History of Russian painting Automatic translate

Russian art in general, and Russian painting in particular, emerged from the art of Kievan Rus, which cannot be called completely original, because together with Christianity, Prince Vladimir brought art traditions from Byzantium. They bizarrely intertwined with pagan culture, gradually changing over time.

The real upsurge for Russian painting begins in the fifteenth century, which was even given the name “Golden Age of Ancient Russian Art”. The development of painting took place in the same way as in Europe, that is, initially it was exclusively churchly - these are temple murals and icon painting, in which the techniques typical of Byzantine masters are traced. But the icons cannot be called a simple imitation, and the work of Andrei Rublev was able to raise this art to a new, unprecedented height. At all times, Russian masters of painting painted portraits of their contemporaries, landscapes, everyday life of ordinary people, their painting is perfectly traceable history and sights of St. Petersburg , Moscow, other cities.

The first portraits painted in a realistic style began to appear in Russia in the seventeenth century, and in the middle and end of the eighteenth century, such famous masters as Borovikovsky and Levitsky began to create. Since that time, the development of Russian painting begins to go even more intensively and follow the trends prevalent throughout the world. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Russian painting was enriched with such names as Bryullov, Ivanov, Kiprensky, realism flourished, an association of Russian artists of the Wanderers was founded, whose members were Shishkin, Vasnetsov, Kramskoy, Kuindzhi, Savrasov, Repin and Surikov.

Of course, the history of Russian painting does not end there. The stormy beginning of the twentieth century, and innovative styles that appeared in France during the cultural revolution, do not pass by the attention of Russian artists. Followers of modernism as a whole and its individual directions in particular appear.