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150 works by the Russian seascape painter, Ivan Aivazovsky have gone on display in Moscow.
Credited with creating absorbing, 3D effect paintings, Aivazovsky is considered one of the greatest marine artists of all time,
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A master of seascapes, Ivan Aivazovsky was born in 1817 to a merchant family in Theodosia, Crimea. And it was his native Black Sea that dominated his works.
After graduating from St. Petersburg Academy of Arts with a gold medal he quickly gained international fame for his stunning scenes of boats, battleships and turbulent waves.
Over his lifetime Aivazovsky created some 6,000 paintings.
The new exhibition at Moscow's State Tretyakov gallery features 100 of those as well as 50 graphic works that allow visitors to see the best examples of the painter's seascapes including "The Black Sea" (1881), "The Ninth Wave" (1850), "The Wave" (1889) and "The Rainbow" (1873).
State Tretyakov Gallery Director, Zelfira Tregulova, Tretyakov says:
"A sinking ship, a boat or a sailing ship in rough sea - Aivazovsky was a past master of this kind of seascape. He developed an amazing technique and manner of depicting water and light (shining) through water. Strange as it may seem - I believe many (visitors) will notice it today - he is very close to the great British landscape artist William Turner."
His colossal canvases draw visitors deep into his stormy scenarios creating a 3D effect that, according to exhibition curator, Galina Churak, rivals modern 3D technology.
"My colleagues and I quite often use now the comparison, so familiar to modern people - 3d or 4d effect. It's the participation effect, involvement effect. Long before this modern technology was created, the artist had possessed the secret," she says.
Despite living close to the sea, Aivazovsky did not create his seascapes from nature. it was his memory and imagination that were responsible for the masterpieces.
Gallery deputy director, Tatyana Karpova says:
"Walls were painted terra-cotta in his studio in Theodosia. There were no windows towards the sea in his studio. He worked from memory. He didn't need to have the sea always in front of his eyes although it was close, behind the walls of his house. He believed that it's impossible to draw from nature a storm, a flash of lightning, a roaring wind."
Called "Ivan Aivazovsky For The 200th Anniversary," the exhibition opened on 29th July 2016 - what would have been Aivazovsky's 199th birthday. It runs until November 20th.
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