Andrey Ryabushkin

Looking at the historical and household paintings by Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin, it is easy to guess that the artist had a relation to iconopus, - his deep knowledge of this semi-dear art of pre-revolutionary Russia is felt. Indeed, born in the family of the peasant-icon painter Andrei Petrovich carried love and to the life of the folk, and to bright colors, and to the techniques of making icons through their creativity. The Russian life, more often by the outgoing Boyarsky XVII century (this century is often included in the name of the famous works of the artist), in his paintings, that remains only to agree with the artist - it was.
Exceptionally gifted young man (and this is evidenced by a large number of gold and silver medals received over the years of study) comprehended artistic skills at the beginning of the Moscow School of Painting, Scary and Architecture (1875-1882) at V.P. Perova, then At the Academy of Arts (1882-1890) at P. P. Chistasova and V.P. Meresmangin. Already his first student paintings - "Angel displays the Apostle Peter from the Dwarf" (1889), "Removing from the Cross" (1890), "Healing of the Chrome Apostle Peter" (1890) - cause increased interest among professionals and collectors. For money allocated to the trip abroad, Andrei Ryabushkin circles almost all areas that were once in the medieval Moscow Rus. Etudes, sketches, copying - All the work during the trip of the artist splashed later in the paintings of the Russian national life: dynamic, calm, tense, but always colorful