RUSSIAN REALISM AND REALIST PAINTERS - BUY REALISTIC PAINTINGS AT ARTRUSSIA GALLERY
Realism is all about a credible and objective translation of life on canvas. Artists, beginning with the representatives of the Renaissance, tried to find out how the nature worked, what its connection with humans’ existenceand art was. They studied monuments of ancient art, applied to science – especially optics, mathematics and anatomy to learn how to reflect reality on their canvases like in a mirror. Their paintings are filled with harmonic clarity and worship for the beauty of the world. Until our days the art of the Renaissance has been seen as a spring for wisdom and high level of mastery. What is important, the power of distributed effect does not depend on the level of resemblance, a fact very well-understood by modern realist painters. Quite often naturalistic pictures seem less credible than any other type created with deep thinking about the true nature of things, with the desire to reflect not only physical likeness, but also the very essence of the object. Thus primitive art can seem much closer to reality than academic painting just as impressionism and the naturalism of Dutch masters can seem equally realistic. And paintings created by modern realist artists are characterized by the search of new connections with the universe, new artistic forms of expression.
REALISM PAINTINGS
Spas
2014, board, tempera, mixed media, 51x27 cm
Annunciation
2014, board, tempera, mixed media, 51.5x26 cm
Guardian angel
2014, board, tempera, other, 52x28 cm
Annunciation
2014, board, tempera, mixed media, 36x36 cm
Holy Face Spas
2014, board, tempera, mixed media, 36x36 cm
Christ Pantocrator
2014, board, tempera, mixed media, 53.5x37.5 cm
Nicholas the Wonderworker
2014, board, tempera, mixed media, 36x36 cm
Our Lady of Vladimir
2013, board, tempera, mixed media, 73x45 cm
Our Lady of Kazan
2013, board, tempera, mixed media, 73x45 cm
Our Lady of St. Theodore
2013, board, tempera, mixed media, 73x45 cm
Nude on a velvet coverlet
2015, canvas, oil, 60x90 cm
Nude model
2015, canvas, oil, 100x70 cm
Sleeping nude
2006, canvas, oil, 40x80 cm
Little cherry
canvas, oil, 55x70 cm
MASTERPIECES OF REALISM
Apotheosis of war
1871, canvas, oil, 127x197 cm
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Portrait of Princess Aurora Demidova
1837, canvas, oil, 90x71 cm
Karl Bryullov
Konstantinovsky Palace, Strelna, St. Petersburg
Judith Slaying Holofernes
1614-1620, canvas, oil, 199x162 cm
Artemisia Gentileschi
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Christ Appearing to the People (the Coming of the Messiah)
1857, canvas, oil, 540x750 cm
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow