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1841–1910 · Russian
Arkhip Kuindzhi
Arkhip Kuindzhi was an artist from the Russian Empire. During the 1870s, his work underwent an abrupt transformation. Many of the pictures he painted in the early and mid-1870s, such as The Forgotten Village and The Pack-Ox Road in Mariupol, featured muted tones that reflected the harshness of life in rural Russia.
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Kuindzhi later began to experiment with a different tonal range. This shift resulted in the luminous quality of paintings such as After the Rain and the brightness of works like The Birch Grove, both of which date from 1879.
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