Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Shipka-Sheinovo (Skobelev under Shipka)”

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1. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “On the Shipka everything is calm…”This picture is part of a large triptych of Vereshchagin about the war under Shipka. But this, as always with this artist, is not an easy part of a triptych. And in general, the very idea of a triptych is not entirely about the war. More precisely, about the war, but not about that combat […]...
2. Description paintings Vasily Vereshchagin “At the door of the mosque”Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin is a famous Russian artist who painted his paintings in the battle genre with unsurpassed realism of the image. Trained in the Naval Cadet Corps, Vereshchagin knew military affairs and national history well, and also studied literature in detail. This opened for him the depth of knowledge on the topic, which he […]...
3. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Under Plevna”The painting was painted in 1878. Vereshchagin devoted it to a significant event: the assault on Pleven, in which a huge number of Russian soldiers were killed. The artist deeply empathized with the sufferings and heroism of the soldiers. The canvas refers to the Balkan series of paintings, which the author created from 1878 to […]...
4. Description paintings Vasily Vereshchagin “triumphant”Middle Asia. Ancient Samarkand, Registan Square. Now it is a national treasure, but on the canvas it’s just a square where people have always flown to learn something new, or to celebrate an event. On the canvas of the Russian artist Vereshchagin is just a celebration associated with the victory over the enemy. It really […]...
5. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Forgotten”Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin – a career officer, a graduate of the Marine Corps, preferred the artist’s path to military service. In his work, again, the main theme was military. Vereshchagin can safely be called the predecessor of today’s photojournalists. Knowing the war well, he strove without embellishment and certainly transferred military action to the canvas […]...
6. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Mountain stream in Kashmir”Vasily Vereshchagin was one of the most famous Russian artists describing military hardships. Many of his works were never exhibited in Russia due to the realistic scenes. After the Russian-Turkish war, Vereshchagin lived and worked in Munich, writing a large number of works on military subjects. All of them had a common motive for presenting […]...
7. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Bayonets! Cheers cheers!”The picture is painted in oil on canvas. Vereshchagin left an invaluable cultural contribution to our state. His work includes dozens of paintings devoted to Russia and the events in it. The painting “In bayonets! Hooray! Hurray! “Is one of the paintings of Vereshchagin’s masterpiece cycle dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812 with Napoleon. […]...
8. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Winners”Vereshchagin merciless in the image of losses and victories. Vereshchagin, perhaps, is the only artist who was not subject to narcissism, and he could fairly truthfully display on his canvases the truth of military life. And if Aivazovsky often depicted sea battles, then Vereshchagin on his canvases portrayed land battles and mostly Asian ones. He […]...
9. Description paintings Vasily Vereshchagin “The Lost. Requiem ““The vanquished. Memorial service “refers to the Balkan series of works by the artist Vereshchagin. It depicts the devastating effects of the famous assault on the Bulgarian city of Pleven. For the Russian army, these consequences were expressed in enormous human losses. By the time the picture was created in Russia, there was a tendency […]...
10. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Do not Zaman, Let come”Patriotism was and will always be in vogue among artists. At least, because you can vividly express your attitude towards the Motherland. All Russian artists were quite loyal to Russia. Yes, there was a fashion to paint overseas landscapes. But rather quickly, many artists returned to their native spaces. As for Vereshchagin, there is a […]...
11. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “The Apotheosis of War”The painting “The Apotheosis of War” by the Russian artist Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin is widely known both in Russia and around the world. Indeed, very few of the artists who specialize in creating canvases about war managed so succinctly and precisely to state the essence of military actions: death, blood and suffering of people. Vereshchagin […]...
12. Description of the painting by Basil Vereshchagin “After good luck”Vereshchagin was twice in Central Asia, which inspired him to write the Turkestan series of paintings. The artist in the East was struck and shocked by everything: from the beauty of human hearts and the amazing things created by the hands of people to the cruelty and indifference of the surrounding world. In many paintings […]...
13. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Timur’s Doors” (Tamerlan)The picture is painted in oil on canvas in 1873. Vasily Vereshchagin is an artist who wrote many canvases on the theme of the East, which made him very popular among artists. His paintings help us to return to that difficult time. Exquisite clothes, heavy and durable doors, arms in the form of arrows and […]...
