A girl on the background of the Persian carpet – one of the beautiful works of the famous artist Mikhail Vrubel. Before the spectator there is a colorful, bright picture.


A girl on the background of the Persian carpet – one of the beautiful works of the famous artist Mikhail Vrubel. Before the spectator there is a colorful, bright picture.

Vrubel turned to the evangelical subjects for the first time during his studies at the Academy of Arts. Moving to Kiev – at the invitation of art critic A. Prahov

This picture Vrubel depicts the night in the deaf, rusty-red tones. Visible are the dark silhouettes of horses and the swarthy, half-naked shepherd-gypsy. Thistle thickets like living red torches: they

Having finished work on the “Demon sitting,” Vrubel did not part with Lermontov; fate would have liked to continue the dialogue of the two great masters. In the role of

All the paintings of M. Vrubel were created in a mysterious and fabulous atmosphere. Especially his demons. In 1891, M. Vrubel painted 30 illustrations for the new anniversary edition of

The merchant Savva Ivanovich is comfortably located in the armchair, as if now he will start a business conversation. The presentable appearance of Savva Ivanovich testifies to the refined taste

Vrubel was happy when he had a son named Sawa. The joyful father found an art talent in the newly born child, assured his relatives that Savvushka “is unusually staring.”

In Kiev, Vrubel enthusiastically engaged in religious painting. He restored the ancient frescoes of the Church of St. Cyril, made several murals on the walls of the church. Among the

Mikhail Vrubel, who knew classical art and literature and spoke several languages, was open and easy to communicate. But for all that, a hypnotic force emanated from him, as if

Pastel Pearl “- a small miracle of art, an amazing game of overflows in a pearl shell. Who ever held in the hands and examined the natural sea shell, could

Painfully lonely artist, stretching to the beyond, finds the joy of creativity, when in S. Mamontov’s Abramtsev through his friends and comrades comes in contact with the work of folk

The widely known great Russian post-impressionist Mikhail Vrubel used a special technique for writing paintings that amazes researchers and connoisseurs of his works. Careful selection of colors, intense color, fantastic

The desire to truly reproduce the nature, characteristic of most landscape painters of the second half of the XIX century, Vrubel gives way to the perception of the natural motive

The painting was the result of the artist’s serious work on the scenery for the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. At this time, the life of the whole family

1888. Cardboard, oil. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Even in the early years of his work Vrubel began work on the “Demon”. The theme of the Demon did not leave

One of the first works of Vrubel. This is a huge fresco “The Descent of the Holy Spirit…”, written by the artist on the boxed roof of the Church of

Like many of the master’s works, the picture remained unfinished. The master worked well the background, which is a typical Caucasian landscape. As for the very figure of the demon,

While portraying Maria Ivanovna Artsybushev almost simultaneously with her husband, Vrubel creates a representative portrait. The prim and disembodied lady in a strict black dress, animated only by the shine

Originally, the painting was called “Ilya Muromets”, written by M. A. Vrubel incredibly fast, for a couple of weeks, with almost no preliminary sketches and sketches. In form, the picture

Vrubel has long conceived the canvas “Demon defeated.” He wanted to shock the viewer, create a grandiose work, but, it seems, he did not clearly represent the idea of the

Pencil drawings of 1904 are extremely interesting. This is the only surviving series of full-scale sketches in Vrubel’s legacy. Returning to artistic work, Vrubel felt the need, again, as during