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People's Artist of the Russian Federation (Russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an honorary and the highest title awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation, all outstanding in the ...
- February 21, 1992; 31 years ago
- Russian Federation
- Outstanding achievements in the performing arts
- President of Russia
- Religious Art and the Russian Iconostasis. With the Christianization of Russia in the 10th century came a need to produce religious art depicting figures from the Bible.
- Parsunas. In the mid-16th century, Tsar Ivan the Terrible called his Stoglav (a religious council) in order to approve the inclusion of tsars and some historical figures into the pantheon of figures permitted to be painted by icon-painters.
- Petrine Art. Peter the Great had a great interest in fine art, particularly architecture but also visual art. He lured many artists to Russia, such as Francesco Rastrelli.
- The Peredvizhniki. In 1863, a revolt by some of the most talented students of the academy against the conservatism that was being taught to them led to the formation of the Society of the Itinerant Art Exhibitions.
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Russia - Art, Architecture, Iconography: Like music, the visual arts in Russia were slower to develop along European lines than was literature. With the exception of the portraitist Dmitry Levitsky, no great Russian painters emerged in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
When Artists of the Russian Federation over Fifteen Years 1917–1932 opened at the State Russian Museum in Leningrad, it filled 100 rooms with nearly 2,000 works, ranging from heroic statues and paintings of Lenin and Stalin to the striking paintings of Pavel Filonov, teeming with figures. A whole room was devoted to Malevich’s geometrical ...
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- AES+F group. Considered one of the most successful and famous art groups today, AES+F has exhibitions all over the world. The multimedia installations and projects by Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Yevzovich, Yevgeny Svyatsky and Vladimir Fridkes are devoted, primarily, to global culture and an analysis of modern values.
- Ivan Aivazovsky. No-one paints the sea like Ivan could! Painter Aivazovsky was revered as one of the most prolific artists, creating over 6,000 seascapes.
- Yuri Albert. Albert’s famous artworks with text often become Internet memes, while his retrospective exhibition, "What did the artist mean by that?" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, remained in a state of permanent change throughout its duration.
- Leon Bakst. The European success of Sergei Diaghilev's famous Russian Seasons in Paris was largely due to Bakst. His sets and costume sketches for Ballets Russes productions became a sensation in their own right: they were even exhibited in the Louvre, while Bakst's Orientalist style set a fashion in Paris for turbans, wide trousers and colored wigs.
The collection of Old Russian art and craft work, sculpture and applied art stands on a par with the collections of the largest museums in Russia. It is one of the most important collections, providing a view of the development of Russian decorative and applied art over the centuries — from the ninth to the seventeenth. Details.
Russian: 15 of 166 Total Movements. Russian Art movements, styles, and artistic directions. With further information on top art and artists in each movement.
