Russian Forest Ivan Shishkin
On this day 180 years ago was born Ivan Shishkin, a Russian landscape painter, draftsman and printmaker, a founding member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. Contemporaries called Shishkin, "a hero of the Russian forest", he really seemed to be obsessed mother nature and is constantly looking for new ways and means to convey its image.
Ivan Shishkin's painting "Forest before the storm" (1872) from the funds of the Taganrog Art Gallery. (Fig. 1)
In the State Russian Museum is the earliest of his works. Quite shy on fulfillment of student essay "Pine on a rock," dated April 1855 - the only extant work of full-scale landscape oil paintings, dating back to the training of Ivan Shishkin in college. (Fig. 2)
Stored in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery painting "The Wood-Felling" - one of the earliest of his works - was written in 1867 on Valaam. It is with this piece of art Shishkin started the development theme of Russian forests to which the painter turned to throughout his life. Valaam written many of his works, here he went to write while studying at Petersburg's Academy of Fine Arts. (Fig. 3)
In 1873, for his work "Backwoods" (pictured), Shishkin was erected in the Academy of Arts Professor. The original painting is now kept in the State Russian Museum. (Fig. 4)
Picture of the "Rye" (1878) Shishkin wrote after the death of his wife and son. Then the artist gave up painting and became withdrawn, but was able to find solace in the works. (Fig. 5)
Painting "Forest gave" was written in 1884 by Shishkin and dedicated nature of the Urals. One critic wrote of this work: "A distant prospect of forests covered with a light haze, the brilliant surface of the water in the distance, sky, air, in a word, the whole panorama of Russian nature, its not gushing into the eyes of beauty, is depicted on the canvas with remarkable skill." (Fig. 6)
"Morning in a Pine Forest" (1889), perhaps the most famous painting by the artist. But bears are known to be written not by itself Shishkin, and the artist Sawicki, for which he received a quarter of the proceeds for the sale of paintings. Later Savitsky withdrew his signature from the painting, abandoning the copyright on it. The painting was bought by Paul Tretyakovm and is now kept in the Tretyakov Gallery. (Fig. 7)
In the painting "Pine Forest. Mast Timber in Vyatka Province" (1872), the artist defines his main theme - the mighty, majestic Russian forest. This work shows how the artist attempted the most exact, "scientific" approach to the image. Critics of the time wrote that the Shishkin "realist convinced realist to the core, deeply feeling and warm loving nature ..." (Fig. 8)
1890s were a period of crisis for the Wanderers, which began to count the Conservatives' standing in the way of art. " During this period, Shishkin, paints a picture "Rain in an Oak Forest" (1891), which depicts a thin atmospheric conditions, without changing his creative principle, it remains absolutely accurate and "objective." The work is stored in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. (Fig. 9)
In recent years, creativity has paid great importance Shishkin coloring of his paintings in an attempt to more accurately convey the play of light, shade variation depending on the light. Perhaps one of the most harmonious of colors on the canvas is the work "In the Forest of Countess Mordvinova. Peterhof" created around Peterhof and Oranienbaum. These places are at the end of the XIX century have attracted the attention of artists in the 1880s, there was shooting cottage Repin, and in 1891 - Shishkin. (Fig. 10)
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