Shattered Canvases: The Brutal Divorce of Russian & Ukrainian Art
For decades, the art worlds of Moscow and Kyiv operated like estranged siblings who shared an apartment building but kept separate keys. They went to the same academies, studied the same avant-garde giants, and shared an uneasy geographical intimacy that dates back centuries through Soviet and imperial eras. Kazimir Malevich—born in Kyiv to Polish parents, but globally canonized as a titan of the Russian avant-garde—is the perfect symbol of this historical blur. For a long time, the Western art market didn’t care enough to untangle the knots. Anything coming out of the post-Soviet space was lazily swept into a single, lucrative bucket labeled “Russian culture.” Then came February 2022, and…
Russian Painters
The traditional Russian painting is one of the world’s most important schools of thought. Through generations, artists and artists’ ideas of teachers have been passed on to students. To this day, Russia produces outstanding works in technical perfection and with love for the subject. This generally acknowledged high quality of traditional Russian painting is all the more amazing considering the fact that icons were created exclusively in this country for more than 800 years. With the opening to the west at the time of Peter the Great, the timid transition from egg-tempered wood on wood to the oil painting on canvas took place in the first foremost portraits. But it was…
Russian Painters
Moskow School of Painting The traditional Russian painting is one of the world’s most important schools of thought. Through generations, artists and artists’ ideas of teachers have been passed on to students. To this day, Russia produces outstanding works in technical perfection and with love for the subject. This generally acknowledged high quality of traditional Russian painting is all the more amazing considering the fact that icons were created exclusively in this country for more than 800 years. With the opening to the west at the time of Peter the Great, the timid transition from egg-tempered wood on wood to the oil painting on canvas took place in the first foremost…
