painters

The parish of spring and summer

The artist is Burliuk The art of avant -garde is always a sentence of classics. Sometimes it can be accompanied by a sarcastic, critical, ironic commentary. David Burliuk creates his version of seasonal allegories (spring, summer, winter, autumn). Instead of captivating naked bodies of beautiful girls inhabiting European painting and a sculpture of revival and…

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Portrait of Empress Catherine II

The artist is Peskorsky Ekaterina II (Great; 1729-1796)-nee Princess Sofia Augustus Frederick the Angalt-Tserbst. Born in the German city of Stetin. In 1744, she arrived in Russia as the bride of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich, the future Emperor Peter III. In the same year she accepted Orthodoxy with the name of Ekaterina Alekseevna and was…

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Ice drift

The artist is Ivanov In the picture "Ice drift" The organic combination of life-concrete and deep eternal topics that have always been characteristic of the works of the artist is revealed. Plastic and compositionally Viktor Ivanov denotes acute social problems: choosing the path to the country as a whole and each person individually in the…

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Father’s house

The artist is Romanchev The topic of return is one of the most piercing and tragic in post -war art. The painter-Frontovik Alexander Romanchev creates in 1964 the “Father’s House”-a soldier who has just returned from the front, stands on the threshold of an empty native house. We do not see his faces, but in…

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Song about the fallen

The artist is Khetagurov The theme of the Great Patriotic War was an infinite pain of the Ossetian artist Kazbek Khetagurov, whose father did not return from the front, his non -healing wound. Therefore, his canvases about the war are so piercingly tragic. Heroes of the picture "Song about the fallen", written on the eve…

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“Great Stalin Glory!””

The artist is Kugach The compositional-caloric system of the picture created by the team of authors to the All-Union Artistic Exhibition of 1950 is completely and completely subordinate to the idea of ​​representing the leader of the state as the inspirer and organizer of the greatest victories. The front staircase leading up, the hands of…

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Portrait of Peter III

The artist is anthropov Peter III (Karl Peter Ulrich Golstein-Gottorpsky; February 21, 1728, keel − July 6/17, 1762, Ropsha) − The son of the Duke of Golstein-Gottorp Carl Frederick and daughter of Peter I Anna Petrovna. In 1742 he was brought to Petersburg as the heir to the throne. Having accepted Orthodoxy, he received the…

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Portrait of Queen Evdokia Lukyanovna

The artist is neph Evdokia Lukyanovna Romanova (1608 – 1645) – nee Streshneva, daughter of the Mashchovsky nobleman, then Rolniki and boyar Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev (? – 1650) and Anna Konstantinovna. Since February 1626 – the second wife of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Mother of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1629 – 1676).

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Svyatoslav Richter plays

The artist is Zhilinsky The concert activity of Svyatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915–1997) lasted more than 60 years. The game of the great pianist was distinguished by exceptional depth and emotionality in the disclosure of the composer plan. Richter was completely absorbed in music, it was his vocation and ideal. (A. D.) Electronic catalog “Heroes and…

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