The group of Russian painters whose work is little known in the West, was the most remarkable in the history of Russian art, the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions (known as Peredvizhniki in Russian) consisted of a group of realist painters who decided that the best way for their work to be seen was to hold exhibitions in the Salon Style of the French painters of the time, but in the form of travelling shows which moved around Russia. This helped to popularize the work of these painters, and of Russian art in general, and it helped them to sell their paintings and thus finance their work. The painters traveled with the exhibitions, recording the lives and customs of their fellow countrymen, and providing an insight into life in Tsarist Russia, right up until the 1918 Revolution.

The group of Russian painters whose work is little known in the West, was the most remarkable in the history of Russian art, the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions (known as Peredvizhniki in Russian) consisted of a group of realist painters who decided that the best way for their work to be seen was to hold exhibitions in the Salon Style of the French painters of the time, but in the form of travelling shows which moved around Russia. This helped to popularize the work of these painters, and of Russian art in general, and it helped them to sell their paintings and thus finance their work. The painters traveled with the exhibitions, recording the lives and customs of their fellow countrymen, and providing an insight into life in Tsarist Russia, right up until the 1918 Revolution.

The work of the Itinerants finally gained international recognition with the exhibition in Vienna in 1873, after which foreign critics began to refer to the "Russian School", despite the great diversity of styles and subject-matter of the movements members.

THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY FOR ITINERANT ART EXHIBITIONS

FORERUNNERS

GENRE PAINTING

HISTORICAL

PAINTING

PORTRAITURE

LANDSCAPE

PAINTING

CONCLUSION

SYNOPTIC TABLE:1861-1897