Society+of+Itinerant+Art

The Society of Itinerant Art, the other name is the Wanderers Russian Art Movement. It was formed in 1863 of the St Petersburg Academy of Fine Art. An important group in pre revolutionary Russian Art is to association of progressive socially Russian artists, who predated impressionism by a decade, who care about the rural landscape painting. The toured countryside painting can effort and promote of rural life outside the cities. They are focus on strengths and hardships in the country. The members of Wanderers Movement produced landscapes, portraits and genre paintings, and exhibitions around Russia. The Wanderer Movement are impact the Russian painting. The Wanderers received support from the other Russian artist, and promoted their artistic program. Those artist including many famous critic, one is Pavel Tretyakov. He collect a lot of Wanderers programs. Also some Wanderers became famous, one is Ilya Repin. His landscapes painting are populated with people.