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Konstantin Kryzhitsky
Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky (russian: Константин Яковлевич Крыжицкий, uk, Костянтин Якович Крижицький; 17 May 1858, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv, Ukraine) – 4 April 1911, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian Empire landscape painter and drawing teacher of Ukrainians, Ukrainian-Poles in Ukraine, Polish descent, who was the first chairman of the Arkhip Kuindzhi art society in St. Petersburg. Biography He was born in a family with Ukrainian-Poles in Ukraine, Polish background. His father was a merchant.Brief biography @ Истории успеха. After finishing his primary education, he attended the drawing school operated by Mykola Murashko. In 1877, he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
