We know that there are many humble and unknown, but passionate photographers in the world who travel across endless continents, sacrificing their vacation to capture new landscapes. Below we present the works of just some talented artists, whose photographs arouse interest and admiration.
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Aaron Groen
The trails of stars and galaxies merge into a beautiful synchronized singing in the photographs of Aaron Groen. This photographer from the United States has a fantastic talent, and he is a worthy addition to our selection.
Alex Noriega
His images are filled with captivating twilight light. Endless deserts, mountains, forests, meadows and objects seem unpredictable in Alex Noriega's photographs. He has a wonderful portfolio.
Angus Clyne
Mood and enchanting atmosphere are two of the most important definitions for the works of Angus Klein. Since they are difficult to separate from his pictures, Angus tries to get as many more drama, capture the meaning and convey the sensations that are inherent in the scene.
Atomic Zen
The name of this photographer is consonant with his paintings, which are reminiscent of Zen. There is so much mystical silence and a vivid state of trance in the frame. These phenomenal landscapes take us beyond reality and arouse even more interest in the beauty of our planet.
Atif Saeed
Atif Saeed is a fantastic photographer from Pakistan. He shows us the hidden beauty of his majestic country. Beautiful landscapes with surreal mountains filled with fog and snow will captivate every landscape photography lover.
Daniel Rericha
Daniel Rericha is a very humble self-taught photographer from small town in the foothills of the Ore Mountains. He loves to capture the beautiful Czech mountains.
David Keochkerian
Through the mystical colors of stars and waves, David seems to very easily convey the essence and true history of the universe. Take a look at his fantastic photographs for yourself.
Dylan Toh
Dylan Toh takes us on an unforgettable journey through amazing places. With it we can save time and through pictures get acquainted with the breathtaking waterfalls of Iceland or explore the Munros ranges in Scotland. We can go on a virtual trek along the Annapurna mountain range or witness indescribably colorful sunsets and sunrises in the state of South Australia.
Erik Stensland
Erik Stensland often rises long before dawn to hike to remote lakes or high peaks of the American national park Rocky Mountain National Park. He captures the unparalleled beauty of the park in the warm morning light, and also creates a photographic collection in the desert southwest, the Pacific northwest and the UK. Eric makes it his mission to reveal natural beauty by capturing amazing moments that will take your breath away.
Gregory Boratyn
Brilliant dynamic landscapes and wonderful artistic images Mother Earth belong to photographer Grigory Boratin. Over the years, he has captivated us with his magnificent creations. Beautiful paintings.
Jay Patel
Ability to perceive and appreciate Beautiful places appeared in Jay Patel himself early childhood on numerous trips to some of the most exciting places in the Indian subcontinent. His passion for such magnificence now manifests itself in his constant quest to capture the majesty of nature with his camera.
Jay's photography career began in the summer of 2001 when he purchased his first digital SLR camera. In subsequent years, he spent a lot of time reading photography magazines and articles on the Internet, studying the styles of the great landscape photographers. He has no formal education and has not had vocational training in the field of photography.
Joseph Rossbach
Joseph Rossbach has been photographing landscapes for over fifteen years. His photographs and articles have been published in a number of books, calendars and magazines, including Outdoor Photographer, The Nature Conservancy, Digital Photo, Photo Techniques, Popular Photography, Blue Ridge Country, Mountain Connections and many more. etc. He still travels a lot and creates new and interesting images of the natural world.
Lincoln Harrison
Phenomenal shots of star trails, seascapes and night scenes characterize Lincoln Harrison's quality work. All his majestic photographs add up to a brilliant portfolio.
Luke Austin
Australian landscape photographer Luke Austin currently resides in Perth, Western Australia. He spends his time filming and traveling in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America. The constant search for new compositions, angles and objects leads to the continuous improvement and development of his photographic skills.
Marcin Sobas
He also specializes in landscape photography. The author's favorite topics are dynamic fields, foggy mornings in the mountains and on lakes. He does his best to make every single photo tell a story. new story, where the main characters are light and circumstances. These two factors give the world an extreme and unreal appearance in different time year and at different times of the day. In the future, Marcin Sobas plans to try his hand at photographing birds and wildlife, which he finds extremely fascinating.
Martin Rak
Looking at his paintings, you can’t help but wonder where on earth such landscapes with flickering lights exist? It seems that Martin Ruck has no problem capturing these beautiful landscapes, full of life and light.
