Russian Painting for Dummies

For centuries, Russian culture has given us a lot of brilliant artists. One problem - remember them all a person does not get a degree in art history, is extremely difficult.

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Let's begin with a simple. If all the pictures only the sea in all its states, ships and sometimes a few futile fighting with the elements fellows, before you work by Ivan Aivazovsky.






If the picture in all its glory spread Russian forests, many pines and oaks, and here and there glimpses of brown bears, this web Ivan Shishkin. A bear - not his. It Sawicki.




See pyshnotelye beauties who have never heard about diets, in elegant and colorful burgher interiors? You can shout loudly: "This is Boris Kustodiev!" - And not go wrong.
If each painting depicts the artist's fairy-tale characters, fanned by a halo of epic and easy tlenoty, so they wrote Victor Vasnetsov.




A lot of birch trees, air, water, and all the trees are so thin that they seem like stems translucent colors - so the world has seen Isaac Levitan.




Better mountains can be only mountains in the paintings of Nicholas Roerich - pink, blue, purple, absolutely not realistic, it is absolutely beautiful and absolutely on each picture.




All in dark colors and a lot of half-naked brunettes, frozen in unnatural positions? This lover of Roman disasters Karl Bryullov, meet.




If the artist's only interested in two extremes - East with all its beauty, or the war with all its horrors and the mountains of skulls, this Vasily Vereshchagin.




Ancient Russia, crowds of people, it is not clear what is going on, but obviously something great and terrible? Indifferently throw "Typical Vasily Surikov" - and go to the next picture.




A huge number of randomly scattered spots suddenly merged into the image of a seated demon Swan Princess, or something else, just as fabulous, and epic air? Before you work Vrubel, no doubt.




If the paintings of all nice, cozy, home-like, a little tidy, all in robes, something to eat and someone to make a match, and even glimpses of seals and dogs, you can bet that this painting Pavel Fedotov.




If the landscape is very minimalistic, but from him still breathtaking and chills begin marching crowds all over the body, it Arkhip Kuindzhi.




All you need to know about Valentin Serov: he was perfectly able to write with peaches girls, girls and ladies of the bulls with the dogs. And all this splendor to make broad impressionistic strokes.




If it seems that the artist did this madness under the influence of acid or something harder in front of you of the great Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky.




If the picture multicolored non-understand-that are composed of geometric shapes is Kazimir Malevich. Well, or if you just shows the square of any color.




Friends, of course, it is impossible to accommodate the entire history of Russian art in the scope of a single article. Tell me about your favorite artists in the comments and we are happy to make the continuation of the review with you.

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