Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Christ blessing a kneeling man”

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1. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Annunciation”The Annunciation – a painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky, presumably written in 1810-1820, represents one of two types characteristic of his work – religious motifs and secular portraits. The picture is in the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg. Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky was a Russian artist, who was considered the main portraitist of Russia at the turn […]...
2. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of Arsenyeva”Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky outstanding portraitist of the 18th century. His most famous paintings are portraits of young and beautiful girls. “Portrait of Arsenyev” is just such. The painting depicts a girl of about sixteen. She has blond curly hair long below the shoulders. Ruddy puffy cheeks, but rather white skin. According to the girl alongside, […]...
3. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of Lopukhina”Undoubtedly, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, very talented and judging by his robots, is quite a diligent artist, after all, all his lines, contours, and textures have been perfected. There is not even a hint of unfinished work. Many art critics believe that it was from the portrait of Lopukhina that the era of portrait painters began […]...
4. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of Prince Kurakin”Vladimir Borovikovsky is a virtuoso portrait painter of Ukrainian origin, all his life he wrote the high society of Russia. The recognition came to him relatively late, but in his short career as a painter, he managed to get the title of academician. “Portrait of Prince A. Kurakin” – is the pinnacle of the artist. […]...
5. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of Gavrila Derzhavin”There is nothing more difficult in pictorial art as the work on the portrait. It is not easy to convey the emotions of a living person to your canvas with colors and your skill. Borovikovsky is perhaps the only Russian painter who knew how to paint portraits. Before us are two portraits of the same […]...
6. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Children with a lamb”The picture is painted in oil on canvas in 1790. Borovikovsky – is one of the great and last artists of the Enlightenment. He was born in Ukraine, created many canvases on the historical and church theme. He was a master of portraiture. The beginning of his work was in childhood. He was born in […]...
7. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of D. A. Derzhavinoy”Daria Alekseevna Derzhavina – the wife of the poet Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin, a Russian poet of the late eighteenth century. Daughter of Petersburg State Councilor Alexei Dyakov and Princess Myshetskaya. Derzhavin devoted many of his poems to her, in which he called her Milena. In the portrait of 1813, made by artist Vladimir Borovikovsky, Daria […]...
8. Description of the painting by Vladimir Borovikovsky “Portrait of E. A. Naryshkina”The divine beauty of the daughter of Ober Chamberlain A. L. Naryshkin, could not leave indifferent the icon painter Vladimir Borovikovsky. The formation of his work happened in childhood, when his father and brothers, being icon painters, taught the future artist all the basics of craftsmanship. After serving in the Cossack regiment from 1774-1780, he […]...
9. Description of the painting by Anton Losenko “Vladimir and Rogneda”Losenko is a Russian painter who laid the foundation for Russian historical painting. Before him, as such, it did not exist – there were religious and mythological subjects, but mostly Western, which had nothing to do with Russia. Only after Losenko the history of his native country stood out into something that can be reflected […]...
10. Description of the painting by Vladimir Tatlin “Sailor”The work of Vladimir Tatlin “Sailor” in fact – this is an autobiographical portrait. At the age of 14, Vladimir ran away from home and got a job working as cabin boy on a ship. Year young man sailed in the Black Sea. In the portrait we see a young man. In the background, the […]...
11. Description of the painting by Vladimir Lebedev “Portrait of S. D. Lebedeva”Portrait of S. Lebedeva, written in 1936, the artist dedicated to his first wife, Sarah Dmitrievna Lebedeva (Darmolatova). The picture shows a pretty woman with an intelligent face and a friendly look, such as her contemporaries knew. The portrait remained with the artist until his death. Sarah Dmitrievna is known as an outstanding Soviet sculptor, […]...
12. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Portrait of Vladimir Dahl”A magnificent portrait of the famous Russian writer and ethnographer Vladimir Dahl was written by Vasily Perov in 1872. This was the last year of Dahl’s life, we see an elderly person sitting in a chair with many wrinkles and a gray beard. The artist portrayed him in such a way that in this fading […]...
13. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Waiting at the fortress”The unsurpassed genius of realism and thematic plot paintings Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky in 1875 finished work on the canvas “Waiting at the fortress.” The idea of ​​the picture was inspired by the revolutionary moods dominant in the country. Many people for their thoughts on the policies of the current government went to hard labor. Their […]...
14. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Cook jam”Vladimir Makovsky – hereditary artist. His father had a hand in the discovery of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The brother also gave his life to art. Many famous writers, poets, painters were entered into the house. It is not surprising that both boys chose a creative path. Painting became for the […]...
15. Description of the painting by Vladimir Stozharov “At the samovar”Since childhood, Vladimir Stozharov showed love for the national culture. He often traveled to the cities and suburbs of Russia, where he observed the life and folk craft of the peasants. After university, he began to travel even more often across the expanses of his country. This period was the most intense in the work […]...
16. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Bulgarian martyrs”Cloth depicting the drama – rather the exception in the work of Vladimir Makovsky, than the trend. His paintings are usually bright and kind, but the news of how the Turks brutally massacred the Bulgarian population, suppressing the rebellion, could not leave the subtle artistic nature indifferent. The characters in the film “The Bolganskiy Martyrs” […]...
17. Description of the painting by Vladimir Serov “V. I. Lenin proclaims Soviet power “Vladimir Serov’s painting “Lenin Proclaims Soviet Power” became the hallmark of social realism and the most important events in the history of the country. Millions of copies of the image were decorated with posters, school books and postage stamps. She brought the creator universal recognition and state award. The leader of the revolution is depicted […]...
18. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Russian Beauty”Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky – one of the greatest artistic figures of his time. He was born in 1846 in the family of the founder of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From childhood, the future artist was surrounded by art in all its manifestations: thematic evenings were organized in the family, to which […]...
19. Description of the icon by Simon Ushakov “Mother of God of Vladimir”The famous Russian icon painter Ushakov created a huge variety of skillful icons. His works are made in the classical church style. The iconographic paintings of Simon Ushakov sparkle with gold and precious stones. The master knew how to choose the right colors to convey the splendor of biblical characters and scenes. One of his […]...
20. Description of the painting by Vladimir Gavrilov “Autumn”Vladimir Gavrilov, who worked with enthusiasm in any painting genre, paints the landscape “Autumn” in 1971. In the picture the artist depicted the time of golden autumn, the field and the forest. The viewer offers a magnificent beauty of the landscape. Autumn has already come into its own, many trees stand in red and yellow […]...
21. Description of the icon by Andrei Rublev “Our Lady of Vladimir”The well-known painting “The Virgin of Vladimir” was created by Rev. Andrei Rublev in 1406. The painting depicts the Mother of God, which holds the child tightly to her. The baby is sitting on the mother’s right hand. The son, loving, hugged the mother for the neck. This is jesus. His right hand stretches forward […]...
22. Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov “Baptism of Prince Vladimir”Vasnetsov, Victor Mikhailovich, was born in the family of an ordinary priest, in 1848. He studied at the local theological seminary, then at the famous Petersburg Academy of Arts. After graduating from it, he went abroad and from 1869 began to exhibit at the academic, and later at traveling exhibitions. Becoming the first painter, and […]...
23. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Girl with geese in the field”Vladimir Makovsky – the son of the famous art historian and founder of the School of Painting and Architecture E. I. Makovsky – from his very birth was associated with the world of beauty. Raised in an atmosphere of creativity, he from an early age chose the path of the artist. Vladimir Egorovich dedicated his […]...
24. Description of the painting by Vladimir Tatlin “The Model”Vladimir Tatlin’s painting “The Model” was written in 1913 and became part of a series of works by the author, made especially for the Tretyakov Gallery. This group of works characterizes an artist who goes through an uneasy creative way, starting from the everyday mundane description of a body, to the realization that the human […]...
25. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “From the rain”The rain had not yet spilled, but in the air it already smells fresh, because of the grove there were clouds, which means we must hurry. So thinks the central character of Vladimir Makovsky’s painting “From the Rain”. This guy is in the center of the canvas. His facial features make out the grove of […]...
26. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “On a hot day”Vladimir Makovsky was always perfectly able to convey everyday scenes from the life of ordinary people. Certain features of his artistic style make it possible to find a common concept and technique from the pictures of different subjects, with the help of which the author allows us to easily enter the Russian soul. One of […]...
27. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “On the boulevard”Vladimir Makovsky touched upon one of the most acute problems in Russia of that time in the film “On the Boulevard”, written in 1877, which now may seem distant and irrelevant, but to contemporaries it should have seemed quite typical. The main problem of the painting is the departure of the peasants in the city […]...
