Sergey Konstantinovich Makovsky (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Маковский; 1877–1962) was a Russian Empire poet, art critic, and organiser of many exhibitions of modern art.
Makovsky became a leader of a Russian Renaissance in art, organising exhibitions of modern art and writing for several periodicals about new movements in the visual arts, architecture and poetry. From 1909 to 1917 he edited and published the Appolon arts magazine in Saint Petersburg. He also wrote about the significance of Russian Christian icons and in 1914 began a periodical on this subject.
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, Makovsky went into exile. He continued to publish in Russian his poems and studies of art. In 1955, Makovsky published in Russian a memoir, 'Portraits of contemporaries.
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.
Peredvizhniki, often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870.
Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Peredvizhniki (Wanderers)". Many of his historical paintings, such as Beneath the Crown (1889) also known as The Russian Bride's Attire and Before the Wedding, showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior centuries. He is often considered a representative of Academic art.
Soviet nonconformist art was Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union outside the control of the Soviet state started in the Stalinist era, in particular, outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are Soviet counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
Emily Shanks, also known as Emiliya Yakovlevna Shanks, was a British painter living in Moscow. She was the first woman to be elected to the Russian Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions or Peredvizhniki.
Benedikt Konstantinovich Livshits was a poet and writer of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, a French–Russian poetry translator.
The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, later known as Association of Artists of the Revolution was a group of artists in the Soviet Union in 1922–1933. Diverse members of the group gained favor as the legitimate bearers of the Communist ideas into the world of art, formulating framework for the socialist realism style.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Makovsky was a Russian Realist painter and graphic artist; associated with the Peredvizhniki.
Makovsky, derived of the Polish surname Makowski, is a habitational name for someone from a place called Makov.
Makowski is a Polish surname with regional variations across Slavic countries, such as Makovsky in Russia.
Sergey Vasilyevich Malyutin was a Russian painter of fine crafts, (scenic) designer, illustrator and architect; initially associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Most of his oil paintings are portraits. Outside of Russia, he is perhaps best known for designing the first set of Matryoshka dolls, created by Vasily Zvyozdochkin in 1890.
The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, also known by the acronym MUZHVZ, was one of the largest educational institutions in Russia. The school was formed by the 1865 merger of a private art college, established in Moscow in 1832, and the Palace School of Architecture, established in 1749 by Dmitry Ukhtomsky. By the end of the 19th-century, it vied with the state-run St. Petersburg Academy of Arts for the title of the largest art school in the country. In the 20th century, art and architecture separated again, into the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow and the Moscow Architectural Institute ; the latter occupies the historical School buildings in Rozhdestvenka Street.
The year 1960 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
Erarta is the largest private museum of contemporary art in Russia, located in Saint Petersburg. The museum is combined with the Erarta Galleries.
The Kuryokhin Center, or more extended the Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, is a non-profit cultural centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The centre was founded in 2004 and named after the Russian avant garde composer Sergey Kuryokhin. The main space of the centre has a capacity of 2000 people. The venue is located in an old cinema building.
Semion Lvovich Abugov was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, professor of the Repin Institute of Arts, regarded as one of the leading art educator of the Leningrad school of painting,
Nikolay Yegorovich Makovsky was a Russian painter; one of a quartet of artist siblings that included his brothers Konstantin and Vladimir and his sister Alexandra.
Elena Luksch-Makowsky, née Makowsky was a Russian painter and sculptor.
The Russian pavilion houses Russia's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals.
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