Russian Art and Culture
There are several outstanding web-sites for Russian art, from medieval icons to modern Russian or Soviet works. We have selected a few for you to browse initially. In addition, the sites on our Links Page will provide even more comprehensive lists. ... Keep in mind that pictures may take very long to load, and that sites from abroad, especially Russian sites, may be difficult to access on occasion. Patience and perseverance will be amply rewarded with some wonderful examples of Russian art.
The Wheaton Russian Art Gallery, a virtual slide show of Russian Art from the medieval to the modern period, is available only to Wheaton students in certain Russian culture classes.
Russian Art by George Mitrevski of Auburn University has an excellent gallery of Russian art, listed by the artists' names.
Russian Painting is a new website combining pictures, biographies, and critical articles, put together by Alexander Boguslawski and his students at Rollins College.
The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, one of the world's most stunning art museums, now has its own website. We have linked you to the English-language version. If your Russian fonts are working, try the Russian version instead.
Socialist Realist Art is the focus of this Russian museum site.
Or check out the Virtual Museum of Political Art. ... Students in the Wheaton FYS section on Art and Politics in Russia, take note!
ArtInfo: From Russia With Art includes information on, and works by, present day Russian artists. From their Home Page, click on "Visual Arts" -- then navigate through the various options.
Little Russia in U.S. provides links to art sites and some good music resources.
The WebMuseum in Paris has a wealth of material, though mostly on non-Russian art. Of special interest to us are their sites on Kandinsky and Malevich.
For those of you who are already familiar with the churches and the museum on the island of Kizhi, and don't need any text or explanations, take a look at this site with some gorgeous pictures of Kizhi.
The Virtual Tour of Solovki by Professor Sibelan Forrester of Swarthmore is included here, in part because Francoise Rosset was one of the three others with her. It's a great site anyway.
Or check out the lists of links suggested on our Links page.
Courses at Wheaton on Russian arts and Russian culture
The major in Russian language and literature requires four of the English-language courses below, in addition to Russian-language courses. The major in Russian Studies requires three of the courses below, in either English or Russian.
In English: Russian 101, 200, 201, 203, 281, 282, 284, 305; in Russian, 351, 352, 370
* First-Year Seminar, FYS section 10: Art, Politics and Society. Fall '00, '05.
* Russian 101, Russian Folklore. Fall '99. Spring '02. Fall '05.
* Russian 281, Russian Arts and Culture: covers ballet, music, and the visual arts. Spring '00, Fall '03, Fall '06.
* Russian 282, Modern Russian Film. Fall '98, Fall '00.
* Russian 284, Women in Russian Culture.The course includes a month on the Women Painters of the Avant-Garde and some material on choreographer Bronislava Nijinska in addition to literary and political texts. Spring '01.
* In addition, both the survey courses 200 and 201, in their new, revised incarnations, will cover a significant amount of relevant art material from icons and medieval wooden architecture to late Soviet unofficial art. Russ 200, fall '04, fall 2007. Russ 201, spring 2008
Courses with a primarily literary emphasis : Russian 200 and 201 (see above), Russian 203, Russian Drama; Russian 305, Topics in Russian Literature; Russian 351, Russian Poetry (in Russian); Russian 352, Russian Prose (in Russian).