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Description of the painting by Philipp Malyavin "Whirlwind"

Malyavin creates an unusual picture. He depicts how ordinary women dance. It seems that the heroines of bylin miraculously came to life in his picture. Different elements are involved in this strange round dance. Robes fluttering. They are deliberately dissolved in the juicy brush strokes of the artist. It seems that these are flashes of fairy-tale fire, or icy streams of water.
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Description of the painting by Zinaida Serebryakova “Whitening the canvas”

Serebryakova is a Russian artist, one of the first women to enter the history of painting. She was born in a very creative family, her father was a sculptor, grandfather an architect, her mother an artist, one brother was also an architect, the second made a great contribution to the development of Soviet painting and graphics. In this environment, the girl could not remain indifferent to art, and, after graduating from a female gymnasium, went to art school.
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Description of the painting by Eduard Manet “Jeanne” (Spring)

Even somehow you get lost at the sight of such a female image. You do not know exactly how to determine her condition. On the one hand, it seems that this is an arrogant coquette who knows how to behave in society. On the other hand, this is a girl who apparently recently lost someone close to her. And therefore, it seems that her eyes are tear-stained, and therefore a black cap covers her handsome cap.
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Description of the painting by Alexander Gerasimov "Gifts of Autumn"

The painting by Alexander Gerasimov “Gifts of Autumn” is a typical classic still life. As you know, one of the most popular elements of a still life is a bouquet by the window. The window helps transmit unusual lighting and an interesting play of chiaroscuro. If the bouquet, as in this picture, is in a transparent jar or vase, the viewer has the opportunity to observe the refraction of light through the prism of glass.
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Description of the painting by Ivan Shishkin “On the seashore”

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin writes his next masterpiece, which has the name "Along the Sea." In this picture, he maximally reveals the beauty of the forest, which is spread over the expanses of the earth and borders on the coastline of a sandy beach, directly in front of the sea. The panorama itself, shows all this beauty from the side of the hill, which is only slightly inscribed by the artist, in the foreground of the canvas.
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Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov "Sisters"

The artist depicted his painting “Two Sisters” in several images. Copies of the image titled "In the Skete", made by the artist in 1915-1916 and 1922, are now in museums in Ukraine and the Czech Republic. The main heroines of the canvas are two sisters holding hands that go along the courtyard of the monastery.
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