Local /international artist

[mikhael]

And what, this, a special "genetic trait" in the work of Shishkin?? One of the many members of the German, the Dresden school of academic painting!

Well, just the fact that he wrote kinds of Russian nature, and not the kinds of Saxony or Bavaria. A purely in terms of painting it, in my opinion, does not particularly stand out. Indeed, Shishkin is a good example of such a "local authority". In Russia it is grown as a painter of Russian nature. The perception of his art does not require a lot of preparation. Its reproduction in school textbooks. In the West, it is probably almost do not know, though, because they have enough of their "Shishkin" writing native species similar to painting landscapes.

I think that's still the question is how to deliver ... Always a "local" artist due to the fact that the level of his paintings in terms of talent, originality /originality etc. not "hold out" to the international recognition? .. Here, for example, Petrov-Vodkin. The artist, whose painting is unique and surprising. But abroad it, I think, know little about. Or, let's say, the level of talent in his case far exceeds the level of recognition abroad. Why? .. Perhaps there really is some kind of special Russian "genetics" (aesthetics), to catch that, not being Russian, it is difficult, and it may prevent the perception of his paintings ...