Rafael Rojas
Rafael Rojas considers photography to be a special philosophy of life, based on observation, understanding and respect for the world in which we live. It is his voice and means of conveying his own vision of the world, as well as the opportunity to share with other people the feelings that overcome him when he presses the shutter.
The photo for Rafael Rojas is the same creative tool for mixing emotions, like a brush for an artist or a pen for a writer. In his work he combines personal feelings with externally, showing who he is and how he feels. In a sense, through photographing the world he represents himself.
Details Category: Genres and types of painting Published 11/30/2015 18:35 Views: 4136Landscape painting in Russia developed very intensively. It is represented by many wonderful artists, whose paintings are world masterpieces of landscape painting.
The landscape genre in Russia was finally formed in the 18th century. Its founder is considered to be S.F. Shchedrin.
The era of classicism
Semyon Fedorovich Shchedrin (1745-1804)
A graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, S. Shchedrin became a professor of landscape painting at the Academy. He worked in the style of academic classicism, which continued to occupy a dominant position in the Russian art of landscape painting at the beginning of the 19th century. He worked a lot in the open air. His landscapes are distinguished by emotional expressiveness.
His most famous works are views of parks and palaces in Pavlovsk, Gatchina and Peterhof.
S. Shchedrin “View of Gatchina Palace from the silver lake" (1798)
F. Matveev and F. Alekseev worked in the same style.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Matveev (1758-1826)
He is also a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. But his work, unlike the work of S. Shchedrin, is devoted mainly to the landscapes of Italy, where he lived for 47 years and where he died.
His landscapes are distinguished by ease of execution, accuracy, warm color, and a special skill in depicting long-range plans.
F. Matveev “Environments near Tivoli” (1819). State Tretyakov Gallery(Moscow)
Fyodor Yakovlevich Alekseev (1753/1755-1824)
F. Alekseev is one of the founders of the Russian urban landscape, the largest master of the Russian veduta.
Graduated from the Academy of Arts, improved his skills in Venice theater artist, but at the same time he also painted landscapes. Later he completely stopped working on theatrical scenery and took up what he loved - landscape. His cityscapes are distinguished by their lyricism and subtlety of execution.
F. Alekseev “View of the Mikhailovsky Castle in St. Petersburg from the Fontanka.” Russian Museum (St. Petersburg)
Andrey Efimovich Martynov (1768-1826)
Russian landscape painter. Graduate of the Academy of Arts. He lived in Rome for a long time, then returned to Russia and became an academician of painting. Traveled with the Russian embassy to Beijing and painted many views of Siberian and Chinese areas; then he visited the Crimea and the banks of the Volga, from where he also borrowed subjects for his landscapes. He made a second trip to Italy and died in Rome.
A. Martynov “View of the Selenga River in Siberia”
Romantic era
During this period, the most outstanding landscape artists were S. Shchedrin (1791-1830), V. Sadovnikov (1800-1879), M. Lebedev (1811-1837), G. Soroka (1823-1864) and A. Venetsianov ( 1780-1847).
Sylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin (1791-1830)
S. Shchedrin “Self-portrait” (1817)
Born into a family famous sculptor F.F. Shchedrin. The artist Semyon Shchedrin is his uncle. He was admitted to the Academy of Arts at the age of 9.
His first paintings were painted in the style of classicism, true to nature, but the artist’s individual style had not yet been developed in them.
Author of Italian seascapes.
In landscapes of 1828-30s. There is already a romantic elation, a desire for complex lighting and color effects. The paintings are distinguished by their disturbing drama.
S. Shchedrin " Moonlight night in Naples"
Grigory Vasilyevich Soroka (real name Vasiliev) (1823-1864)
G. Soroka “Self-portrait”
Russian serf painter. He studied painting with A.G. Venetsianov and was one of his favorite students. Venetsianov asked the landowner to give Grigory his freedom so that he could continue his education at the Academy of Arts, but he could not achieve this - the landowner was preparing him to become a gardener. After the peasant reform, he took part in peasant unrest against the landowner. He wrote complaints from the peasant community against his landowner, for which he was arrested for 3 days. It is believed that this arrest was the reason for the artist's suicide.
Like most artists of the Venetsianov school, G. Soroka painted urban and rural landscapes, interiors, still lifes. The works of the Venetsian school are marked by the poetic spontaneity of the depiction of the surrounding life.
G. Soroka “View in Spassky” (second half of the 1840s)
Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (1780-1847)
A. Venetsianov “Self-portrait” (1811)
He was one of the first to show the charm of the dim nature of the Central Russian strip.
