Mikhail Vrubel mk72
1898
Decorative panel
Oil on canvas
321.5x222cm
Russian Museum,St.Petersburg
The Bogatyr 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.