Red Sunset on the Dnipro
{{Short description|Painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi}}
{{Infobox artwork
| image_file = Red Sunset on the Dnieper MET DT2557.jpg
| image_size = 350px
| title = Red Sunset on the Dnipro
| artist = Arkhip Kuindzhi
| year = 1905-1908
| material = Oil on canvas
| height_metric = 134.6
| width_metric = 188
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| museum = Metropolitan Museum of Art
| city = New York
| accession = 1974.100
}}
Red Sunset on the Dnipro{{Cite book |last=Cybriwsky |first=Roman Adrian |title=Along Ukraine's river: a social and environmental history of the Dnipro |date=2018 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-963-386-205-6 |location=Budapest New York |page=134}} or Red Sunset on the Dnieper, originally titled Red Sunset, is an oil on canvas painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi, from 1905-1908. It depicts a sunset in the sky above the Dnieper river. Sunset is typical of Kuindzhi's style, as he was known for his large landscapes, and can be described as a unique work of Russian luminism—a style of art not widely embraced in Imperial Russia.{{Cite web|title=Red Sunset on the Dnieper|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436833?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&what=Paintings&showOnly=openAccess&ft=*&offset=80&rpp=80&pos=113|last=|first=|date=|website=www.metmuseum.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-05-16}}Rebecca A. Rabinow. Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 160, 265, no. 149, ill. (color and black and white). Kuindzhi made two sketches preceding his painting of Sunset.
Description
Sunset depicts a blooming red sunset on the Dnieper river in Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire. The painting displays many of the hallmarks of Kuindzhi's style, namely the central position of a light source, incorporation of a low horizon, and aerial perspective.Bowlt, John E. "A Russian Luminist School? Arkhip Kuindzhi's Red Sunset on the Dnepr": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 10 (1975)
Kuindzhi painted Sunset sometime between 1905 and 1908. At the time of its rendering, the painting broke with de facto conventions of Russian Realism, which had not been overly influenced by Luminism. The large painting was one of Kuindzhi's last major works. The painting was originally known as Red Sunset, with "on the Dnepr" (Dnepr being an alternative name for the Dnieper) being added by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which acquired the painting in 1974.
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