28. Description composition Vladimir Tatlin “kontrellef”Since 1913, Vladimir Tatlin has made his first revolutionary attempts to create sketches at the junction of two related fields of art: sculpture and painting. The result of artistic experiments became “counter-reliefs”. Finished pictorial constructions in their appearance signified for the designer a new sharp turn in creative activity. Previously, he was engaged in figurative […]...
29. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “First coat”Soviet artist Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky was always dearly loved by the Russian people. With the help of his paintings and today’s viewer can easily be transferred to the atmosphere of past centuries. One of the best works of the author can be called the picture “The First Coat”, the work on which was completed in […]...
30. Description of the painting by Vladimir Serov “Walkers near Lenin”Soviet artist Vladimir Serov wrote a series of paintings dedicated to the leader of the Union republics – V. I. Lenin. “Walkers near Lenin” is one of such canvases created in 1950. As a government minister of art, he chose the genre of socialist realism. This picture is well known and easy to understand. On […]...
31. Description of the painting by Vladimir Makovsky “Playing Grandma”The painter Vladimir Makovsky was always interested in life and empathized with the trials of simple Russian people. Often he took inspiration in the life of poor people: peasants, maids and other members of the lower classes. While other artists considered such characters unworthy of their attention. Realism was the main stylistic direction of the […]...
32. Description of the painting by Victor Vasnetsov “Crucifixion of Christ”Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov – a famous Russian artist, widely known in Russia and abroad as the creator of masterpieces on the themes of epics about heroes and Russian folk tales. But few people now know what contribution Vasnetsov’s religious painting made to the development of Russian Orthodox culture. Vasnetsov’s father was a priest, and Victor […]...
33. Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov “Christ’s Bride”“The Bride of Christ” – the first of the paintings of Nesterov, which he considered the work that opened his creative path. In it in the first, both the living soul, and suffering, and the idea were reflected – all that without which there is no true art. It was created under sad circumstances for […]...
34. Description of the painting by Paul Gauguin “Yellow Christ”It is easy to guess that the painting “Yellow Christ” keeps a religious overtones. However, both society and critics disagree – whether it was a challenge to the clergy and the whole Christian world or a desperate call to cast off a veil of indifference. The central place of the composition is the traditional plot […]...
35. Description of the painting by Giotto di Bondone “Crucifixion of Christ”1330; board, tempera; Municipal Museum of Strasbourg. The role of Giotto di Bondone in the development of Italian pictorial art is difficult to overestimate. It was thanks to him that a completely new approach to the image of the spatial dimension in the pictures appeared; they got depth and volume. Mostly the artist worked on […]...
36. Description of the painting by Heinrich Semiradsky “Christ and the sinner”The artist’s work is devoted to biblical and antique subjects. In his paintings a large role is given to the landscape, which complements and sets off the plot. Semiradsky called landscape painter of historical genre. The beauty and harmony of the surrounding world were central to the artist’s work. The images of people are a […]...
37. Description of the painting by Vasily Polenov “Christ and the sinner”Having embodied biblical truths in his canvas “Christ and the Sinner”: “good always triumphs over evil”, “forgiveness is the path to God”, Polenov picked up the appropriate name for it. Initially, it sounded: “Who among you is without sin?”, And the censors replaced: “Christ and the sinner.” Under such a name, the canvas was presented […]...
38. Description of the painting by Hans Holbein “Dead Christ”Holbein – one of the greatest German artists. He lived in the 16th century, was not rich, did not disdain handicraft work, most often wrote on religious or mythological themes. It is characterized by lightness and liveliness of the hand, attention to detail, some caustic sarcasm and the absence of a penchant for flattery. Among […]...
39. Description of the painting by Ivan Kramsky “Christ in the desert”In the center of the picture the artist depicted Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Christ sits among the petrified sandy ruins. Jesus’s gaze is directed inward. He is lost in thought… His legs are bare, the fingers of both hands are fastened in a solid lock. The entire figure of the Master points out to us […]...
40. Description of the painting by Andrea Verrokko “The Baptism of Christ”The work was written around 1472-1475. Andrea Verrocchio, specializing primarily in sculpture, carried out orders for painting with long interruptions. He couldn’t complete the “Baptism of Christ” for a long time, so he ordered one of his students to finish the work – this is how Leonardo da Vinci co-authored Verrocchio. The angel and two […]...