Russian music of the 19th century – This is a bright and brilliant era in the development of artistic culture, associated with the formation of a national composing and
The greatest masters of the second half of the 19th century said a new word in Russian realistic painting. Ilya Efimovich Repin and Vasily Ivanovich Surikov. Among many remarkable
In 1870, young artists created the “Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions”, headed by the portrait painter Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy. Members of this organization annually organized exhibitions in different cities
An outstanding master of lithography (a type of graphics, the printing form for which is the surface of a stone), the French artist Honore Daumier (1808-1879), being a
Interest in everyday life of a person found a vivid and imaginative embodiment in the genre of everyday painting. The previously mentioned painting by Gustave Courbet “The Burial at
The gravitation of art to a true reproduction of reality, a concrete analysis of the facts of harsh everyday life and the identification of the reasons for their
Significant changes in the life of society, caused by the growing discontent of the masses, the growth of the democratic and proletarian movement, could not but lead to
The concept of “realism” (lat. Realis – material) is one of the most difficult to define, since it is applicable both to everyday life and to the sphere
MI Glinka played an outstanding role in the creation of the Russian national opera, which faithfully recreates the heroism of the historical past and the romance of the
Chamber vocal music occupies a prominent place in the composer’s work. Eighty romances and songs were created by him on the verses of A. Pushkin, V. A. Zhukovsky