His artwork was revolutionary but surprisingly very much in demand, perhaps because it was understood by his contemporaries. The combination of healthy conservatism and innovative techniques of painting the elements appealed to critics and viewers alike. The sea in Turner's paintings could be calm or stormy, but inevitably exciting and beautiful.

В молодости Левитану пришлось пережить очень многое — голод, нищету, унижение по национальному признаку. Иногда он не ел несколько дней кряду, и у него кружилась голова, если кто-то из учеников начинал перекусывать хлебом. Про Левитана в училище ходили полуправдивые жалобные рассказы, говорили, что ему негде ночевать, и он прятался в заброшенном доме Юшковых.

"Why not remove the ranger with the whip and paint a beautiful, spiritualised girl instead of a woman with a headscarf in the foreground?" Repin aptly asked: 'and whether, in a crowd, the most beautiful and spiritualised people often come to the fore for your pleasure'. Tretyakov had nothing to say.

Well, the main reason why Tretyakov became a collector of paintings is that all his life he followed a simple principle: "to profit in order that what is gained from society should also be returned to society". How many good things would be if everyone, including our oligarchs, followed this principle. It is a pity that Tretyakov was only a rare exception.

In the painting, Ivanov depicted one of the key moments from the Bible - John the Baptist points to the people gathered at Jesus Christ coming towards them. And how to depict the reaction of completely different people to their first meeting with Jesus Christ? A very interesting and important task for any believer and a great artist, which is why Ivanov approached this work so carefully.

By his main profession Fedorov was a captain of the Guards, and drew on the dictates of the soul and so well that even the Emperor Nicholas I himself, deigned to issue the highest resolution: "drawing officer Paul Fedorov to leave the military service and engage in art ...".

На среднем находятся стрельцы, сидящие на телегах и наконец, на верхнем — лобное место и зрители на крышах торговых рядов. Тогда они находились на Красной площади, а чтобы лучше рассмотреть все подробности казни мальчишки и молодые мужчины лезли туда, где лучше видно.

в 15 лет зарабатывать как взрослые, рисовать картинки, а не корпеть за партой. Учиться Моне не любил никогда, если только речь не шла о живописи, да и там он предпочитал собственный стиль.

When morning comes, the bishop and the deacon will sober up, go to church and repent of their deed: "the devil got into their heads". The laity will whisper in the corners: "But during Easter week the priest did it", but it will be enough for him to read another sermon - after repentance it will surely be especially sincere and inspiring and they will forgive him

But there were impressionists and in our homeland, they are not as many as we would like, but they left their mark in the art and not small. We will talk about the five best paintings by Russian Impressionists in this article.

the last barge hauler, with his head down, his face is not visible, but it seems that he is trudging along with all his strength. But this is probably not so - the last barge haulers were weak, but experienced, and their task was to make sure that the towline did not catch on the rocks.

But in the paintings of Pukirev and Perov, the humiliated and oppressed are frankly unhappy, while Yaroshenko went further; at this moment, both the man with the moustache and the shaved peasant with the beard and the intellectual who is shy of his arresting hairstyle are smiling and laughing. They are happy for the boy who enjoys feeding the pigeons.