Arkhip Kuindzhi is a Ukrainian painter I first featured on Lines and Colors in 2012. Kuindzhi was born in Mariupol in the 1840’s (the exact date is not known), at a time when that part of Ukraine was subjugated by the Russian Empire. He was Read More …

Generally classified as a Symbolist, Konstantin Fedorovich Bogaevsky was a Ukrainian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts, where his instructors included Arkhip Kuindzhi — a highly regarded Ukrainian landscape painter and a Read More …

Grigoriy Grigorievich Myasoyedov was a founding member of the group of 19th century Russian painters know as the Peredvizhniki, who rejected the formalities of the Impreial Academy of the Arts in favor of traveling exhibitions. Unfortunately, he is not as well known outside of Russia Read More …

Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt (sometimes “Clodt”) was a 19th century Russian landscape painter and a founding member of the Peredvizhniki (“Itinerants” or “Wanderers”), the group of Russian painters that broke away from the Academy to carry out their own traveling exhibitions. His work is not as Read More …

Born just outside of Kiev, 19th century artist Mykola Pymonenko spent most of his career portraying the land and people of his native Ukraine. He became a member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts, but also exhibited with the more progressive Society of South Read More …

Vasily Polenov was one of the remarkable group of Russian painters known as the Peredvizhniki, whose members included such luminaries as Ivan Kramskoy, Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Surikov, Valentin Serov, Alexei Savrasov, Issac Levitan and others (see my article on Painting.Answers.com). Polenov focused on Read More …