The best ever portrait artist.

Incredible painter. way more passion & soul than today's art world.

The girl in the carriage with the plume in her hat (5:32) is one of the most striking POVs I have ever seen! The upward angle accentuates the composed, but haughty glance, while the receding buildings, vast sky and snow assures us, peripherally, that indeed, this can only be winter in Russia. Yet the warmth of the palette; pinkish afternoon glow, golden ochre velvet cushion and peachy skin, draws us in and takes the chill out of our bones. And look at that triangle! From the snow covered statue bases at the left, to her face/plume and then down to the little ivory finials on the carriage, instead of fading off to the right with the buildings, our interest is kept focused on the only thing that matters. Her!

@eastraversupplies7843

2 жыл бұрын

The story it tells is also mind blowing and even tragic

@jimloth6091

2 жыл бұрын

I agree - striking! This is how most Russians of that time would have seen the elites of their society - looking down from an elevated position in a carriage, while they trudged past in the snow. The title of that piece is "Unknown Woman" painted in 1883, perhaps someone he saw in exactly the circumstances I described. Kramskoy was the founder of the Itinerants and was very much an advocate for justice and equality.

@eastraversupplies7843

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimloth6091 Oh yeah that is so true he was very much concerned of social injustice during that time in Russian Empire. The woman in the carriage, however, doesn’t pass neither dress code nor social prescriptions of the elites, quite contrary she has to break them. There was a huge class of misfortuned women with no future then, mostly orphans with no chance for education, for a good job or marriage. And for many of them the only vacancy available was a place in a brothel (with which Saint Petersburg was saturated). They would often find a patron who could provide them with stable income (a sugar daddy) but brothels were designed such way that all its workers were initially in debt to the establishment for having been taken from the street and industry standards dictated them to spend quite a lot for outfits and accessories, so they could not make any significant savings for financially safe retirement. Many tried to have more than one patron secretly but if one of them found out about another a woman would be abandoned by both. Women didn’t stay in posh brothels for long, a few years and they’d be replaced and had to go to a cheaper one (most of them would eventually end in marginal places and die from syphilis). So, after been fired, a lot of them would individually cruise the streets looking for a new patron for as long as they could afford, just not to go to a cheap brothel. Their code was exactly what’s in the painting - fancy looking women, chic accessories, alone in a carriage. It’s important to understand a woman from higher class could not visit public places alone then, it would ruin her reputation. The Unknown caused a big scandal then and Tretyakov refused to take it to his collection. Kramskoy himself didn’t call it a portrait but a painting. So it doesn’t feel like she looks down at someone, she looks into the abyss of social despair that’s before her and she accepts the challenge. A self made woman who made herself with the only means available to her then, balancing on the edge.

@jimloth6091

2 жыл бұрын

@@eastraversupplies7843 I guess that's one of the great things about art, we all see something different. Myself, I see cold dismissal in her eyes. I do not argue with the truth about the plight of women in the 19th century both in Russia and around the world. The Russian peasants, however (the "muzhiks") were especially brutalized in that era of global class-based brutality, and whatever injustices this woman was suffering, she was miles ahead of them. But again - it's art and what we each see is completely subjective.

@eastraversupplies7843

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimloth6091 yes emotionally everyone sees art differently and that’s the beauty of it, it’s also important to be aware of context to read art though. I, respectfully, disagree with your generalisation of peasants life. Muzhik (мужик) didn’t necessarily have any negative connotations then, it was a peasant married man, an agrarian as a rule, which was considered lower class then of course but it didn’t mean a class of no income poor people, there was a lot of pretty wealthy muzhiks (зажиточный мужик/крестьянин). So basically there was a muzhik, a countryside man, and a gorozhanin, an urban man. For example if landlord’s management led to bankruptcy of a muzhik, the state would take that property away and muzhik would get subsidies. So muzhiks were not a suffering class in general (not by the standards of the 21st century of course, context!), a hardworking - yes, their job was exhausting - yes, but they had legal protection and means for a decent life. The painting displays social tragedy of the least protected and most stigmatised and abused class of that time, and that class was huge, Kramskoy himself noted “Within her is an entire epoch”. Most muzhiks would never even face anything like that

The portraits show such personality ! Amazing to me.

Thank you)

Awesome paintings and portraits

@andreyandrey578

Жыл бұрын

Spasibo!

One of the best portrait artists anywhere! I love his work. I didn't notice his Christ (a monk, I expect) though. I'll look again later. Thank you so much for this series of art videos. I'm enjoying so much looking at them.

