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
Boats be asleep
canvas, oil, 60x90 cm
The moon above sea
canvas, oil, 105x140 cm
At sunset.
2012, canvas, oil, 100x150 cm
Through storm
2011, canvas, oil, 150x170 cm
At the old lighthouse
2012, canvas, oil, 80x120 cm
Through the broken off paper
canvas, oil, 50x40 cm
Registered postal packet (Memoirs)
canvas, oil, 60x50 cm
Butterfly
canvas, oil, 65x50 cm
Violin (framed)
canvas, oil, 60x30 cm
On thread (framed)
canvas, oil, 60x30 cm
Morning at sea. Fog
canvas, oil, 80x110 cm
Silence
canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
At coast
canvas, oil, 30x50 cm
Seagull
canvas, oil, 40x60 cm
At coast
oil, 30x50 cm
To storm
canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
Above sea
2008, canvas, oil, 90x60 cm
At dawn
canvas, oil, 80x120 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