📆 146 years ago, on 5 November 1878, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was born, a prominent Russian & Soviet avant-garde artist.
His contemporaries called him an ancient Russian icon-painter who by a fluke had found himself in the future, thanks to his style of painting which encompassed old Russian traditions of icon-painting, Italian Renaissance and post-impressionism.
🎨 In his work, K.Petrov-Vodkin developed “spherical perspective”: a unique twist that distorted the drawing as to make the observer seem more distant.
His most famous piece is “Bathing of a Red Horse” (1912) – a symbol of the coming Russian revolution and social changes. It became an instant classic, and K.Petrov-Vodkin’s trademark.
#art #avantgarde #petrovvodkin #OutstandingRussians #fineart #icon
His contemporaries called him an ancient Russian icon-painter who by a fluke had found himself in the future, thanks to his style of painting which encompassed old Russian traditions of icon-painting, Italian Renaissance and post-impressionism.
🎨 In his work, K.Petrov-Vodkin developed “spherical perspective”: a unique twist that distorted the drawing as to make the observer seem more distant.
His most famous piece is “Bathing of a Red Horse” (1912) – a symbol of the coming Russian revolution and social changes. It became an instant classic, and K.Petrov-Vodkin’s trademark.
#art #avantgarde #petrovvodkin #OutstandingRussians #fineart #icon
📆 203 years ago Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born, a world-renowned Russian writer and philosopher widely considered one of the greatest psychological novelists in the world literature.
✍️ As a writer, F.Dostoyevsky influenced a great many of western authors like F.Kafka, J.Joyce, V.Woolf, E.Hemingway as well as philosophers F.Nietzsche and J.-P. Sartre. Gabriel García Márquez and Haruki Murakami were Dostoyevsky’s fans in youth.
📚 F.Dostoyevsky’s works were translated into more than 170 languages. Until today, they are still popularly read and assigned in schools and universities. He explored and captured the depth of the human soul, surfacing emotions and feelings in times both dark and happy.
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✍️ As a writer, F.Dostoyevsky influenced a great many of western authors like F.Kafka, J.Joyce, V.Woolf, E.Hemingway as well as philosophers F.Nietzsche and J.-P. Sartre. Gabriel García Márquez and Haruki Murakami were Dostoyevsky’s fans in youth.
📚 F.Dostoyevsky’s works were translated into more than 170 languages. Until today, they are still popularly read and assigned in schools and universities. He explored and captured the depth of the human soul, surfacing emotions and feelings in times both dark and happy.
#RussianLiterature #RussianCulture #OutstandingRussians