Today’s Doodle celebrates the 180th birthday of Arkhip Kuindzhi.

Today’s Doodle celebrates the 180th birthday of Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi.

By integrating emerging discoveries in physics and chemistry with the contemporary styles of Impressionism and Romanticism, Kuinzhi developed a new painting technique

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The painter's life story

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