Kuindzhi was able to return to the landscape an unusual beauty and a sense of magnificence of the world. The Wanderers sought to explore everything, and the artist wanted to enjoy what is. But he could not escape the interpretation. He comprehended nature as part of the cosmic forces that can carry beauty. Kuindzhi constantly searched for the image of the world in reality.
The canvas "River" painted by Krymov, written in 1926, is the property of the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery. The artist liked to depict the rich landscapes of the Russian provinces, filling them with warmth and love for his native nature. As if on a hill, we are considering a small river bordered by lush green bushes.
The picture was painted in 1873 with oil on canvas. This painting is part of the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery. Kuindzhi is a great Russian artist whose work has become the cultural heritage of our country. They are known all over the world and can compete with the canvases of the most famous artists. The island of Valaam is located on Lake Ladoga.
A. Arkhipov carried out his career in the field of genre painting, drawing various episodes from the life of peasants. The Laundresses canvas, which reveals the theme of hard, debilitating labor, Arkhipov began in the late 1890s and finished in 1901. During this time, two versions of the painting were created. The work “Laundresses” is one of the most famous and at the same time one of the most important in the artist’s work.
Actually, the idea of the painting came from the famous Russian artist V. Surikov in honor of the centenary of the great commander of the Russian Empire Suvorov crossing the Alps, who made this transition at the head of his army in 1799. The painting itself was painted entirely according to the canons of classical art of historical subjects, because in it you can easily notice something like a theatrical action, which often could be found in historical paintings of those times.
“Among the waves” - a canvas by the hand of the master-marine painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, painted by him in 1898, when its creator had already crossed the eighty-year mark. The canvas captures us with its noisy waves. We observe an all-consuming and endless, azure, ultramarine, steel, turquoise, blue-green, emerald, dazzling white sea.