka “Mother”A. A. Deineka wrote the work “Mother” in a difficult time for the country. It was during the war years that a person completely overestimated life and for him native people become more important. The artist depicted the mother’s image severely and even roughly. It cannot be said that the painter depicted a particular woman, […]...
7. Description of the painting by Boris Prorokov “Mother”The image of the mother and her child throughout all time was a source of inexhaustible creative ideas and inspiration of various artists. The love given by the mother does not know the limit or the end, and therefore this topic will always be popular and worthy of chanting. The painting “Mother” by the artist […]...
8. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Mother”In his picture, Russian artist Kuzma Petrovich Petrov-Vodkin portrayed a young woman breastfeeding her child. The artist turned to the theme of motherhood in 1912 by no means accidentally. For six years, he and his beloved wife by the name of Mara tried unsuccessfully to conceive a child. Therefore, at this time, he one after […]...
9. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Acrobats mother and son”In the period 1904.-1906. the famous Italian artist Pablo Picasso had a special stage in his creative life, in which he applied only images of artists, acrobats and circus artists to the canvas. It was during this period that Picasso created his famous masterpiece Acrobats (Mother and Son). We see how a mother and her […]...
10. Description of the icon by Simon Ushakov “Mother of God of Vladimir”The famous Russian icon painter Ushakov created a huge variety of skillful icons. His works are made in the classical church style. The iconographic paintings of Simon Ushakov sparkle with gold and precious stones. The master knew how to choose the right colors to convey the splendor of biblical characters and scenes. One of his […]...
11. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Works of the Mother of God”For many years nothing was heard about this picture. Art critics have already begun to think that this beautiful canvas is forever lost, but in 2013 the picture was at one of the London auctions. It turns out that for a long time the painting was at the disposal of a private American collector of […]...
12. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Mother and Child”Pablo Picasso experimented with a wide range of styles and themes. The paintings reflect the trends of the time and convey personal situations and moods of the artist. The works created in the period from 1901 to 1904, refer to the “blue period”. Pablo Picasso was in deep depression and created gloomy pictures of poor, […]...
13. Description of the painting by Boris Nemensky “Mother”Boris Mikhailovich Nemensky was a Soviet teacher and painter. The artist was born in 1922 in Moscow. As soon as he graduated from college in 1942, Boris went to the front. During the service he was able to create several sketches on military subjects. One of such works is the painting “Mother”, based on the […]...
14. Description of the painting by Yuri Raksha “My mother”Yuri Raksha was a classic representative of the late socialist realism of the 60-70s. All his creativity is imbued with this spirit. The picture is called “My Mom.” But such a mother Yuri Raksha never knew. All her life she worked as a laborer in a local factory. Her youth had hungry war and post-war […]...
15. Description of the painting by Sergei Gerasimov “Mother of a Partisan”Gerasimov worked on this masterpiece for a long 7 years. He began the picture in the turning point of 1943. At this time, the Nazis have already stopped. The guerrillas were the avengers of the people, who just united the front and rear. These patriots were not afraid of torture and threats. In the center […]...
16. Description of the monument “Motherland Mother” in KievThe monument-sculpture Motherland in the city of Kiev is truly majestic and large-scale. The sculpture can be seen from the most remote areas of the capital, for the statue, together with the pedestal, rises 102 meters. The opening of the monument took place in 1981, and it is part of the complex of the national […]...
17. Description of the painting by Frida Kahlo “Self-portrait”This creative person was born in Mexico in 1907. With all her tragic biography, she was a cheerful and cheerful woman with her own mystery and dream of a new future. It was this that allowed her, in writing pictures, to convey all of her mental anguish and pain, tears and the loss of the […]...
18. Description of the painting by Valentin Serov “Portrait of Repin”An outstanding artist of his time and his generation, Valentin Serov lived and worked in the XIX-XX centuries. During his work, he wrote a lot of different pictures, but at first Serov was engaged in writing portraits and paintings to order. At the expense of his work on order, he became one of the most […]...
19. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Portrait of Gertrude Stein”And how unhappy was Mrs. Stein when she saw the final version of her portrait, which she received from her best friend Picasso. First of all, she did not like the face. By the way, it is depicted in the manner of Picasso. Although in the first version, even when she posed for the artist, […]...
20. Description of the painting by Peter Konchalovsky “Family Portrait”The picture “Family Portrait” was written by Peter Konchalovsky in 1912 in the city of Siena. The whole family of Konchalovsky is present on it: the artist, the wife and the children. Konchalovsky wrote “Family Portrait” on one of the days when the family had already come to terms with frequent trips. In a short […]...
21. Description of the painting by Claude Monet “Self-portrait”Claude Monet is a heritage of world culture, whose works are made in the style of impressionism. The French artist not only created this trend, but also used this trend in all his works. And one of his works, which are of particular interest to the viewer, is a self-portrait. In this picture, the viewer […]...
22. Description of the painting by Nicholas Ge “Self-portrait”During his life, the famous artist Nikolai Nikolayevich Ge painted a great many works. Among them were paintings on religious themes, works describing historical events, beautiful landscapes. Some of his works were considered the heights of Russian creativity, some were completely unrecognized, but absolutely everything was impressed by the ability of the artist to truly […]...
23. Description of the painting by Orest Kiprensky “Portrait of D. N. Khvostova”Dated 1814, materials – oil on canvas, size – 71 by 57.8 cm. Has a vertical location, located in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Orest Adamovich is a magnificent master of romanticism and academic style, whose canvases were put on the same level as Rembrandt. His manner of writing is well traced in the […]...
