V. I. Surikov's painting “Storming of Snow Fortress” as a phenomenon of a turning period in the artist’s creative work

Abstract

V.I. Surikov's painting “Storming of a Snow Fortress” is the only picture painted in Krasnoyarsk and it is devoted to his native land Siberia and Siberians. The painter called it everyday life but is the genre of the painting so definite? They call it funny but is it so? This work of art does not reveal itself at the first glance. Behind the facetious battle, there are real historic events and emotional experience of the painter himself. The painting opens a new period in Surikov’s creative work – a battle period, a period of overcoming and victories. It brought about unprecedented easy swift dynamics into the Russian art. The composition of the painting is complex and diverse, full of implications and plastic godsends.