Labels:bulletin board | poster | sky | vegetarianism OCR: in late the 1820s-early 1830s Russian culture under- goes considerable transformation. The Decembrists mutiny of 1825 marked the divide in Russian public life between the age of dashed hopes and the new era when illusions were already thing of the past The portrait genre of this period experiences change The solemn portraits of this period focus on external effect and somewhat idealised beauty while chamber portraits encapsulate increasing dramatism and the emerging themes of disappointment and melancholy The tragic fate of the genius his restless and suffering human soul assumes special place in the creative work of K.P Bryullov Self-Portrait 1848.
