This portrait differs greatly from Pavel Filonov ’s other works of the mid-1910s. The artist unexpectedly betrays his interest in classical art and long hours spent in the Hermitage, contemplating an...

In 1912, when Cubism was making headlines across Europe, Pavel Filonov began developing the principles of Analytical Art. He rejected the geometric representational scholastics of Cubism, preferring ...

Ivan Vladimirov painted this canvas in 1910, which was the year that Arkhip Kuinji died. This scene was repeated day in and day out for many years, giving journalists and caricaturists occasion to po...

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...

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...