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Evening In Ukraine
''Evening in Ukraine'' is a painting by artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, painted in 1878 (and partially revised in 1901). The painting is part of the collection of the Russian Museum, in Saint Petersburg (inv. Zh-4190). History The painting ''Evening in the Ukraine'' (under the title ''Evening'') was first shown in 1878 at the 6th exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki), along with another painting by the artist - ''Forest''. The painting depicts a farmhouse illuminated by a southern sunset. The composition of the painting is reminiscent of Kuindzhi's earlier painting ''Ukrainian Night'' (1876), except that the mazanka houses are illuminated not by the moon but by the rays of the setting sun, which is emphasized by the use of shades of bright crimson. As in other paintings of this period, the main strength of this work is Kuindzhi's attempt to understand the secrets of illumination, the play of light and shadow. Reviews Art historian Vladimir Petro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkhip Kuindzhi
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi ( ; ; – ) was a Russian landscape painter. Date of birth Kuindzhi's exact date of birth is not known. Although it was believed that he was born in 1842, the latest discoveries in archives suggest that he was born in 1841. Kuindzhi himself, when asked by St. Petersburg Academy of Arts to clarify his date of birth, "clearly wrote 1841, then, with doubt, January, and then several times crossed out the month". The researchers believe he was born somewhere between January and March 1841. The commonly recognized date is January 27, although Kuindzhi celebrated his name day on February 19 O.S. (March 4 N.S.), on the feast of Archippus. Biography Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in Mariupol uezd (one of the subdivisions of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire) but spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. His Christian name is a Russian rendering of the Greek, Ἄρχιππος, (Archippos, from ἄρχος (archos) "master" and ἱππος (hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luminism (Impressionism)
Luminism is a late-impressionist or neo-impressionist style in painting which devotes great attention to light effects. The term has been used for the style of the Belgian (mainly Flemish) painters such as Emile Claus and Théo van Rysselberghe and their followers Adriaan Jozef Heymans, Anna Boch, Évariste Carpentier, Guillaume Van Strydonck, , Jenny Montigny, Anna De Weert, George Morren, Rodolphe De Saegher, Emmanuel Viérin, Modest Huys, , , Yvonne Serruys and Juliette Wytsman, as well as for the early pointillist work of the Dutch painters Jan Toorop, Leo Gestel, Jan Sluijters, and Piet Mondriaan. After Emile Claus died in 1930, his pupil, Anna de Weert continued to paint in the luminist style at her studio near Ghent. In the Spanish painting the luminism term or Valencian luminism used for the work of a group of prominent Spanish painters led by Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench, Teodoro Andreu, Francisco Benítez Mellado and Vicente Castell. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Museum
The State Russian Museum (), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,688 visitors, ranking twelfth on list of most-visited art museums in the world. Creation The museum was established on April 13, 1896, upon enthronement of the emperor Nicholas II to commemorate his father, Alexander III. Its original collection was composed of artworks taken from the Hermitage Museum, Alexander Palace, and the Imperial Academy of Arts. The task to restructure the interiors according to the need of future exposition was imposed on Vasily Svinyin. The grand opening took place on the 17 of March, 1898. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, many private collections were nationalized and relocated to the Russian Museum. These included Kazimir Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the Saint Petersburg metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the List of European cities by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in Europe, the List of cities and towns around the Baltic Sea, most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's List of northernmost items#Cities and settlements, northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a Ports of the Baltic Sea, historically strategic port, it is governed as a Federal cities of Russia, federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki (, ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realism (arts), realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the ''Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions'', in short ''Peredvizhniks'', in 1870. History In 1863 a group of fourteen students decided to leave the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. The students found the rules of the Academy constraining; the teachers were conservative and there was a strict separation between high and low art. In an effort to bring art to the people, the students formed an independent artistic society; The Petersburg Artel of Artists, Cooperative of Artists (Artel). In 1870, this organization was largely succeeded by the Association of Travelling Art Exhibits (Peredvizhniki) to give people from the provinces a chance to follow the achievements of Russian Art, and to teach people to appreciate art. The society maintained indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmhouse
