We are glad to welcome you to the blog about contemporary art. Today I want to talk about painting, so this post is entirely dedicated to landscapes by Russian artists. In it you will find the most complete information about the work of Alexander Afonin, Alexei Savchenko and Viktor Bykov. All of them are not just talented, but gifted above the individual. Their work is multifaceted, original and skillful. They attract the attention of not only citizens of the Russian land, but also representatives and collectors from far abroad. It is not an easy task to write about them briefly, but we will try to singulate the information in order to present to your eyes only the most interesting and important from the life of artists and their work. Well, let's move on to the landscapes of Russian artists?

Landscapes of the true Russian artist Alexander Afonin

Alexander Afonin is called a true Russian artist, a modern Shishkin, which is quite justified. He is a member of the UNESCO International Federation of Artists (1996), and has been awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation since 2004. The artist was born in 1966 in Kursk. Started drawing at the age of 12. Gradually growing up, the young man began to attract reproductions of the world's masterpieces of painting. Father Pavel was a support for Alexander, he explained to him the basics of the drawing, the tonality. Comprehending art "at home", Afonin entered the Kursk Art School, from which he graduated in 1982.

The period from 1982 to 1986 was a turning point for the artist for the rest of his life. In addition to the fact that in this time period Afonin was educated at the Zheleznogorsk Art School, it was then that he learned professionalism. Today Alexander considers this school one of the best in Russia.

Alexander Pavlovich Afonin prefers to paint landscapes not from photography and not in the office, but from nature. The artist claims that copying photographic landscapes is good ground for degradation, in particular, the loss of a sense of freshness and a sense of air. No wonder great masters like Levitan, Savrasov, Kuindzhi nursed kilometers in search of nature.

Thanks to his talent and diligence, in 1989 Afonin entered the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, which at that time had just begun its history. Alexander graduated from graduate school, became an associate professor of the academic department of painting and drawing, and was also appointed head of the landscape workshop. Now Alexander Pavlovich is already a professor, head of the department and an honored artist of his homeland. The artist believes that every remote corner of the Russian land can and should be captured in the field of high art.

The author's paintings are so poetic and imbued with freshness that you don't even want to take your eyes off one canvas in order to look at another. We wish you to get a lot of positive emotions while viewing the landscapes of the Russian artist.

Landscapes of nature of different seasons from Alexey Savchenko

Alexey Savchenko is a rather young artist, but already recognizable and very promising. The main theme of his paintings, created thanks to the etude style of painting, are small towns, half-forgotten villages, surviving churches, in a word, the hinterland of vast Russia. Savchenko specializes in landscapes of nature of different seasons. As a rule, his paintings convey the nature of the central zone of the Russian Federation.

Landscapes by Russian artist Alexei Savchenko they take it not by color, but by some wayward northern mood. , maximum color realism - perhaps this is what is very expressively visible on the author's canvases.

Alexey Alexandrovich was born in 1975. He was lucky enough to be born in the wonderful historical city of Sergiev Posad, the pearl of the Golden Ring, primarily known as a place of mass Orthodox pilgrimage.

In 1997, Alexey received the specialty of a graphic designer, graduating from the All-Russian College of Toys. In 2001 - faculty of fine arts and folk crafts at the Moscow Pedagogical University. Since 2005 - a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Constantly takes part in exhibitions of professional artists. Many of his works are held by art collectors in Russia and abroad.

"Forest, as if alive" by Russian artist Viktor Bykov

Victor Alexandrovich Bykov is a famous Russian landscape painter, the author of many works directly related to the beauty and lyricism of Russian nature. The artist was born in 1958. He started painting quite early. In 1980 he graduated from art school. In the period from 1988 to 1993, Viktor Bykov studied at the eminent Stroganovka, which is now called the Moscow State Academy of Art and Industry. S.G. Stroganov.

