Figure 1.--This painting by M.V. Nestorov is the "Youth of Saint Sergey Radonezhsky". The painting was done during 1892-97. For background information on Saint Sergey Radonezhsky, click on the image. |
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We do not yet have a great deal of information about Russian art, but we have begun to collect information about individual Russian artists. Some of the artists we have been able to find some information. Others all we have is their name and a painting. Hopefully our Russian readers will be able to provide some information. We note some fascinating images. Most come from the 19th or early 20th century. We do not yet have any images from the Soviet era. They may not be great art, but they would be of historical interest.
Here is a Soviet artist that we know nothing about. All we have is one paiting done in 1967. It show a little girl in hat looks like a white coat and winter hat on a white hobby horse.
We know nothing about this Russian artist. His name was B. Cepob. We note one portrait of a curly haired little boy in a white outfit, painted in 1901. It is a brilliabtlypainted image.
Pavel Andreevich Fedotov was born in Moscow during 1815. His father was a retired military officer. He attended the Moscow Cadet School. It was not common in other countries for artists to come from a military background, but Fedotov served 10 years in the Finland Regiment of the Imperial Guards stationed in St. Petersburg. Fedotov and many of his fellow-officers dabeled in art as amateurs. Fedotov also played the flute. We note many portraits he painted as well as interesting genre works. We note an interesting portrair of the
Zherbin Children (1850-51), apparently one of his last works.
Makovsky, Konstantin (Russia, 1839-1915): Makovsky is best known as a painter of Russian folk scenes, especially of rural peasant life. As a result he provides us some fascinating depictions of how Russian boys dressed in the 19th century. His paintings are highly detailed and very accurate. He was a founding member of the revolutionary movement known as the "Wanderers". He established himself in an early phase of his career as a champion of Russian subject matter. He had an enormous impact on the direction of art in Tsarist Russia. He advocated freedom from restrictive Academic rules and subject matter.
We note a Russian artist named A.U. Morozov who painted a peasant school in the mid-19th Century. The school was painted in 1865. Morozov was a student of the romantic style of painting. He was one of the 14 artists who protested about what could and could not be subjects for paintings. Tsarist Russia in the 1860s had strict regulations about what artists could paint. We do not have complete details on these regulations, but I think that peasent scenes were not part of what artists were allowed to paint. Morozov's philosophy was to paint refelecting peotry of the soul. His work concentrated on the positive side of life and not its negative aspects. I'm not sure who the land owner was. So often landowners are depicted as being cruel and explotive. This of course was the image promted by the Soviets. It not doubt was accurate in many cases. It is nice to see it was not always the case. The painting is a wonderful depiction of a 19th century Russian school.
A British reader notes the work of M.W. Nesterov, a noted Russian artist. He painted some intraguing historical ans religious scenes. One scene set in the the 19th Century shows a boy wearing a Russian blouse in the countryside talking to a hooded figure. It seems that the boy is dreaming and in the dream he meets the spirit of death. This spirit will take the boy away to heaven. Despite this being a sombre theme I thought the boy's clothes were interesting as he appears to be in Russian clothes. He is not one of the more useful articts providing clothing depictions, but his images are intreaging.
Vasily Perov was educated in the provincial Arzamass School of Art. During 1853-61 Perov studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. He lived in Paris during the early 1860s studying art. Returning to Russia, Perov became a founding member in the Circle of the Itinerants. In 1886 Vasily Perov was awarded the title of member of the Petersburg Academy of Arts. Perov is best known for his sympathetic genre scenes and portraits, including serfs and peasants.
We note a painting by V. Snopov of the Lenin and Petroka with four children. We are not sure just who the children are, The painting is remaravly similar to the photograph here so presumably represents a scene in Gorky, only the children are different. One boy wears a Red Army cap. We know nothing about
the artist at this time. It seems arather cartoonish work, but the subject is interesting. This seems a typical piece of Soviet art work. Any kind of
abstraction or impressionist art was dicouraged as part of Stalin's personal taste. This became known as Soviet realism. It continued long after Sytalin's death in 1953.
We have been able to find no information about Vasily Steinberg other than he was a Russian painter in the early 19th century. The name suggests German Jewish origins. He appears to have painted genre scences, incliding one 1839 portrait of a serf sheaperd boy in southern Russia.
Alexey Venetsianov was active in the early 19th century. He painted some wonderful images of early 19th century Russian life. Some of the paintings depict upper-class life. His best remembered paintings, however, are his masterfull images of Russiam peasant life in the years just before the abolotion of serfdom. Some of the paintings include Russian serf boys.
We know nothing about Russian artist Petrov Vodkin. We do know a distinctive portrait of a Russian boy painted by him, probably in the 1960s. It strikes us that the brooding peasant boy is more appropriate for the pre-Revolutionary er that the Socialist utopia of the 1960s. Perhaps the artist was painting a historical imahe, although there is no way of telling this from the painting.
We know nothing about this Soviet artist except that he painted during the 1960s. We are not even sure about his name because of the Cyrilic script. He pains in a realistic style, albeit not the figures are rather stalized. I don't think Soviet artists were allowed to diverge too much from ralisti depictions. Here it looks like two children with their gradmother in an orchard.
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