FarmHouse (FH) is a men's social fraternity founded at the University of Missouri on April 15, 1905. It became a national organization in 1921. Today FarmHouse has 34 active chapters in the United States and Canada.FarmHouse Fraternity New Membership Education Manual, published by FarmHouse International Fraternity, Inc. History FarmHouse was founded as a professional agriculture fraternity on April 15, 1905, by seven men at the University of Missouri, who met at a YMCA bible study and decided they wanted to form a club. The seven founders were D. Howard Doane, Robert F. Howard, Claude B. Hutchison, Henry H. Krusekopf, Earl W. Rusk, Henry P. Rusk, and Melvin E. Sherwin. Doane conceived the basic ideas which led to FarmHouse and is considered the father of the fraternity. The name FarmHouse was chosen for the following reasons: Given their agricultural background and rural upbringing, the house in which they resided began to be referred to as the farmer's house, by other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazanka
A mazanka (, ) is a traditional Ukraine, Ukrainian countryside dwelling. A house made of clay, raw brick or brushwood (for the roof), plastered with clay mixed with manure or any other organic substance (adobe technique). The walls were later covered with lime whitewash. Historically, it was widespread in Ukraine and other territories with a significant Ukrainian minority (e.g. Kuban), which was connected with natural conditions, since there were not so many forests, and therefore, wood for construction. Houses similar to mazankas were also built in the Caucasus, where they were known as ''turluks'' (Palisade, palisades). Name This type of house is named from the word ''mazaty'' (), meaning . Construction In order to prepare the clay for the future dwelling, a big circle was made where the people put clay and sand, water was poured in the center, and straw on top. Straw was usually used from wheat, the thicker the stem, the better it was considered. Then the clay got kneaded. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimson
Crimson is a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple. It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, '' Kermes vermilio'', but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose. It is the national color of Nepal. History Crimson (NR4) is produced using the dried bodies of a scale insect, ''Kermes'', which were gathered commercially in Mediterranean countries, where they live on the kermes oak, and sold throughout Europe. Kermes dyes have been found in burial wrappings in Anglo-Scandinavian York. They fell out of use with the introduction of cochineal, also made from scale insects, because although the dyes were comparable in quality and color intensity, ten to twelve times as much kermes is needed to produce the same effect as cochineal. Carmine is a slightly different shade of red, extracted from a different insect (female cochineal), although these denominations are somet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Russian Museum
The State Russian Museum (), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,688 visitors, ranking twelfth on list of most-visited art museums in the world. Creation The museum was established on April 13, 1896, upon enthronement of the emperor Nicholas II to commemorate his father, Alexander III. Its original collection was composed of artworks taken from the Hermitage Museum, Alexander Palace, and the Imperial Academy of Arts. The task to restructure the interiors according to the need of future exposition was imposed on Vasily Svinyin. The grand opening took place on the 17 of March, 1898. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, many private collections were nationalized and relocated to the Russian Museum. These included Kazimir Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (; – ) was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist, one of the most famous landscape painters of the post-reform era, and the creator of the iconic painting '' Morning in a Pine Forest''. He was an academician (since 1865), professor (since 1873), and full member (since 1893, under the new charter) of the Imperial Academy of Arts, as well as a professor and head of the landscape workshop at the Higher Art School (1894–1895). He was also one of the founding members of the Peredvizhniki movement (since 1870). Biography Shishkin was born in Yelabuga, Vyatka Governorate (today Republic of Tatarstan). He came from a family of Yelabuga merchants and was the son of grain merchant Ivan Vasilyevich Shishkin (1792–1872). The artist’s grandfather, Vasily Afanasyevich Shishkin-Serebryakov (1764–1827), was a palace peasant who registered as a third- guild merchant in Yelabuga in 1792. Artistic training At the age of 12, Shishkin was enrolle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Night
''Ukrainian Night'' is an oil on canvas painting by Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, from 1876. The painting is part of the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, in Moscow (inv. 879). History The painting ''Ukrainian Night'' was first shown in 1876 at the 5th exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki) and was a great success there. It was also exhibited in the Russian Art Department at the 1878 Paris Exposition. In 1878 for this painting, along with the paintings ''On the Island of Valaam'' (1873, Tretyakov Gallery), ''Chumatsky tract in Mariupol'' (1875, Tretyakov Gallery) and ''Steppe'' (1875, Yaroslavl Art Museum), Kuindzhi was awarded the title of class artist of the 1st degree. This painting is considered a turning point in the artist's work. Starting with it, he moved away from the academic romanticism of his earlier works, and the exoticism of the image became a distinctive feature of his work. Most of the painting ''Ukrainian Night'' is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
