Illustration for the epic “Volga” by Ivan Bilibin

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1. Description of the illustration by Ivan Bilibin “A Feast at Prince Guidon”Ivan Bilibin was able to turn book illustrations into real art, which was confirmed by one of his works. The painting titled “Feast of Prince Guidon” is known to everyone since childhood. Getting acquainted with the work of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, young inquisitive minds had the opportunity to approach the work of another brilliant master. […]...
2. Description of illustration of Ivan Bilibin “Vasilisa the Beautiful”Probably, everyone was holding in his hands beautiful children’s books in a dense colorful cover with patterns on the margins in the old Russian style. And certainly everyone knows the tale of Vasilis the Beautiful. Let us dwell in more detail on the illustrations for this particular fairy tale, created by the remarkable artist Bilibin. […]...
3. Illustration to the fairy tale “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale the Robber” by Ivan BilibinBylina about Ilya Muromets is one of the main components of the Old Russian epos. If you believe her, Ilya Muromets spent thirty years and three years lying on the stove, because his legs did not walk, but when he was thirty-three, three elders came to him and returned his ability to walk so that […]...
4. Description of illustration by Ivan Bilibin “Guidon and the Queen”Ivan Bilibin subtly felt the distinctive character and bright temper of the people of ancient Russia and knew how to convey it in his paintings. Looking at the illustrations of this remarkable artist at first glance it is impossible to perceive the whole holistic depth of his works. Only with the most detailed consideration of […]...
5. Description of the illustration of Ivan Bilibin to the tale “Ivan Tsarevich and the Firebird”Before us is an illustration of a famous fairy tale. Bilibin is a true master who has managed to convey the special beauty of this amazing genre. Fairy tales allow us to plunge into a world full of wonders. There are herbs in it. Animals and birds can talk. The man understands them perfectly. Firebird […]...
6. Illustration to the fairy tale “White duck” by Ivan BilibinThe illustration of the “White Duck”, exactly like six more fairy tales, is significant in that Bilibin was able to develop and actively introduce into his work a special drawing technique – ink, colored with watercolor. Bilibin was a supporter of the use of Russian ornament in the design of his works. In this regard, […]...
7. Illustration to “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel” by Ivan BilibinA picture of the famous Russian artist Ivan Bilibin, who was one of the first to consider the problem of illustrations of children’s literature. Today it is difficult to imagine a book without pictures. The best illustrations were drawn in the times of the development of children’s literature, but still enjoys popularity. This picture is […]...
8. Illustration to the fairy tale “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka” by Ivan BilibinEach of us remembers the wonderful Russian fairy tales that he read in childhood. Over time, they completely changed. People told them to each other, adding something of their own and thereby significantly enriching the overall content. Tales at first were not published. Only in the 17th century, in the second half, began to appear […]...
9. Illustration for the fairy tale “The Frog Princess” by Ivan Bilibin (Ivan Tsarevich and the Frog)The great Russian artist Ivan Bilibin liked to create illustrations for fairy tales, this particular trend in art was especially good for him. Since 1899, he created entire cycles for the publication of fairy tales, while working in different styles. For each story, he picked up his approach, made his own flavor. He worked in […]...
10. Illustration to the fairy tale “Finista Jasna-Sokol feather” by Ivan BilibinBilibin was an ordinary artist – he grew up in Petersburg, he listened to fairy tales in early childhood and vaguely remembered. But one day he came to the exhibition, where he saw Vasnetsov’s painting “Warriors”, and his life changed drastically. He was so impressed with the work of his colleague and her theme that […]...
11. Illustration for the tale of Ivan the Tsarevich. The Firebird and the Gray Wolf by Ivan BilibinIvan Bilibin is an artist who introduced irreplaceable development to Russian folk tales with his illustrations. For four years he creatively designed seven fairy tales, but this did not stop. The artist grew up in the Petersburg environment and was far from Russian national folklore and the past. But after visiting the exhibition of artists […]...
12. Illustration to the fairy tale “Marya Morevna” by Ivan BilibinFor four years, a talented artist Ivan Bilibin managed to write illustrations for seven tales. And although they are all not large in volume, but they are rather large-format. The most important difference between his works is considered to be the unique patterned pattern, decorative elements. The author tried not only to create several separate […]...
13. Illustration for “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” by Ivan BilibinThe illustrator Ivan Bilibin made the series of paintings-descriptions of “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, composed by Pushkin. He wrote several works reflecting the key points of the story. The artist depicted the main characters, the king, the ambassadors, and also pleased us with unsurpassed, emotional landscapes. Experts attach this series of illustrations to the […]...
