These rebel artists broke the classical canons of the Imperial Academy of Arts and became the forerunners of Russian avant-garde. The Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions was registered in 1870 and ...

Visitors view the Peredvizhniki paintings at the National Museum of China in Beijing, April 24, 2015. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Barge Haulers on the Volga of Ilya Repin is perhaps the most ...

The Peredvizhniki were a group of artists who came together in 1870 in protest at the conservative attitudes of Russia’s Imperial Academy of Art. The group aimed to portray contemporary Russian ...

The School of the Peredvizhniki comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction.

A visitor looks at paintings on display at the Echoes from the Volga River: Masterpieces of the Peredvizhniki exhibition at the National Museum of China on April 23. Photo: Xiong Yuqing/GT Kicked off ...

Barge Haulers on the Volga of Ilya Repin is perhaps the most familiar Peredvizhniki work to Chinese viewers. A current exhibition at the National Museum of China offers people an in-depth insight into ...