Pyotr Ossovsky created The Moscow Kremlin in Winter in 1979. He painted it on fiberboard, thick pressed cardboard usually used in construction. Such material held paint well, endured changes in humidity and temperature well, and did not require primer.
The Moscow Kremlin in Winter
Creation period
1979
Dimensions
80x170 cm
Technique
Fiberboard, oil
Collection
Exhibition
1
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Pyotr Ossovsky
The Moscow Kremlin in Winter
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Ossovsky painted many views of the Moscow Kremlin from various angles, in daylight and in evening light. He even worked on several paintings in one of the government offices. For this, special permission and a pass to the Kremlin were required. All these works formed a cycle that Ossovsky himself called The Kremliade.
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Pyotr Ossovsky. Holy Places of Russia. 1979.
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The composition of The Moscow Kremlin in Winter consists of several horizontal plans. They are separated by large color spots: white and gray snow-covered roofs, red Kremlin tower and St. Basil’s Cathedral, golden shades of the church and the sky in the background. The light background counterweights the dense and heavy colors of the lower part of the picture, giving it a solemn appearance.
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Pyotr Ossovsky painted many of his canvases in the austere style. His work is characterized by clear broken lines, large planes of the same color, generalized images. The author focused not on the details of the canvas, but on the forms of the objects depicted, color and composition. The austere style developed from socialist realism at the turn of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Unlike the artists of the Stalin era, the masters of this trend did not seek to idealize reality, but to depict it without embellishment and sentimentality. The austere style canvases looked monumental and emotional.
Ossovsky was born in 1925 in Ukraine. At the age of 15 he entered the Moscow secondary art school, and after it, the Surikov Institute, where he studied in the master class of famous painter Sergei Gerasimov. Pyotr Ossovsky usually combined his work into larger series. Often, they were based on the impressions from his travels around the USSR and the world. The artist painted Cuban, Bulgarian and Polish landscapes, views of Transbaikalia, Moscow Region and Pskov Region. Pskov was Ossovsky’s favorite region; he often called it his spiritual homeland.
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The Moscow Kremlin in Winter
Creation period
1979
Dimensions
80x170 cm
Technique
Fiberboard, oil
Collection
Exhibition
1
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