Description of the painting by Kukryniksy “Tanya”
During the Great Patriotic War, the artistic group worked on several paintings. The works are especially tragic, conveying some part of the story, the atmosphere of fear of those times. “Tanya” is also an
Description of the painting by Ivan Kramsky “Portrait of Nekrasov”
Kramskoy is a Russian master of a genre, religious and historical portrait, who was able to transfer human faces to a host in the era before the widespread distribution of photography and keep them
Description of the painting by Arkady Plastov “Collective farm holiday”
The son and grandson of icon painters, recognized as a party by Soviet artist Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov, is known for his peasant paintings, which reflected the life of the working village. One of these
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
Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Apples”
Petrov-Vodkin rightly believed that the artist should be able to transfer objects as accurately as possible. They are the original basis of any image. The artist was sure that it was necessary to convey
Description of the painting by Illarion Pryanishnikov “Cruel Romance”
Picture Pryanishnikov “Brutal romances” written in 1881. The author again turns to the everyday genre, depicting the plot of the work as satirical. It is worth noting that the artist almost always wrote people,
Description of the painting by Marc Chagall “Wedding”
Mark (Movsha) Chagall received a traditional Jewish education, studied Hebrew and Torah. National self-perception has become the main theme of the artist. Most of his canvases are visualizations of images of Jewish folklore. Chagall’s
Description of the painting by Sergei Alekseevich Luchishkin “The ball flew away (1926)”
The artist depicted not the usual Soviet reality, but a completely different image, which reflects a completely different reality. Multi-storey houses, depicted on canvas, as if squeezing the space and hanging over it, creating
Description of the painting by Alexei Stepanov “In the village”
A. S. Stepanov, a great Russian landscape painter and portraitist, he worked in different directions, often contrary to the socio-political views of the time. His life was hard in an orphanage, which, of course,
Description of the painting by Ivan Shishkin “Foggy Morning”
Shishkin has two canvases with the same name “Foggy Morning”. But both canvases are so beautiful that I want to tell about them. On the first canvas we see a deep river, on the