Pictures Orestes KiprenskyOne of the most prominent portrait painters of the beginning of XIX century. was Orest Kiprensky. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1803, where he studied under the guidance of historical painting GI Ugryumova and GF Duaena.However, the most significant that he created - portraits 1816 - 1823's, when he was in Italy. Upon returning home, he was received rather coldly, and in 1828, driven by the created atmosphere around him ill, once again went to Italy.A particularly fruitful for the artist was the years of training at the Academy and work in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Tver. The works of this period characterize it as romantic. If the spatial composition of portraits of these years, traditional and neutral, in the sense of color characteristic of Romanticism pursuit of dynamics: the contrasts of light and dark background, energetic cut-molding forms the spectacular combination of blue, red, white clothing.Composition "Whatdafunk" belong to the performer Audionautix. License: Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Artist: http://audionautix.com/