Russian Art

900 examples of classic Russian paintings.

Formal art in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Muscovite Russia (the principality of Moscow) was concentrated in the Russian Orthodox Church and consisted principally of icons, frescoes, and manuscript illuminations.

It is the texture and translucency that sets Aivazovsky’s waves apart from other artists, still to this day it is nearly impossible to capture the waters with such realistic clarity.

The arts of Russia reflect the country's long history and vast size. They have been shaped by Russia's contacts with cultures to the east and west as well as by its periods of isolation.

Wikipedi'a's list of Russian artists.

Rich variety of firsthand and regularly supplemented information on Russian culture: daily news of important events, articles on Russian arts, music, theatre, cinema, history, national traditions, cuisine, etc., as well as many-sided biographies of outstanding figures of Russian culture, and useful references to the best museums, reserves, and theatres of this country.

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Russian Art (22,000 BCE - 1920): Icon Painting, Mosaics, Goldsmithing and Cathedral Architecture in Moscow, Kiev and Novgorod.

Socialist Realism is the officially sanctioned style of art that dominated Soviet painting for 50 years from the early 1930s. The style and content was laid down by the state with the purpose of furthering the goals of socialism and communism.

Over a span of several decades social realism dominated and was in fact the only legitimate artistic style in the Soviet Union. Artists were to mirror reality as it was, “in its historic and revolutionary development” and in conformity with the “task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism.”

Artworks and artists: Suprematism was one of the most radical developments in abstract art that would be superior to all the art of the past, and that it would lead to art's barest essentials and ultimate glory.

The Russian art occupies a significant place in the funds of the National Art Museum of the Republic Belarus. Today its collection, which includes works of art of the 18-20th centuries, has more than three with a half thousands of the units of painting, sculptures, graphics, decorative-applied art.

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