Founder of the group Peddler (which organized the annual exhibitions), is one of the greatest masters of the realistic portrait. In one of his most well known paintings (Christ in the Desert), IVAN KRAMSKOI treating a religious subject in moral–philosophical terms. He taught at a drawing school and also created a gallery of portraits of important Russian figures, in which expressive simplicity of composition emphasize profound psychological elements.
During his lifetime, he also executed many orders for church paintings and portraits to earn his living. Aspiring to expand the ideological expressiveness, IVAN KTAMSKOI created art that existed on the cusp of portraiture. His Tretyakov gallery paintings, disclose sincere emotions of their personalities. In the last third of the nineteenth century, the orientation of his art and his quest for objective public criteria for the evaluation of art exerted an influence on the development of realist art in Russia. Throughout his life tried to turn art to life, untilh he died in Saint Petersburg, inside a March day, 1887.
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