Sunset (Rylov Painting)
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''Sunset'' is an oil on canvas painting of 1917 by the Russian
Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...
artist Arkady Rylov. It depicts a red sun setting over a lacustrine landscape, the redness of the sunset symbolizing the dawning of the October Revolution. Rylov was a supporter of the Revolution, and considered the father of the Soviet landscape school.https://soviet-art.ru/soviet-artist-arkady-rylov/sunset-1917-smolensk-art-museum/ SA


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