Vasily Tropinin (1776-1857) - a prominent Russian portrait painter, his creative influence on all subsequent Russian art is extremely large. Being a contemporary of the golden age of national culture, the artist became an integral part of and during the lifetime of the best portrait shot to fame in Moscow. A native of the serfs, student dropouts Petersburg Academy of Arts, Main artist to create custom portraits, trying to endow his characters some emotional characteristics. Tropinin worked not only...

Sometimes the cartoon on the picture harder to draw than a portrait, perhaps because they can not always be on the photo to see the smallest details that show a vivid expression of the image, cartoon group may be linked to a plot
 whatever it was a profession or hobbies. At the present stage, along with portraits of the photo in a realistic manner cartoon is under scrutiny and is very popular mainly among young people, I think thanks to its rich composition and an acceptable price, it carries...

In sculpture, the image does not exist on the plane, as in painting, and in volume. His character and influence that environment and space in sculpture, there are very real. In sculpture depicted, not all subjects from those she is able to portray. Thus, the viewer would be surprised to see the exhibition, for example, fashioned out of clay in detail the internal combustion engine. The object of art sculpture serves primarily persons. Hence the small number of genres: group, statue, bust, animal...

Graphics combines several arts, in which the image consists of lines, spots, lines predominantly one color (usually black). sometimes with limited use of other colors. Graphic representation of the conditional nature of the picturesque, as it does not seek to convey all the complexity and richness of colors of the surrounding world, ie, not seeking picturesque completeness of the transfer of live, real flesh things. At the same time, the graphic arts have other characteristics and qualities that...

Artist Sokolov Pyotr Fedorovich 1791 1848
 The name of Sokolov related formation and flowering in 1830-1840-e genre of chamber watercolor portrait ...
 After graduating from the Academy with the class of historical painting, in what was not engaged by it. Turned to fashionable at the time genre of pencil and watercolor portraits, achieving in this area the highest skill and as a consequence, the enormous popularity and material prosperity ...
 Range of models, the artist...