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Evening at the Sea

Creation period
1871
Place of сreation
Crimea
Dimensions
131,5x165 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
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The Russian Emperor Nicholas I was quite straightforward when he said, “Whatever Aivazovsky paints — I will buy it.” The painter Ivan Kramskoy called Aivazovsky “a star of the first magnitude in the history of art.” Hovhannes Aivazian was born and raised in Crimea, in the port of Feodosia. The sea was the main theme of his works throughout his life.

The famous “Aivazovsky wave” looked real, moving, permeated with light. This effect was achieved with the help of glazing technique, when thin translucent layers were painted on top of each other creating the illusion of depth. Aivazovsky’s skill of painting in layers and yet in an incredibly free manner resonated with the audience. His contemporaries claimed the artist knew some secret recipe for making paints.

Ivan Aivazovsky was a man of great energy and an eager learner. He personally attended important events and made sketches during the Crimean War, at the launching of Russian Navy ships, and at the opening of the Suez Canal. By the age of thirty, Aivazovsky was a professor at the Academy of Arts, a painter at the Naval General Staff, a member of the academies of Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Florence, and Stuttgart. Ivan Aivazovsky was awarded ten international orders; he was a member of the Russian Geographical Society, an active privy councilor and the first nobleman in his family.

In his hometown of Feodosia, Ivan Aivazovsky had a water supply system built. The artist opened a painting school and an art gallery. The Crimean airport in Simferopol is named after Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. During his lifetime, the artist had more than 125 solo exhibitions around the world, and part of the proceeds always went to charity.

Anton Chekhov visited Aivazovsky two years before the artist’s death and left the following observations,


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His person combines a general, a bishop, an artist, an Armenian, a naive grandfather, and Othello. He is married to a young and very beautiful woman, whom he treats very strictly. He is familiar with sultans, shahs, and emirs. He composed ‘Ruslan and Lyudmila’ together with Glinka. He was a friend of Pushkin, but he never read Pushkin.
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Aivazovsky painted “Evening at the Sea” at the age of 54 — this is an example of his mature art. Vivid depictions of storms, battles and shipwrecks were replaced by a realistic image of the majestic and beautiful sea. Despite the expanse of the water surface, the landscape looks like a painting of a smaller scale, the composition is restrained by the clouds on the horizon. Delicate evening lighting adds to the calm image of a quiet seascape.
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Evening at the Sea

Creation period
1871
Place of сreation
Crimea
Dimensions
131,5x165 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
3
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