Mikhail Vrubel is one of those Russian artists who became the father of Russian Art Nouveau. It was the elements of Art Nouveau that the master used to create a unique masterpiece, The Court of Paris. Vrubel used more accurate lines, ornaments that have a hidden and deep meaning, and calligraphy was also added to this technique.
Yaroshenko is a Russian wanderer, an extremely versatile person. He gave preference to portraits and plot scenes (as rules from the life of the peasantry, with the so-called “people's longing”), worked in the style of realism, sometimes provoking with his paintings a lot of controversy and extremely versatile reactions from both viewers and critics.
Khrutsky managed to depict in his picture the whole depth of a young girl's soul. We see that a spacious meadow near the house is flooded by the sun, it beautifully illuminates the face of the baby, which, despite her age, looks smart enough and even experienced. It seems that the girl has already gone through a lot in her life. It is interesting that, despite her young age, the girl does not look mischievous and restless.
Ivan Kulikov is a famous artist who describes the real life of the Russian people. At first, his work was limited to scenes from the life of ordinary villagers. Then his paintings acquired a historical genre. He began to describe the idealized life of the boyars. In 1911, he created one of the most striking paintings of this kind, entitled “Happy Holidays!
Dated 1805, at the Louvre, Paris, France. The master painted this canvas at the beginning of his career. Philibert Riviere, who served in the court of Napoleon, invited the young painter to his home in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (a city in the vicinity of Paris) to paint three portraits: his, his wife and daughter.
Francisco Goya's "Grape Harvest" was painted in 1786. Currently, the work adorns the National Prado Museum in Madrid. The dimensions of the canvas are as much as 267.5 by 190.5 cm. By style, the work can be attributed to Rococo, Classicism, Realism. The canvas depicts a young woman in a yellowish dress, surrounded by other people, namely: a child, another woman and sitting in an important pose by a man.