The Venetsianov family came from Greece.
The images of peasants he painted brought A.G. Venetsianov the greatest fame. But in many of his paintings there is a landscape - the artist perfectly knew how to convey chiaroscuro.
A. Venetsianov is the author of theoretical articles and notes on painting.
A. Venetsianov “The Sleeping Shepherd” (1823-1824)
Landscape painting of the second half of the 19th century
In the second half of the 19th century. landscape painting in Russia began to develop in different styles: still wrote in romantic style M. Vorobyov, I. Aivazovsky, L. Lagorio, A. Bogolyubov.
P. Sukhodolsky (1835-1903) worked in the sepia technique. Sepia– an image technique common in painting, graphics and photography. Literally, the word “sepia” translates as “cuttlefish” - initially, paint of this color for artists was made from the ink sacs of cuttlefish and squid. This bag helps the mollusks hide from danger: it releases dye that instantly spreads and makes thousands of liters of water completely opaque to the predator. Currently, there is artificial sepia for artists, but natural sepia is also used, which is imported from Sri Lanka. It is believed that natural sepia has a more saturated color and is more durable than artificial sepia.
P. Sukhodolsky “In the Village in Winter” (1893)
Many painters began to work in a realistic style (I. Shishkin), a fairy-tale-poetic form (V. Vasnetsov), in epic genre(M. Klodt), etc. It is impossible to talk about the work of all the artists of this period; we will dwell only on some names.
Fyodor Aleksandrovich Vasiliev (1850-1873)
F. Vasiliev “Self-portrait”
Russian landscape painter who died very young, but left many wonderful landscapes.
His painting “The Thaw” immediately became an event in Russian artistic life. Its author's repetition, in warmer colors, was shown at the 1872 World Exhibition in London.
F. Vasiliev “Thaw” (1871). State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
P.M. Tretyakov purchased the painting even before the exhibition began. The emperor ordered a repetition of the painting Alexander III, this particular copy was in London.
F. Vasiliev " Wet meadow"(1872). State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov (1870-1905)
V. Borisov-Musatov “Self-portrait”
This artist is amazing pure soul gravitated towards generalized images, colorful and decorative landscapes.
V. Borisov-Musatov “Spring” (1898-1901)
He knew how to express mood through the state of nature. Spring, with flowering trees and “fluffy” dandelions, plunges a person into a state of bright joy and hope.
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878-1927)
B. Kustodiev “Self-portrait” (1912)
B. Kustodiev is considered a master of portraiture. But many of his works went beyond this framework - he turned to the landscape. In the early 1900s, for several years in a row he went on location work to the Kostroma province and created many paintings of everyday life and landscape genres. Great importance he gave a line, a pattern, a spot of color.
B. Kustodiev “Maslenitsa” (1903). State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg)
During the same period of time, the plein air was finally established in Russian landscape painting. IN further development landscape vital role played by impressionism, which influenced the work of almost all serious painters in Russia.
Alexey Kondratievich Savrasov (1830-1897)
A. Savrasov (1870s)
A.K. Savrasov became the founder of the lyrical landscape; he managed to show the unostentatious beauty and tenderness of discreet Russian nature.
A. Savrasov graduated from the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture. Famous name Savrasova made the work “View of the Kremlin from the Crimean Bridge in inclement weather.” According to art historian N.A. Ramazanov, the artist “conveyed... the moment extremely faithfully and vitally. You see the movement of the clouds and hear the noise of the tree branches and the winding grass - it’s going to rain.”
A. Savrasov “View of the Kremlin from the Crimean Bridge in inclement weather” (1851)
Most famous work A. Savrasov’s painting “The Rooks Have Arrived”. But it became so iconic that it eclipsed all his other wonderful landscapes.
The artist’s life was not very happy and ended tragically. His favorite student Isaac Levitan wrote: “With Savrasov, lyricism in landscape painting and boundless love for one’s life appeared. native land <...>and this undoubted merit of his will never be forgotten in the field of Russian art.” And the literary critic I. Gronsky believed that “There are few Savrasovs in Russian painting... Savrasov is good with some kind of intimate perception of nature, characteristic only of him.”
Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov (1862-1942)
M. Nesterov “Self-portrait” (1915)
M. Nesterov, a student of A. Savrasov, also depicted the discreet beauty of Central Russian nature. He created unique type landscape, close in spirit to I. Levitan, is lyrical, devoid of showiness and bright colors, imbued with love for Russia. This landscape later received the name “Nesterovsky”. The constant “characters” of his landscape are thin white-trunked birches, stunted fir trees, the muted greenery of spring or autumn forest, scarlet bunches of rowan, willows with shaggy catkins, barely noticeable flowers, endless expanses, quiet, still waters with frozen forests reflected in them. Another characteristic feature of Nesterov’s landscape: the inspired nature on his canvases always merges in harmony with the lyrical mood of the heroes and empathizes with their fate.
M. Nesterov “Vision to the Youth Bartholomew”
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1841 or 1842-1910)
V. Vasnetsov “Portrait of Kuindzhi” (1869)
Russian artist of Greek origin. He was very poor, earned money as a retoucher, and made unsuccessful attempts to enter the Academy of Arts. Only on the third attempt did I become a volunteer Imperial Academy arts At this time, he met the Itinerant artists, among whom were I. N. Kramskoy and I. E. Repin. This acquaintance had a great influence on Kuindzhi’s work, laying the foundation for his realistic perception of reality.
But later, the Association of Itinerants became largely restraining for him, limiting his talent within strict boundaries, so there was a break with him.
Kuindzhi was attracted by the picturesque play of light and air. And this, as we already know, is a sign of impressionism.
A. Kuindzhi “Moonlit Night on the Dnieper” (1880). State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg)
A. Kuindzhi " Birch Grove"(1879). State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
Other remarkable landscape painters of the 19th century: Vasily Polenov (1844-1927), Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), Ilya Repin (1844-1930), Nikolai Ge (1831-1894), Valentin Serov (1865-1911), Kiriak Kostandi ( 1852-1921), Nikolai Dubovskoy (1859-1918), etc. These are artists of Russian impressionism.
The fate of many of them was not easy due to the negative attitude to “sketching”, they began to evaluate their work with omissions, avoiding direct characterization of their style.
Let's just take a look at their wonderful landscapes.
V. Borisov-Musatov " Autumn Song"(1905)
I. Repin “What space!” (1903)
K. Korovin " Autumn landscape"(1909)
Landscape painting in the 20th century
In landscape painting of the 20th century. Traditions and trends established in the 19th century developed: Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876-1956), Igor Grabar (1871-1960), Konstantin Yuon (1875-1968) and other artists.
I. Grabar " March snow"(1904)
Then the search began for new expressive means to convey the landscape. And here the names of avant-garde artists Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935), Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) should be mentioned.
K. Malevich “Landscape. Winter" (1909)
Pavel Kuznetsov (1878-1968), Nikolai Krymov (1884-1958), Martiros Saryan (1880-1972) and others created their landscapes in the spirit of symbolism.
P. Kuznetsov “In the Steppe. Mirage" (1911)
In the era of the method of socialist realism, new forms continued to develop, custom styles, techniques. Among the landscape artists we can highlight Vasily Baksheev (1862-1958), Nikolai Krymov (1884-1958), Nikolai Romadin (1903-1987) and others, who developed the lyrical line of landscape.
V. Baksheev " Blue Spring"(1930). State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
Konstantin Bogaevsky (1872-1943), Alexander Samokhvalov (1894-1971) and others worked in the genre of industrial landscape.
Alexander Deineka (1899-1969), Georgy Nissky (1903-1987), Boris Ugarov (1922-1991), Oleg Loshakov (1936) worked in the “severe style” they developed.
G. Nissky “Green Road” (1959)
Scenery - eternal theme and the eternal genre, it is inexhaustible.
Contemporary artist A. Savchenko “Into the summer”
Since time immemorial, people have always admired nature. They expressed their love by depicting it in all kinds of mosaics, bas-reliefs and paintings. Many great artists devoted their creativity to painting landscapes. The paintings depicting forests, sea, mountains, rivers, fields are truly mesmerizing. And we need to respect the great masters who so detailed, colorful and emotional conveyed in their works all the beauty and power of the world around us. It is landscape artists and their biographies that will be discussed in this article. Today we will talk about the work of great painters of different times.
Famous landscape painters of the 17th century
In the 17th century there lived many talented people who preferred to depict the beauty of nature. Some of the most famous are Claude Lorrain and Jacob Isaac van Ruisdael. We will begin our story with them.
Claude Lorrain
The French artist is considered the founder of landscape painting during the classical period. His canvases are distinguished by incredible harmony and ideal composition. Distinctive feature K. Lorrain’s technique was the ability to flawlessly convey sunlight, its rays, reflection in water, etc.
