Alexander Ivanov was an amazingly versatile artist. It so happened that he is known to a wide circle of people, first of all, for his masterpieces on biblical themes. But Ivanov’s work was not limited only to this. He was able to paint pictures of nature very subtly and sincerely. One of these canvases is […]
Year of painting: 1946. Dimensions of the painting: 22.4 x 30 cm. Material: masonite. Writing technique: oil. Genre: self-portrait. Style: primitivism. Gallery: Collection of Carolyn Farb, Houston, USA.
Year of painting: 1872. Painting dimensions: no data. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: impressionism. Gallery: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Year of painting: 1752. Dimensions of the painting: 73 x 59 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: nude. Rococo. Gallery: Old Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Year of painting: 1852. Dimensions of the painting: 73 x 62 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Ingres Museum, Montauban, France.
Year of painting: 1873. Dimensions of the painting: 179.8 x 260 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: mythological painting. Style: neoclassicism. Gallery: Sterling Art Institute and Francine Clarke, Williamstown, USA.
Year of painting: 1939. Dimensions of the painting: 173.5 x 173 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: self-portrait. Style: primitivism. Gallery: Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
Year of painting: 1893. Dimensions of the painting: 73 x 93 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: landscape. Style: cloisonnism. Gallery: Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA.
Year of painting: 1940. Dimensions of the painting: 74 x 98.5 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: symbolic painting. Style: primitivism, surrealism. Gallery: Collection of Selma and Nesuha Ertegun, New York, USA.
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 […]