Following the internet meme of the moment, more “selfies” created without benefit of iPhone or Android device, and previously uploaded into public consciousness by way of galleries, museums, books and libraries. See my previous post on “selfies“. (Images above, self-portraits by: Antony van Dyck, Frida 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 …
Taking another dip into the extensive art image resources on the Wikimedia Commons website, I’m once again finding delight in the ability to sort paintings by decade (or year) and browse a wonderful assortment of artists, subjects and styles. This is just the tip of Read More …
Lets set the Wayback Machine and take a walk through the year 1896 by way of the Wikimedia Commons page for that category. Yes, the image quality is uneven, but there are gems to be found, and this is just a selection from the introductory Read More …
Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Isaak Il’ich Levitan) was one of the greatest of Russian landscape painters, one of the greatest Russian painters in general, and one of the great landscape painters in the history of art. Born into a poor family, he managed to begin study Read More …
Ilya Repin was probably the foremost proponent of 19th Century realism in Russia. He studied at the Petersburgh Academy of Arts, and was by reports uncommonly talented from a young age. His image of Barge Haulers on the Volga (image above, with detail below, sometimes Read More …