“Volga in the vicinity of Yuryevets” was exhibited anonymously in 1871 at the annual competition of the Moscow Society of Art Connoisseurs. The picture made a splash. “Volga” Savrasov got the first place in the section of landscape images. Here is how it was described by contemporaries: “This picture is rather large in size (more…
Alexei Savrasov’s painting “View of the Kremlin from the Crimean Bridge in inclement weather” is the first work that brought the artist fame. In her, his character begins to appear in an amazing way. In addition to “View of the Kremlin …” a number of the artists’ initial works were warmly received by critics and…
The picture of the outstanding master of landscape painting, A.K.Savrasov, was written in 1893 and belongs to the undoubted masterpieces of Russian fine art of the 19th century. A distinctive feature of the painter’s writing style was the desire for the utmost realism of the depicted. His canvases amaze with their sincerity, reverent love for…
Year of painting: 1852. Dimensions of the painting: 105 x 74 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
The rainbow is one of the favorite images of the artist Alexei Savrasov. His rainbows are not a decoration; in their depiction, it is not only masterly mastery of light and color, like Kuindzhi’s, is important. Savrasov’s rainbows are a window into the inexpressible, a symbol of the inexpressible. Before us is a post-lightning landscape,…
Year of painting: 1874. Dimensions of the painting: 42 x 37.5 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: realism. Gallery: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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. ”…