Biblical paintings by Aivazovsky. Description of the painting of Ivan Aivazovsky "World Flood painting artists about the World Flood
But we are still interested not so much Aivazovsky as such, we are interested in his paintings. Aivazovsky's famous abroad is associated with the picture "Chaos. Creation of the World"
Another picture on the creation of the world called "Chaos" was purchased by Pope Gregory XVI, who also awarded Aivazovsky gold medal. Here she is…
Well, in principle, painting as a picture - the sea, the sky, the sun, beautiful! Written in 1841. However, Aivazovsky wrote a picture with the simple name "World Flood", it is believed that from 1861 to 1883 the artist painted several paintings on the topic of the Flood, with the ark and without and many sketches on this topic.
In general, the story of the artist himself is very interesting and there are many unusual in her, for example, having bought the land in Feodosia and starting the construction of the house Aivazovsky suddenly took up archeology and not just so, and with the "permission", but the story began very simply ...
"In early 1853, during earthworks, Roman and Greek ancient objects were found in Feodosia. Julia, the happy wife of the artist, he was wished to work in search of antiquities, engaged in it and her husband. The Minister of Foots and the Affairs Manager of His Majesty Count Lev Perovsky issued A marital couple permission to archaeological excavations. In July, Aivazovsky reported the column: "Found just under the ground in ash (!!! ???) Golden female head of elegant work and several gold jewelry, as can be seen from the female dress, as well as pieces of an excellent Etruscan Vase. " Husband with his wife was absorbed by the work. Julia sifted the land chosen from the burial, followed the preservation of finds, was their catalog and herself packed everything to send to St. Petersburg. Together they started 80 kursany. "Hence -
Leave until Aivazovsky, this is a separate topic. Digging in the images of the Flood I saw a strange, terrible and very live picture of events that are interpreted by art historians.
This is a flood ...
And here is so depicted "floods"
Short-cleaning pictures is not true? Images of the Flood and different "floods" are a huge bunch of various artists in various countries.
Usually, the ark is associated with the flood, as an object of salvation. The ark is such a big ship, but it has its own characteristics that distinguish it from other ships. The ark is usually depicted here so ... the tradition is so!
Moreover, the ancient date is dated the image, the darker depicts the ark. The most ancient is the most bad and not plausible, no, but what previously there were bad people, they had a saws already there was no mind, so they painted the feature that.
The most interesting thing is why the Ark has no sails, well, at least a little, at least a little challenge? No, there is always no sail and instead of add-ons above the deck of a house with windows and pipes!
Among all sorts of floods, amazing pictures of the famous flood of 1824 in Kronstadt were flooded. The image is called "the consequences of flooding in the Kronstadsk military harbor"
This is how the eyewitnesses are described ...
On November 11, 1824, in a small house on one of the Kronstadt streets, an officer of the 3rd fleet crew was sitting, a popular white-flyer of his time V. Miroshevsky and wrote:
"Caught, respectable parents! It happened to me on the 7th day: on this day I was sitting in my low-lying hut and wrote you a letter, at ten in the morning my owner, an old man about 60, entered into my room and said that in the streets that stand at low The place, the water broke, and many stand in their homes of their almost knee flooded, adding to it that he was very pleased with his place, which is somewhat higher, and therefore he does not fear the water.
... Meanwhile, the water began to enter us into the courtyard ... Soon a small stream of my legs appeared under my legs, I moved the table to another place and everything continued to write. Meanwhile, the water loomed more and more, I began to raise the floor, I'm on the assurance of the owners, I did not suspect any danger, ordered the pot from the furnace and the stove I wanted to go to the office of my crew to finish the letter, but the owners persuaded me anywhere Walk ... But since the water in the room was already above the knees, I wanted to leave. He began to turn off the door, but she squeezed her strength. As long as we used the old man every effort to handle her, they were in the water already on the belt. Finally, the door lost to our efforts, I ran out to the street and saw a terrible scene. The water in some homes reached to the roofs .., people sat in attics, shouted and asked for help ...
Meanwhile, I stood in the water almost throat. It was almost impossible to get out on the middle of the street, because I would probably closed with water.
