#Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko

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The Prisoner

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko

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MWW Artwork of the Day (11/3/22) Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (Ukrainian, 1846-1898) Life Goes on Everywhere (1888) Oil on canvas, 213.7 x 107.5 cm. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The topic of social contradictions was very important for Yaroshenko. The picture was painted under the impression of a story by Lev Tolstoy entitled What do people cherish in life? The artist originally planned to call his work “Where there is love, there is God.” In the window of a wagon carrying convicts, the prisoners have crowded together as they feed pigeons. The idea of the painting is humanity which is preserved in inhuman conditions. The central group reminds us of the Holy Family Like many of the Itinerant (Peredvizhniki) artists, Yaroshenko used parallels from the Gospel to enhance the social resonance of his canvases. “This speaks so very much to the heart,” Lev Tolstoy said about this painting.

For more of this artist's work, see this MWW gallery/album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3195416347230379&type=3

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Prisoner  (1878)   

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko

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The Choir (1894). Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (Russian, 1846-1898). Oil on canvas. Nikolai Yaroshenko Memorial Museum.

Yaroshenko was born in 1846 in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to a son of an officer in the Russian Army. He chose a military career, studying at the Poltava Cadet Academy and later the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy in Saint Peterburg, but he also studied art at Kramskoi's drawing school and at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts.

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Portrait of a Lady with Cat - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko

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Prisoner   -    Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko ,1878

Russian, 1846 - 1898

Oil on canvas

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Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko, The Prisoner

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The Arrest (1891)

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko 

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Artwork: Prisoner

Artist: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko 1878

Russian artist, 1846 - 1898

Oil on canvas

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Head of a Man. 1878. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (1846-1898)

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Night on the Kama River  -   Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko ,1884   Russian, 1846 - 1898   Oil on canvas

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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko - Prisoner (1878)

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Student Girl (1883). Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (Russian 1846-1898). Oil on canvas. Kaluga Regional Art Museum.

Yaroshenko, a revolutionary under arrest, painted the innocent-looking student carrying a book as a symbol for change. Women were pressing for greater autonomy, education, and social equality. The revolutionary connections are alluded to by the book and the student's austere and functional dress, which conforms to the progressive women's rejection of society fashions.

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The Choir - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko - 1894

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At the Doctor's  -   Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko

Russian, 1846 - 1898

Oil on canvas

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At the Doctor's. 1890. Yaroshenko Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1846-1898)