Analysis of the evolution of Russian landscape painting

Abstract

The article analyses the main stages of the evolution
of Russian landscape. We consider different concepts
of landscape perception by Russian painters beginning from
the 18th up to the 19th century. Special attention is paid to
plain air landscape. The paper describes the origin and development
of plain air painting as a complicated and multileveled
process, connected with the general development of
art and particularly the genre of landscape. It also says about
the perception of light-and-air environment and mastering the
means of its expression in art which largely defined the ways
of the Russian realistic art evolution. The parallels with the
European art are made to specify Russian landscape