Ivan Aivazovsky

academic-art

Aivazovsky Paintings 1817 - 1900 Russia, Academic Classicism

Action Between the Vesta and the Turkish Fetkhi-Bulent, 1877

Oil on canvas

Central Museum , Leningrad

Sea Landscapes

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OIL PAINTING: Action Between the Vesta and the Turkish Fetkhi-Bulent, 1877
When Aivazovsky began his career, Russian art was still dominated by Romanticism and it was the romantic mood which set the terms for Russian landscape painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is scarcely surprising then to discover romantic elements both in Aivazovsky's early oil paintings , and in the majority of his later ones. One reflection of this is his choice of subjects again and again we find Aivazovsky depicting shipwrecks, raging sea battles and storms.