Despite the fact that the maestro was born in France, he spent most of his life in Italy, where he left when he was only 13 years old. He returned to his homeland only once, and then for two years.
The most famous works of C. Lorrain are the paintings “View of the Roman Forum” and “View of the port with the Capitol”. Nowadays they can be seen in the Louvre.
Jacob Isaac van Ruisdael
Jacob van Ruisdael, a representative of realism, was born in Holland. During his travels in the Netherlands and Germany, the artist painted many remarkable works, which are characterized by sharp contrasts of tones, dramatic colors and coldness. One of the striking examples of such paintings can be considered “European Cemetery”.
However, the artist’s work was not limited to gloomy canvases - he also depicted rural landscapes. The most famous works are considered to be “View of the Village of Egmond” and “Landscape with a Watermill”.
XVIII century
For painting XVIII centuries are characteristically many interesting features, during this period the beginning of new directions in the mentioned art form was laid. Venetian landscape painters, for example, worked in such directions as landscape landscape (another name is leading) and architectural (or urban). And the leading landscape, in turn, was divided into accurate and fantastic. A prominent representative of the fantastic vedata is Francesco Guardi. Even modern landscape artists can envy his imagination and technique.
Francesco Guardi
Without exception, all of his works are distinguished by impeccably accurate perspective and wonderful rendition of colors. Landscapes have a certain magical appeal; it is simply impossible to take your eyes off them.
His most delightful works include the paintings “The Doge’s Festive Ship “Bucintoro”, “Gondola in the Lagoon”, “Venetian Courtyard” and “Rio dei Mendicanti”. All his paintings depict views of Venice.
William Turner
This artist is a representative of romanticism.
A distinctive feature of his paintings is the use of many shades of yellow. It was the yellow palette that became the main one in his works. The master explained this by the fact that he associated such shades with the sun and the purity that he wanted to see in his paintings.
Turner's most beautiful and mesmerizing work is the "Garden of the Hesperides" - a fantastic landscape.
Ivan Aivazovsky and Ivan Shishkin
These two men are truly the greatest and most famous landscape painters in Russia. The first - Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky - depicted the majestic sea in his paintings. A riot of elements, rising waves, splashes of foam crashing against the side of a tilting ship, or a quiet, serene surface illuminated by the setting sun - seascapes delight and amaze with their naturalness and beauty. By the way, such landscape painters are called marine painters. The second, Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, loved to depict the forest.
Both Shishkin and Aivazovsky were landscape artists of the 19th century. Let us dwell on the biography of these individuals in more detail.
In 1817 one of the most famous marine painters world Ivan Aivazovsky.
He was born into a wealthy family, his father was an Armenian businessman. It is not surprising that the future maestro had a weakness for the sea element. After all, the birthplace of this artist was Feodosia, a beautiful port city.
In 1839, Ivan graduated from where he studied for six years. The artist’s style was greatly influenced by the work of the French marine painters C. Vernet and C. Lorrain, who painted their canvases according to the canons of Baroque-classicism. The most famous work of I.K. Aivazovsky is considered to be the painting “The Ninth Wave”, completed in 1850.
In addition to seascapes, the great artist worked on depicting battle scenes ( shining example- painting " Chesme fight", 1848), and also devoted many of his canvases to themes Armenian history(“J. G. Byron’s visit to the Mekhitarist monastery near Venice,” 1880).
Aivazovsky was lucky to achieve incredible fame during his lifetime. Many landscape painters who became famous in the future admired his work and took their cue from him. Passed away great creator in 1990.
Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich was born in January 1832 in the city of Elabug. The family in which Vanya was brought up was not very wealthy (his father was a poor merchant). In 1852, Shishkin began his studies at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, from which he would graduate four years later, in 1856. Even the most early works Ivan Ivanovich are distinguished by their extraordinary beauty and unsurpassed technique. Therefore, it is not surprising that in 1865 I. I. Shishkin was given the title of academician for the canvas “View in the vicinity of Dusseldorf”. And after eight years he received the title of professor.
Like many others, he drew from life, drawing for a long time in nature, in places where no one could disturb him.
Most famous paintings great painter are “Wilderness” and “Morning in pine forest", written in 1872, and more early painting"Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow" (1869)
The life of a talented man was interrupted in the spring of 1898.
Many Russian landscape artists use a large number of details and colorful color rendering when painting their canvases. The same can be said about these two representatives of Russian painting.
