Kramskoy Ivan paintings

Kramskoy painted the painting “May Night” or “Mermaids” in 1871, based on the work of N. V. Gogol. When creating this picture, the artist needed to plunge into the motif

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The order of the portrait of the Russian classic Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov came from Kramskoy from Pavel Tretyakov – the great patron wanted to collect portraits of all outstanding people

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Russian painter and draftsman Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy was versatile gifted. He worked as a master of genre, historical and portrait painting, he was a prominent art critic. Studying at the

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Ivan Kramskiy’s painting “Inconsolable Grief” depicts a woman dressed in mourning. The mournful eyes, pallor, hand clutching the handkerchief convulsively and the other, lashing hanging along the body – everything

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Kramskoy portrayed the peasant in his portrait “Mina Moiseyev”. An elderly grandfather looks at us from the canvas. The gray beard says that he is not young and has lived

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Talented painter I. Kramskoy and patron P. Tretyakov met in 1869 and for many years became close friends. The artist respected and, like no one else, Tretyakov understood, they often

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In the summer of 1873 Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy worked on the painting “Inspection of the old house.” He lived in a manor near Yasnaya Polyana and decided to make every

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At the end of the XIX century, a special interest in folk art arose. Finally, the higher strata of society paid attention to the originality and uniqueness of the people’s

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Kramskoy, like many other artists, touches on the theme of the peasantry in his work. Creating portraits of peasants, he shows himself a good portraitist, who knows how to accurately

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Painting “Moonlight Night” was created by the artist in 1880. Kramskoy attracted night landscapes. Here he strives to show us all the magic, illumination by the moonlight, as everything changes

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Jesus sits on a rock and waits for the sun to rise. The horizon line divides the canvas into two parts: a cold stone desert – on the one hand,

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