Description of the painting by Peter the Georgian “Maslenitsa”

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1. Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “Maslenitsa”The painting “Maslenitsa” was painted in modern style by the Russian artist Kustodiev BM. in 1916 All actions in the picture take place on the main square of a provincial town. In the foreground are pictures of people riding in a painted sleigh pulled by a pair of festively decorated horses with bells and an […]...
2. Description of the painting by Boris Kustodiev “Balagan”In the last week of February, Maslenitsa is traditionally celebrated in Russia. In Shrovetide festivities take part everything from small to large. Broad Maslenitsa is a national holiday, celebrating it colorfully and riotically with songs, round dances, contests and burning Shrovetide stuffed. This is exactly the Maslenitsa shown in the picture of Kustodiev. I have […]...
3. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Battle of Shrovetide and Lent”Peter Bruegel in his picture titled “The Battle of the Maslenitsa and the Fast” personifies a kind of theatrical genre, which is called farcical. The picture has the following preface and plot – we see in front of us the confrontation between Fast and Shrovetide, which personify good and evil and all the facets of […]...
4. Description of the painting by Alexei Bogolyubov “Riding on the Neva”Once, before writing the picture, the Russian troops won back every coast of the great Neva with great losses. They did everything they could to win their shores from the Swedish government. Four centuries have passed since the fortress had to be taken by storm. This is a long time for people, and almost a […]...
5. Description of the painting by Peter Williams “Ride”Peter Vladimirovich Williams was born in Moscow in the family of a scientist. His grandfather was the famous American engineer Robert Williams, who remained in Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century. Initially, he was preparing to become a physician, but the desire for creativity prevailed. He worked a lot as a theater artist, […]...
6. Description of the painting by Victor Tsyplakova “Frost and Sun”Victor Tsyplakov’s painting Frost and Sun was painted at the beginning of the last century and is one of the best paintings of that time. For painting the canvas was used and oil paints, with which the artist managed to create a real masterpiece. The landscape in the picture is truly beautiful: a cold frosty […]...
7. Description of the painting by Mitrofan Grekov “Tachanka”Mitrofan Grekov known for his work “Tachanka” was a volunteer of the Red Army in the ranks of the cavalry corps Budenny. The genre of his paintings is characteristic of wartime. Many of his works have become the image on the stamps of Soviet times. However, despite the devotion to the revolution and the chanting […]...
8. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “The Return of the Peasants from the Field”Rubens is an artist from the Netherlands, very prolific, distinguished by stupid vital energy, optimism and ease of hand. He combined in his works Breugel’s realism with the achievements of the Venetian school, wrote on mythological and religious themes, simple nature, portraits of people. His paintings are very diverse and multilateral. “The return of peasants […]...
9. Description of the painting by Peter Paul Rubens “Caledonian Boar Hunting”Or else this picture is called “Caledonian boar”. This story from Greek mythology inspired Rubens to write 4 canvases of a similar hunting scene for a wild boar, from different angles and at different moments of the hunt. The Calydonian boar, a huge, ferocious and terrible beast, was the son of a Krommion pig. The […]...
10. Description of the painting by Adam Albrecht “Horses at the Porch”The German battle painter Adam Albrecht was originally known for accompanying Napoleon’s march to Moscow. The events that took place in Russia made a painful impression on the artist, on his return to Munich in 1815, he decided to leave the battle painting and transferred to a calmer landscape with animals. Of particular popularity in […]...
11. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus”The plot of the painting “The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus” was taken by the great Flemish painter from the myth of the Dioscuri brothers who kidnapped two daughters from their father, King Leucippus. According to the myth, the kidnappers are beauties of cousins ​​who want to marry their beautiful sisters. The picture created […]...
12. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Big fish eat small”The Dutch master of graphics and drawing, Peter Bruegel the elder, known under the nickname “The Peasant”, produced one of his first sheets “Big Fish Eating Small” in 1557 from drawings and was signed by the name of Bosch, who had already passed away by that time. Bosch’s work amazed and impressed Bruegel, and fake […]...
13. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “Battle with the Amazons”The painting was painted by Rubens in 1618. Who are the Amazons? This is a tribe of women who are known to us from the mythology of antiquity. They constantly hunted and fought. Their main armament was a spear, an ax and a bow, as well as a shield. Most often, the Amazons were depicted […]...