Today, the author's style of painting in the circles of contemporary art is called naturalistic realism, in the old days of the last century they would say "the forest is alive." Juicy tones in the hands of an experienced artist give the desired effect of living paintings. Barely connectable lines, combined with textured thick layers of paint applied in a continuous array on the canvas, make the author's landscapes of the Russian artist both bright and rich in detail. Through this technique, an enthusiastic feeling of the fantastic nature of the paintings, their fabulous infinity, is achieved.

The landscapes in the paintings of the Russian artist convey incredible realism, it seems as if they tell about the nature of the life of the sun's rays and, at the same time, they move transparent air in huge volumes. The artist's paintings are saturated with harmonious colors, fresh images, and the mood of mother nature.

He admires his winter ones, in which finely selected shades perfectly miraculously recreate various natural states - from the resistance of frost in the spring, the crystal freshness of a snowy morning to the mysterious silence of a late winter evening. The snow cover in the artist's paintings makes it possible to feel the structure of snow, the graininess of its slender crystals.

Landscapes by Russian artist Viktor Bykov popular both in their native Fatherland and abroad (private collections in France and Germany). The artist's reproductions are used in decorative design, even when creating patterns for embroidery. And who knows, perhaps we come across Viktor’s work much more often, unintentionally, incognito, without attaching much importance to this or mentally attaching ourselves to dreams of colorful landscapes of the Russian land and its talented artists.

At the end of the post, watch a wonderful video about the classic landscapes of Russian artists:

Municipal State Educational Institution "Stanovskaya Secondary School"

Project work on the topic: "Russian nature in the paintings of Russian artists »

Performed: Grigoryan Zhanetta,

Supervisor:

Artsybasheva Natalya Nikolaevna,

art teacher

With. Stanovoye, 2016

The seasons in painting are a special theme in the landscapes of nature paintings by Russian artists, because nothing touches so sensitively as the change in the appearance of nature according to the seasons. Along with the season, the mood of nature changes, which the paintings in painting convey with the ease of the artist's brush.

Objective of the project . To get acquainted with the landscape painting of Russian artists, thereby contributing to emotional and aesthetic development, to cultivate a kind and careful attitude towards nature, its beauty, to induce an ardent feeling of love for one's land. Deliver to yourself and others joy and inspiration for creativity.

Integration : reading fiction, knowledge.

Project objectives :

1. Learn more about landscape painting.

2. Learn to use the acquired knowledge in your own work, creating an expressive landscape using appropriate visual materials.

3. Learn to see, understand and emotionally respond to what you see.

4. Cultivate a sensitive and competent viewer.

5. Learn to express your attitude to what a person builds, decorates and depicts.

6. Develop creativity, aesthetic taste.

7. Ensure the participation of the family in the educational development of interest in art.

Expected result:

Knowledge of artists

To be able to express one's attitude to what a person builds, decorates and depicts,

Cultivate a sensitive and competent viewer.

Project participants : Head of extracurricular activities "Young Artist"; 5th grade student; parents.

Equipment and materials: computer, projector, presentation on the topic, works on the topics, examples of arts and crafts.

Preliminary work:

Examination of paintings, illustrations and photographs on the topic;

Reading and memorizing the necessary artistic material;

Observation;

Library visit;

Own works.

Working with parents : reading books at home.

SLIDE 1

“Looking at the beautiful and hearing about the beautiful, a person improves,” the ancient Greeks said. Therefore, we must surround ourselves with beauty - everything beautiful that we can! Nature can give us everything we need. How many wonderful sensations and impressions you can get from communicating with nature! How many colors, shapes, sounds, transformations can be seen and heard in it!

A child - an artist observes nature, in creativity expresses his vision of what is happening in it. The teacher helps the child to "open his eyes" to the world he sees.

Nature can act as an Artist or a beautiful Sorceress who creates the visible world according to the laws of beauty and harmony.

The artistic landscape reveals the poetry of nature, teaches us to see its beauty, enriches our ideas.

