The dispute about art

The artist is Yakovlev The interest of Vasily Yakovlev in the art of the Dutch, Flemings or Italians, the search for lost technology met some criticism even among brothers in a realistic workshop. The artist felt his creative loneliness and was friends with writers, military, scientists. Nevertheless, the picture depicts the conversation of the author…

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Portrait of Catherine II

The artist is Ust -Ruditskaya Ekaterina II Great (Sofia Augusta Frederick Anhalt-Tserbstskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna, April 21 / May 2, 1729, Stettin −November 6/17, 1796, St. Petersburg) − The daughter of Prince Christian Augusta Cerbact Dornburg and Johanna Elizabeth, Princess Golstein-Gottorp. From 1742 the wife of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich. Came to power in 1762 as…

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Warm day

The artist is Levitin The picture personifies the beginning of the tennization of Soviet art, which unfolded after the official exposure of the cult of the personality of Stalin in 1957. The image of a girl who is resting after simple homework does not correlate with any of the ideological formulas. Voluntarily or involuntarily Levitin…

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Victory. Banner over the Reichstag

The artist is Mochalsky Reichstagsgebäude – “Building of the State Assembly”) – a historical building in Berlin, where in 1894-1933 the same state body of Germany was met – the Reichstag of the German Empire and the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. In the last days of the war, during the Berlin offensive surgery around…

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October wind

The artist is nine Each era produced its own Lenin. The period of the “Khrushchev thaw” enthusiastically reanimated the romance and poetry of the revolution. He called the image of Lenin – a romantic hero to life. In the picture of Devyatov, a concentrated, tilted forward figure of the leader confronts the oncoming stream of…

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Windy day

The artist is Tkachev The Tkachev brothers occupy a special place in Russian art. Each of them is a major creative person with its individuality. Sergey Petrovich – an artist of an acute picturesque manner, gravitating towards large -scale canvases, to the creation of plot -detailed works. Alexey Petrovich is more lyrical, he is a…

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Youth (rest)

The artist – layers Every summer, Arkady Plastov invariably spent in his native village of Radlonikha, Ulyanovsk region. Here he built a workshop and wrote people whom he knew from childhood, familiar and beloved landscapes. Each plot is a memory of experienced. Each picture concentrates the impressions of not one day, but a whole layer…

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