Fine Russian Oil Paintings Collection from the Russian Museum

Author: Quan Shanshi
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Publish Date: 1998-12-01
Features: The Russian Museum, located on Art Square in the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded in 1898 and has just celebrated its centennial. It specializes in collecting fine art works from Russia and the Soviet Union, rivaling the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow as both are renowned national museums in Russia with rich collections. This art book provides a detailed introduction to the works of the "Peredvizhniki" (Wanderers), a pivotal movement in the development of Russian painting, housed in the Russian Museum, as well as outstanding works from the Soviet era between the 1920s and 1980s. It includes masterpieces by prominent "Peredvizhniki" artists such as Vasily Perov, Ivan Kramskoi, Ivan Repin, Vasily Surikov, Valentin Serov, and Mikhail Vrubel, as well as avant-garde works from the "Art World," "Blue Rose" art circles, and "the father of abstract art" Wassily Kandinsky, along with Suprematist Kazimir Malevich. Spanning a century, it systematically showcases the fundamental trajectory of the development of Russian oil painting.