Famous Russian artists. The most famous artists

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Russian art is known all over the world and inspires artists from all over the world. For many centuries, Slavic artists have equally successfully created original plots and supported current trends.

The greatest flowering of Russian artistic culture took place several centuries ago, so it is worth talking about the masters of this particular period in the first place.

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky

The famous portrait painter was born in the Ukrainian city of Mirgorod. According to family tradition, Borovikovsky entered the military service and rose to the rank of lieutenant, after which he retired and devoted himself to art. His father and brothers were also painting, so the first lessons took place at home. The first canvases were on religious themes - icons by Borovikovsky, dated 1780s, have survived to this day. The turning point was the order for palace decoration for Catherine II. The master created two paintings and was invited to St. Petersburg, where the most famous artists worked. In the capital, Borovikovsky met the popular portrait painter Levitsky. Perhaps it was this acquaintance that influenced his further creative path.

One of the early paintings is"Portrait of O. K. Filippova", full of reverie and tenderness. A recognition came to Borovikovsky. In 1795, the Academy of Arts awarded him the title - this was achieved only by the most talented and famous artists. The best works include portraits of Lopukhina, Arsenyeva, Kurakin and canvases with images of peasants: Lizanka and Dashenka, Torzhkovskaya peasant woman Khristinya.

In old age, the artist was exposed to religious sentiments and moved away from creativity.

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries became special for Russian art. Many famous artists worked during this period, and Tropinin is no exception. He was born into a family of serfs in 1776, at the age of 9 he was appointed to the pupils of the Imperial Academy of Arts, and in 1823 Vasily received his freedom and was soon awarded the title of academician for his works “Lacemaker”, “Old Beggar Man”, “Portrait of Engraver E O. Skotnikova. The first works of the master were portrait studies depicting the children of his master, Count Markov. The Ukrainian theme can be traced in the canvas “Boy with a Pity”. His other works are connected with everyday scenes, landscapes and portraits with a sentimental accent. The most popular canvases are genre portraits, combining elegance and simplicity, created thanks to the understanding of the people around them. Like many other famous Russian artists, Tropinin was an honorary member of the Moscow Art Society.

Know betterhis personality can be helped by "Self-portrait in the background of a window overlooking the Kremlin", expressing his desire for beauty and truth, as well as a variety of pencil sketches full of successful observations.

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky

This portrait painter can be safely written down in the famous artists of the world. Kiprensky is known not only in Russia. Meanwhile, he was the illegitimate son of a serf peasant woman and acquired a surname only after receiving a free one. The landowner placed him in the Academy of Arts, where the boy lived for nine years in an educational school, and then studied historical painting. Kiprensky's vocation is the portrait genre. The very first such work received the highest marks from connoisseurs at an exhibition in 1804. The canvas depicted Adam Schwalbe, the artist's stepfather. Soon after that, in 1805, Kiprensky received a gold medal for the painting "Dmitry Donskoy on the Kulikovo field." Later, he painted portraits of many representatives of the Russian noble intelligentsia, and in 1812 he became an academician, like many famous Russian artists of that era. In 1816 he began to travel, living in Italy.

There he spent his last years. Kiprensky was buried in Rome.

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov

Many famous Russian artists came from families of serfs. Karl Bryullov is a peculiar exception. He was born in St. Petersburg and received his first art lessons from his father. From the age of ten he studied at the Academy of Arts, where he was considered the first student. Already in 1821, Bryullov was awarded a medal for the painting “The Appearance to Abraham of Threeangels at the oak of Mamre" and went abroad. In Italy, he painted pictures from Roman life, copied the canvases of Raphael. His most famous work, The Last Day of Pompeii, was written between 1830 and 1833. Famous artists and critics of Europe appreciated this work very highly, Bryullov became a really popular painter and returned to his homeland in triumph. Together with Bruni's painting "The Copper Serpent", the painting "The Last Day of Pompeii" became a real milestone in the history of Russian art.

Alexander Andreevich Ivanov

In July 1806, a son appeared in the family of Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov, a professor of historical painting. In 1817 he entered the Academy, where all the most famous artists of Russia studied, as an "outsider student" - unlike other students, he lived in a family. And already at the age of 18, the young man was overtaken by success - he was awarded a gold medal for a painting based on Homer's stories. In 1827, Ivanov graduated with a first-class award. He was soon sent to Rome, but the trip was overshadowed by the news of his father's resignation. Nevertheless, Ivanov continued to work on his work and was looking for the main theme for his canvases. It was then that he conceived a picture dedicated to the appearance of the Messiah. The ideas of morality took possession of the artist, and he set to work on a grandiose canvas. Twenty years of effort made it possible to create a painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People”, amazing in its power, but during the life of the artist it did not receive high marks, on the contrary, sharp criticism fell upon the painter. Suddenly ill with cholera, Ivanov died shortly after the canvas was presented to the public.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky

Many famous artists are best known for their portraits and landscapes. Aivazovsky, on the other hand, became famous for his battle paintings on the marine theme. He was born in Feodosia and studied art at the Simferopol gymnasium, and then at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. His first painting, dedicated to the air over the sea, was well received by critics, and two years later he received a gold medal for his work. After that, the Russian marine painter went to Italy, and then returned to his homeland, where he spent his creative life. His best paintings are Black Sea, Wave, Chesme Battle. Most of the canvases are now preserved in the art gallery of his hometown, in Feodosia.