Fortunately, my fence broke the wind near my hut. I climbed on him, I became knees, I got his hand to the roof, got to her and sat down.
... the waves broke the shaft, which was obscured by Kronstadt, the water joined the streets with terrible power, many houses, fences, roofs completely carried away. In the attics, a cry and crying of women was heard ... ". There are many more -
At the Museum of the city of St. Petersburg, the amazing picture of the Marinist artist Ivan Aivazovsky called "World Flood". Creating a picture began in 1864. The masterpiece displaced the marinist faith. A huge number of paintings were created on biblical topics. "World Flood" - the personification of excellent stories from the Bible. The multi-faceted art of Ivan Ivazovsky does not cease to amaze. The ability to transmit life and emotions on paper, makes it difficult to breathe every person, who at least once in his life saw the creation of the artist.
The sea foam again appears on the picture of the Great Marinist. This artistic canvas clearly shows the wild life of marine elements, rather than the Bible tale. The emphasis is placed in the direction of the sea, its beauty and rigidity, the contours of the artist's brush show the advantage of sea waves above all.
A catastrophic crest of the wave does not spare anyone. There are clear laws for which the marine element lives. They are inexorab and cruel. Sea luxury overshadows the full kind of art, as the force stands out with the speed of thought. It was very important for the Creator to show how the nature could be strong before. It is impossible to defeat it, and if I got into the marine punching - not back.
People who are dying in marine abyss show the role of this cataclysm. The mighty element attracts attention to itself so much as if hypnosis. Manting sad set of paints predicts the death of people and the inability to escape. The contrast of the artistic picture complements the horror and despair of a person who stayed alone with the marine element.
Together with water, sins and darkness leave, this is not death - the artist showed. The presented element is a glimpse of hope and faith, through darkness and sadness. For people, the only chance to cleanse and get mercy from the Creator. The final result of the picture involves the exit from the abyss to another world - the region of good and light.
The event was a family-cultural event, because my parents showed the live interest in the exhibition. His paintings struck them back in his youth when they visited museums in St. Petersburg, then in Feodosia, so the opportunity to see almost everything and immediately in one place was impossible. So, we bought tickets, got into the car and went to meet with the beautiful.
TEABLE GORTIC OPERATING ON SEROVA (TM) Gallery administration introduced online sale of tickets for visiting sessions. 250 tickets are scheduled for each session. At the same time, the entry time is prudently divided into thirty-minute gaps: not everything is able to appear exactly by time; Theatrical, academic and other findings also need to be considered. The electronic ticket is no longer required to additionally decorate the gallery at the box office or print out of the terminal. Now scan the barcode directly from the paper. The thought with advanced sessions was surprisingly successful. The exhibition is of great popularity. Tickets are available on sessions in 10 days. On August 1, I have bought tickets for 12 without any problems; On Friday, tickets were sold only by 23. However, those who have no Internet or not the opportunity to plan their affairs so long, also have a chance to get to the exhibition. On each session is launched and 25-50 (depends on the graduation of the hall) a person from a living queue. Here, too, there are no special surprises: people are also launched every half hour, and plates with approximate waiting time are placed along the queue. In order not to be illusions ... By the way, you can not only buy tickets in advance on the Internet, but also in a separate cash register, however, the sign is installed before the entrance, indicating the nearest possible date of visit. In general, the shortcomings of Serov were taken into account, so the next couple of months, field cuisine of the Ministry of Emergency Situations can relax. Disco, apparently, will start closer to the closure.
As I laid the reserve of time on traffic jams, parking (on weekends, when I came to intelligence, there was just a dead on the parking lot, half an hour was standing, moved at the expense of the patience of the poor), etc., we were on the place An hour before the designated time. The queue from spontaneous visitors has drawn an hour to one and a half, for the passage of the electronic tickets of the queue as such, it is simply closer to the appointed time the people are going to enter directly with the last blow of the chimes. However, we waited with a great pleasure on the benches in the Museon Park. The weather was just charm: a pleasant coolness, a slightly covered clouds of the sun. Mom has not been chosen for a long time in the city center: to make hiking does not allow her health. Therefore, the park led her to delight. I must say, landscapes and truth wonderfully worked. Instead of bright colors on the flower beds, different grass was planted, reservedly blooming with blue shoes or gray bulbs. All this looks very stylish, pleases the eye and very soothes. When pierced 11 hours, we headed for the doors. There are three frameworks at the entrance, visitors quickly between them were distributed, so there was no delay at all. Consider paper with printed tickets of an intelligent lady with a scanner and armed with audio guide, we finally entered the hall.