При имени И.Крамского сразу вспоминается картина " Неизвестная" . В карете красивая молодая дама с горделивой осанкой и независимым взглядом. Множество портретов членов семьи, современников высокого ранга и простого люда. Библейская трилогия..... . Ещё ни одно поколение будет любоваться и восхищаться мастерством великого художника. Большое спасибо за видео и подбор материала.🎨👍😊💖

Fabuloso!

Awesome portraits

Ivan Kramskoi , the True Art Leader 🐍💫💥

Beautiful, I wonder who these people were and about their lives?

Absolutely wonderful brilliant

Magnificent portraits. If I could suggest something : to add the titles of the paintings would be useful.

Colori intensi, sembrano fotografie

Видеоряд Подобран Класс!! Музыка Супер!!! Спасибо Лайк!

About 17 or 18 years ago I went to an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum that featured Russian Artists, and I came upon a Ivan Kramskoy painting called "Portrait of an Unknown Women", and it was one of the most beautiful paintings I've ever seen, momentarily took my breath away! 5:31 on the video, only photographs don't do it justice...

@irina8551

3 жыл бұрын

For many years scientists try to find out who she is, but up to now we dont know for certain, maybe she is a kept woman, we dont know her name because she is not noble, otherwise it was easier to find out her name

You can see the influence of the impressionists and post-impressionists in how he treats light and the transition from light to dark. There is a general blurring of the lines between the two. It's quite astounding that he was able to paint a near perfect portrait of Willem Defoe without him actually being born yet. Just look at 1:57 minutes in.

3:06 is portrait of Kramskoi done by I. Repin.

A humanidade que existe no olhar deles é impressionante ,da mesma forma o piano ,muito obrigado pela belíssima exposição!!!!

Excellent paintings.

In 3:07 the painting belong to Ilya Repin (1844 1930). Russian painter. Portrait of the Artist Ivan Kramskoy. 1882. Oil on canvas. Galería Tretyakov.

wonderfull wonderfull - nevever heard before especaly the female portraits

Grand maître de la peinture .

Жаль, что нет названий картин

❤

I love Russia

Really great.

WAUW !!!

Неужели трудно было написать названия картин?

espectacular

These are gorgeous! However, the motion makes me slightly queasy. I would like to see the faces actually closer up... maybe a still shot just of the face/faces after showing the whole painting?

1:01 for Karamazov's Brothers Music's name?

وان لايحتقر عماله أبدأ واان كان ذاتا ملكية كبرى

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

The Russian soul

@ 3:41, George Harrison.

فبدلا من اجاد تهم للغير فى عالمنا فالااجدر الااطلاع بدلا ماتقول لمن يساءلك عرق جبينه الله يفتح عليك لوجاء يشحتك ممكن تقول ذالك اما نكران الحقوق فقد يضرك انت وممتلكاتك وحينا الصدام. ؤصلو له الرسالة بشكل مادى هوى واءمثاله فقط

One portrait looked like Rasputin. That’s funny

هل من يعرف لوحة ونطقة باانها من كوكب اخار وليسة من عالم غير هذا العالم هناك فرق من يسمع مابين كوكب آخر ومن يسمع عن عالم آخر غير عالمنا فاذا كان هذا وذاك متواجدان. فهناك قوانين تحتم وجود علاقات.

قوانين الطبيعة العمياء.الذى ذكرها فلادمير التش لينين هي صحيحه وقد ذكرها روجياء غارودى في كتاب النظريه العلميه للفسفه العلميه لمديات الاشتراكيه العلميه وعندما ذكرت تاريخيا كانت ترى بحاسة السمع .والعينين مخزقات فى اماكن الحدقين. والكن تلملم الضوؤ الحدقي كا علاقة شمسيه فصار للعينين حاستين كما لسمع حاستين وكذا لباقي الحواس.متسعات.في الحواس. والعلم لايقف عند التنجيم ومطالعة قللة الكتبي فقد كانت الطبيعة الؤم تربي ذاتها شياءا فشياء حتى توسعة بتكافلات قانونيه. وهي قد وعة ذاتها من الاا شيء وربة ذاتها كا بدية ثلاثة مرات منوعة علميه والعلم لايقف بعطل ساعة واحده والعوده إلى الصناعه هذا شيء مدرسي لااقل ولااكثر من تربوى......

P.ease...STOP ZOOMING IN.

Awesome paintings and portraits

Awesome portraits

Awesome paintings and portraits

Awesome paintings and portraits