Andrey Ryabushkin

Staying the right principles of realism in creating historical entourage, one of the first among contemporaries - masters of the historic genre - Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin (1861-1904) began to look for new ways by choosing the form of historical romantic fantasy. Chute to the trends of time and open to the perception of fresh ideas, the artist was not alien to the painting of the stroke of the XIX-XX centuries with a variety of processes, especially the desire for the decorativeness of a picturesque language, which is enriched with a thin picturesque subtext. The hobby characteristic of the culture of this time, the comprehension of the formal-plastic structure of the Old Russian art and the use of them in the art solutions of their own webs allows us to consider the creativity of a robushka on the style of the national and romantic direction of the epoch of the emerging modern one.
The book about the artist Andrei Ryabushkin is an album that collected numerous works of the author: his famous canvas about life in Russia of the XVII century, biblical scenes, as well as drawings, watercolors and guasha. The catalog is preceded by the introductory article by Ekaterina Shilova "Andrey Ryabushkin - Enchanted Wanderer", telling about the life and work of the artist