Tag Archives: Russian art
Pure painting: Wassily Kandinsky and the birth of abstraction by Dr Natalia Murray
One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky, who spent most of his life between Munich and Paris and died in 1944 as a French citizen, exploited the evocative interrelation between colour and form to create an aesthetic … Continue reading
In Search of True Beauty and Genuine Knowledge: The Life and Work of Nicholas Roerich by Dr Natalia Budanova (in Russian)
General public knows Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) primarily as the author of numerous mountain landscapes, whose paintings are kept in the Russian Museum (St Petersburg), the Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of Oriental Art (both Moscow), Nicolas Roerich Museum (New York), … Continue reading