A small video installation is arranged at the entrance, which demonstrates the infinitely stolen shooting of sea waves. Black and white frames look very sad, especially against the background of amazing light, flowing from paintings.
The "main" paintings of the artist are known to everyone. Dad, crossing the threshold of the exhibition hall, immediately went to search for the painting "Wave", who fascinated him in the Russian Museum.
"The Ninth Val", "Black Sea", "Rainbow", the diverse bays - the waves in these pictures and is called to immerse yourself in them or, on the contrary, do, saving life.
The pictures at the exhibition were brought from many museums: the Tretyakov, the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Naval Museum, Palaces, from Feodosia, Yerevan. The picture "Chaos", located in the Vatican, did not come to the exhibition. Pictures are assembled by themes: "Sea Symphony", "Artist of the Main Maritime Staff", "Captive Mystery Mirozdanya", "Nocturins". Combines their amazing light and life. Spectators are in vain looking for highlighting pictures. Brushes, paints and talent - that's all that was at the artist.
Its life has developed very successfully. The boy from the poor Armenian family Obidaise Aivazyan (Gaivazovsky) paid attention to the Feodosi city of Treaschaev. Thanks to his help, the boy learned first in the gymnasium, and then he was enrolled in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. As a pensioner (now such students are called scholarships), he visited Italy, which of course stamped it. The main love of the artist was the sea, sometimes critics, wanting to praise some kind of painting, said that the people who allegedly did not really succeed in the picture were surprisingly.
In 1844, Aivazovsky was appointed painter of the Chief Maritime Staff of the Russian Empire. However, it is sufficiently fun the fact that in notifications about the next official followers: whether the painter of the Chief Maritime Staff with the right of wearing a uniform (!), Whether the professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts continued, was always indicated by a sacramental "without monetary content." But he had enough money: his paintings were bought and collectors, and the royal family, the Turkish Sultan ordered about 30 cavalo to decorate Dolmabach's Palace. Being a painter of the Chief Maritime Staff, Aivazovsky enjoyed great respect from the military seamans, was friends with many famous fleecers. 
"Looking at the Black Sea Fleet in 1849."
Sailors even specially shot from guns so that the artist looked like a core ricochet flies on water. He was in marine campaigns, during the Crimean War I had long refused to leave the deposited Sevastopol.
Aivazovsky has repeatedly been in Turkey, owned by Turkish, wrote paintings for Sultan Abdul Gaziz. Near his oriental paintings I hung on a very long time. Its images of Istanbul are very consonant with my impressions about this amazing city. 
The artist at all happened to travel a lot. At the end of his life, he even visited the United States, seeing Niagara Falls with his own eyes. 
But in our country he was what to prevent. In the paintings depicting Dagestan, his paints are surprisingly similar to the palette, which Himalayas Nikolai Roerich painted.
He wrote the paintings and mystical, and on religious plots. In the painting "World Flood", we diligently sought noev the ark, but did not find it :-) The picture is very big, with an abundance of details, it is extremely reminded by the "Last Day Pompei" Bryullov (who was very influenced by the creativity of Aivazovsky). I really wanted to take a picture of the cranked visitor, who just considered a certain important detail in the picture, but he was ashamed. There is something in it from peeping into the keyhole. Uncomfortable.
In the picture "Waterborne Water", Christ is depicted Efemern, like the world's light. 
One of the most terrible paintings is the "death of the Lefort ship". It is still the largest catastrophe of the Russian warship. Together with him, 843 people were crushed in the sea underground. There are neither terrible waves in the picture or the cracked vessel. The ship lies on the bottom, around him the souls of the dead. Someone takes Christ, and someone does not go to heaven, only calling: "Looking in my Lord in your kingdom," and someone does not even look upstairs. The picture is usually exhibited in the Naval Museum.
