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A representative selection of ICONS from the 11th century to the late Baroque period
This art is appealing because of its great openness to other influences – the obedience to the rules of Orthodox Christianity in its early stages, the borrowing from Roman heritage or later to the Western breakthroughs – combined with a never compromised assertion of a distinctly Slavic soul and identity.
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Ilya Repin – The gifted artist of the group known as “The Itinerants”
Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him.
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Emotions through unique color and form in Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract art
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers.
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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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Spotlight on Marc Chagall
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Christmas might be over for many, but for Orthodox Christian communities, the festivities are just beginning
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"Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing" – Marc Chagall
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The future is black!
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Breaking up and making up
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The Secret to Being a Great Artist…
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