SLIDE 2

The nature of Russia is diverse and unique. Wonderful Russian poets sang her beauty in their poems: Zhukovsky V.A., Pushkin A.S., Tyutchev F.I., Fet A.A., Nekrasov N.A., Nikitin I.S. and others. And then we saw Russian nature in the paintings of landscape painters: I. Shishkin, A. Kuindzhi, I. Ostroukhov, I. Levitan, V. Polenov, G. Myasoedov, A. Gerasimov, A. Savrasov, V. Nikonov and many others painters.

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And so, the theme of the project is "Russian nature in the paintings of Russian artists."

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Nature -

… Not a cast, not a soulless face -

It has a soul, it has freedom,

It has love, it has a language...

(“Not what you think, nature ...” , F.I. Tyutchev)

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And here are pictures of nature (photos) of my native land. Here are the different seasons.

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four artists,

So many pictures.

Painted with white paint

All one.

Forest and field are white,

White meadows.

At snow-covered aspens

Branches like horns.

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Korovin K. A. Winter 1894

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Kustodiev B. M. Winter. 1916

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Surikov V. I. Capture of the snow town 1891

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A. Plastov "First Snow" 1946

Arkady Plastov is a Russian painter who lived during the Soviet era. He was born in the countryside and most of all loved to draw the village, village life and peasants. He liked bright, exciting colors. But Plastov's painting "First Snow" in terms of color is rather monotonous, dull, its main colors are white and gray-brown. But this does not make the picture boring. On the contrary, it is "warm", despite the fact that it depicts winter.

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I.E. Grabar "Winter Morning"

The artist Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar was very fond of winter and snow. In their image, he found incredible opportunities for the artist. At first glance, everything in winter should be boring, because the white blanket completely covered the whole earth. But Grabar's paintings prove the opposite - you need a huge number of different tones to write just white snow. Blue is especially good for this. Here is a picture of "Winter Morning". Bright blue-blue, azure prevails here. The whole picture is striking in its pure blue. Snow and hoarfrost appear so blue in the bright sun on a frosty day. In the eyes ripples from this flawless blue.

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Shishkin I. I. In the wild north

Stands alone in the wild north
Pine on the bare top.
And dozing, swaying, and loose snow
She is dressed like a robe.
And she dreams of everything that is in the distant desert,
In the region where the sun rises
Alone and sad on a rock with fuel
A beautiful palm tree is growing. (M.Yu. Lermontov)

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Winter patterns remind us of the work of Gzhel craftsmen.

Famous Russian craft. Ceramic products (dishes).

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At second– blue

Sky and streams.

splashing in blue puddles

A flock of sparrows.

transparent in the snow

Ice-lace.

The first thawed patches

First grass.

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Before you is a picture of Kuindzhi A.I. Early spring. 1890-1895

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Levitan I.I. In the beginning of March

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Baksheev V. N. Blue spring

The artist Vasily Baksheev continues the traditions of Russian landscape painters - Savrasov, Grabar, Levitan also painted pictures depicting the forest at different times of the year.

And what kind of Russian landscape can there be without a birch dear to the heart? The painting depicts a forest in the middle of spring, when leaves have not yet appeared on the trees, but the air is already full of warmth and juicy smells of awakening nature. So you feel the mushroom aroma of last year's wet foliage, the gentle and pungent spirit from the old and young grass, bursting buds.

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Savrasov A.K. The Rooks Have Arrived. 1871

The painting by the itinerant artist Alexei Savrasov has become one of the key paintings in Russian painting. This picture is a quiet hymn to Russian nature, to spring, which is just beginning, to the spring mood that is just awakening in us. This picture speaks of spring not directly, but with a hint, a feeling that spring began literally at that moment when we looked at the picture. This is what happens when a person who has been wearing a warm jacket for a long time during a cold winter suddenly went out into the street in it and remarked: “Stop, but warm clothes are no longer needed, spring has begun and now it will be warmer every day.”

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Ostroukhov I. S. "Early Spring"

Spring, spring! How clean the air is!

How clear is the sky.

His azure alive

He blinds my eyes.

