Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Cossacks”

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1. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Dominant curve”Wassily Kandinsky is known worldwide as one of the founders of abstractionism. Parents saw their son a lawyer, and he obediently entered Moscow University. Everything was changed by the Impressionist exhibition, to which Vasily got – at thirty years old he decides to change his life abruptly and become an artist. To learn the skill […]...
2. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “White Oval” (1919)The picture is painted in oil on canvas in 1919, at the dawn of the creative path of Wassily Kandinsky. Art critics compare the “White Oval” with the music embodied in the picture, imbued with the author’s state of mind, his deepest feelings. This opinion is justified, because the artist really considered his work as […]...
3. Description painting Wassily Kandinsky “Twilight (1917)”Kandinsky was one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, becoming the face of abstract art. Almost all the paintings written before 1921, were a reflection of the Apocalypse. This picture needs no explanation, since abstract art distracts from concrete images and forms in the audience an individual attitude to what is depicted […]...
4. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Black and Violet” (1923)The canvas was created during the period when the artist wrote his best work. After his return to Germany, he worked in an atmosphere of revival of all types of art and attention to abstract painting among remarkable colleagues, which spurred the creative process and gave new ideas. At that time, the painter was dominated […]...
5. Description paintings by Wassily Kandinsky “Blue Sky”Vasily Kandinsky from childhood had talent. Despite the fact that he learned to be a lawyer, received the title of assistant professor, received the right to teach, Vasily takes a willful decision and becomes an artist. The turning point in the life of the future artist was an accident. After Kandinsky saw the picture of […]...
6. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan”The basis of the painting by Repin was the historical event of 1676. Then the Cossacks of the free Zaporizhian Sich guarded the country from the Turks. Sultan Mahmud IV sent a letter to the Zaporozhye Cossacks, where he offered to surrender to him without resistance. Wanting to frighten the Cossacks, the Turkish sultan gave […]...
7. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “A few circles”The painting “Several circles” was written in 1926. Materials for writing the work served as oil and canvas. The size of the canvas is 140×140 cm. Currently, the picture is in New York, in the Guggenheim Museum. Of course, this work belongs to the genre of abstract art, the most prominent representative of which was […]...
8. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Composition VII”The founder of abstractionism Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky began to seriously engage in painting at the age of thirty, leaving for the sake of this a brilliant legal career. He studied in Europe with the venerable teachers of painting, seeking to take the knowledge from them to the maximum, but he already had his own recognizable […]...
9. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Gravity”Catherine “Gravity” Vasily V. Kandinsky wrote in 1935. On a dark background, the artist depicted a composition of clear lines, circles and squares. The center of the canvas, he marked a kind of axis from one horizontal line and several vertical ones. In the upper left corner of the canvas, he placed a square, marked […]...
10. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Iprestia III (concert)”Written in 1911, oil on canvas, size 77.5 by 100 cm. Located in Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany. Vasily was not only an outstanding artist but also a theoretician. He believed that art should throw off the shackles that the physical form of objects and phenomena imposes, and convey the deepest essence of ideas to the viewer. […]...
11. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Cutting Line”The cutting line of Wassily Kandinsky is a vivid example of abstract art. This painting bears the characteristic features of a geometric style in the artist’s work, inherent in all his works of the 1920s. Works acquire restraint and rationality, cool colors come to replace the riot of bright colors, spontaneity is replaced by clear […]...
12. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Picture with a green center”The picture is painted in oil on canvas in 1913. The work with the green center of Vasily Kandinsky has a traditional compositional construction. The artist builds the depicted composition from the center. This is the way the image of many works of the master is written. In the present work, the centerpiece is a […]...
13. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Yellow-red-blue”Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky – Russian graphic artist, revolutionary artist. Burst into domestic art with the most daring ideas that embodied in his paintings. The painter and founder of the famous art trend – abstractionism, which followed almost all of his conscious creative life. Kandinsky became famous not only for his works, shocking the public and […]...
14. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Black accompaniment”Vasily V. Kandinsky – Russian painter, founder of abstractionism. The talent for drawing he opened only 30 years after becoming acquainted with the work of Monet “Haystack.” Up to this point, Vasily, having received a law degree, becomes a teacher. A little later, Derpt University invites him to work as an assistant professor, but Kandinsky […]...
15. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Abstraction”Wassily Kandinsky is a talented Russian artist and an exquisite art theorist. With his creative work and artwork, this man could have a great influence on the historical development of all the fine contemporary art. It is to his merits that he himself, with the help of his works, created the first prerequisites for the […]...
16. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Cossacks in a boat”The great artist Vasily Surikov loved his native Siberian lands very much. This was the reason for the creation of his works in historical genre. The struggle of Ermak with the Tatars was a very interesting topic for the painter. The etude “Cossacks in a boat” was created in 1892 in Krasnoyarsk. Later it became […]...
17. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Contrast sounds”There is an opinion that Kandinsky Vasily was a synesthet. This means that he had one simply unique quality – acoustic-color synesthesia. This characterizes the ability of a person to see a melody as a color and vice versa. Kandinsky believed that to hear color in melodic music is a snap. It all depends on […]...
18. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Two on a horse”In the works of Kandinsky you can feel the relentless movement forward and a lot of changes. In his early canvases visible hints of a radical change in style in the future are still visible. Before us, it would seem a completely ordinary picture. It has motifs of folklore and fairytale beginnings. But at the […]...
19. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Old Town” (1902)The painting “Old City” by Wassily Kandinsky was painted in the period of creative research, in 1902, and belongs to the artist’s early works. The work was created in the direction of Art Nouveau, characterized by the generalized forms. Like many other early works, the presented picture is written in a cheerful color palette, inherent […]...
20. Description of the painting by Wassily Kandinsky “Ladies in crinolines” (1909)In the period from 1900 to 1910, Vasily Kandinsky worked in the magazine “World of Art”, which was engaged in the publication of Russian symbolism. The main theme for the work of the Symbolists of the time was the culture of the Russian nobility of the 17th century and the first half of the 19th […]...
21. Description of the painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Moscow. The Red Square”Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky loved Moscow very much. He said that Moscow is a complex and mobile city. He called it a confusion, where events, destinies and people intertwine. But at the same time for him Moscow is the most beautiful city on the planet Earth. It is therefore not surprising that his source of inspiration […]...
22. Description of the painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Black lines” (1913)The canvas was created during the artist’s creative rise. It perfectly reflects his personality at that time. In one of his first fundamental abstract canvases, the painter uses black strokes against a background of bright colors, forming disharmony. All the main colors of the spectrum and their subtlest shades fall in large strokes on the […]...
23. Description of the painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Winter Landscape”Wassily Kandinsky is not only a great Russian artist, but also the founder of graphics and abstraction in Russia. He was born and grew up in a merchant family. Initially, the young Vasily was trained for a respectable share – the work of a lawyer. The future artist successfully graduated from a university in Moscow. […]...
24. Description of the painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Meeting of surfaces”The painting was written in 1934. Kandinsky had his own theory of painting. In it, he singled out the provisions of art that require close study. This is primarily a form. No less important is the color that decides the depth of construction, using the laws of optics. Picturesque details determine the depth. Another position […]...
25. Description of the painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Colorful Life”The colorful life (La Vie melangee) is a picture of one of the founders of abstract art Vasily Kandinsky. After purchasing the Bavarian State Bank, the picture has been exhibited in the city gallery Lenbachhaus in Munich since 1972. Many art critics agree that the “Bright Life” is considered one of the key works of […]...
26. Description of the painting by Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky “Autumn landscape with boats”The painting “Autumn Landscape with Boats” was painted by V. V. Kandinsky in 1908. The artist preferred to write his creations from a living nature, but, paying more attention not to the clarity and drawing of the image, but gave more importance to color and contrast. In this picture, Kandinsky depicted the evening pier, with […]...
27. Description of the painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Gentle ascent”The painting “Gentle Ascent” – one of the late works of Kandinsky, written in 1934. This creation is the fruit of Vasily Vasilyevich’s improvement of his painting system, which went against the teachings of the Bauhaus on the use of primary and intermediate colors. Improvements in the use of color schemes represent the color play […]...
28. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Cossack”Vasily Surikov was born in Siberia, in Krasnoyarsk, in a family of hereditary Cossacks. Among the founders of this city are his ancestors, the Don Cossacks. Repeatedly, he spoke of his origin with the greatest pride; scenes from the Cossack life and colorful images of the Cossacks go through all his work. The artist was […]...
29. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Shipka-Sheinovo (Skobelev under Shipka)”Cloth “Skobelev over Shipka” is considered a historical picture, which carries a deep meaning. Vereshchagin created a whole cycle dedicated to the battles of the Balkan campaign. It was one of the most violent wars in the entire history between the Russian and Turkish army in the mountains of Bulgaria. The bloodshed was based on […]...
30. Description of the painting by Mitrofan Grekov “Trumpeters of the first cavalry army”MB Grekov is the founder of Russian battle painting. According to his works, one can study the history of the Soviet state and visually see everyday events. One of the clearest examples of work in this area is the painting “Trumpeters of the First Cavalry Army”. The artist was called up for military service and […]...
31. Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “After the slaughter of Igor Svyatoslavich with Polovtsy”Vasnetsov drew the viewer’s attention to the events that took place during the formation of Kievan Rus. However, this picture was written in order to show people courage and courage of the spirit, regardless of the outcome of the war. This picture reveals to us the events that have become legendary and were captured in […]...
32. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Red Cavalry”“Red cavalry gallops” – one of the most famous abstract works of Kazimir Malevich. The exact date of writing is unknown. Approximate dating – 1928-1932 years. Difficulties with dating arise from the fact that Malevich, in most of his later works, affixed early dates. For many years, this was the only painting by Malevich, made […]...
33. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Landscape with five houses”One of the paintings of Kazimir Malevich, written by him in 1932, is called “Landscape with five houses” and painted in abstract genre with oil. The analysis of such works is always controversial and, as a result, causes a lot of disagreement, but we still try to give elements of this picture some justification. “Landscape […]...
34. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Portrait of Matyushin”In 1913, the famous artist K. S. Malevich painted an unusual picture “Portrait of Matyushin” in the style of a new at that time artistic direction – cubofuturism. Unlike most of his followers, Malevich did not use only monochrome colors in his work. He painted it with oil, applying a rich color palette and depicting […]...
35. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Boy with a backpack”Paraphrasing Kazimir Malevich, dynamic Suprematism (one of the directions of the artist) is able to transform the entire planet, because there are no natures here, only sets of figures symbolizing free flight, rapid dynamics. And indeed, in the picture we see black and red squares, nothing more. No backpack, and even more so the boy […]...
36. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “The Siege of Sevastopol”In the autumn of 1854, one of the most epic events of the Eastern War unfolded in the area of the seaside city of Sevastopol. The combined forces of the French, the British and the Turks disembark north of Sevastopol Bay and try to take the city by storm. The heroic defenders of Sevastopol have […]...
37. Description of the painting by Claude Monet “Camilla on his deathbed”After a long recovery, Camille Monet died on September 5, 1879 in Veteole. Her relationship with the artist dates back to 1864, they married in 1870, although they already had a son named Jean. Monet could not make the final portrait of his beloved wife and model on his deathbed. The work becomes a concert […]...
38. Description of the painting by Pablo Picasso “Mediterranean landscape”The picture was painted by Picasso in the postwar period. The Mediterranean landscape on the seashore is not a serene idyll. The researchers of his biography and creativity believe that the broken forms in the picture show tension and anxiety. This is due to the fact that during this period of life the artist deeply […]...
39. Description of the statue of Donatello “Judith and Holofernes”Donatello created an excellent work called Judith and Holofernes. At first, this sculpture was implied for the Medici Palace, but after the republic was declared, the palace was plundered, the work was moved to the Signoria Square. If you consider this sculpture in terms of composition, it is incredibly complex. Moreover, its expressiveness was much […]...
40. Description of the painting by Kazimir Malevich “Suprematic composition”This picture is a blue rectangle, located on top of the red color of the beam. The composition was written by Malevich in 1916. This is one of the rarest and most expensive works in the history of Russian art. Thanks to his paintings, Malevich had a powerful influence on the ideology of art throughout […]...