Specifically, the paintings in this period are closer to real life. Concerned about people's lives and sufferings, expressing dissatisfaction and criticism of social injustice. For example, Lie Bin's masterpiece "The Tracker on the Volga River" uses a hazy background and a strange empty space, giving people a feeling of melancholy, loneliness and helplessness, which actually goes deep into the tracker's heart, which is also a true portrayal of the painter's mood and exposes the injustice of Russian autocracy and serfdom, as well as Surikov's "Morning of the Guards' Execution".
In addition, there are many works that show rural themes and love the excellent traditional spirit and natural scenery of the motherland, such as Surikov's Fall of Syracuse, Vasnetsov's Three Warriors, Surikov's Yerma Conquering Siberia and shishkin's Wheat Field, which are typical examples.
At the same time, impressionism is included in painting techniques. Created a roving painting school with rigorous composition and good color performance. For example, Levitan's Birch Forest is soft in color, fresh and bright. Known as the masterpiece of "Russian Impressionism". And Lie Bin, 1864 was admitted to the Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. After studying painting for six years, I graduated with excellent results and won a big gold medal and the opportunity to study in Italy and France at public expense. In the process of learning, he learned impressionist color application and painting skills well. After returning to China, he first painted as a painter who criticized realism, but his use of techniques and colors reflected the inclusiveness of Impressionism. Lie Bin is not the only one.
Finally, I want to talk about its influence on the fine arts in New China. After the founding of New China, it was politically isolated, economically blocked and culturally restricted. At that time, I could only communicate with the Soviet Union. At that time, the art exchange, first, Soviet experts came to China to teach, such as Maksimov held an oil painting training class in China; Second, China students go to the Soviet Academy of Fine Arts to study.
The traditional basic skills training of Russian art education is very rigorous, focusing on cultivating students' practical ability and emphasizing the role of art in highly reflecting and understanding life, so that art can better reflect social life. These students who will study in China after studying abroad are deeply influenced by Russian critical realism art, but in the new China environment, China's art emphasizes reality rather than criticism.
He attached importance to the social function of artistic works, which had a great influence on China's artistic creation. Many modes in China's art education system were inspired by Soviet art education, which promoted the development of formal and strict academic teaching.
Some people think that China's "one-sided" study of the Soviet Union at that time has brought a tendency of simplification to China's art education and creation, but I think there is nothing wrong with learning foreign art and it is unwise to completely deny realistic art. I think we should absorb foreign culture on the basis of our own nation and promote the development of art. There is no doubt that learning from the Soviet Union will promote art education in China.
In short, the Russian critical realism art in the19th century, which was almost contemporary with the Impressionists, undoubtedly reached the peak in the history of Russian painting and added a brilliant page to the history of Russian painting!