Spring, spring! How high

On the wings of the wind

caressing the sunbeams,

Clouds are flying.

SLIDE 20

Well, the riot of spring flowering, it seems to me, is associated with Gorodets painting.

Gorodets painting is one of the most famous artistic crafts in Russia, the brightest phenomenon of the so-called "naive" art. Wooden crafts.

SLIDE 21

On the picture third

Colors and do not count:

yellow, green,

Blue is…

Green forest and field

Blue river.

White, fluffy

There are clouds in the sky.

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I. I. Shishkin "Oak Grove"

It is impossible to count how many wonderful works - songs, stories, poems - have been written about love for the Motherland. This topic is also devoted to the work of the greatest Russian artist - I.I. Shishkin, who raised landscape painting to an unattainable height. Each of his canvases tells the viewer how beautiful, wide and spacious the native country is, and although the meadows and fields, edges and copses captured in the paintings do not amaze us with an enchanting rainbow of colors of distant exotic countries, they are a hundred times dearer to our hearts, because the Motherland - this is the most precious thing a person has, because here is our home, the closest people, here we put down our roots, love, rejoice and grieve.

Everyone knows that oaks live a long time, being silent witnesses to the change of centuries and generations. However, you should not look for the very group of giant oaks that are depicted in the painting by I. I. Shishkin "Oak Grove" - ​​you will not find them, because it is rather a collective image created bit by bit on the basis of painstaking many years of work with sketches.

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Isaac Levitan "Birch Grove"

The artist Isaac Levitan liked to depict Russian nature. She is the main theme of many of his paintings. "Birch Grove" is one of the best works of this great painter.
Levitan used rich colors to emphasize the beauty of the deciduous forest, the magnificence of the carpet of herbs and flowers. "Birch Grove" is a hymn to summer, bright sun and Russian birch. The artist did not depict the sky, but there is no doubt that it is blue, and white clouds are floating across it. Looking at the picture, I want to enjoy the warm summer day, sunlight, clear forest air.

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And so A.I. Kuindzhi depicted a birch grove in his own way.

Not a single picture brought him as much fame as the canvas "Birch Grove", written in 1879. This picture shocked the audience so much and the artist himself was so proud of it that he subsequently created several versions of the same picture. Many similar works have been written on this topic. Birches became the favorite tree of Arkhip Ivanovich.

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I. I. Shishkin "Rye"

Blushed cherry and plum,

Golden rye poured

And, like the sea, the field worries,

And you won't walk in the grass in the meadows.

The sun is high above the vault

Heavens red-hot from the heat,

The fragrant linden smells of honey,

And the forest full of twilight is noisy. N. Grekov

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I suggest Dymkovo painting for the summer, if only because this painting has the richest color scheme.

Dymkovo toys are small figures molded from clay and painted with bright colors. A distinctive feature of the Dymkovo toy is its shape and style of painting.

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A fourth gold

Painted the gardens

fields are fruitful,

Ripe fruit...

Berries everywhere

Ripens in the forests.

Who are those artists?

Guess yourself!

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Ilya Ostroukhov "Golden Autumn"

Artist Ilya Ostroukhov is known as an outstanding master of landscape. He was one of the Russian Wanderers, in 1887, at a general exhibition, he first showed the painting that brought him fame. It was "Golden Autumn", a rather small canvas.

When the name has the word "golden", it says a lot. Gold is wealth, brilliance, beauty, decorativeness, magnificence. It is this - rich, magnificent autumn that appears in Ostroukhov's picture. It was about this time that the great poet Pushkin wrote: "Och charm"!

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And here is the Golden Autumn in Polenov's painting.

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I. Levitan “Autumn day. Sokolniki"

Asters fall in the gardens,

The slender maple under the window turns yellow,

And cold fog in the fields

White all day long.

I. A. Bunin.

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Well, what kind of fishing do you think can be chosen for the "Autumn" sector?

Golden Khokhloma. A feature of the Khokhloma craft is the manufacture of gilded wooden utensils without the use of precious metal and a kind of herbal painting.