Alexey Savrasov
Alexey Kondratyevich Savrasov is a world-famous landscape artist. It is he who is considered the founder of Russian lyrical landscape.
This one was born outstanding man in Moscow in 1830. In 1844, Alexey began his studies at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture. Already from his youth, he was distinguished by his special talent and ability to depict landscapes. However, despite this, due to family circumstances the young man was forced to interrupt his studies and resume it only four years later.
Savrasov’s most famous and beloved work is, of course, the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived.” It was presented at the Traveling Exhibition in 1971. No less interesting are the paintings by I. K. Savrasov “Rye”, “Thaw”, “Winter”, “Country Road”, “Rainbow”, “Elk Island”. However, according to critics, none of the artist’s works compared with his masterpiece “The Rooks Have Arrived.”
Despite the fact that Savrasov painted many beautiful canvases and was already known as the author of wonderful paintings, he is soon forgotten for a long time. And in 1897 he died in poverty, driven to despair by family troubles, the death of children and alcohol addiction.
But great landscape painters cannot be forgotten. They live in their paintings, the beauty of which is breathtaking, and which we can still admire to this day.
Second half of the 19th century
This period is characterized by the prevalence in Russian painting of such a direction as everyday landscape. Many Russian landscape artists worked in this vein, including Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky. No less famous masters of those times are Arseny Meshchersky, as well as the previously described Aivazovsky and Shishkin, whose work occurred in the mid-second half of the 19th century.
Arseny Meshchersky
This famous artist was born in 1834 in the Tver province. He received his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied for three years. The main themes of the author’s paintings were forests and the Artist loved to depict in his paintings the magnificent views of the Crimea and the Caucasus with their majestic mountains. In 1876 he received the title of professor of landscape painting.
His most successful and famous paintings can be considered the paintings “Winter. Icebreaker", "View of Geneva", "Storm in the Alps", "At the Forest Lake", "Southern Landscape", "View in Crimea".
In addition, Meshchersky also conveyed the beauty of Switzerland. In this country, he gained experience for some time from the master of landscape painting Kalam.
The master was also fond of sepia and engraving. He also created many wonderful works using these techniques.
Many paintings by the artist in question were shown at exhibitions both in Russia and in other countries of the world. Therefore, many people managed to appreciate the talent and originality of this creative person. The paintings of Arseny Meshchersky continue to delight many people who are interested in art to this day.
Makovsky Vladimir Egorovich
Makovsky V. E. was born in Moscow in 1846. His father was a famous artist. Vladimir decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and received an art education at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, after which he left for St. Petersburg.
His most successful paintings were “Waiting. At the Jail”, “Bank Collapse”, “Explanation”, “The Lodging House” and “Spring Bacchanalia”. The works mainly depict ordinary people and everyday scenes.
In addition to everyday landscapes, of which he was a master, Makovsky also painted portraits and various illustrations.
) in her expressive, sweeping works was able to preserve the transparency of the fog, the lightness of the sail, and the smooth rocking of the ship on the waves.
Her paintings amaze with their depth, volume, richness, and the texture is such that it is impossible to take your eyes off them.
Warm simplicity of Valentin Gubarev
Primitivist artist from Minsk Valentin Gubarev doesn't chase fame and just does what he loves. His work is incredibly popular abroad, but almost unknown to his compatriots. In the mid-90s, the French fell in love with his everyday sketches and signed a contract with the artist for 16 years. Pictures that, it would seem, should be understandable only to us, the carriers of “ modest charm undeveloped socialism,” appealed to the European public, and exhibitions began in Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain and other countries.
Sensual realism of Sergei Marshennikov
Sergei Marshennikov is 41 years old. He lives in St. Petersburg and works in the best traditions of the classical Russian school of realistic portrait painting. The heroines of his canvases are women who are tender and defenseless in their half-nakedness. On many of the most famous paintings depicts the artist's muse and wife, Natalya.
The Myopic World of Philip Barlow
IN modern era pictures high resolution and the rise of hyperrealism, the work of Philip Barlow immediately attracts attention. However, a certain effort is required from the viewer in order to force himself to look at the blurry silhouettes and bright spots on the author’s canvases. This is probably how they see the world without glasses and contact lenses people suffering from myopia.
Sunny bunnies by Laurent Parselier
Painting by Laurent Parcelier is amazing world, in which there is neither sadness nor despondency. You won’t find gloomy and rainy pictures from him. His canvases contain a lot of light, air and bright colors, which the artist applies with characteristic, recognizable strokes. This creates the feeling that the paintings are woven from a thousand sunbeams.
