Unknown Ivan Shishkin: what personal drama brought the artist to despair
Ivan Shishkin and one of his most famous paintings, *Rye*, written after the tragedy | Photo: artchive.EN
119 years ago, on 20 March (old style – 8 March), 1898, died the famous Russian artist-пейзажист Ivan Shishkin. He died at his easel, his death was sudden and came from a broken heart. Classic image Shishkin as" поэта nature" and" певца Russian forest" does not provide information about what...

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CUBISM Georgy Kurasov @- Russian painter. Born in Leningrad, USSR, now St.-Петербург, Russia, in 1958. At the age of twelve he entered the prestigious St.-Петербургское art school for gifted children, a branch of the Russian Academy of Arts. The adoption of George, was a kind of a huge compliment to his talent. In school students are taught all aspects of academic drawing, including human anatomy. At the same time George was in high school. It was a time when George developed...

As you know, in his works, the artist was inspired by the Russian North. In 1903 Bilibin on the instructions of the Russian Museum made a trip to Vologda and Olonets province, to make pictures of the masterpieces of wooden architecture.



































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