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Landscape painting is one of the most lyrical and emotional genres of fine art, it is the highest stage of artistic development of nature, recreating its beauty with inspiration and figuratively. Acquaintance with this genre contributes to emotional and aesthetic development, brings up a kind and caring attitude, an ardent feeling of love for one's land, native land. The artistic landscape helps to develop aesthetic taste, figurative and associative thinking, imagination, self-contemplation. Landscape painting can not only bring joy, but also inspire creativity.

Children and artists know that the best portrait of nature can only be created in co-creation with it.

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website chose works that delighted us and made us remember that beauty can be born in any era.

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Her paintings amaze with their depth, volume, saturation, and the texture is such that it is impossible to take your eyes off them.

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Sergei Marshennikov is 41 years old. He lives in St. Petersburg and creates in the best traditions of the classical Russian school of realistic portraiture. The heroines of his paintings are tender and defenseless in their half-naked women. Many of the most famous paintings depict the artist's muse and wife, Natalia.

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Published: March 26, 2018

This list of famous landscape painters has been compiled by our editor, Neil Collins, M.A., LL.B. It represents his personal opinion about the ten best representatives of genre art. Like any compilation of this kind, it reveals more of the compiler's personal tastes than the position of landscape painters. So the top ten landscape painters and their landscapes.

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/best-landscape-artists.htm

#10 Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900)

In tenth place, two American artists at once.

Thomas Cole: The greatest American landscape painter of the early 19th century and founder of the Hudson River School, Thomas Cole was born in England, where he worked as an apprentice engraver before emigrating to the United States in 1818, where he quickly achieved recognition as a landscape painter, settling in the village of Catskill in the Hudson Valley. An admirer of Claude Lorraine and Turner, he visited England and Italy between 1829 and 1832, after which (thanks in part to the encouragement he received from John Martin and Turner) he began to focus less on natural scenery and more on grandiose allegorical and historical themes. . Largely impressed by the natural beauty of the American landscape, Cole imbued much of his landscape art with great feeling and obvious romantic splendor.

Famous landscapes of Thomas Cole:

- "View of the Catskills - Early Autumn" (1837), oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum, New York

- "American Lake" (1844), oil on canvas, Detroit Institute of Arts

Frederick Edwin Church

- "Niagara Falls" (1857), Corcoran, Washington

- "Heart of the Andes" (1859), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

- "Cotopaxi" (1862), Detroit Institute of Arts

#9 Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Thoughtful, melancholic and somewhat reclusive, Caspar David Friedrich is the greatest landscape painter of the Romantic tradition. Born near the Baltic Sea, he settled in Dresden, where he focused exclusively on spiritual connections and the meaning of the landscape, inspired by the silent stillness of the forest, as well as light (sunrise, sunset, moonlight) and seasons. His genius lay in his ability to capture a hitherto unknown spiritual dimension in nature, which gives the landscape an emotional, incomparable mysticism.

Famous landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich:

- "Winter Landscape" (1811), oil on canvas, National Gallery, London

- "Landscape in Riesengebirge" (1830), oil on canvas, Pushkin Museum, Moscow

- Man and Woman Looking at the Moon (1830-1835), oil, National Gallery, Berlin

#8 Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)

Often called the "forgotten Impressionist", the Anglo-French Alfred Sisley was second only to Monet in his devotion to spontaneous plein airism: he was the only Impressionist who devoted himself exclusively to landscape painting. His seriously underestimated reputation is based on his ability to capture the unique effects of light and seasons in wide landscapes, sea and river scenes. His depiction of dawn and a cloudy day is especially memorable. Today he is not very popular, but is still considered one of the greatest representatives of Impressionist landscape painting. Could well be overrated, because, unlike Monet, his work never suffered from a lack of form.

