Category Archives: Russian artist

Zinaida Serebriakova – Part 2.

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

My blog today continues with a look at the life of the Russian painter, Zinaida Serebriakova.  At the end of my last entry I told you that she and her family’s life had been turned upside down by the onset … Continue reading →

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Zinaida Serebriakova. Part 1

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

One of the most pleasing aspects of this blog for me is discovering artists I had never heard of before.  It is an even greater pleasure when the “new-to-me” artist is a female for I am often made aware in … Continue reading →

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I and the Village and The Birthday by Marc Chagall

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

Having just completed my four part look at the quartet of Scottish Colourists I am turning to a painter from the same era but one who could not be more different in style.  For my blog today I want to … Continue reading →

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Compositions, Impressions and Improvisations by Kandinsky

Posted on August 4, 2012 by

Impressions III (Concert) was painted by Kandinsky soon after he had attended a concert by Arnold Schonberg in Munich in 1911 and according to the exhibition catalogue notes the painting should be looked upon as:  ”…one of modern art’s most … Continue reading →

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Grüngasse in Murmau by Wassily Kandinsky

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

In my last blog I was following the life story of Wassily Kandinsky and had reached the juncture in his life, 1901, when he had opened up his own art school, Phalanxschule, in Munich.  The previous winter, along with help … Continue reading →

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Barge-Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

My blog today continues, as promised, with the Social Realism Movement in art.  Social Realism is a very broad term for painting or literature that comments on contemporary social political or economic conditions, usually from a left-wing viewpoint, in a … Continue reading →

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Religious Procession in Kursk Province by Ilya Repin

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

Ilya Efimovich Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuhuiv, now part of eastern Ukraine.  His parents were a family of military settlers.  Military Settlements in thise days were places which allowed the combination of military service and … Continue reading →

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The Appearance of Christ to the People by Alexander Ivanov

Posted on May 15, 2011 by

How would you feel if you had spent almost half of your life on one painting and then after all that effort it was not well received?   This is what happened to Alexander Ivanov and his monumental painting The Appearance … Continue reading →

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Girl with Peaches by Valentin Serov

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was born in St Petersburg in 1865 and was to become one of the foremost portrait artists of his time.  He was the only-child of Alexander, who was an operatic composer and mother Valentina, who was also … Continue reading →

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