24. Description of the painting by Valentin Serov “Portrait of Repina”Serov’s parents were not artists. His father is a composer, great-grandfather is a naturalist. For the first time a talent for drawing from a young artist woke up in 1871, when he was placed in a commune in the Smolensk province. The measure was forced – the father died, the mother left to continue her […]...
25. Description of the painting by Zinaida Serebryakova “Self-portrait with two daughters”Zinaida Serebryakova is one of the first Russian women painters to inscribe themselves in the history of painting. Her creativity, not under any influence, is quite independent and original. The picture “Self-portrait with daughters” was written quickly, easily. The impression, as if two little daughters, having caught the moment, clung to the mother, when she […]...
26. Description of the painting by Pinturicchio “Portrait of a Boy”The boy in the portrait is depicted on the background of nature. One can see the city, green bushes, a distant grove, trees, with transparent brown leaves against the background of the dawn sky, yellow at the horizon. Autumn reigns around, cool, early, golden and beautiful. Flower overflows would be beautiful, even if they were […]...
27. Description of the painting by Nicholas Ge “Portrait of Leo Tolstoy”Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was an amazing man and caused delight and inspiration from his readers. Among the latter was the artist Nikolai Nikolayevich Ge. In 1884, Ge will write a portrait of the writer in his house in Khamovniki. During the creative process, the writer and artist will get close and will find a lot […]...
28. Description of the painting by Edward Munch “Self-portrait with a bottle of wine”And here is Munch in front of us. Yes Yes. This is the same artist who portrayed for us the “Scream”, which became the most frequently stolen masterpiece and no guard can keep this canvas in any walls of the museum, even in a safe. The “cry” was stolen everywhere and even forged, and only […]...
29. Description of the painting by Zinaida Serebryakova “Self-portrait”The picture was created in the winter of 1909 in a small estate Neskuchnoye. Artist Zinaida Serebryakova was then 25 years old. She was waiting for her husband, who was going to call on her and her children, returning from Northern Siberia. Christmas planned to meet in St. Petersburg. That morning was dazzlingly sunny and […]...
30. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Portrait of Vladimir Dahl”A magnificent portrait of the famous Russian writer and ethnographer Vladimir Dahl was written by Vasily Perov in 1872. This was the last year of Dahl’s life, we see an elderly person sitting in a chair with many wrinkles and a gray beard. The artist portrayed him in such a way that in this fading […]...
31. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Portrait of Soler”Practically the whole of 1903, Pablo Picasso spent in Barcelona, ​​where he made many friends. For some of them, a very young artist at the time wrote portraits. Among the lucky ones was Soler, a fashionable tailor of the time helping young artists. It is known that Soler gave clothes in exchange for paintings, because […]...
32. Description of the painting by Alexei Shilov “Self Portrait”A. Shilov is the successor of painting in the style of Russian realism. During his life, he painted many landscapes and still lifes, but he considered himself a painter still a portrait painter. His portraits reflect the real image, on the canvas everything matters. The artist has no chance, and the turn of the head, […]...
33. Description of the painting by Peter Sokolov “Portrait of Yulia Sokolova”PF Sokolov is known as the first Russian artist, who decided to paint a portrait exclusively with watercolors, and marked the beginning of a new genre in Russian painting. For the first half of the XIX century, the actions of P. F. Sokolov as a portrait painter were truly progressive, which is why the artist […]...
34. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Portrait of M. F. Petrov-Vodkin”Pictures Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin rightly considered the first examples of the genre of socialist realism. Many of his paintings of the Bolshevik period are really remembered and stored in the memory forever – but still the most vivid works of Petrov-Vodkin, no doubt – these are portraits. With the help of very meager means, the artist […]...
35. Description of the painting by Pavel Filonov “Portrait of Joseph Stalin”The representative of the Soviet avant-garde in painting, Pavel Filonov – a mysterious and ambiguous figure. The artist spent most of his life in Leningrad, where he fanatically created unique masterpieces until his death during the blockade. He lived modestly, sometimes even in extreme need, which made him forget about personal preferences in art themes […]...
36. Description of the painting by Jacques-Louis David “Self-portrait” (1794)This picture shows us the character and appearance of Jacques-Louis David, how the artist himself felt. He wanted the audience to recognize in him a man of strong-willed, restrained, passionate and inclined to spiritual impulse. One need only look at the artist’s self-portrait in order to understand the reasons why he joined the revolutionaries and […]...
37. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Portrait of Anna Akhmatova”Later, the work of Petrov-Vodkin was marked by the desire to move away from the desire to find a solution to the universal questions of being, characteristic of the master’s composite canvases. He turns to the portrait genre, significantly narrowing his artistic task, which is now limited to the desire to convey in any detail […]...
38. Description of the painting by Ivan Kramsky “Portrait of an unknown” (Nezkakomka)Kramskoy is a very famous artist, who has famous and unusual works of art. For example, one of his most famous masterpieces is a painting titled “Portrait of an Unknown.” This work is full of mystery and mystery, this is its peculiarity. The portrait is fraught with some intrigue. The mystery of this canvas has […]...
39. Description of the painting by Fedor Rokotov “Portrait of Surovtseva”The painter Rokotov became famous as a skilled portrait painter. In his preserved creative heritage there are wonderful pair portraits of the Surovtsev couple. A representative of a noble family married the born Pashkov. Varvara Nikolaevna and her husband Surovtsev were painted by Rokotov in portraits in oval frames. A special grace is different style […]...
40. Description of the painting by Nicholas Ge “Portrait of Herzen”Nikolai Nikolayevich Ge wrote his famous work in 1867 in Florence. Delivered her to Russia under the guise of a picture of the prophet Moses. This was all done in secret, otherwise the gendarmes on the border would have destroyed the portrait, like an image of a rebel. Ge previously closed the portrait with a […]...