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Ivan Aivazovsky and the Russian Painters of Water
Master of the Sublime, he made the ocean the principal subject of his work. Sometimes wild and raging, sometimes calm and peaceful, the life of the ocean is composed of as many allegories as the human condition.
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Vasily Surikov – The great masters of history painting in Russian culture
Vasily Suriokov was very knowledgeable about Russian history, and his paintings deal with crucial moments. He sought in historical events the answers to pressing problems of his time.
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Sergei Diaghilev and the Painters of the World of Art
We addressed ourselves to the artistic world with the slogan “Talents of all directions, unite!” And that is how in our ranks Vrubel immediately appeared alongside Levitan, Bakst alongside Serov, Somov alongside Maliavin. – Alexander Benois
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Isaac Levitan: Simple, Unpretentious landscapes through his eyes
At the end of the nineteenth century the landscape was one of the foremost genres in Russian painting. It was this influence that shaped Levitan’s art, an art fully and by right symbolic of the finest achievements of Russian landscape painting.
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Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) – the Russian Painter of Water
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art.
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Isaak Ilyich Levitan
The Jewish Painter of the Tsar
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