Labels:concert | earth | grass | mountain | person | road | sand | sky | snow | tree OCR: Russian fine art of the 1830s- 1840s shows marked interest in representing reality The reverential attitude to nature displaved in the works of A.G. Vene tsianov P.A. Fedotov' direct observation of life and the moral quests of the brilliant ascetic of A.A. Ivanov perhaps unintentionally prepared the new way. But the discoveries of those remarkable artists who were destined to leave this world 1850s op not break the hier erarchy of genres adopted by the St. Pete rsburg Imperial Academy of Arts Historical painting Still dominates art. Genre painting was regarded as the lowest and the least prestigious of displayed hierarchy
