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1. 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 […]...
2. 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 […]...
3. 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 […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. 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 […]...
6. 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 […]...
7. 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 […]...
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 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 […]...
10. 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 […]...
11. 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 […]...
12. 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 […]...
13. 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 […]...
14. 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. […]...
15. 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 […]...
16. Description of the painting by Vasily Vereshchagin “Shipka-Sheinovo (Skobelev under Shipka)”Cloth “Skobelev over Shipka” is considered a historical picture, which carries a deep meaning. Vereshchagin created a whole cycle dedicated to the battles of the Balkan campaign. It was one of the most violent wars in the entire history between the Russian and Turkish army in the mountains of Bulgaria. The bloodshed was based on […]...
17. 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 […]...
18. 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 […]...
19. 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 […]...
20. 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 […]...
21. 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 […]...
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 Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky “At the door of the school”The autobiographical work of N. Bogdanov-Belsky, “At the Door of the School,” draws attention to the early period in the life of the itinerant artist. Like most artists depicting the specifics and character of peasant life, Bogdanov-Belsky knew firsthand about the popular environment. He was born in the family of a poor peasant and received […]...
25. Description of the series of paintings by Claude Monet “Parliament in London”The artist Claude Monet, having heard about a certain trader of paintings (Durand-Ruelle), painted a series of not two or three, but eleven paintings, each of which showed a foggy landscape with the London Parliament building on the banks of the Thames. All the work, according to the author, In general, the paintings on the […]...
26. Description paintings Vasily Polenov “On the boat. Abramtsevo “Abramtsevo is a wonderful place for artists and writers. Since the 1870s, many famous painters have visited it, including Vasnetsov, Repin, Serov, Korovin. Been there and Polenov. Abramtsevo manor was not a place of balls and meetings of notable people. This place was intended for creativity. It preserved the beauty and originality of rural nature, […]...
27. Description of the painting by paintings by Andrea Mantegna “St. Sebastian”Among the magnificent paintings on the spiritual theme, Andrea Mantegna has a series of three paintings created at different times under the same name – “Saint Sebastian”. The most famous of them is the second work of 1480, now kept in the Louvre. Sebastian – now canonized saint, and earlier – in the interval of […]...
28. Description of the series of paintings by Vincent Willem van Gogh “Two cut sunflowers”“Two cut sunflowers” – these are three paintings from the first series of the Paris cycle “Sunflowers”, written by Van Gogh August and September 1887. In total, there were four paintings in the first series (four sunflowers were depicted on the first, and the next three – two). All of them depicted cut sunflowers, but […]...
29. Description paintings by Natalia Goncharova “Peacock under the bright sun”Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, as is known, is a relative of Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, the wife of the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. A talented artist studied at the Moscow School of Art and Painting, Architecture and Sculpture. Being formed in the creative direction under the influence of Trubetskoy, Korovin, Volnkhina and Larionov, whom she […]...
30. Description of the painting by Vasily Polenov “Dream”The painting by Vasily Polenov is one of a series of canvases dedicated to the life of Jesus Christ. The series was created over several years, from 1884 to 1909. Russian paintings of that time show great interest in the history of the Gospel. Looking at the picture, we see Christ sitting on the rocks […]...
31. 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 […]...
32. 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 […]...
33. Description paintings by Ivan Kramskogo “Contemplator”In 1870 – 1880, the artist wrote a whole series of paintings, in which he depicted with extraordinary skill absolutely ordinary people (peasants) who live their own lives, full of special emotions. A peasant stands before us, standing on a snowy forest path. On it is an old caftan and traditional sandals. He put his […]...
34. Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Princess Olga meets the body of Prince Igor”The work “Princess Olga meets the body of Prince Igor” is not finished and is considered only a sketch. This picture was written by Surikov Vasily Ivanovich on a historical theme. We see here a very famous and recognizable story from the history of ancient Russia. In the 10th century, Prince Igor went with his […]...
35. Description paintings Alexei Savrasov “Yard. Winter”The peculiarity of the work and creativity of the talented artist Alexei Savrasov was that you can look at each of his paintings for a long time. And it’s not even the fact that people just admired them or looked for hidden meaning in them. The artist simply made his paintings rich in detail. At […]...
36. Description paintings Alexei Savrasov “Volga. DaliThe artist painted a large number of paintings and sketches, where the main character was the great Russian river – the Volga. Master lyric landscape, Savrasov admired the river at any time of the year. Each landscape is, above all, a caught moment, colored by its mood and emotions. “Volga. Dali” is written in the […]...
37. Description paintings of George Nyssa “February. Moscow region “In the visual arts, the theme of winter is of great importance. Many artists have seen this time of year in different ways and tried to bring something new into its image. One of these paintings is “February. Moscow suburbs “, written by a remarkable painter George Nyssky. The artist performed his work in oil. […]...
38. Description paintings by Philip Malyavina “Baba”Philip Malyavin is one of the brightest nuggets of distinctive Russian culture. He was born and grew up in the village of Kazanka of the Samara province and from childhood was immersed in the specific atmosphere of peasant life, surrounded by all the warmth and originality of the Russian national order and Orthodox traditions. From […]...
39. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Old parents at the grave of his son”Vasily Grigorievich Perov is a famous Russian artist. He made a great contribution to painting. To his creations belongs to the painting “Old parents on the grave of his son,” written in 1874. During his life Perov visited many countries, but most of all he was attracted by France, which later became his second home. […]...
40. Description of the painting by Vasily Pukirev “Unequal marriage”After the appearance of the painting “The Unequal Marriage” at the academic exhibition (1862), the whole of Russia spoke about the artist Pukirev. This successful work attracted public attention and sparked a passionate controversy in the press. On unequal marriages there are different opinions. However, history says that such marriages in the past brought suffering […]...