The most vivid picture of the gift of Aivazovsky, not talent, namely, the gift, gives the picture "Creation of the World".
"The land was insane and empty and the Spirit of God rushed to the water." The canvas itself is not the most bright in the exposure, but there is one detail. The artist wrote it for nine hours. The size of the picture is approximately 1.5 by 2 meters, that is, an area of \u200b\u200bat least 3 square meters. If you paint such an area with a wide painting brush, it will take approximately an hour. And then oil paints, small details, small brushes. In short, he did not have time for thinking about his actions and could not. His hand is like someone drove.
So he lived, kissed by God. His life was not the most simple, but certainly happy. And even if he was accused of salonity and commerce at the end of his life, it meant only that his work in life was perfectly sold that for ingenious artists is usually a rarity.
At the exhibition we spent four hours. I would go again, the benefit before November there is still time.
Everyone will have their own aivazovsky. For example, I involuntarily overheard, as one lady complained about his companion, which could no longer look at it: someone certainly sinks at every picture. Although critics believe that the artist gives his heroes let the ghostly, but chance to survive. But another lady, I went to a certain euphoria in the exhibition and, stopping at pictures, read poems. Halfice, only for himself. There were a large number of moms and grandparents, trying to attach their children to the beautiful. Chad acquainted with varying success. Someone tried to twist the steering wheel, prudently hidden under the glass cap, and someone stupidly sobbed, because it was all tired. My feeling of light joy remained from these paintings. Parents were also happy, because these paintings reminded them of the joyful events of their youth. We were lucky and weather. When we went out to the street, it turned out that the clock spent in the museum a pleasant coolness turned into the catching lead clouds of the icy wind. But the shine kindly waited when we sit in the car, for which he was thanks a separate one.
Go to the exhibition, if not yet. You will not regret.
At the Museum of the city of St. Petersburg, the amazing picture of the Marinist artist Ivan Aivazovsky called "World Flood". Creating a picture began in 1864. The masterpiece displaced the marinist faith. A huge number of paintings were created on biblical topics. "World Flood" - the personification of excellent stories from the Bible. The multi-faceted art of Ivan Ivazovsky does not cease to amaze. The ability to transmit life and emotions on paper, makes it difficult to breathe every person, who at least once in his life saw the creation of the artist.
The sea foam again appears on the picture of the Great Marinist. This artistic canvas clearly shows the wild life of marine elements, rather than the Bible tale. The emphasis is placed in the direction of the sea, its beauty and rigidity, the contours of the artist's brush show the advantage of sea waves above all.
A catastrophic crest of the wave does not spare anyone. There are clear laws for which the marine element lives. They are inexorab and cruel. Sea luxury overshadows the full kind of art, as the force stands out with the speed of thought. It was very important for the Creator to show how the nature could be strong before. It is impossible to defeat it, and if I got into the marine punching - not back.
People who are dying in marine abyss show the role of this cataclysm. The mighty element attracts attention to itself so much as if hypnosis. Manting sad set of paints predicts the death of people and the inability to escape. The contrast of the artistic picture complements the horror and despair of a person who stayed alone with the marine element.
Together with water, sins and darkness leave, this is not death - the artist showed. The presented element is a glimpse of hope and faith, through darkness and sadness. For people, the only chance to cleanse and get mercy from the Creator. The final result of the picture involves the exit from the abyss to another world - the region of good and light.
In the State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg is kept in the stored painting of the Aivazovsky "World Flood" Unfortunately, lovers of painting are deprived of the opportunity to see her original. Perhaps the fault of this, the small area of \u200b\u200bthe hall, intended for the exposition of the works of Aivazovsky. After all, the size of this masterpiece, indeed, is impressive 246.5 x 319.5 meters and he could take a whole wall.
This one can say the creepy scene of the painter began writing in 1862, and two years later returned to this topic and created another option, which is in the museum. It is written by oil on canvas, there is also an option in watercolor drawing on paper. It is worth it to note that having a multifaceted talent, Aivazovsky was written a lot on biblical and historical topics.
The picture of the World Flood, was described at the exhibition of the Academy of Arts received enthusiastic reviews of the Russian intelligentsia. The next year she bought Emperor Alexander II for the Hermitage.
