Peredvizhniki

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Society for Circulating Art Exhibitions, or Peredvizhniki were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative which evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions in 1870.^[1]Many works of this group are exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery.

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Ivan Kramskoy became the acknowledged leader and theoretician of Peredvizhniki. His most famous picture “Christ in the Wilderness” underlines man’s ability to decide his fate himself. Ilya Repin’s art not only depicts life of different people, but judges them (“Barge Haulers on Volga”), while the one of Vasily Surikov only portrays the greatest Russian historical personalities. (“Boyarynya Morozova”). And the first Russian artist who embodied the images of Russian fairy-tales and legends in his realistic paintings was Victor Vasnetsov.

Some members of the Society for Circulating Art Exhibitions were great landscape painters. Among them – Isaac Levitan, an outstanding master of the “moody” landscape, and Ivan Shishkin, known as a composer of hymns to the wealth and grandeur of Russian nature in his art works.

Arkhip Kuindzhi, a self-taught artist, is incomparable in his talent. He is the genius of painting peaceful landscapes using extraordinary light-and-shade effects. His masterpieces reflect gilt, pink or even green sunrise or sunset rays of light in the darkness of the black night, making the image mystical.

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