Since tomorrow is Easter Sunday , today ’s " Feel Art Again" post featuresIllarion Pryanishnikov(1840 - 1894 ) and his " Easter Procession" ( 1893 ) .
1 . For 21 years ( right until his death ) , Illarion Pryanishnikov teach at his alma mater , the Moscow School of Painting , Sculpture and Architecture . One of his school-age child wasKonstantin Korovin , who was also a congenator of his . The generous Pryanishnikov also paid the direction for Marianne von Werefkin ( a Russian puma who was later active in Switzerland ) to attend the school day .
2.In 1839 , the cornerstone was lay for the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow , although the building was not completed until 1860 . Decoration of the Cathedral — the tallest Eastern Orthodox Christian church in the humankind — continued for another 20 year by top Russian artists , including Pryanishnikov and Vasily Perov . Unfortunately , the Cathedral was destroy in 1931 , just 51 year after the decoration were completed .
3 . Pryanishnikov was one of the founding extremity of the Peredvizhniki , also known as " The Wanderers" or " The Itinerants . “The group of Russian realists banded together in protestation of academic restrictions to form their own co-op ; the mathematical group later on germinate into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions . After the Peredvizhniki ’s second expo , Pryanishnikov served as their director .
4.Pryanishnikov first became roll in the hay while he was still in school , when his"Jokers : Gostiny Dvor in Moscow"set off a storm of indignation among " adherent of prescribed academic art . “The 1865 painting depicts a petty clerk perform for the entertainment of merchants.(Look closely , and you ’ll see the clerk making " bunny ears" on a drunkard . )