Urban dynamics in the works of Jeremy Mann
American artist Jeremy Mann paints dynamic portraits of a modern metropolis in oil on wood panels. “Abstract shapes, lines, the contrast of light and dark spots - all create a picture that evokes the feeling that a person experiences in the crowd and bustle of the city, but can also express the calm that is found when contemplating quiet beauty,” says the artist.
The Illusory World of Neil Simon
In the paintings British artist Neil Simone (Neil Simone) everything is not as it seems at first glance. “For me, the world around me is a series of fragile and ever-changing shapes, shadows and boundaries,” says Simon. And in his paintings everything is truly illusory and interconnected. Boundaries are blurred, and stories flow into each other.
Love drama by Joseph Lorasso
An Italian by birth, contemporary American artist Joseph Lorusso transfers onto canvas subjects he observed in everyday life. ordinary people. Hugs and kisses, passionate outbursts, moments of tenderness and desire fill his emotional pictures.
Country life of Dmitry Levin
Dmitry Levin is a recognized master of Russian landscape, who has established himself as a talented representative of the Russian realistic school. The most important source of his art is his attachment to nature, which he loves tenderly and passionately and of which he feels himself a part.
Bright East by Valery Blokhin
In the East everything is different: different colors, different air, different life values and reality is stranger than fiction - this is what a modern artist thinks
I. Levitan "At the whirlpool"
Landscape is one of the genres of painting.
The theme of the landscape is terrain. WITH French The term “landscape” is translated as “terrain, country.” Thus, a landscape is not only an image of nature that is familiar to us, but also any other image of an area, including an urban one.
There are several types of landscape: in a natural landscape it is a marina (seascape), space landscape. The landscape can also be urban (architectural, for example). In the urban landscape, a documentary-accurate image is distinguished - “veduta”.
From a temporal point of view, a landscape can be modern, historical, futuristic (fantasy landscape).
I. Aivazovsky “Frigate under sail” (1838). Oil on canvas, 57 x 82 cm. Central Naval Museum (St. Petersburg)
Landscape as an independent genre of painting is relatively young: it gained independent significance in west European art from about the 14th century. Yes, we can see the image of nature in paintings more early period. But then the landscape was only a background for portraits, genre scenes, as well as for icons. Not only was he not an independent genre, but often was not real at all, but only generalized.
The development of landscape began in ancient Eastern art.
Chinese artist Li Sixun (651-716) – founder landscape direction paintings of this country. His landscapes are distinguished by clear graphics and careful attention to detail.
A copy of a landscape by Li Sixun dating back to the beginning. 16th century Freer Gallery (Washington)
LANDSCAPE IN EUROPEAN PAINTING
Interest in landscape in Early Renaissance painting increased significantly. And although in the pictures Italian artist and the architect Giotto (circa 1267-1337), the landscape was still only an auxiliary means, but it was in his works that it began to acquire independent semantic load. The landscape in his paintings becomes alive, quite realistic, he managed to convey chiaroscuro and the spatial sound of nature. Giotto's landscape was already emotional.
Giotto "Sermon to the Birds"
In the creation of the landscape genre of the era High Renaissance big role played by Giorgione (1476/7-1510), Titian (1473-1576), El Greco (1541-1614).
E. Greco “View of Toledo” (1596-1600). Oil on canvas, 47.75 × 42.75 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
This famous landscape El Greco. Another name of the canvas is “Toledo in a Thunderstorm.” The author used phantasmagoric light to emphasize the menacing appearance of the stormy sky. The Spanish city of Toledo is depicted under a moody sky on a hill that is covered with meadows and forests. "View of Toledo" became one of the first landscapes in European art. Together with " Starry night"van Gogh and several landscapes by William Turner, he is among the most famous images sky in the history of European painting.
W. Turner “Sunset in Petworth Park” (1830). Oil on canvas, 63.5 × 139. Art Museum in London Tate Britain
Pieter Bruegel (the Elder) managed to convey the beauty in nature. He pays attention not only to the monumentality of nature (the sky, mountains), but also to little things: grass from under a stone, a broken tree... Nature lives and breathes with him.
P. Bruegel (The Elder) “Gloomy day. Spring" (1565). Oil on wood, 118 x 163 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)
THE BIRTH OF PLEIN AIR PAINTING
"Plein air" from French en plain air- "on outdoors" Artists created their own landscape paintings, working directly in nature.