Famous landscapes by Alfred Sisley:

- Foggy Morning (1874), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay

- "Snow at Louveciennes" (1878), oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

- Morette Bridge in the Sun (1892), oil on canvas, private collection

#7 Albert Cuyp (1620-1691)

A Dutch realist painter, Aelbert Kuip is one of the most famous Dutch landscape painters. His most magnificent scenic views, river scenes and landscapes with calm cattle, show majestic serenity and masterful handling of bright light (early morning or evening sun) in the Italian style is a sign of Klodeev's great influence. This golden light often captures only the sides and edges of plants, clouds, or animals through impasto lighting effects. In this way, Cuyp turned his native Dordrecht into an imaginary world, reflecting it at the beginning or end of an ideal day, with an all-encompassing sense of stillness and security, and the harmony of everything with nature. Popular in Holland, it was highly regarded and collected in England.

Famous landscapes of Albert Cuyp:

- "View of Dordrecht from the North" (1650), oil on canvas, collection of Anthony de Rothschild

- “River landscape with horseman and peasants” (1658), oil, National Gallery, London

#6 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875)

Jean-Baptiste Corot, one of the greatest landscape painters of the Romantic style, is famous for his unforgettable picturesque depiction of nature. His particularly subtle approach to distance, light and form depended on tone rather than drawing and color, giving the finished composition an air of endless romance. Less constrained by painterly theory, Corot's works are nonetheless among the world's most popular landscapes. A regular participant in the Paris Salon since 1827 and a member of the School of Barbizon, led by Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867), he had a great influence on other plein air artists such as Charles-Francois Doubigny (1817-1878), Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). ) and Alfred Sisley (1839-1899). He was also an unusually generous man who spent most of his money on artists in need.

Famous landscapes by Jean-Baptiste Corot:

- "The Bridge at Narni" (1826), oil on canvas, Louvre

- Ville d'Avrey (ca. 1867), oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

- "Rural Landscape" (1875), oil on canvas, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France

#5 Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-1682)

- "The Mill at Wijk near Duarsted" (1670), oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum

- "Jewish Cemetery in Ouderkerk" (1670), Old Masters Gallery, Dresden

No. 4 Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)

French painter, draftsman and engraver active in Rome who is regarded by many art historians as the greatest painter of the idyllic landscape in the history of art. Since pure (i.e., secular and non-classical) landscape, as well as ordinary still life or genre painting, lacked moral heaviness (in the 17th century in Rome), Claude Lorrain introduced classical elements and mythological themes into his compositions, including gods, heroes and saints. In addition, his chosen environment, the countryside around Rome, was rich in ancient ruins. These classic Italian pastoral landscapes were also filled with a poetic light that represents his unique contribution to the art of landscape painting. Claude Lorraine particularly influenced English painters, both during his lifetime and for two centuries thereafter: John Constable called him "the finest landscape painter the world has ever seen".

Famous landscapes by Claude Lorrain:

- "Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino" (1636), oil on canvas, Louvre

- "Landscape with the wedding of Isaac and Rebecca" (1648), oil, National Gallery

- "Landscape with Tobius and the Angel" (1663), oil, Hermitage, St. Petersburg

- "Building a boat at Flatford" (1815), oil, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

- "Hay Cart" (1821), oil on canvas, National Gallery, London

No. 2 Claude Monet (1840-1926)

The greatest modern landscape painter and giant of French painting, Monet was the leading figure of the incredibly influential Impressionist movement, to whose principles of spontaneous plein air painting he remained true for the rest of his life. A close friend of the Impressionist painters Renoir and Pissarro, his desire for optical truth, primarily in the depiction of light, is represented by a series of canvases depicting the same object in different lighting conditions and at different times of the day, such as "Haystacks" (1888 ), The Poplars (1891), Rouen Cathedral (1892) and The River Thames (1899). This method culminated in the famous Water Lilies series (among all the most famous landscapes) created from 1883 in his garden at Giverny. His latest series of monumental drawings of water lilies with shimmering colors has been interpreted by several art historians and painters as an important precursor to abstract art, and by others as the supreme example of Monet's search for spontaneous naturalism.