Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Portrait of a Boy”

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1. 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 […]...
2. 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 […]...
3. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Self-portrait”The painting was written in 1918, which is considered the year of still lifes in the works of a famous artist. A better understanding of what prompted the creation of such a picture will help the author’s letters to his mother. From them it becomes known that Petrov-Vodkin is tired of life in such difficult […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Coast”Petrov-Vodkin is a Russian artist, writer, and teacher, in whose paintings three things are most often observed, sometimes in combinations, sometimes not. Maternity is the first thing. It can be a glorification of the image of the mother, her feat and holiness, or a hymn to the naturalness of childbearing with all its ordinary heroism. […]...
6. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Maternity”Like many artists of his time, Petrov-Vodkin believed that the work of any person of art is not just reflecting the surrounding reality in pictures as impartially as possible, but carrying some thought, changing people with their help. Give them an ethical and aesthetic lesson, instill in them the taste and thirst for beauty. Therefore, […]...
7. Description paintings Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Spring”KS Petrov-Vodkin is a distinctive Russian artist, who came from an ordinary family of servants and just got a chance to learn by miracle. His painting technique is original, and his works are recognizable. Heroes of the paintings are ordinary people from the people. They are so clear and close to the artist. The painting […]...
8. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “In the nursery”Petrov-Vodkin is a Russian and Soviet artist, graphic artist, art theorist, writer and teacher. They brought accidents to his art, like many artists – first he met two icon painters, watching whom he felt a desire to take up the brush, and after his mother slipped his son’s drawings to a famous sculptor who was […]...
9. 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 not a credibility, but a certain essence. You should also hone the ability to understand the relationship of objects in space. […]...
10. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Behind the samovar”Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin is a Russian artist who painted in the spirit of symbolism, using for his paintings some images from Russian folk tales – animals, people in unusual circumstances. Spectators of the last century know the artist as the author of the painting Bathing a Red Horse, popular in the Soviet Union, but the creator […]...
11. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “In the line of fire”In wartime, the artist came to serve in the military department in Petrograd. Therefore, what is military action, what is the life of officers and soldiers, he knows firsthand. In the painting “In the Line of Fire”, Petrov-Vodkin uses a tricolor color gram. Namely blue, yellow and red. In these colors and conveyed the image […]...
12. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Fantasy”The works of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin became a weighty contribution to Russian painting. His outstanding work – the painting “Fantasy” with color and motifs echoes other famous canvases. However, “Fantasy” is unique and unique; the feelings and thoughts underlying it are characterized by a strong emotional charge and depth. Date of creation of the canvas – […]...
13. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Cafe”The painting was created in 1907 in oil on canvas. Petrov-Vodkin is a Russian painter who created many works included in the country’s cultural heritage. His fate was quite happy. Born in the family of an ordinary shoemaker, nothing foreshadowed the unusual development of his fate. But the propensity for creativity gave about itself and […]...
14. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Virgin of tenderness of evil hearts”Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin, without a doubt, is one of the most famous artists. This Soviet and Russian painter made a great contribution to the development of graphics, painting and pedagogy. In 1930, Petrov-Vodkin is recognized as an Honored Artist. Many foreign creators influenced his canvases. The paintings of the artist bear the imprint of modernity […]...
15. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “At the window”The end of the XIX century was marked by the constant confrontation of various political groups, which could not eventually touch the art and, as a result, led to a crisis in it. However, some of the painters in this difficult situation also found the beautiful in man and his environment. That was Petrov-Vodkin. The […]...
16. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Morning still life”The picture is full of optimism and joy. Before us is a glass of tea and two eggs, a modest bouquet of flowers and a teapot. Cloth expressive and internally dramatic. It seems that everything happens on the terrace in one very sunny morning. Before us is a table of light brown wood, which the […]...
17. 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 triumph of social realism! This picture is impressive in scope and brightness of colors. The color selection is built around the […]...
18. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Pink still life”Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin became a well-known artist thanks to such works as Bathing the Red Horse, Death of the Commissar, After the Fight and many other talented paintings of the Russian classics of that time known to us. To such a form of art as still lifes, the artist came after the creation of his famous […]...
19. 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 […]...
20. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Prunus in a glass”What is presented to the eyes of the viewer? Chaotic scattered objects surrounding a branch of bird cherry. White flowers are contrasted with ordinariness and simplicity of composition. The artist tries to present habitual things in a new way, resorting to color and textured contrast of objects. Petrov-Vodkin paid special attention to works in the […]...
21. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Girl with a doll”Petrov Vodkin – Russian and Soviet artist, writer, teacher. In his works one can often see the theme of motherhood, which is revealed in two keys – either in the context of holiness, the heights of duty of a mother who, fulfilling his mission, becomes equal to the holy, or in the context of naturalness […]...
22. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Housewarming”The concept of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was extremely simple and realistic: the end of the Civil War of the beginning of the 20th century, the distribution to the workers-workers and the military apartments, formerly owned by bourgeois. One of these apartments, received by a young man sitting at the table with a pipe in his hands. […]...
23. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Dream”“Dream” was written in 1905, at the time of the deepest stagnation – as a country ready to rush into the abyss of change, but still awkwardly creased in the place, and the artist’s work. On it, right on the bare stones, a young man sleeps, completely naked, in an awkward pose, as if a […]...
24. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Violin”Petrov-Vodkin was a Russian cultural figure, painter and also a theater designer. In his work he addressed the motives of religion, the pathos of the revolutionary struggle. The golden fund of Soviet art included many of his works in the still life genre. A lot in this genre, he worked in the years 1918 – […]...
25. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “After the battle”The painting “After the Battle” by Petrov-Vodkin, written in 1923, became an important milestone in the painting of the artist, marking a new stage in his creative quest. Up to this point, all the paintings of the artist did not have a specific time reference and were not specific. The characters of his paintings could […]...
26. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “In Petrograd”This picture of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin is often called the “Petrograd Madonna”. And those who so baptized her are right, because a nursing mother with a baby, standing on the balcony of a city house, even in facial expression, resembles an icon painting. A woman’s hair is hidden under a white kerchief, scarlet matter is draped […]...
27. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Workers”This artist was always at the forefront of the revolution, but nevertheless not all his canvases saw the light of exhibition lamps. There are those who were categorically forbidden by censorship, and there are those canvases that have become the personification of a new artistic revolutionary direction. For example, “Bathing a red horse” is myself […]...
28. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Herring”Petrov-Vodkin saw the world in his own way. This was expressed in an unusual perspective, which he liked to choose for his paintings, in their unusual composition and form. Each of his work is endowed with special expressiveness. There are not so many details in the works, but at the same time they are deep […]...
29. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Noon”We see a grand canvas. The artist was able to depict contemporary peasant Russia. It arises, as if from some wonderful mist. It is simply impossible to cover the whole earth with a glance, it is so huge. The artist looks at the fields, hills, rivers and woods from a great height, it seems that […]...
30. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Playing boys”The work of the Russian artist Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin is filled with philosophy and nationalist thoughts. He lived in a difficult time for the Russian Empire, which could not but reflect on his work. In his art, the Russian artist chose a thorny path, constantly being criticized either from supporters of academic painting or from […]...
31. Description of the painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin “Death of the Commissioner”The artwork “Death of the Commissioner” took the first place in the Russian painting process of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. This creature contributed to an important picture with the plot “After the battle.” One of the leading for the artist was the content of life, sacrifice and death, which are clearly revealed in his masterpiece. More in […]...
32. Description of the painting by Alexey Venetsianov “Portrait of A. Venetsianova”The portrait of Venetsianova, also known as “The Girl in a Hat”, was created in 1826. It depicts one of the two daughters of the painter, Alexander Alekseevna Venetsianova (1816 – 1882). This picture is one of the most important artistic works of A. G. Venetsianov, who, along with portraits of his most famous contemporaries […]...
33. Description of the painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio “Portrait of an old man with a grandson”Ghirlandaio creates an incredibly realistic look. Whom he portrayed, this fact remained a mystery. The artist was able to create an incredibly touching image of a boy. Golden curls are knocked out from under the red caps. He clung to his grandfather. It seems that the child is seeking protection or wants to ask him […]...
34. Description of the painting by Alexander Gerasimov “Family Portrait”The painting “Family Portrait” was painted by Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov in 1934. All the members of the artist, including himself, are depicted in it in a calm and homely atmosphere. This picture was not intended for a wide audience of viewers. She conveys the family well-being of the artist, the proximity of his relatives. And […]...
35. Description of the painting by Anthony Van Dyck “Family Portrait”This picture is one of the brightest in the works of the painter. But she harbors a mystery. It is difficult enough to resist the charm of this wonderful portrait. His power is really intriguing. It helps to awaken the imagination, the desire to speculate characters. The viewer wants to come up with a story […]...
36. Description of the painting by Albrecht Durer “Self-portrait in the image of Christ”“Self-portrait” (another name of the painting “Self-portrait in clothes decorated with fur”) is one of the famous paintings of the artist, which was kept for a long time in his family and not intended for the general public. On the self-portrait, we still see a fairly young man with a beautiful face (the artist was […]...
37. Description of the painting by Marc Chagall “Self-portrait with easel”Several portraits were painted by the artist Marc Chagall in 1914. One of them – “Self-portrait with easel.” Before that, from the age of 19, a Russian painter with Jewish roots had studied the basics of visual arts with many masters. From Vitebsk to St. Petersburg, in the cradle of new directions – Paris, the […]...
38. Description of the painting by Ivan Kramskoy “Portrait of Tretyakov”The painting, portrait of Vera Nikolaevna Tretyakova in full growth is made with oil in the manner of realism. This woman occupies a special place in the life of Kramskoy, as being an extraordinary man, a talented pianist, she was also the wife of a close friend of the artist. The artist devoted a large […]...
39. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of Mussorgsky”Portrait painted in 1881. It is no coincidence that this portrait stands out among the works of the artist. A well-known fact – the picture was created shortly before the composer’s death. Thanks to this important fact, the portrait fills a special drama and maximum depth. We see Mussorgsky, who is seriously ill. In his […]...
40. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of V. I. Repina, the artist’s daughter”Ilya Repin met his first wife Vera when he was nineteen years old, and his future wife nine. They got married a decade later, and four children were born in this marriage. The eldest daughter was also named Vera; she was the favorite of the artist. After the parents divorce, the girl, unlike the younger […]...