The Russian Art

The Russian Art

FAMOUS RUSSIAN PAITINGS

The Russian art exist in different forms. The icons are one of its early forms. They were used mainly for decoration of churches. The 15th century is the highest point in the development of Russian icon-painting. The name of the greatest icon-painter of our country is Andrey Rublev.

The painters of the 19th century Russian realist school were called Itinerants ( Peredvizhniki) . Different scenes of contemporary life are typical for their works. Savrasov, Perov, Surikov, Kramskoy, Serov, Shishkin, Levitan belong to famous Itinerants. Their works are displayed in St. Petersburg and Moscow, in the Russian Museum and in the Tretyakov-Gallery.

Vasily Perov

Alexey Savrasov

Ivan Shishkin

Vasily Surikov

Valentin Serov

Isaac Levitan

Ivan Kramskoy

Alexei Savrasov

( 1830 – 1897)

Russian landscape painter and creator of the  lyrical landscape  style. One of the founding members of the Association of Wanderers (since 1870). Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1854)

The rooks have returned (1871)

Rye (1881)

Vasily Perov  

(1834-1882)

Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realist movement and one of the founding members of  the Wanderes ( Peredvizhniki)

The Hunters at Rest (1871)

Troika (1886)

Vasily Surikov  

(1848 – 1916)

Russian Realist history painter. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations

The Morning of the Streltsy Execution

(1881)

Boyarinya Morozova (1887)

Ivan Kramskoi  

(1837 – 1887)

Russian Realist painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the art movement known as  the Wanderes  between 1860 and 1880.

The Unknown (1883)

Portrait of the writer

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

(1873)

Valentin Serov

  (1865 – 1911)

Russian painter and one of the premier portrait artists of his era

The girl with peaches (1887)

The Girl Covered by the Sun (1888)

Ivan Shishkin

  (1832 – 1898)

Russian  landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.

Morning in the pine forest (1889)

Pine forest (1895)

Isaac Levitan

(1860 - 1900)

Russian classical landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape."Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1898)

Golden autumn (1895)

March (1895)

The State Hermitage Museum (until 1917 — the Imperial Hermitage) is the Russian state Art and Cultural History Museum in St. Petersburg, one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world.

The main museum complex of the Hermitage is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg, includes six interconnected buildings — the Winter Palace, the Reserve House of the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Big (Old) Hermitage, the New Hermitage and the Hermitage Theatre. There are 365 halls open to the public

The Tretyakov Gallery is a Russian state art museum in Moscow, created on the basis of the historical collections of the merchants Pavel and Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov brothers; one of the world's largest collections of Russian fine art.

The history of the gallery traditionally dates back to 1856, the time of the first documented acquisitions of P. M. Tretyakov; in 1867 the gallery was opened to the public, and in 1892 it was transferred to the ownership of Moscow.