The painting by Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov “Spring Day”, written by him in 1873, depicts the very beginning of spring, nature just shaken after hibernation. The picture is touching, because it depicts the beginning of the thaw. Using the ocher scale, the artist was able to overcome the state of sadness and convey an elated mood….
The artist depicts the bank of the Moskva River near the village. Arkhangelskoe. The picture shows a summer morning. It seems that the day will be hot, but the morning freshness and coolness are still shown. The coastal strip in the foreground is strongly darkened, and then a strip of river sand turns yellow in…
“Elk Island in Sokolniki” summed up Savrasov’s searches in the 1860s. The artist finally transformed his flirtation with romanticism into a mature and undoubtedly original realism, bearing the imprint of symbolism. It is in this parameter that the key difference between Savrasov and the realist Shishkin lies. Shishkin writes a magnificent pine forest, and Savrasov…
Alexei Savrasov’s painting “Countryside” fully embodied the request of Pavel Tretyakov, who complained in a letter to Apollinarius Goravsky about the excessive artificial beauty of nature in the paintings of many contemporaries: “Give me a dirty puddle, but so that it contains truth, poetry, and poetry in everything maybe this is the artist’s business. ”…
Year of painting: 1868. Dimensions of the painting: 85 x 110.5 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: realism. Gallery: Kharkov State Museum of Fine Arts, Kharkov, Ukraine.
The famous Russian painter painted his one of the most famous paintings “The Rooks Have Arrived” in 1871. The picture immediately attracted the attention of viewers and critics with its simplicity and spontaneity. After it was written, the artist received an offer to purchase this painting by Tretyakov for his collection. The artist’s extraordinary skill…
Painting “Courtyard. Winter ”by Alexei Savrasov, written in the 1870s, is an original, expressive work with a mood inherent only in the works of Savrasov. This courtyard, by the way, is very interesting to compare with another picture of the artist – “Winter Road”. Both works have a similar color scheme and resonate with the…
The painting “Spring”, painted by Botticelli in 1478, combines three different, but related directions. Pompous courtly style – at that time the beloved were portrayed in this style. The artist also used the antique style in the painting – characters and motifs from the myths of Ancient Greece. The Christian style represents the image of…
The meaning of the painting “Venus and Mars” by the famous Italian artist of the Renaissance period Sandro Botticelli, painted in 1483, is simple – the author wanted to show the audience the superiority of love over violence. The plot depicted in the painting “Venus and Mars” shows us two beautiful gods, Mars in the…
The great painting “The Birth of Venus” by the great master Sandro Botticelli is exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The work was written in 1485 and is considered an artistic masterpiece of the Renaissance. The painting depicts an open space – the sea, the sky. The author showed on the canvas a very early…