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AIVAZOVSKY Ivan AIVAZOVSKY
Aivazovsky, so famous Russian painter (1817-1900) Russian Artist Armenian Russian Painter XIXth century...
Aivazovsky's name is well-known and needs no introduction. So are Aivazovsky's works and merits!
Born from a porr Armenian family (coming from Poland), Ivan Aivazovsky is born in Crimea on July 29, 1817.
Still very young, Aivazovsky is attracted to art: first music but also drawing and copies images from books.
He gets financial help to take art lessons because fellowpeople already knew and believed in his talent. Thanks to that, he manages to go to the Arts Academy in Saint-Petersburg. There, he studies on Maxim Vorob'ev artworks and takes classes from painters of respectively battles and marines, seascapes: A. Zaueveid and French painter F. Tanner.
While Aivazovsky is at the Academy, his works do not leave connaisseurs insensitive: from that time, Alexandre Pouchkine helps Ivan Aivazovsky exhibit and admires him a lot.
In 1837, Aivazovsky gets the Academy of Saint-Petersbourg Diploma with a gold medal, and receives a financial help to perfect his technic and make more studies.
The Academy first gets him to travel to Crimea for 2 years... then there will be more trips via Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Englad, Spain and Malta. During this trip, Aivazovsky becomes a member of many academies such as Florence, Rome, Paris (which grants him a gold medal), Stuttgart or Amsterdam.
His works are a big succes and in 1841, Pope Grégoire XVI buys brom him his Chaos, in order to have it in the Vatican's Museum.
More, in Italy, Aivazovsky met famous Russian writers, including Gogol, Ivanov, and others.
Aivazovsky is back in Russia in 1844. He is then awarded the title of Member of Saint-Petersburg Academy, and in 1845, the title of Painter of the Russian Marine staff.
Ivan Aivazovsky is in the next years part of other expeditions of the Russian Fleet, allowing him to see more countries (Greece, Turkia, Egypt, America).
Our Artist Aivazovsky is not very much attracted to honour and richness, and prefers to it Russian writers ideas, like the ideas of Pouchkine, Gogol or Glinka, which makes him take some distance from the Tzars Palace of Saint-Petersbourg, and goes back to his home town, Theodosie.
He does not stop painting there and organizes exhibitions in Russia, France, United-States, and gives more time to education of his Armenian fellows.
He makes lots of work for his town and country, getting an Arts School in 1865 and changing his home in 1889 into a museum which still has many of his works.
Aivazovsky fame has been huge when he was alive, and even was the first foreing artist being awarded the French Légion d'Honneur. The Turkish Sultan ordered from him more than 40 paintings and invited him in 1874 to Canstantinople to decorate him with the Osmanie Order, the greatest distinction in the Ottoman Empire.
Ivan Aivazovsky was also greatly admired by other painters, such as Delacroix or Turner, and on the other side, he taught or influenced numerous painters, including French painters.
Ivan Aivazovsky died on May 5, 1900 in his home town. He is buried in the garden of the Saint-Sarkis Church. At his funerals, the Russian fleet shot salvos in his memory.
Aivazovsky's paintings are distinct from other through the work on the lights, and through the exceptional emotional approach.
It is to know that Aivazovsky painted from memory, and putting in his paintings his feelings, and with a mere pencil sketch.
The National Museum of Marine in Paris dedicated an exhibition to Aivazovsky at the first semestre of 2007.
N.B.: This year is "ARmenian Year". You can find more data in French in the following links:
http://www.armenie-mon-amie.com/Aivazovski-une-vibrante-passion.html
http://www.armenie-mon-amie.com/Emission-speciale-Annee-de-l.html