Initially constrained by the orthodoxy of the Imperial Academy, the arrival of art schools and public collections around 1900 led to rapid development. A tentative history.
Orlovsky
A plain near Dresden, the floodplains of Silesia, Backwaters in Essex, York Harbour on the coast of Maine, the Pontic Steppe, Skagen in Denmark, and more.
Overview of those most active during the 19th century, and generally Realist in style. Includes those who spent much of their career in Ukraine, and three famous expatriates.
Born in Odesa, he settled to the north of Kharkiv, painting en plein air in a detailed Impressionist style. He had a particular love of wild plants.
He started his training in Kyiv, and after being a professor at the Imperial Academy, he returned to teach in Kyiv, and co-found its Art School in 1900.
Don Quixote, Netherlandish Proverbs, grain fields in Ukraine, a flock of sheep in a boat, the Golden Horn, pastels and kabkabs.
From the Pontic Steppe came many of our languages, domesticated horses, the wheel, and these landscape paintings from the 19th century.