Vasily Surikov

Surikov is one of the great masters of history painting, and he occupies a special place in Russian culture. Like Delacroix, he believed that history was not a pretext for nice painting but an inexorable drama with neither culprits nor innocents but rather people driven by invisible forces.

- Introduction video credit: Close-Up View of Person Painting on a Canvas of Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels.

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