1890 Fir Forest 36, 5h59, 5 Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898)
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin – 1890 Fir Forest 36, 5h59, 5
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Painter: Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin
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Ivan Shishkin is a well-deserved and skilled master of the Russian landscape. The artist’s work was based primarily on a careful study of nature, which was a great step in Russian fine art. Ivan Ivanovich landscapes were realistic, reflecting in all the richness and beauty of "living" nature. Shishkin was and remains one of the revolutionaries of the realist trend, praising the Russian forests. To this day, the master’s works have not lost their appeal and continue to delight the audience with their chiseled drawing and variety of forms. A painting "The Spruce Forest" was created in 1890, belonging to the late period of creativity and absorbed all those characteristic techniques, which developed by Shishkin during the years of hard and fruitful activity.
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Ivan Shishkin is a well-deserved and skilled master of the Russian landscape. The artist’s work was based primarily on a careful study of nature, which was a great step in Russian fine art. Ivan Ivanovich landscapes were realistic, reflecting in all the richness and beauty of "living" nature. Shishkin was and remains one of the revolutionaries of the realist trend, praising the Russian forests. To this day, the master’s works have not lost their appeal and continue to delight the audience with their chiseled drawing and variety of forms.
A painting "The Spruce Forest" was created in 1890, belonging to the late period of creativity and absorbed all those characteristic techniques, which developed by Shishkin during the years of hard and fruitful activity. Precise and detailed rendering of trees and plants, skilful underlining and highlighting of the finest features - breed, color, texture ... The summer state of nature portrayed on the canvas is full of rich tones and unity of the overall gamma.
Passionately working on epicism and monumentality of composition, the master turns to light steps and strengthening the principle of contrasts. Midday sun rays touch the ground beneath the trees and climb up the century-old trunks of pines, emphasizing the color palette and perfection of the corner of the forest world depicted on the canvas. Shishkin has an inexplicable preference for landscape, considering nature as an inexhaustible inspiration for creativity and capable of presenting new and amazingly picturesque and vivid images every time.
The paradox of the painting is that Shishkin’s painterly manner and realistic images supersede any emotional characteristics of the subject. A perfect sketch, but only one of many others that are random and just as "similar" to reality. Many critics, who recognized Ivan Ivanovich’s undeniable talent, noted a lack of poetry and soulfulness. This led to the fact that Shishkin’s skill as a painter has lost its advantage in color drawings than in their monochrome versions.
To put it mildly, critics thus reproached the master for the closeness of his works to photography. Nevertheless, Ivan Shishkin’s works created a unique native image of Russian nature, close to the folk ideal and bearing the original Russian unprecedented scope.
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The picture has something of this: wood, tree, outdoors, nature, conifer, landscape, cypress, leaf, water, moss, daylight, evergreen, rainforest, fall, growth, fair weather, park, sequoia.
Perhaps it’s a painting of a forest scene with a bear in the foreground and another.