The Russian School of Painting
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These are the scattered particles and crumbs, left of the most brilliant period of Russian portrait painting, which developed owing to the influx of first- rate foreign masters, but was not duly appreciated by a society indifferent to art.
The luckiest of these masters was another serf -artist, 40 The Eighteenth Century "owned" by the refined and sympathetic Count N. P.
Sheremetyev. We refer to Nicholas Argunov, the son and pupil of the above-mentioned Ivan Argunov. N.
Argunov had no great pict...orial gifts. Compared with the portraits of his less fortunate, but more talented col- leagues: Shebanov, Drozhzhin, and Miropolsky, Ar- gunov's paintings seem coarse, dry, dull. They have few purely pictorial merits — correct, careful, somewhat mechanical drawing, respectable vivacity of expression, but alongside these are very dull colours and very dull painting. Argunov methodically copied what he saw, and owing to this quiet regularity, his portraits have a value as historical documents. Some of them are in- valuable for the history of costume.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
These are the scattered particles and crumbs, left of the most brilliant period of Russian portrait painting, which developed owing to the influx of first- rate foreign masters, but was not duly appreciated by a society indifferent to art.
The luckiest of these masters was another serf -artist, 40 The Eighteenth Century "owned" by the refined and sympathetic Count N. P.
Sheremetyev. We refer to Nicholas Argunov, the son and pupil of the above-mentioned Ivan Argunov. N.
Argunov had no great pict...orial gifts. Compared with the portraits of his less fortunate, but more talented col- leagues: Shebanov, Drozhzhin, and Miropolsky, Ar- gunov's paintings seem coarse, dry, dull. They have few purely pictorial merits — correct, careful, somewhat mechanical drawing, respectable vivacity of expression, but alongside these are very dull colours and very dull painting. Argunov methodically copied what he saw, and owing to this quiet regularity, his portraits have a value as historical documents. Some of them are in- valuable for the history of costume.
What to read after The Russian School of Painting?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Benois, Alexandre, 1870-1960 to read onlineMoreLess
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