Sick Husband (Больной муж) -Vassily Maximov When people express themselves or what they think, sometimes they may hold back on some of the darker sides of things. Some artist do not like creating a negative, uncomfortable feeling for their audiences. But during the time of Russian Realism, Russian artists and writers broke down all the […]
Peredvizhniki, or The Wanderers, was an artistic movement of Russian Realism that focused on illustrating the realities of humanity through the exposure of daily life in the mid to late 19th century. The above painting is Isaac Il’ich Levitan’s Above the Eternal Peace…
Read moreThe Peredvizhniki (Передвижники), or “The Wanderers” were a group of young Russian painters who decided that the traditional methodologies taught by the Imperial Academy of the time were a hindrance and didn’t allow them to adequately reflect the feelings and experience of the… Continue Reading →
Illarion Pryanishnikov, a Russian painter from Timashovo, was a member of the Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) artist group and eventually trained and mentored other members of the Wanderers such as Mikhail Nesterov and Konstantin Korovin. As a member of the Wanderers, Pryanishnikov eventually became disenchanted with the Imperial Regime in Russia and took his art around the country with […]
In the late 19th century, a famous group of Russian painters, later known as “The Wanderers”, rebelled against their masters who were embedded in the European views of art, that it was designed to be viewed by the upper class … Continue reading →
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The above painting is titled At the School Door. It was painted by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, who was a member of the Peredvizhnik movement. The Peredvizhnik movement, or “wanderers” when translated, were a group of Russian artists that strived to depict the dichotomy of class and struggle that plagued Russia in the latter half of the […]
A small outcropping of civilization against the beautiful, but sometimes alien world. Isaac Levitan’s painting, “Over Eternal Peace” is stark and beautiful. Unlike other pieces of the “Wanderers,” there are no visible humans, instead only a lonely church on a hill, overlooking a beautiful, but desolate landscape. However, even without people, this piece still … Continue reading Over Eternal Peace – Isaac Levitan
Read moreThe End Of Autumn (1887) by Konstantin Pervukhin This painting by Konstantin Pervukhin reminds me a lot of the paintings we reviewed in class on Thursday. The landscape of bare trees and Russian architecture in the background is very similar … Continue reading →
Read moreThe Russian Revolution was started around 1917. However, the seeds of this revolution were planted firmly beforehand in the struggles …
Ivan Shishkin, a member of the artists’ group known as the Peredvizhniki, was known for his intense attention to detail in his paintings. He had such a deep love and respect for nature that he would settle for nothing less than a perfect depiction of it, earning him the title of “singer of fields and forests.” […]
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