A student of Arkhip Kuindzhi, Rylov has gone down in the history of Russian art primarily as a landscapist, although his legacy includes a large number of paintings in other genres. His landscapes, however, have become practically iconic due to their decorative qualities, colour selection, lack of transitions between colours, their interesting angles, and symbolism.

Rylov Arkady

Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich (1870, Istobenskoe, Vyatka Gubernia — 1939, Leningrad)
Painter, teacher. Studied at the Baron Stieglitz School of Technical Drawing (1888–1891) and at the Higher School of Art, Imperial Academy of Arts (1894–1897). Academician of painting (1915).