Russian Artists you should know
He strove to convey the simple, unromanticized beauty of nature.
"The depiction of all that has life is the main difficulty of art."
"Morning in a Pine Forest" 1889
Genre paintings and portraits.
Several of his works that have become classics of Russian art
"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" 1885
He painted seascapes. The pictures, painted in Venice, Florence, Naples, Amalfi and Sorrento, presented at the exhibitions in Rome and Naples, brought him great success.
He settled in his native Feodosia (Crimea), where he bought a plot of land and built a house on it. The mansion was always full of guests - many visitors wanted to see the famous artist and his works. Over time Aivazovsky turned it into a private museum, open to the public, and added a gallery.
Valentin Serov painted portraits and landscapes, drew illustrations and published the magazine "World of Art", taught painting and was a member of the board of the Tretyakov Gallery. "Girl with Peaches", canvases with members of the imperial family, a poster with Anna Pavlova and a portrait of a naked Ida Rubinstein - we recall the work of the famous Russian artist.
"Swung a pencil with determination and courage."
“The girl with peaches” 1887
Artist, scenographer, philosopher, writer, traveler, archeologist, public figure - the list of Nikolai Roerich's roles is endless. "Master of the Mountains."
He studied Oriental philosophy, collected Japanese art objects, and wrote several essays on Japan and India.
In his art the artist combined realism and symbolism, paying great attention to color. He almost abandoned oil and turned to the tempera technique: a lot of experimentation with the composition of paints, using the method of superimposing one tone on another.
He lived in London, the USA and Paris. From the end of 1935 Roerich permanently lived in India. This period - one of the most fruitful in his work. For 12 years he painted more than a thousand paintings.
Chagall became an artist of world fame, when he was not even 30 years old. Marc Chagall is considered his own not only in Russia and Belarus but also in France, the USA and Israel - all the countries where he lived and worked.
Almost all of his canvases with female images depict Bella Rosenfeld - "Walking", "Beauty in a white collar", "Over the town".
Kazimir Malevich painted in different styles: neoprimitivism, impressionism, alogism and cubism. However, none of them reflected his view of reality, so Malevich developed a new direction - Suprematism. Later the ideas of Suprematism were used not only in painting, but also in other spheres - design, architecture, cinematography.
He spoke of his pictures as a "healthy form of Art," which could not be evaluated by the criteria of "like" or "dislike. In 1919, the artist's first solo exhibition "Kazimir Malevich''. His Path from Impressionism to Suprematism. He distinguished three stages in Suprematism: black, color and white. At the first stage, the artist explored the relationship of forms, at the next - the colors, at the last - the textures.
“Boy, oil on canvas” 1928/1929
The painter's peculiar style: he painted his canvases with filigree angular brushstrokes reminiscent of a mosaic.
In 1901 the artist's son was born, Nadezhda Zabela left the scene, and the contents of the family was fully borne by Mikhail Vrubel. This worsened his state of mind: he became withdrawn, short-tempered, suffered from insomnia. During these years he again painted the demons. Work on "Demon Prostrate" literally boiled: instead of the usual three or four hours, the artist sometimes worked for 14 hours a day. In 1902, Vrubel was placed in a psychiatric hospital - from that moment began a period of his decline.
