Interactive gallery. Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich

Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting “Niagara Falls” was painted in 1893 upon returning to Feodosia from a trip to America. The landscape gives a feeling of freshness, shrouded in the rainbow light of the sun's rays, striking in its grandeur. People standing on a rock from which an avalanche is falling, the boat below seems insignificantly small, their presence only emphasizes the power and splendor of nature.

The artist builds the composition of the painting broadly and freely, giving the viewer the opportunity to take in the entire landscape and feel the unbridled force of an avalanche of water falling from a high rocky ledge.

The Feodosia Gallery houses the artist's travel album with twenty-three drawings of Niagara, which he brought back from his travels, which testifies to the extensive work done on location. But mainly, when creating paintings, Aivazovsky was based on his tenacious memory and impressions of what he saw. The artist depicts the waterfall in four paintings from different points and under different lighting.

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Ivan Kostantinovich Aivazovsky is the most outstanding Armenian artist of the 19th century, Hovhannes Ayvazyan.
Aivazovsky's ancestors were from Galician Armenians who moved to Galicia from Turkish Armenia in the 18th century. There is also a family legend that there were Turks among his ancestors: the artist’s father told him that the artist’s great-grandfather on the female side was the son of a Turkish military leader and, as a child, during the capture of Azov by Russian troops in 1696, he was saved from death by a certain Armenian who he was baptized and adopted.

Ivan Aivazovsky discovered artistic and musical abilities from childhood. He taught himself to play the violin. The Feodosian architect Yakov Koch was the first to notice the boy’s artistic abilities. He gave him paper, pencils, paints, taught him skills, and helped him enroll in the Feodosia district school. Then Aivazovsky graduated from the Simferopol gymnasium and was admitted at public expense to the Imperial Academy of Arts of St. Petersburg. He was assigned to the fashionable French landscape painter Philippe Tanner. But Tanner forbade Aivazovsky to work independently. Despite this, on the advice of Professor Alexander Ivanovich Sauerweid, he managed to prepare several paintings for the exhibition of the Academy of Arts. Tanner complained about Aivazovsky’s arbitrariness to Emperor Nicholas I; by order of the Tsar, all paintings were removed from the exhibition, despite rave reviews from critics.

The conflict was neutralized thanks to Sauerweid, in whose class six months later an aspiring young artist was assigned to study naval military painting. In 1837, Aivazovsky received a Grand Gold Medal for the painting “Calm.” This gave him the right to a two-year trip to Crimea and Europe. There, in addition to creating seascapes, he was engaged in battle painting and even participated in military operations on the coast of Circassia. As a result, he painted the painting “Detachment Landing in the Length of Subashi,” which was acquired by Nicholas I. At the end of the summer of 1839, he returned to St. Petersburg, received a certificate of graduation from the Academy, his first rank and personal nobility.

In 1840 he went to Rome. For his paintings of the Italian period he received the Gold Medal of the Paris Academy of Arts. In 1842 he went to Holland, and from there to England, France, Portugal, and Spain. During the journey, the ship on which the artist was sailing was caught in a storm and almost sank in the Bay of Biscay. A message about his death even appeared in Parisian newspapers. After a four-year journey in the fall of 1844, Aivazovsky returned to Russia and became a painter of the Main Naval Staff, and from 1947 - a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and was also a member of the European academies of Rome, Paris, Florence, Amsterdam and Stuttgart.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky painted mainly seascapes. His career was very successful. He was awarded many orders and received the rank of rear admiral. In total, the artist painted more than 6 thousand works.

From 1845 he lived in Feodosia, where with the money he earned he opened an art school, which later became one of the artistic centers of Novorossiya, and was the initiator of the construction of the Feodosia - Dzhankoy railway, built in 1892. He was actively involved in the affairs of the city and its improvement.
At his own expense, he built a new building for the Feodosia Museum of Antiquities, and was elected a full member of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities for his services to archeology.

In 1848, Ivan Konstantinovich got married. His wife was Yulia Yakovlevna Grevs, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a staff doctor who was in Russian service. They had four daughters. But due to Aivazovsky’s reluctance to live in the capital, Yulia Yakovlevna left her husband 12 years later. However, the marriage was dissolved only in 1877. In 1882, Aivazovsky met Anna Nikitichna Sarkisova. Aivazovsky saw Anna Nikitichna at the funeral of her husband, a famous Feodosian merchant. The beauty of the young widow struck Ivan Konstantinovich. A year later they got married.

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This painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was painted in 1893. The work is made in oil on canvas. The work is in the National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan.

Niagara Falls (from English Niagara Falls) is the common name of three waterfalls on the Niagara River, separating the American state of New York from the Canadian province of Ontario. Niagara Falls are Horseshoe Falls, sometimes also called Canadian Falls, American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. Although the difference in height is not very great, the falls are very wide, and in terms of the volume of water passing through it, Niagara Falls is the most powerful in North America.

The height of the waterfalls is 53 meters. The foot of the American Falls is obscured by a pile of rocks, which is why its apparent height is only 21 meters. The width of the American Falls is 323 meters, the Horseshoe Falls is 792 meters. The volume of falling water reaches 5720 m?/s.

The beauty of this natural wonder attracts many tourists from all over the world, which contributes to the prosperity of the cities located on the banks of the falls - Niagara Falls (from the English Niagara Falls), New York State, USA and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

The most colorful view of the waterfall opens from the Canadian shore. A few hundred meters downstream from the waterfall, the “Rainbow Bridge” (from the English Rainbow Bridge) is thrown across Niagara, open for the movement of passenger vehicles and pedestrians between the two countries.

A smaller version of the painting of the same name (1893), located in the Feodosia Gallery.

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In 1892, I.K. Aivazovsky traveled to North America, where an exhibition of his works was held with great success.

The painting, painted shortly after returning from overseas, pleases with the freshness of its color and the perfectly conveyed feeling of moist air. Despite the sky covered with gray clouds, the landscape is permeated with the light of the sun's rays, transforming the water and the shore. A remarkable decoration of the canvas is a rainbow, which Aivazovsky, judging by the drawings in his American travel album, actually observed above the waterfall. The matte surface of the canvas and light painting style are common for the artist’s works of those years.

With uncontrollable force, a huge avalanche of water rushes down from a high rocky ledge. In an effort to give the viewer the opportunity to immediately take in the entire landscape, the artist does not dwell on details, but builds the composition of the canvas freely and broadly. Small figures of people on the top of the rock and a boat on the lake enhance the impression of the grandeur of the spectacle. The picture was painted in a generalized manner, in a manner characteristic of the last years of Aivazovsky’s work. The matte, unvarnished surface of the painting layer is so thin that it reveals the structure of the canvas.

During his trip to America, Niagara Falls attracted the artist’s special attention. A travel album filled with drawings of Niagara has been preserved (Feodosia Gallery). Later, based on these drawings, Aivazovsky depicted a waterfall in four paintings from different points and under different lighting: sometimes during the day, sometimes under the moon.

In the album, Aivazovsky made twenty-three drawings from life, many of them on double pages. A significant part of the drawings was “passed through” with pen and ink in the studio. Some of the drawings contain notes relating primarily to water color and tonal relationships observed in situ.

Aivazovsky did this great work on location, despite the fact that he had at his disposal beautiful photographs of Niagara, which he brought from America.