Biography
Hovhannes Aivazovsky (Ayvazyan) - Famous Armenian painter who knew the sea and loved it sincerely.Aivazovsky was born on 17 July 1817 (29 July New Style) in the city of Theodosia in the Crimea (There was a big Armenian colony). His father was well-educated man. He called himself Haivazosky.Drawing ability of young Aivazovsky attracted the attention of A. Kaznacheyev, the town-governor, who helped Aivazovsky to enter the high school at Simferopol and in 1833, the St Petersburg Academy of Arts.At the age of twenty he graduated from the Art Academy of St. Petersburg with a gold medal. At the age of 25 he have already gained international fame.During the period of 1840-1844 Aivazovsky, as a pensioner of the Academy of Arts, spent time in Italy, traveled to Germany, France, Spain, and Holland. He worked much and had many exhibitions, meeting everywhere with success. He painted a lot of marine landscapes, which became very popular in Italy: The Bay of Naples by Moonlight (1842), Seashore. Calm (1843), Malta. Valetto Harbour (1844).During his sixty-year career, Aivazovsky produced around 6,000 paintings of very different value ... there are masterpieces and there are very timid works.The vast majority of his works depict the sea.He rarely drew dry-landscapes and created only a handful of portraits.Aivazovsky never painted his pictures from nature, always from memory, and far away from the seaboard."His artistic memory was legendary. He was able to reproduce what he had seen only for a very short time, without even drawing preliminary sketches.His "truth to nature amazed his contemporaries, particularly his ability to convey the effect of moving water and of reflected sun and moonlight."
Hovhannes Aivazovsky (Ayvazyan) - Famous Armenian painter who knew the sea and loved it sincerely.Aivazovsky was born on 17 July 1817 (29 July New Style) in the city of Theodosia in the Crimea (There was a big Armenian colony). His father was well-educated man. He called himself Haivazosky.Drawing ability of young Aivazovsky attracted the attention of A. Kaznacheyev, the town-governor, who helped Aivazovsky to enter the high school at Simferopol and in 1833, the St Petersburg Academy of Arts.At the age of twenty he graduated from the Art Academy of St. Petersburg with a gold medal. At the age of 25 he have already gained international fame.During the period of 1840-1844 Aivazovsky, as a pensioner of the Academy of Arts, spent time in Italy, traveled to Germany, France, Spain, and Holland. He worked much and had many exhibitions, meeting everywhere with success. He painted a lot of marine landscapes, which became very popular in Italy: The Bay of Naples by Moonlight (1842), Seashore. Calm (1843), Malta. Valetto Harbour (1844).During his sixty-year career, Aivazovsky produced around 6,000 paintings of very different value ... there are masterpieces and there are very timid works.The vast majority of his works depict the sea.He rarely drew dry-landscapes and created only a handful of portraits.Aivazovsky never painted his pictures from nature, always from memory, and far away from the seaboard."His artistic memory was legendary. He was able to reproduce what he had seen only for a very short time, without even drawing preliminary sketches.His "truth to nature amazed his contemporaries, particularly his ability to convey the effect of moving water and of reflected sun and moonlight."
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