Historical photographs that vividly tell about the life and life of ordinary Russian people in the 19th century

What Russian problems of the 19th century does the "Religious Procession in Kursk Province" by the great artist Repin tell about?

Ilya Repin is perhaps the most iconic and well-known Russian realist painter. He wrote: “The life around me is very disturbing and haunted me. She asks to capture her on canvas. " This explains why most of his work is social commentary disguised as art. His large work "Religious Procession in Kursk Province", written from 1880 to 1883, depicts the huddled and seething mass present at the annual procession

Forbidden topic: 22 true paintings by Vasily Perov about the life of ordinary Russian people in the 19th century

In any society, sooner or later, there comes a time when something needs to be changed. And the initiators of these changes are individuals who encourage society to enlightenment. In Russian painting, such a person was Vasily Perov. It was he who was the first to reveal the theme of the life of the common people, which was forbidden among many generations of artists, and looked into the hidden corners of the social system. Vasily Perov's paintings and his unusual work had a huge impact on the society of that time, prompting new understanding

25 colored photographs of the 19th century from the Land of the Rising Sun: geisha, samurai and the most ordinary Japanese

British artist Felix Beato arrived in Japan in 1863 and spent over 20 years in that country. He became a pioneer in coloring photographs, and his work is valuable and unique due to the rarity of photographs of Japan during the Edo period - the time of the establishment of the Tokugawa dictatorship and, at the same time, the "golden age" of Japanese literature. The result of his work was 2 volumes of photographs "National Types", which included 100 genre and portrait works, 98 city panoramas and landscapes. In our review there are 25 photos and

28 rare historical snapshots of Japanese everyday life in the late 19th century

Today, most people associate Japan with a frantic pace of life and advanced technologies. But just 100 years ago, the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun lived in bamboo huts and worked on farms tirelessly. This review presents retro photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with a visual display of the daily life of the Japanese

The very first photographs in the world: 15 unique photographs of the 19th century from the British gallery Tate

An exhibition dedicated to the origins of photography has opened at the Tate Britain in London. In this exhibition, you can see the earliest photographs taken between 1840 and 1860. This review contains the very first photographs that capture the amazing atmosphere of that time and the people who lived at that time