Mikhail Vrubel mk72
1886
Watercolor and graphite on paper
12.6x8.8cm
Museum of Russian Art,Kiev
Pattern of Chinese Brocade Russian Symbolist Painter, 1856-1910
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The Wanderers.
