Museum of Art

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The Museum of Art: The fourth set of doors leads to the Museum of Art. The collection housed here is woefully lacking due to a huge heist successfully completed about one hundred years ago. The collection was robbed of several Van Gough’s, a Monet, four Cezanne’s, six Renoir’s, and three Seurat’s, among other lesser known artists. The curator for this wing has sought in vain for the return of these stolen prizes.

The museum has begun to collect the works of some of RhyDin’s contemporary artists.

(Feel free to make a "donation" of your own original art here.)

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The first exhibit is dedicated to Pierre August Renior. Impressionist painter.

Title: By the Water
Technique: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: 46.2 x 55.4 centimeters
Year: Circa 1880

Artist: Pierre-August Renoir

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

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Title: The Swing
Artist: Renoir
Circa: 1878

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Artist born on February 25, 1841, died December 3, 1919. He was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. He died at the age of 78 in Cagnes-su-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azure, France. He was a leading painter in the development of Impressionist style. He is well known for his portrayal of feminine sensuality.

He was taught painting by Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Alfred Sisley, Frederic Bazille, and Claude Monet.

He developed rheumatoid arthritis in 1892. In 1907 he moved to the warmer climates of Les Collettes close to the Mediterranean coast. He painted during the last 20 years of his life from a wheel chair, and developed progressive deformities in his hands. He painted having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers.

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Title: Nach dem Bade
Artist: Renoir
Circa: 1888

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Title: Girls at the Piano
Artist: Renoir
Circa 1892

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George-Pierre Seurat

Born December 2, 1859 to a well off family in Paris. He died March 29, 1891. The cause of his death is uncertain. He was the founder of Neo-impressionism.

He attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1879 and 1879. He shared his ideas about pointillism with Signac. His best known work, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte took him two years to complete.

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Title: La Chahut
Artist: Seurat
Circa: 1889

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Title: Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte
Artist: Georges-Pierre Seurat
Circa: 1884 - 1886

This is his most well known work.

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Claude Oscar Monet

Born November 14, 1840, in Paris France. He died December 5, 1926, at the age of 86 in Giverny, France. He is considered to be the founder of French impressionistic painting.

His first drawing lessons came from Jacques-Francois Ochard.



Weeping Willow - Monet



Sunrise - Monet



Seine Basin with Argenteuil - Monet



Lavacourt Sunshine Snow - Monet



Cliffs at Etretat - Monet



By the Seine - Monet

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Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1861. He was the only child of the marriage, and received constant attention and approval. He was an active child, large and strong for his age, who loved to hunt, swim, ride, and go camping. He was a poor student, though, particularly in math, which did not bode well for his father’s ambitions for his son to attend West Point. He began to make drawings and sketches of soldiers and cowboys at an early age.

he attended Vermont Episcopal Institute, a church-run military school, where his father hoped discipline would rein in his son’s lack of focus, and perhaps lead to a military career. Remington took his first drawing lessons at the Institute. He then transferred to another military school where his classmates found the young Remington to be a pleasant fellow, a bit careless and lazy, good-humored, and generous of spirit, but definitely not soldier material. He enjoyed making caricatures and silhouettes of his classmates. At sixteen, he wrote to his uncle of his modest ambitions, “I never intend to do any great amount of labor. I have but one short life and do not aspire to wealth or fame in a degree which could only be obtained by an extraordinary effort on my part”. He imagined a career for himself as a journalist, with art as a sideline.

Remington attended the art school at Yale University, the only male in the freshman year. However, he found that football and boxing were more interesting than the formal art training, particularly drawing from casts and still life objects. He preferred action drawing and his first published illustration was a cartoon of a “bandaged football player” for the student newspaper Yale Courant.



Wicked Pony - Remington



Scalp - Remington



Moutain Man - Remington



Buffalo Signal - Remington



Bronco Buster - Remington

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Ivan Aivazovsky, 1817–1900, Russian artist. Born in Theodosia on July 29, 1817, he was taught by M. Vorobievin Petersburg Academy of Arts. He has travelled extensively until 1845, when he setteled down in his native town in Crimea. Influenced by classic French sea paintings, he managed to avoid the excessive contrasts of classical composition. His uniqueness is in showing the living, breathing, ever-moving sea. As a painter under the Navy General Headquarters (since 1844) he has taken part in several campaigns (including Crimean War of 1853–1856) creating a series of battle paintings ("Battle for Chesmen", 1848). In Aivazovsky's paintings the sea usually appears as the universal basis of nature (as well as history).


Azure Grotto - Ivan Aivazovsky, 1841


Decuman wave - Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850


The battle at Chios Straight - Ivan Aivazovsky, 1848

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, 1848–1926
Russian painter, one of the founders of Russian modernism in its national romanticist variant.
Son of a rural clergyman from Lopial village, he studied in Vyatka Seminary in 1862–1867, and later - was taught by I. Kramskoy in painting school under Petersburg Society of Encouraging Arts.
Vasnetsov was the founder of so-called Russian style in European symbolism and modern. He has transformed Russian historical genre, combining the medieval motives with poetic atmosphere of Russian fairy-tale and folk epics. This "Russian style" has found further development in his design and architectural projects, like the Church of Savior in Abramcevo.
Like many others truly loving Russian culture, Vasnetsov did not accept the changes coming with October Revolution of 1917


The snowgirl - Viktor Vasnetsov, 1899


Heroes - Viktor Vasnetsov, 1898


After the battle of Prince Igor Svyatoslavovich with polovci - Viktor Vasnetsov, 1880


The song of joy and sorrow - Viktor Vasnetsov, 1898


A warrior at the crossroads - Viktor Vasnetsov, 1878