W9RUSS Flashcards
(58 cards)
What painting criticized the traditional faith of the Russian people?
Religious Procession in Kursk
Who were part of the Realist Painters?
Ilya Repin
Vasilii Surikov
Mikhail Nesterov
Who was the leader of the realist painters?
Ilya Repin
What paintings did Ilya Repin paint?(4)
Volaga Boatmen
Religious Procession in Kursk
They did not expect him
Arrest of the Propagandist
What type of painting did Repin focus on?
painting of social criticism
What notion did the Volga Boatmen bring? (2)
What is the dramatic event happening?
What is the irony of the picture?
notion of humans as beast of burden
people are what matters, yet we are opressing them
youth in center throwing off the yoke
the people are going to be out of work soon - steamboat in background
What is the point of the Volga Boatmen painting?
Russian people are still being oopressed and the fact the people are still toiling as direct way of expressing protest
What notion did the Religious Procession in Kursk bring?(2)
What does the policemen on horse show?
What is the special person in the scene?
social commentary - religious observance as part of backwardness of Russia
the people are misled
brute force over the people
boy in crutch in front - jaws forward searching for the Truth
What notion did They did not expect him bring?
What is the scene?
What happened to him?
Was it displayed openly?
painting of protest
woman dressed in black and man with tattered clothes walks in
probably sent to prison in Siberia for terrorism
Yes, the name was vague and can be interpreteed as anything
What is the painting like in They did not expect him?
a box of stage with the 4th wall removed and the people are acting out a scene which is interpreted as protest
What scene did the Arrest of the Propagandist portray?
How do we know who is the propagandist and what is he trying to do?
What does he represent?
intellectuals trying to incite peasants into rebellion - these people were called populists
he is in red and is trying to spread the truth
He is the Christ figure
What is the scene of the Arrest of the Propagandist like?
Who are the two sympathetic people in the painting?
scene with fourth wall removed
the propagandist and the woman
What notion did the Arrest of the Propagandist bring?
What is the connection between the Propagandist and the woman?
the role of young educated women seeking alternative path for Russia
the propagandist and women are soul mates - she understands what he is trying to do; he failed but hope exists in the woman
What is in full force during Russian painting of 19th century?
social criticism
What and where are the Two main Russian Art musuems in Russia and who built one of them?
- Russian Museum in St. Petersbury
built by Carlo Rossi; was a palace that Alexander III donated
- Tretyakov Gallery
What painting did Vasilii Surikov paint?
Conquest of Siberia by Yermak
What notion did the Conquest of Siberia by Yermak bring?
the supposition that the Russians can just walk in and
that the west can dominated the east
Who was Yermak?
What was the battle standard?
What steorotype was being played?
What was the prevailing force of the Cossack?
a Cossack hired to defeat the Khan of Siberia
Mandylion
orientalism - Westerners have a distorted view of the east as seductive but dangerous
gun struck fear to the orientals
What fated river started a war between Russia and Japan?
What was the name of the war?
Who won the Nobel Peace prize for doing what regarding this war?
Who won?
Yalu River
Russo Japanese War
Theodore Roosevelt was first American to win Noble Peace prize for negotiating peace between them
Japan mauled Russia
What type of thinking caused the Russo Japanese War?
What did the loss of the war lead to for Russia?
misconception that they could just walk in
the loss led to the first Russian revolution in 1905
What did Mikhail Nesterov paint?
Child Bartholomew’s Dream
What was notion that Child Bartholomew’s Dream try to bring?
What type of view did it have contrasting what other painting?
What was the painting about?
Russia is a land of inherently good people
sympathetic view of Russian orthodox faith contrasting the Religious Procession in Kursk
the legend of ST. Sergius’s religious conversion
What symbol was there in Child Bartholomew’s Dream?
What did Bartholomew represent?
birch tree representing Russia
the Russian peopel at their highest
What was the Modernist movement influenced by?
What was that influenced influenced by?
What notion did it bring?
French symbolism
Neo Platonic philosphy
notion of other realms that serve as symbols of higher reality
