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Vasily Surikov
Василий Иванович Суриков
(1848-1916) |
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Self-Portrait
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Vasily Surikov was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects. His major pieces are among the best-known paintings in Russia. Surikov was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, where a monument to him was recently opened by his great grandsons, Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky. In 1869-1871 he studied under Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts. |
Storm of Snow Fortress
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A fragment of painting Boyarynya Morozova by Vasily Surikov depicting defiant Old Believer arrested by Czar authorities in 1671. She holds two fingers raised: a hint to the old, i.e., "proper" way of putting a cross unto oneself: with two fingers, rather than with three.
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Vasily Surikov painted images from Russia's past that focused on the lives of ordinary people. His works are remarkable by an original way to represent space (see non-linear perspective) and movements of people. In some cases he seems to have painted the same image in more than one size, probably as a prototype to a bigger image which he has in his mind or has liked the smaller version so much that he decided it would look nicer when enlarged. |
Morning of Streltzi’s Execution
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