Ivan Aivazovsky and the Russian Painters of Water
Author: Victoria Charles
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2018-03-13
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1783102969
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Seas, Cities and Dreams
Author: Ivan Konstantinovich Aĭvazovskiĭ
Publisher: Laurence King
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Ivan Aivazovksy is peerless in the history of art. A poor boy from an obscure Black Sea port, he ended his life as the best-known Russian painter ever. His exhibitions all over the world drew enormous crowds and earned him admiration from the likes of Horace Vernet and William Turner. Today, Aivazovsky's work passes constantly through salesrooms and is eagerly sought after by collectors. Published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, this is the first book on the artist in English. Over 200 of his works are reproduced in color, most for the first time. The lively text offers insights into the working methods of a man who raised European maritime painting to new heights.
Light, Water and Sky
Author: Gianni Caffiero
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781780670577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the success in 2000 of Seas, Cities, and Dreams, the authors return with a second volume on the works of this remarkable 19th-century master who raised European maritime painting to a new level. A towering figure in his day, he shot to international fame at an early age. His exhibitions drew enormous crowds from all over the world and earned him the admiration of Vernet and Turner. He was elected a member of five European academies and was personally acquainted with most of the crowned heads of his day. Throughout his long and colorful career Aivazovsky claimed to have painted over 6,000 pictures. The authors—the foremost experts on the artist—have gathered the material for this book from public and private collections worldwide. The large number of paintings illustrated offer a significant addition to the published corpus of Aivazovsky's oeuvre. Their chronological arrangement makes this book an invaluable resource for scholars, collectors, and Aivazovsky's many admirers.
Waters of Life
Author: Gosudarstvennyĭ russkiĭ muzeĭ (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the days of pastoral, nomadic peoples, long before railroad tracks and modern roads ever existed, it was the rivers, lakes and seas that provided the means of transportation, irrigated the fields, and offered a natural way for people to keep in touch. The Volga boatmen, singing with great gusto as they accompanied heavy loads of wheat and other cargo along the inland canals of Russia, left a legacy of songs that are still popular today. It is little wonder that Russian painters found such powerful inspiration in the rivers, lakes and seas that flow so abundantly throughout the vast country. A symbol of life, of purity, and of the regeneration of body and soul, water also conveys a sense of danger, the threat of overwhelming force. For Russian poets, writers, and artists, it was often the sight and sound and symbolism of water that inspired them to express a whole range of feelings.
Aivazovsky: Drawings and Paintings
Author: Raya Yotova
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-07
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781720873099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIvan Aivazovsky was Russian painter living and working in Crimea, most famous for his seascapes. He is widely considered as one of the greatest seascape painters of all times.Throughout his lifetime, Aivazovsky contributed over 6,000 paintings to the art world, ranging from his early landscapes. He was especially effective at developing the play of light in his paintings, sometimes applying layers of color to create a transparent quality, a technique for which they are highly admired. Although he produced many portraits and landscapes, over half of all of Aivazovsky's paintings are realistic depictions of coastal scenes and seascapes. His technique and imagination in depicting the shimmering play of light on the waves and seafoam is especially admired, and gives his seascapes a romantic yet realistic quality that echoes the work of English watercolorist J. M. W. Turner. In addition to being the most prolific of Russian Armenian painters, Aivazovsky founded an art school and gallery to engage and educate other artists of the day. He also and built a historical museum in his hometown on Feodosia, Crimea, in addition to beginning the first archaeological expeditions of the same region.He spent his last years in Feodosia where he supplied the town with water from his own estate. Aivasovsky died in Feodosiya in 1900.
The Russian painters of water 1750-1950
Author: Sutherland Lyall
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2022-12-06
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1639199683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Russian painters of water recaptures the impressions of water in the works held at the Russian State Museum of Russian Painters, from the 18th century onward. Among the paintings are works by Sylvester Shechedrin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Polenov. Arkhipov and Repin. Sutherland Lyall narrates vividly and elegantly the exciting and varied appearance of water in the world of Russian art. He invites the reader to discover something of the history and customs of this vast country, and provides an insight into Russian painting.
Russian Painting
Author: Peter Leek
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2012-05-08
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1780429754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else. Russian culture developed in contact with the wider European influence, but retained strong native intonations. It is a culture between East and West, and both influences in together. The book begins with Icons, and it is precisely Icon-painting which gave Russian artist their peculiar preoccupation with ethical questions and a certain kind of palette. It goes on the expound the duality of their art, and point out the originality of their contribution to world art. The illustrations cover all genres and styles of painting in astonishing variety. Such figures as Borovokovsky, Rokotov, Levitsky, Brullov, Fedatov, Repin, Shishkin and Levitan and many more are in these pages.
Aivazovsky
Author: Nikolai Novouspensky
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781783105724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe seascapes of Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) made his name in Russia, his native country where he was a painter of the court of Nicholas I, yet his fame barely extended beyond these borders. Master of the Sublime, he made the ocean the principal subject of his work. Sometimes wild and raging, sometimes calm and peaceful, the life of the ocean is composed of as many allegories as the human condition. Like Turner, whom he knew and whose art he admired, he never painted outside in nature, nor did he make preliminary sketches; his paintings were the fruit of his exceptional memory. With more than 6,000 canvasses, Aivazovsky was one of the most prolific painters of his time.
Ivan Aivazovsky - Paintings and Drawings
Author: Ivan Aivazovsky
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781099303609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe works of Russian Late Romantic painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (29 July 1817 - 2 May 1900).
Marc Chagall - Vitebsk -París -New York
Author: Mikhail Guerman
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1644618214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChagall loved blue. “The blue of the sky which ceaselessly combats the clouds which pass, which pass…” (Baudelaire). Marc Chagall’s journey began in his native Russia and concluded with his Parisian triumph, the extraordinary ceiling of the Paris Opera House, commissioned by André Malraux. On the way, he embraced the spirit of the twentieth century without ever disowning his Jewish-Russian origins. This work follows the path of the artist through his early works, his discovery of the United States and his passion for France. Marc Chagall, unaffiliated with any movement but influenced by his encounters with Bakst, Matisse and Picasso, remains, undeniably, the painter of poetry.
