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In 2012 Konstantin Vasilyev Museum in Moscow was renamed the Konstantin Vasilyev Centre of the Slavic Culture. Next year, in 2013, the Konstantin Vasilyev Art Gallery was opened in Kazan. Vasilyev's oeuvres steadily gained in popularity through the late Soviet and early post-Soviet periods, until they have reached a virtually iconic status ...
(portrait by Vasily Tropinin, 1833) Portrait of Idalia-Maria Poletica, 1820s: Portrait of Ekaterina Pavlovna Bakunina, 1828: Alexander II of Russia as a child, 1828: Konstantin Somov (1869–1939) painter, graphic artist, illustrator, portraitist (self-portrait, 1898) Alexander Blok's Theatre, 1909: A galant scene: Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1925 ...
The Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modernist art that flourished in Russia from approximately 1890 to 1930. The term covers many separate, but inextricably related, art movements that occurred at the time; namely neo-primitivism, suprematism, constructivism, rayonism, and futurism.
Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873 Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1878. Peredvizhniki (Russian: Передви́жники, IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ]), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved ...
In 1891 he was appointed professor-director of the landscape class in the Academy's Advanced Art School. In 1898 he completed his painting The Pine Grove and died on 20 March in St Petersburg while working on his new painting.
In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality. [1] Trait theorists are primarily interested in the measurement of traits, which can be defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion. [2]
Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov (Russian: Илларион Михайлович Прянишников; 20 March [O.S. 1 April] 1840 – 24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1894) was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Peredvizhniki artistic cooperative, [1] which broke away from the rigors of their time and became one of the most important Russian art schools of the late 19th century.
From about 1937 he sang jazz, opera and Soviet lyric songs on Radio Moscow and in World War II he sang with the USSR Committee of Defense Model Orchestra. From 1943 to 1951 he was a soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble ; however in 1951 there was apparently a bar-room brawl which embarrassed the Soviet government, and finished his career.