Boris Kustodiev

According to his son, the artist wanted to cover the whole cycle of human life with this picture. Although some connoisseurs of painting claimed that Kustodiev talks about the wretched

The name of this artist is well known to those who appreciate painting. He unusually conveys images that later make you think about eternal human problems and values, as well

A hot sunny day, the water sparkles from the sun, mixes reflections intensely turning blue, perhaps promising a thunderstorm of sky and trees from a steep bank, as if melted

This work is not very organic for the work of Kustodiev, because it clearly sounds a note of social criticism, bringing it closer to the art of the Wanderers. Probably,

According to many historians, the artist Kustodiev was keen on studying the history of his homeland. In his paintings he tried to recreate the life and character of the Russian

Kustodiyev wrote several surprisingly vivid and colorful children’s portraits, the models for which were his children: the son Kirill and the daughter Irina. This work is distinguished by a playful

Kustodiyev does not capture the real life, he writes a dream. Such as on the canvas “Spring”, where you will see a completely unique, even a few candy world. Here

The artistic direction to which Kustodiev belonged in the 1910s can be called “neoclassicism”. It assumed an orientation to the great models of the past – taking into account the

Fair in Russia – it is always a holiday for all villagers. At fairs they bought and sold, communicated, played, had fun. Boris Kustodiyev depicted such a fair in his

The life of Boris Kustodiev was not easy: a serious illness and the subsequent operation on the spinal cord chained him to a wheelchair. For about fifteen years the artist

The painting was painted in Paris, where Kustodiev arrived with his wife and his newly born son, Cyril, after graduating from the Academy. A woman in whom one can easily

One day, walking along the banks of the Volga, Kustodiev saw a woman, beauty, to become and the greatness of which simply shook him, and the artist painted this picture.

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiyev is a great master who glorifies the Russian life, the Russian way of life, the Russian soul. Most of all, the soul of the Russian people was

In the State Art Museum named after A. N. Radishchev in Saratov there is a remarkable bright multi-colored canvas by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev “Troitsin Day”. A bright, warm oil painting

Kustodiev writes with love the Russian nature, often including in it the motives of peasant labor. The plot “The Harvest” is simple in its plot, acquired from the catalog of