Unknown girl.

1883 I.N. Kramskoy, Russian 75.5cm×99cm cloth, oil on canvas, Moscow, Tretyakov Art Museum collection. This is a character portrait with great aesthetic value. The artist uses superb skills to express the subject's spiritual temperament.

The unknown girl in the painting is arrogant and self-respecting. She is wearing luxurious clothing of the Russian upper class and sitting in a luxurious open carriage. The famous Alexander Theater in St. Petersburg is in the background.

Who the "unknown girl" is is still a mystery. The painter created a new style of expression in portraits, that is, using thematic plots to depict portraits, showing an image of a Russian intellectual woman who is resolute, decisive, full of thoughts, and exuding youthful vitality.

Oil painting features:

1. It can draw large-scale oil paintings on canvas, which is easy to transport, decorate, collect, preserve and clean.

2. Oil paints dry slowly, and painters can repeatedly change the painting, and can mix and transfer colors directly on the screen; the plasticity of pasty oil paints brings flexibility and wide freedom to painters painting space.

3. The bright colors of oil paintings are conducive to the depiction of the texture of objects. They can fully express the complex tonal levels of objects and have the superior effect of transparency, richness and richness.

4. Oil paints have strong hiding power and plasticity. It can be done in one go or covered in multiple layers without the color layer falling off. After the oil layer dries, it is solid and durable, and the color is bright. The pigment does not change during the drying process. Different toners can be used to control the drying time of the color, and the contrast of the thickness of the color layer and changes in brush strokes can be used to produce rich picture textures.