Alexei Savrasov was a Russia landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He began to draw early and in 1838 he enrolled as a student of professor Rabus at the Moscow School of Painting, Culture and Architecture (graduated in 1850), and immediately began to specialize in landscape painting.
In the 1860s, he traveled to England to see the International Exhibition, and toSwitzerland. In one of his letters he wrote that no academies in the world could so advance an artist as the present world exhibition. The painters who influenced him most were British painter John Constable and Swiss painter Alexandre Calame.
The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) is considered by many critics to be the high point in Savrasov’s artistic career. Using a common, even trivial, episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring. It was a new type of lyrical landscape painting, called later by critics the mood landscape. The painting brought him fame.
In 1870, he became a member of the Peredvizhniki group, breaking with government-sponsored academic art.
In the 1860s, he traveled to England to see the International Exhibition, and toSwitzerland. In one of his letters he wrote that no academies in the world could so advance an artist as the present world exhibition. The painters who influenced him most were British painter John Constable and Swiss painter Alexandre Calame.
The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) is considered by many critics to be the high point in Savrasov’s artistic career. Using a common, even trivial, episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring. It was a new type of lyrical landscape painting, called later by critics the mood landscape. The painting brought him fame.
In 1870, he became a member of the Peredvizhniki group, breaking with government-sponsored academic art.
I am fond of pictures of this great painter!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite works are 'Birches. Hightide', 'Early Spring. Thaw'. Alexei Savrasov showed the beauty of the Russian nature in his paintings. He was a painter of a great talent.
ReplyDeleteOh, he is a great artist! To be honest, I know little about him bu the picture Landscape with River and Angler is really nice!
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