Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Julius Klever

Julius (also known as Yuli) Klever (1850-1924) was a Russian landscape artist who specialized in winter scenes with bright colors.

 A Fishing Village at Dawn (1881)

 A Winter Day in the Forest

 Autumn in the Forest

 Birch Forest (1883)

 Evening Calm (1894)

 Forest

 House at Sunset (1880s)

Sunset over a Ukrainian Hamlet (1915)

Monday, September 17, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

 The Russian Squadron on the Sebastopol Roads (detail) (1846)

 The Shipwreck

 The Survivors

 The Tide

 Ox Train on the Steppe

 The Volga, near the Zhiguli Hills (1887)

Towers on the Coast of the Bosporus (1859)

Friday, September 14, 2012

Miscellanea

 Constantin Stoiloff: A Russian Caravan Racing in the Snow

 Konstantin Filippov: During the Siege of Sebastopol (1862)

 Narkiz Bunin: Uninvited Criticism (1884)

 Nikolai Florianovich Dobrovolskiy: The Ferry Across the Angara in Irkutsk

 Nikolai Zagorskiy: At the County Hospital (1886)

Petr Zabolotskiy: Girl with a Cigarette (1850)

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Yefim Volkov

Yefim Volkov (1844-1920) was a Russian landscape painter.

 First Snow (1883)

 In the Woods. In Spring (1877)
[I have also seen the title of this translated as In a Forest. By a Spring]

 Landscape with Pond (1887)

 October (1883)

 Marsh in Autumn (1871)

 The Monastery

Ukrainian Landscape with Cottage

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Ivan Shishkin, ctd

 Mast-Tree Grove (1898)

 Mixed Forest. Shmetsk near Narva (1888)

 Noon in the vicinity of Moscow

 Old Fallen Trees. Forest Cemetery (1893)

 On the Creek

 Path in a Forest

 Polesye Landscape (1884)

 Rain in an Oak Forest (1891)

 Rye (1878)

Stream by a Forest Slope (1880)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Vasiliy Vereshchagin, ctd

Napoleon and Marshal Lauriston (Peace at Any Price) (1899-1900)

 Napoleon on the Borodino Heights (1897)

 Negotiators, 'Give Up!' 'Go to the Devil' (1873)

 Night Bivouac of the Grand Army, 1812 (1896-97)
Another painting by Vasily Vereshchagin with the title "Night Bivouac of Great Army, 1812" shows the poor rest of the French soldiers, huddled together under thin blankets, sleeping on frozen earth. A snow storm is sweeping past them, in the foreground we see a broken wagon buried in heaps of snow. Rows of rifles are pointing upwards into the bluish-green-grey air, and we wonder how many of those soldiers are still alive, how many dead. Vasily Vereshchagin clearly was no friend of the French. The viewers can feel the painter's satisfaction, depicting the French losses during their shameful retreat.
 [from Putin and the Battle of Borodino, by Olivia Kroth]
 On the High Road (Retreat) (1887-1895)

 On the Way. Bad News from France (1895)

Picket in the Balkans (1878)

Monday, September 10, 2012

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

The Acropolis in Athens (1883)

  The Arrival of Columbus' Fleet (1880)

 The Bay of Naples by Moonlight

 The Crimea

 The Great Flood (1864)

 On the Island of Rhodes (1861)

 The Ninth Wave (1850)

The Arrival of Peter I on the Neva (1853)