Sunset
ArtistArkady Rylov
Year1917
MediumOil on canvas
LocationSmolensk Art Museum, Smolensk

Sunset is an oil on canvas painting of 1917 by the Russian Symbolist artist Arkady Rylov. It depicts a red sun setting over a lacustrine landscape, the redness of the sunset symbolizing the dawning of the October Revolution.[1] Rylov was a supporter of the Revolution, and considered the father of the Soviet landscape school.[2]

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