14. Description of Peter Bruegel’s Census of BethlehemThe famous canvas, based on the biblical story, was created by Peter Bruegel in 1566. The main theme of the plot reflects the life and life of the people in a social aspect. All the work of the artist of this time interval characterizes the authenticity of what is happening, and the gospel plot masks […]...
15. Description of the painting by Peter Konchalovsky “Still Life”The beginning of the twentieth century is characterized in Russian art as the heyday of the genre still life. The exclusion of plot, and sometimes any connection between the objects depicted on one canvas, did not deprive the painting of meaning at all. Now the focus has shifted to color and shape. These two components […]...
16. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Misanthrope”The most famous Dutch painter and graphic artist of the 16th century preferred to paint more genre scenes created from the world perception and mood of the people during the bourgeois revolution. From writing satirical drawings, he moved on to more serious and restrained in meaningful paintings with a complete plot. The artist displays the […]...
17. Description of the painting by Peter Vereshchagin “Market in Nizhny Novgorod”Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin, being a researcher of painting, an academician and an artist, was interested in such areas of visual art as realism, and his favorite genre was, of course, the landscape. The artwork of Vereshchagin is full of photographic, as if the viewer is looking at the photo just taken on the camera, which […]...
18. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder “Two monkeys”Peter Bruegel the Elder’s painting Two Monkeys (Two Monkeys on a Chain) was painted in oil on a tree in 1562. Animal genre. The plot is based on two brown monkeys chained to one ring. They sit on a wide low window, which overlooks Antwerp, the bay with ships, towers and houses, lost in the […]...
19. Description of the painting by Peter de Hoch “Mistress and maid”The year of creation of the most famous canvass de Hoch is unknown for certain. Most often, researchers of the Dutch painter agree that it was 1660. In his work The Hostess and the Maid, the artist writes a scene from the everyday life of the townspeople in the then Delft style. In the nearest […]...
20. Description of the painting by Fyodor Alekseev “View of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress”At one time, Alekseev was called an unsurpassed landscape painter, indeed, considering the painting “View of the Palace Embankment from the Peter and Paul Fortress”, I would like first of all to mention its liveliness and dynamics. Often the works of Alekseev, including this one, were compared with the paintings of the Italian artist Canaletto, […]...
21. Description of the painting by Peter Sokolov “Portrait of Yulia Sokolova”PF Sokolov is known as the first Russian artist, who decided to paint a portrait exclusively with watercolors, and marked the beginning of a new genre in Russian painting. For the first half of the XIX century, the actions of P. F. Sokolov as a portrait painter were truly progressive, which is why the artist […]...
22. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder “Artist and Connoisseur”The painting “The Artist and the Expert” (“Self-portrait with the customer”) was made by the Flemish artist Peter Bruegel the Elder in 1565 with ink and pen on paper. Genre – self-portrait. The artist takes the central place of the work, the customer looks over his shoulder. The head of the master is turned by […]...
23. Description of the painting by Paul Cezanne “Pierrot and Harlequin”Creating a canvas “Pierrot and Harlequin”, Paul Cézanne created the story, which is dedicated to the celebration of Mardi Gras. This is the last day of the Maslenitsa festivities on the eve of the fast. But in the picture itself there is not even a hint of Shrovetide carnival or fair. Here we see only […]...
24. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Forty on the gallows”As for the picture, which has the name “Forty on the gallows”, then it is necessary to begin with the fact that it was the last work of the great artist – Pieter Bruegel. On the canvas, one can observe an amazing interweaving of some inner, spiritual disappointments of the master, and some desperate attempt […]...
25. Description of the painting by Mikhail Vrubel “To the night”This canvas, many critics refer to the most mystical period of creativity of Mikhail Vrubel. The beauty and really mysticism is fascinating. The night is near, the moon is visible. But horses graze on the poppy field, and next to them is a shepherd. But it is he who fascinates. Only the back is visible, […]...
26. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Peasant Dance”The whole of the XVI, and then the XVIIth state of the Netherlands shook revolutions and peasant uprisings. In this difficult time, one of the masterpieces of northern art appears – Peter Bruegel’s painting “The Peasant Dance”. The painting was painted in 1568, currently in Vienna. The canvas depicts merry peasants who celebrate, apparently, the […]...
27. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Mad Greta”One of the most terrible pictures of Bruegel. The horror of this picture can be somewhat explained by the incomprehensibility of this canvas and all the events taking place on it. If we consider the picture “Mad Greta” from the side of emotional perception, then in its expressiveness it surpasses even Bosch’s phantasmagoric images and […]...
28. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Hunters in the snow”Like many artists of his time, the famous painter Peter Bruegel created a series of paintings called “The Seasons”. The best creation from this cycle and at the same time one of the best works of the artist is the painting “Hunters in the Snow”. The painting depicts an alpine village on a winter day. […]...
29. Description of the painting by Fedot Sychkov “Skating from the mountains”Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov’s painting “Skating from the Mountains” is the embodiment of the village spirit. Sychkov was born in the Russian family, but showed an incredible interest in Mordovian culture and history. It was the Mordovian merry festivals that were embodied on the canvas “Skating from the Mountains”. The artist depicted the usual winter day. […]...
30. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Cripple”The painting by Pieter Bruegel, which is called “Cripples”, has quite realistic motives for the remnants of life, at all times, and even in the modern world too, it is not rare to find such a composition live. Here, unfortunately, the question is different; what was the artist trying to achieve? When writing this picture, […]...
31. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Dark Day”This is about whom one can say for sure that the author is a gloomy, pessimist who does not allow bright moments in life. Alas, but it seems that way. Whatever the canvas they were not written – it is still gloomy, some dirty – gray. Perhaps, this is how he tried to influence those […]...
32. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “The Four Philosophers”The picture of this gifted and talented artist has a special meaning and value for Rubens himself. “Just Lipsius and his students” is another name for this canvas, and the peculiarity lies in the fact that the artist painted the most dear people in the picture – his brother, his close friend and person, whose […]...
33. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Peasant Wedding”The great European artist of the Northern Renaissance, Peter Bruegel, worked in France, Brussels and Antwerp. All the plots of his paintings did not fundamentally fit into the classical iconography. They, rather, can be attributed to the satiric-allegorical type of art. The original painting “Peasant Wedding” is painted in oil on an oak board. Like […]...
34. Description of the painting by Peter Rubens “The Hunt for Hippo”The painting was painted in 1616. The hippopotamus is depicted much less than in reality. But if you look at the whole, then the appearance of the animal is transmitted correctly. From the mouth of a hippo stick fangs. Rubens created a whole series of paintings on the subject of hunting. The viewer pays tribute […]...
35. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Senokos”Peter the Elder Bruegel in 1565 wrote the famous painting “Haymaking”, which is included in the series “The Seasons”. This is a great master of the pen, who very subtly and kindly depicts nature and everything that happens around it. The plot is dedicated to the summer months: June and July, at the time when […]...
36. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Tower of Babel”Bruegel P. Elder Tower of Babel. The painting was written in 1563, it is stored in Vienna, in the Museum of Art History. Researchers managed to find out that the canonical text of the Bible combined 2 legends about Ancient Babylon into one story: a story about building a city and mixing different languages, and […]...
37. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Land of lazy”Bruegel was a master of satire. In his works more than once it was possible to meet a hidden chuckle in relation to the Dutch society. So, Bruegel’s picture “The Country of Lazy People” also concentrates in itself a satirical mood. The artist makes fun of a vicious society, outraged by the fact that it […]...
38. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Flemish Proverbs”The picture is full of a large number of different scenes and figures. This painting is a parable dedicated to Flemish folklore. The painting depicts Dutch proverbs, including on the canvas more than 100 metaphoric scenes, which ridiculed popular wit. On the canvas depicts the similarity of the village, namely a large house with extensions […]...
39. Description of Peter Bruegel’s Census of Bethlehem (Option 2)The well-known work, which has biblical content as a basis, was written by Peter Bruegel in the 16th century. The work shows the lifestyle of people of that time, both in everyday and in social terms. The creative process of Bruegel aims to show the true, true essence of everything that happens in the world. […]...
40. Description of the painting by Alexander Benois “Summer Garden under Peter the Great”Tsar-father, reformer of Russia Peter Alekseevich Romanov invented fun for his subjects. Or rather, something like a punishment. Not accustomed to local nobles to the promenade. And as he did not at first drive them out of the house, at first it was impossible to inculcate this habit in the evening – to walk in […]...