ARTIST ARSENY IVANOVICH MESHCHERSKY (1834-1902)
ACADEMIC REALISM
Arseniy Ivanovich was born in the Tver province, and its origin was from a noble princely family Meschersky, which to this day is an unconfirmed fact. We only know that the twenty year old youth Arseniy entered the Imperial Academy of arts, where he learned the basics of painting for three years. His teachers were F. A. Bruni, S. M. Vorobiev, T. A. Neff.
Academies, several times received for the competition works silver medals. But for the ambitious young artist that wasn"t enough, and he leaves his studies in St. Petersburg and goes over their money to Switzerland apprentice to the painter Alexander Kalam @- known at the time the Swiss landscape painter.
take some time and Arseny Meshchersky will have wide recognition both in Russia and in Europe, and will also become an academician and Professor of St. Petersburg Academy of arts.
the rest of his life lived in St. Petersburg, teaching at the Academy and working on landscapes in various techniques, from watercolors and Sepia to oil painting. And indeed the landscape themes in Meshchersky was a wide range. Common types of Russian nature at any time of year, the sea and the mountains, depicted by the master, @- all this was subordinated to the one @gorgeous - the art of drawing, the composite structure is an amazing and extraordinary transmission effects lighting.
All landscapes @- amazing, incredibly realistic, vivid, breathing life paintings. Something in the manner of the painter is taken from the talented teachers of Kalam. However, penetrating deeper, we see clearly viewed his own style of an artist who was and remains his" фирменным знаком".
Perfect technique of the drawing is clearly traced in all the works Meshchersky, so he called himself" рисовальщиком", believing that the pattern @- a cornerstone of fine letters. His paintings can be seen for a long time, glancing from one piece, written with painstaking care to another.
And look at the whole canvas, as if fully immersed in the amazing world of nature, which the artist wanted to show us. The Russian winter and the summer the forest were favorite motifs in the artist, and the landscapes of Switzerland and the Crimea enjoyed unprecedented success at the Academy"s exhibitions.
During his life, the artist traveled extensively in Russia and Europe, have repeatedly visited the Crimea and the Caucasus @- from here the magnificent mountain and sea landscapes. And in 1867 Arseny Meshchersky was lucky enough to accompany the Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich in a voyage round the world. From there, the artist brought a large number of paintings, sketches.
In 45 years, the artist he was very sick with pneumonia, which affected the General state of health. Nobody hoped that he would survive, but Arseny Ivanovich" выкарабкался from the clutches of death". But the constant choking and coughing from now on will haunt Meshchersky until the end of his days. And he would die in 68-летнем age in Saint-Петербурге
In mid-November of 1902 in the newspaper" Новое time" appeared in the obituary. He was informed that" 13 November died from asthma Arseny Ivanovich Meshchersky, Professor of landscape painting, once enjoyed great popularity in the art world of St. Petersburg"...
Arseny Ivanovich Meshchersky is considered one of the greatest masters of landscape painting in Russia in the last third of the XIX century, a superb colorist and draftsman.
His work is represented in major Museum collections in the world, in particular in the State Tretyakov gallery.
Source: https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/050818/39925/
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