Author: Vrubel Mikhail Aleksandrovich. 1856-1910
Creation date: 1890
Genre: Painting
The first significant piece of Russian Symbolism, which established its main subject matter - the pursuit of the creative individual to reach the eternal beauty. The artist creates an image maintaining the spiritual searches of his era. Topic Demon, embodies the eternal struggle of a restless spirit, became a principal idiosyncrasy in the Vrubel's works. The artist combines the techniques of a painter and sculptor, which receives its representation in the creation of forms similar to the cut stones, and as a result, monumental technique imitating mosaic was born.