Artist: Ivan Shishkin
Title: Winter, 1890
Media: Oil on Canvas
Media: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 126x204 cm
Date: 1890
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape painter. He was born January 25th, 1832. was born in Yelabuga of Vyatka Governorate. He studied at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture for four years. After that he furthered his education by attending Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856-1860 and graduated with high honors and a gold medal. Later on he would then become a professor of painting at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1873-1898. His works are known for poetic depiction of seasons in the woods, wild nature, animals and birds. Olga states "The works of this outstanding artist enjoy vast popularity in Russia; the best of them have become the classics of Russian landscape painting. During 40 years of his artistic activity Ivan Shishkin produced hundreds of paintings, thousands of studies and drawings and a large number of engravings. For contemporaries, Shishkin’s personality embodied Russian nature itself; they called him “forest tzar”, “old pine tree”, and “lonely oak”. This art correlates to my theme perfectly with it's beauty of the season winter. The way the snow is covering the trees and is pure, covering the whole ground shows a vivid, realistic image of a winter wonderland. The snow is so white and beautiful and even the bushes and fallen trees are shown with snow covering it that reveals how winter actually is like in a forest with a lot of trees. Looking at this picture, It's like I can actually feel how cold it looks, which brings me a warmth inside of me with such a beautiful work of art.
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape painter. He was born January 25th, 1832. was born in Yelabuga of Vyatka Governorate. He studied at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture for four years. After that he furthered his education by attending Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856-1860 and graduated with high honors and a gold medal. Later on he would then become a professor of painting at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1873-1898. His works are known for poetic depiction of seasons in the woods, wild nature, animals and birds. Olga states "The works of this outstanding artist enjoy vast popularity in Russia; the best of them have become the classics of Russian landscape painting. During 40 years of his artistic activity Ivan Shishkin produced hundreds of paintings, thousands of studies and drawings and a large number of engravings. For contemporaries, Shishkin’s personality embodied Russian nature itself; they called him “forest tzar”, “old pine tree”, and “lonely oak”. This art correlates to my theme perfectly with it's beauty of the season winter. The way the snow is covering the trees and is pure, covering the whole ground shows a vivid, realistic image of a winter wonderland. The snow is so white and beautiful and even the bushes and fallen trees are shown with snow covering it that reveals how winter actually is like in a forest with a lot of trees. Looking at this picture, It's like I can actually feel how cold it looks, which brings me a warmth inside of me with such a beautiful work of art.
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