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«Night in Svarga». Dmitriy Krestniy, 2022

Emancipated (exempt). Oil painting by Vladimir Davydenko, 2018

Vladimir Davydenko, Hyper-Realism Landscape Master Artist, born in 1966 in Lipetsk, Russia is a proud member of the Union of Artists of Russia. He is a regular participant of regional, and Russian exhibitions and his works are displayed in private collections in many European countries. The works of the artist, who is a supporter of realistic painting, always evoke a lively response from fans and connoisseurs of art. Russian Federation

Madonna Litta. Leonardo da Vinci (?). Tempera on canvas, 1491

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«Transparency». Watercolor by Anastasia Petryaeva, 2020

«Portrait of Humanoid with Milky white transparent endoskeleton». From the series «Nanotechnological Extravagance» by Cata Negrea, from Romania, 2023

«David Slays Goliath». Engraving art by Gustave Dore , 1866

Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883) was a French artist, illustrator and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving.

He was a phenomenal talent producing incredibly detailed engravings of the slums of Victorian London, illustrations for Poe’s The Raven, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Milton’s Paradise Lost among many other works.

The curious, 1892. Oil painting by Eugen von Blaas

Moscow is coming soon! By train.

Soviet Union Pin-Up art by russian artist Valeriy Barykin, 2013

Soviet pin — up took a very logical way from the tradition of Russian Socialist Art. We can figure out these predictable steps of development of the style: while in the United States people enjoyed these beautiful images of pretty girls, Soviet people saw posters depicting strict women, policemen or firemen, who were permanently giving advice to the society, or dead leaders, who were reminding people about the values of communism.

By the end of the 80s a few artists who had traveled to the USA had mixed diametrically opposing traditions of the pop art and advertising with socialist realism. The result of this experiment can be seen in the new ironic style of social art with no boundaries, idols and conventionality. Those artists have certainly succeeded at eroticising of social realism.

Valery Barykin can be seen as one of the successors of this tradition. He was fond of Socialist Realism but then fell for American illustration. Valery brought his special attention to Norman Rockwell, who worked wit h The Saturday Evening Post.

Low Marks Again. Painting by Fyodor Reshetnikov. Oil on canvas, 1952.

Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov (1906 – 1988) was a prominent Soviet painter. A preeminent practitioner of "socialist realism", Reshetnikov was recognized by the government for his work and was a member for three and a half decades of the Soviet Academy of Arts. His creations are held in Russia's finest collections, including the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg), the State Historical Museum (Moscow), and others.

Reshetnikov was born in Sursko-Litovskoe village in what is now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, into a family of icon painters. Orphaned at an early age, Reshetnikov was raised by his brother, who painted church frescoes and icons for a living, and who employed Reshetnikov as an apprentice.

Letter from the front. Painting by Alexander Laktionov. Oil on canvas, 1947

Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov was a Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union. His meticulous and almost photo-real style was popular, but courted controversy among art critics and other artists.

Laktionov was born in Rostov-on-Don and studied in the Leningrad Academy of Arts from 1926–1929 and later as a postgraduate from 1938-1944. Laktionov was a pupil of the artist Isaak Brodsky and was influenced by his technical and realistic approach, which followed the traditions of the Old Masters.

Kuray, 1934. Oil painting by Nikolay Rusakov.

Nikolay Rusakov was born in 1888 in the village of Pisklovo, Chelyabinsk district (Russia), the Orenburg governorate.

In 1913, he completed a full course in the department of painting of the Kazan Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts. At the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Rusakov studied with the famous painter Konstantin Korovin.

Rusakov became the first Chelyabinsk artist who received a professional education in the Russian capital, and he was engaged in helping painting flourish in his hometown.

The New Charon. Painting by Ramil Latypov, 2016. Oil painting on canvas, 120 x 80 cm.

Latypov Ramil Rashidovich (born in 1952, Ufa) - painter, graphic artist.

Member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of the Russian Federation. Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus. Honorary Member of the British Society of Arts. Professor Emeritus at the University of California.

Graduated from art school, Ufa College of Arts, Ufa State Institute of Arts. He worked as the chief artist of the republican television, taught painting at the art and graphic faculty of the pedagogical university, worked as the chief artist of the republican art fund. Participant of art exhibitions.

Breezy Uplands by Daniel Ridgway Knight

Daniel Ridgway Knight (15 March 1839 – 9 March 1924) was an American artist born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Two Women Fishing by Daniel Ridgway Knight

Daniel Knight was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre, and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier. After 1872 (at age 33) he lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine river.

Burning Brush by Daniel Ridgway Knight

September. Painting by Erik Theodor Werenskiold, 1883.

Erik Theodor Werenskiold (11 February 1855 – 23 November 1938) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. He is especially known for his drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of Norske Folkeeventyr, and his illustrations for the Norwegian edition of the Snorri Sturlason Heimskringla.