Excellent stories of the holy book, as if they came to life under his magic brush. The palette of the paints skillfully passed vitality and emotionality on canvas. Please note that it is before the pictures of Aivazovsky in the museum there is always a bunch of people, unable to tear away from the contemplation of these overflowing azure-turquoise shades, which are imperceptibly flowing from the water element to the gloomy sky. In the picture "The World Flood", golden yellow paints are written only to illuminate the iscin-purple darkness of all the rest of the world abandoned by the ark of Noah.
The foam marine state appears before our gaze. The picture shows a more evil essence of the element of the sea, which tells about this in the sacred books and legends. Aivazovsky intentionally focuses on the image of the sea, its charms and stiffness, the brush of the master depicts the obvious victory of the marine element. From her gigantic ridge should not wait for mercy. There is a clear law, and only he is subject to the sea. He is inexorable and ruthless. And this is also luxury and magnitude. The power of the element is faster than human thought. The author convincingly shows the strength of nature over living beings. It is not necessary to wait for it from it, and hitting the puchin - there is no return.
The power of nature has always attracted the curiosity of humanity, like hypnosis. Slap-fascinating tones and shades - already peculiar prediction of death and inevitability. The contrast in the work adds despair of people who remained one on one with a catastrophe.
However, the water purifies from sinfulness and hopeless blue-violet darkness, this is not the end - says Aivazovsky. The element concerning us bears in itself and weak hope and faith, despite darkness and sadness. This is a significant chance of purification and salvation. The work does not cause spectators of pessimism as we are confident that it will be very soon found out of the abyss in the bright world of good. The artist's sea has a peculiar base of nature and history, especially in religious topics. However, religious iconography is difficult to call a great luck of the Aivazovsky.
The worldview of the Aivazovsky national roots is closely associated with the culture of Armenia. Ararat - the symbol of Armenia - the painter portrayed more than a dozen times. His famous work "Descent Noah with Ararat" was presented at the Paris exhibition.
Flood - the Ecumenical cataclysm, referred to in many religions of the world. This is a giant flood - Kara Higher Beings (Higher Beings) for sinfulness and disobedience. Flood - Retribution for the loss of morality. God wanted to save the earth from people mired in immorality and leave only pious Noah with his family. Noah then turned out, according to the Bible, five hundred years. He had three sons and on the construction of this "doping" vessel they took about a hundred years.
After completing this grand activity, Noah climbed the ship, took a pair of every creature, which were breathing on Earth. The doors slammed, and at the same moment the water was collapsed with a powerful wall to land. Disaster lasted 40 days and all died. Survived only on board. Water rose above the mountains. In five months, she slowly began to decrease, and in the 17th day of the 7th month the ark sailed to Ararat. A lot of time passed until the land was visible.
The picture of the Aivazovsky "World Flood" is a rather rare work on the plot borrowed from the Bible. Here Aivazovsky brilliantly combined talent, imagination and love for improvisation. It is possible that none of his contemporaries could have been so great to portray the scale of cataclysm, a storm in heaven and the sea, huge waves, overwhelming rocks, where people and animals are unsuccessfully trying to escape. All the heroes of the work by the author united into the group - in the center you can see the figure of an old man who surrounds the family, a woman dies nearby, nearby people stand on her knees with a look at the sky. Naive images that give greed, the hope of avoiding fate is the king and priests sitting on the elephants and the Golden vessels and jewels. Sea from Aivazovsky - the basis of nature. He is more interested in the marine element. Not a biblical story. It is to the sea, its unfortunate relics and our eyes are chained.
On the right side of the picture of the darkness, the embankment of the city and residential buildings, nor in one of the winds, are not lit by Lopads, most likely there are three nights for three nights, all the inhabitants sleep a calm bed, but soon the city will begin to wake up, and the serene sea will be worse. The artist was able to transfer this short moment of serenity and calm the serenity of the serenity on canvas, when everything around seems to be frozen in anticipation of something important. Soon the morning and the haze of mysteriousness will disappear, a new day will come, but it will already be a completely different story ...
Today, the picture of the Aivazovsky "Moonlight. The bathhouse in Feodosia is located in Taganrog in the city art gallery, its size is 94 by 143 cm.