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Peter Leek. Russian Painting
Introduction
Icon painting
Parsunas
The Academy
Cross-currents in art
The Itinerants
The emergence of Russian Avant-garde
Religious Painting
From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
From the 1860s to the 1890s
Portraiture
From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
From the 1860s to the 1890s
From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
Historical Painting
From the Eigteenth Century to the 1860s
From the 1860s to the 1890s
From the 1890s to the Revolutionary Period
Interiors and Genre Painting
Interiors in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Genre Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
Genre Painting from the 1860s to the 1890s
The Post-Revolutionary Period: the life of the People
Landscape
From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
From the 1860s to the 1890s
From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
Still Life
From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
From the 1860s to the 1890s
From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
Twentieth-century Avant-garde and Revolutioary art
A New World of Art
Abstraction
Symbolism
Biographies
Alexander Nikolayevich Benois
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin
Leon Bakst
Konstantin Andreyevich Somov
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov
Alexnder Yakovlevich Golovin
Nicholas Roerich
Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray
Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky
Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova
Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar
Nikolaï Nikolayevich Sapunov
Sergeï Yuryevich Sudeikin
Dmitry Isidorovich Mitrokhin
Georgy Ivanovich Narbut
Sergeï Vassilyevich Chekhonin
Bibliography
List of Works Classed by Artist
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Отрывок из книги
1. Anonymous, The Virgin of Vladimir, 11th – early 12th century. Tempera with eggs on lime-panel, 100 × 76 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The sublime imagery of the great icon painters, the portraiture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the paintings of sea, snow and forest, the scenes of peasant life and the historical works of the Itinerants, the stylishness of the World of Art movement, the bold experimentation of the artists of the early twentieth century… To anyone unfamiliar with Russian painting, its richness and diversity may well come as a surprise or at least an exciting revelation. Indeed, the creative energy of Russian artists over the past two and a half centuries has been such that a book of this size cannot hope to offer a comprehensive overview of their output. Its aim is therefore to provide a representative selection of Russian painting from the eighteenth century to the start of the post-Revolutionary period (plus some glimpses of more recent work), but without attempting to do more than briefly allude to Russia’s rich heritage of icon painting or giving in-depth coverage of Soviet era art.
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Exhibitions, such as that of Tretyakov in the Russian Museum, also played an important role in the development of Russian art. At the end of the nineteenth century, the artistic status of icons had been in eclipse for approximately two hundred years, even though they were cherished as objects of religious veneration. During that time, many of them had been damaged, inappropriately repainted or obscured by grime. In 1904, Rublev’s Old Testament Trinity was restored to its full glory, and in 1913 a splendid exhibition of restored and cleaned icons was held in Moscow to mark the millennium of the Romanov dynasty. As a result, the rediscovered colours and stylistic idiosyncrasies of icon painting were explored and exploited by a number of painters in the first decade or two of the twentieth century. Similarly, when Diaghilev mounted a huge exhibition of eighteenth-century portrait painting at the Tauride Palace in Saint Petersburg in 1905, it resulted in a noticeable revival of interest in portraiture and in Russia’s artistic heritage as a whole. International exhibitions (like the ones organized by the Golden Fleece magazine in 1908 and 1909), together with foreign travel and visits by foreign artists to Russia, allowed Russian painters to become acquainted with movements such as Impressionism, Symbolism, Futurism and Cubism. What is particularly fascinating is to see how artists as diverse as Grabar, Vrubel, Chagall, Larionov and Goncharova adapted these influences and used them to create their own art – often incorporating Russian elements in the process.
9. Nikolaï Souetine, Esquisse de peinture murale. Vitebsk. 1920. Chinese Ink on paper. 20.3 × 18.2 cm.
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