Ivanov Alexander Andreevich is a famous Russian artist of works on biblical and mythological subjects. He is the author of the world famous painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People”. Ivanov has been working on this painting for about twenty years. And he did not just work, he studied the topic, was in constant […]
Year of painting: 1812. Dimensions of the painting: 205 x 128 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: private collection.
Even before he wrote The Major’s Matchmaking, Fedotov composed a poetic foreword to the future picture: “Correction of circumstances, or the marriage of a major.” So the picture turned out to be like an illustration to this poem. And during an exhibition of his works in Moscow in 1850, he composed a long “race”, or […]
One of the rare works, which is rarely mentioned in our time, is the painting “Admission to the Komsomol”, quite clearly and expressively reflects the course of the Soviet period and the formation of the socialist system at this stage. In the picture of Sergei Grigoriev, written by him in 1949, a solemn action takes […]
Year of painting: 1850. Dimensions: 225 * 281 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: illustration. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Ivanov Alexander Andreevich is a famous Russian artist of works on biblical and mythological subjects. He is the author of the world famous painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People”. Ivanov has been working on this painting for about twenty years. And he did not just work, he studied the topic, was in constant […]
Year of painting: 1804. Dimensions of the painting: 227 x 147 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada.
Nicholas Ge’s painting The Last Supper is a strong, powerful work depicting a famous biblical scene that has been referenced by many artists: classics like Rubens and Leonardo da Vinci, and avant-garde artists like Salvador Dali. The painting by Nikolai Ge depicts a very small room in which Jesus Christ and the apostles are. Jesus […]
In his very famous work “Relativity”, Maurits Escher uses a special technique called tessellation. With its help, one graphic plane is divided into several parts. In the picture, the artist arranged the composition in three planes perpendicular to each other. Such works by Escher continue to amaze the audience with the intricacies of shapes and […]
Year of painting: 1946. Dimensions of the painting: 55.9 x 40.6 cm. Material: masonite. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: primitivism, surrealism. Gallery: Collection of Daniel Filipacci, Paris, France.