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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
1817-1900
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Russian Academic Painter
Artistically and Stylistically Influenced by the following Painters - Neoclassicism, Paul Delaroche, Thomas Couture, William Bouguereau and Jacques-Louis David
Education - St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Russia
Medium - oil on linen
Biography of the Artist
Raised in the Crimean countryside, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky took to art at an early age and found sketching and painting as natural as walking and talking. His family was poor and young Ivan knew almost constant hunger and deprivation. Through the kindness of several mentors he was able to attend the prestigious St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in Russia. He excelled in marine landscapes and decided to devote his career to painting seascapes. Aivazovsky haunting visionary marine paintings evoke feelings of wonderment, timelessness, and tranquility. He never tried to render the natural seascape, but wanted to portray the emotions which the oncoming storm generates in the viewer. He preferred to paint scenes that suggested a feeling for the passage of time, such as the break of dawn, the transition from day into night. The painter derived his colors from nature's own dramatic palette, for the sky and sea --he favored a delicate range of intervening greenish blues and shimmering shades of quiet grays.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky Quotations
?The
movement of natural
elements cannot be
captured by the brush:
to paint lightning, a
gust of wind, or the
splash of a wave from
nature is
inconceivable." -- Ivan
Konstantinovich
Aivazovsky
Description of Ivan
Konstantinovich Aivazovsky 's Academic Classicism Painting
Style
Followers of this
movement were influenced
by the high standards of
the French Académie des
Beaux-Arts, which
practiced under the
movements of
Neoclassicism
and
Romanticism.
Academic Classicism
attempted to merge both
techniques to create the
perfect style. It is
characterized by
adhering to a strict
manner of painting,
following narrow
compositional rules and
delicacy of color.
The atmospheric effects are
sumptuously luminescent.
According to art historian,
Walter Pater
"To
produce such effects at
all requires all the
resources of painting,
with its power of
indirect expression, of
subordinate but
significant detail, its
atmosphere, its
foregrounds and
backgrounds."
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Principle Painters pf the Academic Classicism Painting Movement
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1817-1900
Adolphe-William Bouguereau1825-1905
Charles Emile August Carolus-Duran, 1837-1917
Leon Francois Comerre, 1850-1916
Pierre-Auguste Cot 1837-1883
Thomas Couture, 1815-1879
Paul Delaroche 1797-1856
Eugene Fromentin, 1820-1876
Jean Leon Gerome, 1824-1904
Jean-Paul Laurens1838-1921
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, 1839-1929
Luc Olivier Merson, 1846-1920
Hans Makart, 1840 - 1884
Giulio Rosati, 1858-1917
Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1805-1873
William Clarke Wontner, 1857-1930
Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1822-1896
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