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
The Mermaid
canvas, oil, 60x60 cm
Bather
canvas, oil, 30x25 cm
The seller of toys
canvas, oil, 83x105 cm
Two Times
canvas, oil, 50x65 cm
Atlantis
canvas, oil, 110x110 cm
Young Aphrodite
canvas, oil, 30x35 cm
Thunderstorm
canvas, oil, 110x90 cm
Sweet tooth
canvas, oil, 25x30 cm
Nymph
canvas, oil, 120x120 cm
On red elbow-chair
canvas, oil, 50x60 cm
Dasha Petrova
canvas, oil, 55x50 cm
Lot's wife
canvas, oil, 120x100 cm
Family portrait
canvas, oil, 100x150 cm
Duel
canvas, oil, 120x120 cm
Swan Lake
canvas, oil, 100x90 cm
Puddles
canvas, oil, 110x90 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