Shishkin brief biography
His paintings are a hymn of living nature, the anthem of its beauty. It was he, Ivan Shishkin, who elevated this ordinary simplicity and the beauty familiar to everyone to a high pedestal of art. He created landscape art with violent coniferous thickets, with an inappropriate expanse, with all the simple beauty of the northern Russian landscape. But in order to write this apparent simplicity, the artist was required as a strong temperament, text and virtuoso possession of the technique of painting.
He was born in Elabuga, in the family of a poor merchant. But the father was able to understand and support the strange desire for their environment - to become an artist. He sends his son to Moscow, where he studies at the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture under the direction of A. Mokritsky former student A. Then he enters the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where his successes continued to study with his successes, he received one award after another.
One of them is the most important - a gold medal for two paintings of the same name - “View on the island of Valaam. The area of Kukko ”In the year, Shishkin goes abroad as a pensioner of the academy and has been working in Germany and Switzerland for up to a year. But he manages to visit France, the Czech Republic, and Belgium, and Holland. It is partly disappointed in its foreign mentors and in the authorities of Swiss landscape painters.
But he better begins to understand himself, clearly realizes his strength and his own creative path. Returning to St. Petersburg, Ivan Shishkin enters into friendly creative relations with the artists of artists. This friendship turned out to be strong, which connected them for life. In the partnership of mobile art exhibitions, he especially appreciated the opinion of I.
Shishkin's first masterpiece of joy - “Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow ”an unusually high summer sky, extending as far as the eyes of Dali is enough, the road leaving deep into the depths, characteristic rural motifs - all creates a feeling of openness, underestimacy, greatness of the earth. He was called the "king of the forest." And he really was the king in his love for the Russian forest.
He knew how to write him, catching the finest nuances of light, shadows and color. It was jewelry work. So “pine forests were also written. The mast forest in the Vyatka province ”, and“ forest wilderness ”, and“ forests ”the forest is the main, lively and many -sided character of the picture. He lines up ahead at a certain distance from the viewer, as if standing at the edge of the canvas, is lost in the distance.
Shishkin worked a lot, daily and carefully. Often wrote from nature. In the second half of the x, new shades began to appear in Shishkin’s works. He paid more attention to the overall atmosphere of the picture, searched for what would unite all the objects of a certain common -a -air environment. During this period, “pine trees lit by the sun”, “oaks”, “morning with a quarrel forest”, “rain in an oak forest” were written the last picture of the artist - “Ship Grove”.
It is sometimes called a picture-public. In it, Shishkin expressed everything he felt, what he knew, what he was thinking about. Again, he writes a Russian forest, which rises a magnificent colonnade to the azure sky. He combined the power of pines with a gracious summer luminary, the glare of the sun play in the warm waters of the stream. The forest landscape seems immense.
Shishkin is restrained and magnificent. His picture sings. Shishkin became the founder of the national realistic landscape: he saw nature through the eyes of his people. It is not for nothing that Kramskoy called him “a layout in the development of the landscape”, “man-school”. Heroic growth, strong, healthy, forever working - he was so remembered for his friends. The artist died suddenly, behind the easel, working on a new picture on March 8 of the year.
Ship grove.