Mikhail Vrubel mk72
1885
Unfinished Alum sheet Watercolor and graphite on paper
11.7x18.4cm
Museum of Russian Art,Kiev
Still life with flowers,A Paper-weight,and other objects 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.