Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Vladimir Makovski, has produced a number of genre picturesof modern Russian life full of character, and enjoyable as pages of Toarguenefl^ or Tolstoi.A. more serious painter is Repine, the author of moving pictures from the life of theRussian proletariat like the Boat Towers of the Volga. Then, there are Savitski, whosePeasants Saluting a Sacred Picture, and other subjects from peasant-life recall the work ofRiefstahl; Priatstischnikoff with his Bazaar at Moscow, Korzoukhine, whose best pic-ture, Guests at the Monastery, reveals a curious trait of manners, and Peroff with his III 334 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. patlietic Village Funeral—these and many another deserve to be better known outsidetheir own country than they are. The landscape-painters of Russia are perhaps better known in Western Europe than herpainters of history and genre. The best known of these outside their own country are Kleveethe painter of An Autumn Landscape, Aivazovski, a painter of marines who has attracted
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FUN AND FRIGHT. FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY GAETANO CHIERICI IN THE CORCORAN GALLERY, WASHINGTON, D.C. much attention in Paris, Mestscherski and Orlovski: the former excelling in winter scenes,the latter preferring the more smiling aspects of the Russian summer. Other names arethose of Vassilieef, Volkofe, and M. C. Klodt, all of whom represent faithfully, thoughwith varying technical skill, the characteristic features of Russian scenery: its dense forests,its wide marshes, its alleys (»f silver-birch; its sxinny meadows divided by slow streams andpastured by sheep and cows; its desolate wintry coasts overhung by laboring clouds.

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