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
Description of the painting by Ilya Mashkov “Bread”
Mashkov is a great representative of the Russian avant-garde. He also worked in the genres of realism, cubism, post-impressionism. His works are considered as one of the most prominent representatives of the avant-garde art
Description of the painting by Raphael Santi “Beautiful gardener” (Madonna and Child with John the Baptist)
Raphael created this picture when he was already recognized as a master. Before the audience appears quite still a young Virgin Mary. Her whole image creates a feeling of calm and peace. Raphael portrays
Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “The Way to Shambhala”
The artist managed to combine several ideas and designs in one work. The first thing we see when looking at this picture is the mountains. For Nicholas Roerich, the mountains were sacred creations of
Description of the sculptural composition of Francois Auguste Rodin “Gates of Hell”
Auguste Rene Rodin – an innovator, impressionist sculptor. For Rodin, it is important to reproduce feelings, impressions in sculpture, to reflect the real world, its variability and mobility. Received in 1885, an order from
Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Bathing a red horse”
Petrov-Vodkin’s artistic work entitled “Bathing a Red Horse” stands out among his other paintings at least in that it was known to everyone in Soviet times. And this is the era of the unconditional
Description of the painting by Mikhail Lermontov “Memories of the Caucasus”
1838, oil on cardboard, State Lermontov Museum-Reserve Tarkhany. The great Russian poet M. Yu. Lermontov possessed not only a poetic gift – his artistic heritage is extremely rich. It is known that the poet
Hilarion Pryanishnikov’s painting “In Ambush”
Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov is an artist of genre painting. Since 1870, the images of his paintings have become close to the direction of realism. The painting “In Ambush” is not dated, but judging by
Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Venus and Adonis”
Venus and Adonis goes back to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which tell the story of the first mortal who became Venus’s lover. Adonis was a young hunter, and Venus, when she was with him, often warned
Description of the painting by Konstantin Korovin “Fish, wine and fruits” (1916)
The artist became one of the masters who prepared the rise of Russian still life in painting, and he himself worked in this genre rather actively. In his canvases reflected life-affirming attitude to life.