I. Levitan “Sunny day. Spring" (1876-1877). Oil on canvas, 53 x 40.7 cm. Private collection
The French impressionists were especially successful in this. A. Savrasov and others worked in Russian plein air painting. And the origin of plein air painting is attributed to the Spanish artist D. Velazquez, who was the first to pay attention to great attention conveying the colors of nature, the play of light sliding between the leaves of trees, etc.
D. Velazquez “Villa Medici in Rome. Noon" (1630). Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 38.5. Prado (Madrid)
P. Rubens loved dynamic landscapes.
A French artist F. Boucher preferred delicate and dim colors for depicting pictures of nature.
F. Boucher “Crossing the Bridge” (1730s). Canvas, oil
Each artist has his own style and his own priorities. For example, it was important for the impressionists to convey real world in its mobility and variability.
Post-Impressionist artists developed the traditions of the Impressionists in their painting.
Vincent van Gogh " Starlight Night"(1889). Canvas, oil. 73.7 × 92.1 cm. Museum contemporary art(NY)
In the 20th century Representatives of a wide variety of people turned to the landscape genre artistic directions that time.
Here is an example of a landscape American artist Helen (Helen) Frankenthaler (1928-2011) , working in the style of abstractionism.
Helen Frankenthaler "Mountains and Sea" (1952)
SOME VARIETIES OF LANDSCAPE
Architectural landscape
A type of architectural landscape is the veduta.
Veduta- a genre of European painting, especially popular in Venice in the 18th century. A veduta is a painting, drawing or engraving of a detailed depiction of an everyday cityscape. So, Dutch artist Jan Vermeer depicted exactly his native city of Delft.
Jan Vermeer "View of Delft" (1661). Canvas, oil. 96.5 × 115.7 cm. Mauritshuis (The Hague)
Veduta masters worked in many European countries, including Russia (M. I. Makhaev and F. Ya. Alekseev). A whole series of leads with Russian views was performed by Giacomo Quarenghi.
Marina
Marina is a genre of painting, a type of landscape (from Lat. marinus– marine), depicting a sea view or scene sea battle, in general, any events taking place at sea. Marina began her journey from Holland, where she emerged as an independent type of landscape painting in early XVII V.
Marine painter(fr. marinist) is an artist who paints marinas. The most prominent representatives This genre is represented by the Englishman William Turner and the Russian (Armenian) artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, who painted about 6,000 paintings on a marine theme.
W. Turner “Fishermen in the Sea” (1796). Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122.2. Art museum in London Tate Britain
Historical landscape
A historical landscape is created in order to tell about the past through pictures of nature, as well as through architecture. Such landscapes were created by artists N.K. Roerich, A.M. Vasnetsov (images of Moscow in the 17th century), E.E. Lansere, A.N. Benois (life and style of Russian Baroque XVIII c.), etc.
N. Roerich “Overseas Guests” (1901). Canvas, oil. 85 x 112.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
Futuristic (fantastic) landscape
It could be natural landscapes, and urban. People often want to look into the future. The bold plans of architects and designers and the imagination of artists give us the opportunity to see the outlines of the future city.
Futuristic landscape by artist Tigaer Hecker
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING?
The question is correct. After all, the artist doesn’t just depict a flower, isn’t it for the sake of that flower itself?
Certainly. The meaning of landscape painting is always in the relationship of man to the environment. It’s a city or rural nature – it doesn’t matter. And here we can already talk about the philosophy of the relationship between man and the world around him. These relationships can be harmonious and disharmonious.
Consider the landscape of I. Levitan “Vladimirka” .
I. Levitan “Vladimirka” (1892). Oil on canvas, 79 × 123 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
“Vladimirka” was colloquially called the Vladimirsky tract, a dirt road from Moscow towards Vladimir, known to those, that from the 18th century. along it, prisoners exiled to hard labor in Siberia were sent on foot in stages. TO end of the 19th century c., when the picture was painted, prisoners were already sent on trains.
In 1892, because of his Jewish origin Levitan was expelled from Moscow and lived for some time in a village located not far from the Vladimirsky tract. Here he got the idea to paint the canvas “Vladimirka”. The desolation of the road, the clouds hanging over it, the lonely figure of a wanderer - all this creates an alarming and painful atmosphere, inspired by thoughts of thousands of prisoners passing here. And only the sunlight on the horizon and the white church in the distance represent a ray of hope.