14. Description paintings Vasily Vereshchagin “Before the attack. Under Plevna “Creativity Vereshchagin would be incomplete if it did not have a series of Balkan works. It includes the painting “Before the attack. Under Plevna “, which dates from the year 1881. It is an illustration of the attack of Russian soldiers on the Turkish. The viewer is presented with a whole line of fighters, which […]...
15. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Himalayan pony”Vasily Vereshchagin once roared not only to the whole of Russia, but also to the west. His paintings admired in America and England. In Sweden and Poland. In his works depicting seemingly ordinary scenes from life, something more was hidden. However, having such popularity, the artist did not attend any meetings, did not independently exhibit […]...
16. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Napoleon at the Borodino Heights”Vereshchagin executed a picture called “Napoleon on the Borodino Heights” where he wrote Napoleon and his retinue. All officers are dressed in full dress uniform, and this is not without reason, much can be explained by the historical background of this battle. Napoleon understood that this battle would be decisive, based on the fact that […]...
17. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “After failure”Vasily Vereshchagin loved to travel, and almost all the time he was traveling. During his life he managed to visit several dozen countries. Among them are the USA, and China, and many regions of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia. However, 2 trips to Turkestan played a special role in his work. It was the memories of […]...
18. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Mortally wounded”Vasily Vereshchagin is a famous Russian artist, whose talented genius was revealed in the second half of the XIX century after writing a series of paintings devoted to his journey as an assistant to the Turkestan governor in Central Asia. The world political situation of that time left much to be desired, endless wars were […]...
19. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Suppression of the Indian uprising by the British”Vasily Vereshchagin was remembered in Russian culture as a famous historical painter who tried to preserve significant events, people’s lives, interesting facts in his paintings. The artist traveled a lot and a trip to India made an indelible impression on him. Inspired by a trip to a country unfamiliar to the Russian people, he painted […]...
20. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Attack by surprise”The painting “Attack by surprise” was painted by the artist in 1871. This work is included in seven etudes about the unequal battles of the Russian squad with enemies. This is a real battle painting, conveying an atmosphere of fear and pain. The author tried to show the resilience of the Russian soldier. Despite the […]...
21. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “The siege of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra”Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin’s canvas “The Siege of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra,” written in 1891, depicts one of the most bitter periods in the history of our Motherland. It makes no sense to talk about the events that took place at that time, called “Vague”. The painting depicts an episode of the storming of the monastery, although […]...
22. 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 […]...
23. Description of the painting by Peter Vereshchagin “View of the Moscow Kremlin”Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin (1834-1886) was a Russian landscape painter of the nineteenth century, the author of numerous panoramic views and everyday sketches. Born in the city of Perm, traveled a lot. His brushes belong to landscape images of various places in the Urals, Central Russia, Volga region, the Baltic Sea, Transcaucasia and other regions of […]...
24. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Stepan Razin”The original plan of the picture “Stepan Razin” was a legendary romantic story about that episode from the life of the rebellious ataman, when he throws his beloved Persian princess overboard into the running wave. The demonstration of the moral victory of the leader and the preference of the interests of the troops led over […]...
25. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Suvorov’s Crossing the Alps”As a matter of fact, the very idea of ​​the painting arose from the famous Russian artist V. Surikov in honor of the centenary of the Alpine passage of the great commander of the Russian Empire Suvorov, who made this transition at the head of his army in 1799. The picture itself was written entirely […]...
26. Description of the monument “Victory Monument” in MoscowThe Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Hill in the capital is located on Victory Square. It has a height of over 140 meters. The monument is opened on the honor of the 50th anniversary of the Victory. It is the highest memorial building in all of Russia. Design and construction of the monument took many years. […]...
27. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Orphaned children in the cemetery”In the early 1860s, Vasily Perov went to Paris. In 1865, during his stay in the capital of France, he began creating a cycle of paintings that reveal themes of the poor and loneliness. Among them is a true masterpiece of the artist “Orphans in the cemetery” of 1864. This small picture contains important themes […]...
28. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Taking the Snow Town”The soul of the Russian people is always hungry for holidays and noisy festivities. And we are used to celebrate such major holidays as Maslenitsa on a grand scale. In the homeland of Vasily Ivanovich Surikov there is an unusual fun. Snow fortresses are erected from the snow, and on the last day of Shrovetide […]...
29. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak”This picture was given to the author is not easy, he wrote her four years. He finished work on it only in 1895. After all, he did not accidentally decide to write this particular picture, because the release from the Tatar Khan turned out to be very significant for Russia. In addition, the author himself […]...
30. Description of the Soviet poster “Everything for the front! All for victory! “The Great Patriotic War is a whole epoch for our country. These hard years have shown how powerful our country is. The war rallied all the Russian people, no one remained indifferent around the world. Despite all the litigation, harsh conditions, endless battles, hopeless days, we were able to withstand, to prove our strength and […]...
31. Description of the painting by Alexei Savrasov “Stone in the forest at the spill”“The stone in the forest at the spill” is an early work by AK Savrasov. Despite the lack of experience, the picture is recognizable, the artist already in the early works used his individual style. The picture is bright and catchy. The canvas depicts a huge stone, very unusual and rare large size. Such a […]...
32. Description of the painting by Gregory Ugryumova “Introduction of Kazan”The great Russian artist in the painting “The Capture of Kazan” depicted one of the significant events in the history of the Russian people. Interestingly, the picture at a later time had a different name – “The entry of John IV into the Kazan conquered from the Tatars”, in which the artist depicted the image […]...
33. Description of the painting by Vasily Polenov “Among the teachers”The painting “Among the teachers” refers to the Gospel cycle of works by the famous artist Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov. Interest in the religious theme was characteristic of the masters of the time. However, as the author himself argued, he was looking for “historical truth.” That is why the work does not have a mystical story […]...
34. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Healing the Blindborn”V. Surikov is considered a clairvoyant, he depicted his knowledge on a canvas. The artist was not like anyone, his career was interrupted for a long time. The work “Healing the Blindborn” was the first picture after a long break. In this work, he conveyed all his state of mind. The painter claimed that the […]...
35. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Fishermen”Another name for this painting is “Priest, Deacon and Seminarian.” This satirical canvas depicts two church workers pulling a complete net; a seminarian on the shore is preparing a bucket to put fish into it. The faces of the participants of the scene are masterfully written; The priest’s strained, but enlightened expression contrasts with the […]...
36. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Dispute about faith”“Nikita Pustosvyat. The dispute about faith” – a picture of the famous Russian artist Vasily Grigorievich Perov. The canvas was created between 1880 and 1881, but the story about which it narrates happened on June 5, 1682. In the center of the picture is a simple Orthodox priest Nikita Pustosvyat, who came to the Faceted […]...
37. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Angler”In addition to the fame of the gorgeous portrait painter V. G. Perov, he gained fame by writing realistic genre scenes. Earlier, in the 1870s, he worked mainly on canvases with a social orientation and an accusatory character. Later, the Russian painter turned to the description of the everyday life of ordinary people, often in […]...
38. Description of the painting by Vasily Maximov “With the diploma”How wonderful it is to return to your home from distant lands! On Maximov’s canvas, we can observe an amazing scene of the return of a girl who was educated away from home. In those days, getting an education as a girl was considered foolishness or whim – it was believed that a girl should […]...
39. Description of the painting by Vasily Maximov “Grandmother’s Tales”The picture “Grandma’s Tales” is striking in its authenticity and veracity of the image. The artist, himself a native of the village, as no one else knew and understood peasant life. Hard work, meager joys, infrequent rest, it was all part of his own destiny. Each carried his own possible contribution – the men coped […]...
40. Description of the painting by Vasily Baksheev “Blue Spring”It is incredibly difficult to paint landscapes, because the artist will not be able to convey a complex philosophical meaning, it will not be possible to make the audience laugh by faces and plot. In the landscape, the artist has only the natural beauty of nature, and it is necessary to be able to use […]...