14. Description of the illustration by Ivan Bilibin “Baba Yaga”Bilibin illustrated fairy tales written by the Russian people. All of us have known Baba Yaga since childhood. She lived in an unusual hut that stood on chicken legs. Usually she lay on the stove or shop. Yaga moved with the help of a stupa and a broomstick. Bilibin created a huge number of illustrations […]...
15. Description of the painting by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin “Black Horseman”The illustration of Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin “The Black Horseman” to the fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful” was made in 1900 Fabulous illustrations of I. Ya. Bilibin are peculiar to pattern and decorativeness. The Black Horseman, like the other drawings of the author, is surrounded by an ornament: mythical birds are depicted on the sides, symbolic […]...
16. Description of the painting by Ivan Bilibin “The court in times of Russian truth”In this picture, the artist Bilibin described the legal proceedings in the times of Kievan Rus. In the picture you can see the prince sitting in his yard and judge the guilty person. The artist depicted this process very solemnly and vividly, in the smallest detail depicted the details and outfits of people who were […]...
17. Description of the painting by Konstantin Vasilyev “Volga and Mikula”Vasiliev was hard enough to portray Mikula Selyaninovich, an ordinary rural peasant warrior, without pointing to his somewhat divine beginning. Before writing pictures, he spent time in the archive, so that the picture did not have a single unreliable detail. The painting “Volga and Mikula” was created after Vasilyev finished all the work, which depicted […]...
18. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Volga near the Zhiguli Mountains”Written in oil on canvas in 1887. Size – 129 by 219 cm. Stored in the National Museum “Kiev Art Gallery”, Kiev, Ukraine. The great river with its unique landscapes inspired several prominent artists to create paintings at once. In 1870, in the coastal village of Shiryaevo, I. E. Repin wrote etudes for the famous […]...
19. Description of the illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides”Description of the illustration by Gustave Dore “The Forest of Suicides” Throughout his entire creative life, the artist has created more than 500 illustrations of famous works, including fairy tales and biblical scenes. The first illustrations of the Divine Comedy, Dante Dore began writing at the age of ten and continued over the years. This […]...
20. Description of the illustration to the fairy tale “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Yury VasnetsovIn 1935, Vasnetsov completed illustrations for the fairy tale of P. P. Ershov “The Little Humpbacked Horse”. Yury Vasnetsov depicted the images of fairy tales bright and special. In each created picture, he used the method characteristic of him, which is inextricably linked with folk art. The artist brings the principles of folk art into […]...
21. Description of the painting by Fyodor Vasilyev “View of the Volga. Barks “Volga. The most beautiful and widest river in Europe. The most powerful in all parameters that you can think of. The most… There are no words to describe it somehow. It’s all clear. This river has appeared on the canvases of Russian painters so many times that it seems that it is very familiar to […]...
22. Description paintings Alexei Savrasov “Volga. DaliThe artist painted a large number of paintings and sketches, where the main character was the great Russian river – the Volga. Master lyric landscape, Savrasov admired the river at any time of the year. Each landscape is, above all, a caught moment, colored by its mood and emotions. “Volga. Dali” is written in the […]...
23. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “On the Volga” (1888)The picture shows the Volga shore, overgrown with grass near the water, and on an elevation covered with dense bushes and trees that appear in the water that flickers in the coming twilight. Water recreates the rays of the setting sun gliding over it, telling it a certain mystery and incomprehensibility. The reflections seem to […]...
24. Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov “Over the Volga”The history of the famous painting “Over the Volga” by the artist Nesterov is very interesting. The magnificent canvas created in 1905 was acquired by a collector from Astrakhan P. M. Dogadin. After that, the work of art was exhibited in St. Petersburg, in Moscow, in Astrakhan, as well as in museums of China. Mikhail […]...
25. Description of the painting by Fyodor Vasilyev “Volga lagoon”The painting of the Russian artist Fyodor Vasilyev “Volga Lagoon” depicts a summer gloomy day. The artist loved to travel along the Volga and therefore wanted to show us all the experienced experiences in this picture. Volga became for Vasiliev a source of consumption of various impressions. The tranquility and majesty of the coastal lagoon […]...
26. Description of the painting by Konstantin Vasilyev “Over the Volga”The painting “Above the Volga” by Vasilyev was painted in his traditional, epic-mythological style. In the foreground we see a girl of Slavic appearance turned to the heavens. On a cliff of a cliff, her stately figure, dressed in a red caftan, looks proud and dutiful at the same time. Golden-white hair and a neat […]...
27. Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “Walking on the Volga”The idea of ​​the picture arose from Kustodiev during his stay at the Hermitage Hotel, whose windows overlook the Volga Embankment. It was she who served as a prototype of the holiday of life, which was captured by the artist – cozy kiosks with sweets, street tea, marinas with steamships, the Resurrection Cathedral on the […]...
28. Description of the painting by Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi “Volga”The painting of Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi ” Volga ” is filled with silence and depth of feelings and represents the artist’s mental state. The author’s love for nature is expressed in this masterpiece. The artist’s brushes accurately and clearly depicted the beauty of the river and the whole landscape around the river. The author uses […]...
29. Illustration to Pushkin’s poem The Bronze Horseman by Alexander BenoitArtistic illustrations by Alexander Benois are today considered the best depiction of Pushkin’s works. Work on a series of works for the “Bronze Horseman” Benoit began in 1903, and in order to achieve such perfection he needed to spend 20 years. During this time, the artist drew a whole cycle of intros, endings, sketches and […]...
30. Description of the painting by Alexei Savrasov “Tomb on the Volga”1874; canvas, oil; 81.3×65; Altai Regional Museum of Fine Arts. One of the most powerful paintings by Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov – “Tomb on the Volga”. It belongs to the heyday of the painter’s work, and rightfully takes place among the most recognizable paintings of the Russian school of the late nineteenth century. Critics praised this […]...
31. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Burlaks on the Volga”One of the most famous creations of I. E. Repin – painting “Barge Haulers on the Volga”. Before writing this canvas, the artist traveled first along the Neva and then along the Volga. The birth of the masterpiece was preceded by the writing of etudes devoted to barge haulers and their portraits. The painter’s acquaintance […]...
32. Description paintings Alexei Savrasov “Spill the Volga near Yaroslavl”Alexei Savrasov in the development of his creative individuality was not easy, because at that time the landscape genre of painting in Russia was only developing, and it was worth a lot of hard work to identify yourself on this site. However, he managed to identify his individual approach to writing landscapes, which is clearly […]...
33. Description of the painting by Alexei Savrasov “By the end of the summer, on the Volga”Volga nature is a special northern nature. Well, in any case, those places that Savrasov depicted on his canvases are just the north of Central Russia, that is, Yaroslavl and the nearest territories to this city. And the summer here is special – it can be rainy, and it can be hot and even suffocating. […]...
34. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Girls on the Volga”The painting “Girls on the Volga” was a discovery for the artist who discovered the world of “everyday life”. Admitting later to the writers, having tried an unusual style for themselves, he was keenly interested in the joys and difficulties of “ordinary” people. The canvas harmoniously depicts girls who are out of breath, descended from […]...
35. Description Paintings Isaac Levitan “Fresh Wind Volga”Isaac Levitan painted his picture titled “Fresh Wind. Volga “in 1895. The canvas was written for a very long time, and was completed only when all the hard work and searches gave their results. And the result was worth it, because the work was very deep and expressive. This picture is one of the few […]...
36. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “Evening on the Volga”Levitan’s painting “Evening on the Volga” catches the eye with its brevity. Early summer sunset – the sun is overcast, but still light. Twilight is approaching. The vast expanse of the river smooth surface – a little distant Volga merges with the sky on the horizon line. It seems that the water surface in front […]...
37. Description of the illustration by Yuri Vasnetsov “Three Bears”Yury Vasnetsov, as a talented artist in the field of children’s art, children’s literature and illustrated books, always kept a little apart from all other authors. Yuri studied from Petrovo-Vodkin himself, as well as from such a talented artist of his time, like Malevich. As a result, Yury Vasnetsov became one of the most promising […]...
38. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Ice Mountains in Antarctica”The picture of the world-famous marine painter I. Aivazovsky was painted in 1870 and combines the undoubted artistic merit with cognitive value. The work was created to perpetuate the achievement of the Russian navigators Bellingshausen and Lazarev, who discovered Antarctica during their expedition. In that era, the achievement of this kind was simply a tremendous […]...
39. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus”On the canvas, everything came together in a single space. Here the shores are inhabited by people, and the calm sea and the horizon and the sky… Everything is somehow quiet and serene. Meanwhile, this is the Turkish coast, it is not very calm. But it’s not that. It’s amazing how a painter subtly understands […]...
40. Description of the painting by Ivan Aivazovsky “Navarinsky fight”The artistic work “Navarinsky battle” was written by Aivazovsky in the period of romanticism in oil on canvas and belongs to such a genre of art as battle painting. A famous artist completed his work on the painting in 1848, recalling how, as a child, he was often mentally transferred to far-off Greece, which fought […]...