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Arkhip Kuinji ’s experiments in painting were an important influence both on his own students and on the general development of Impressionist tendencies in the Russian school of art in the late ninet...
In the 1870s, Arkhip Kuinji passed through a period of interest in Impressionism, especially the questions of light and recording rare states of nature. However, this particular canvas, which depicts...
This unfinished canvas was one of the last large compositions created by Arkhip Kuinji. The artist owned several properties at Katsiveli, Alupka and Kikineiz on the southern shore of the Crimea, wher...
This painting belongs to the “reclusive” period in the art of Arkhip Kuinji, who stopped contributing to exhibitions after 1882. The artist did not show any new works to the public, preferring instea...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s last major painting was an elegiac and contemplative image of nature by night. The decorative tones combine harmoniously with the expressive and rhythmic outlines. A sense of calm an...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s painting sums up the development of the motif of the road and the landscape in the age of Critical Realism. In such works, a large portion of the canvas was traditionally occupied by...
Arkhip Kuinji brilliantly conveyed unusual states of nature. In this landscape, enveloped in thick mist, he is drawn to the effect of the illusion of objects dissolving in space. The sky merges with ...
Arkhip Kuinji ’s canvas opens a series of north Russian landscapes painted in the direct aftermath of visits to Balaam. This picturesque island in the north of Lake Ladoga is home to the Balaam Monas...
Ilya Repin claimed that this portrait of fellow Realist artist Ivan Shishkin was painted in St Petersburg “in two sittings, with intervals”. This explains why there are two inscriptions in the bottom...
This portrait of Ivan Shishkin occupies a prominent place in the famous gallery of Russian artists, composers and writers painted by Ivan Kramskoi. The two men were good friends and their closeness i...