A large-scale exhibition of paintings by Aivazovsky opened in the Russian Museum. Why is it worth visiting the exhibition of paintings by Aivazovsky? Permanent list of works

An exhibition of paintings by the great Russian artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky opened on December 22 at the Russian Museum (Benois Wing) in St. Petersburg. The exhibition, which is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the artist, will be held until March 20, 2017, so that all comers, residents and guests of St. Petersburg, will have time to go and see a large collection of the most famous and little-known works of Aivazovsky with their own eyes.

The exhibition turned out to be one of the largest at the beginning of 2017. Long queues line up at the Benois Wing of the Russian Museum. And this is not surprising, because the seascapes of the great marine painter are loved by almost all connoisseurs of painting.

Why is it worth visiting the exhibition of paintings by Aivazovsky?

This exhibition of paintings is truly unique. It contains a huge number of paintings, photographs, and other materials related to this great artist. The collection includes paintings from the permanent collections of the Russian Museum, the collection of the Peterhof Museum-Reserve, the Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve, the Central Naval Museum, the Naval Cadet Corps, as well as private collections.

Ivan Konstantinovich (1817-1900) - great Russian painter, renowned marine painter, battle painter. He was a painter of the Main Naval Staff. Academician and honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, honorary member of the Academy of Arts in Amsterdam, Rome, Paris, Florence and Stuttgart. During his creative career, he created a huge number of stunning canvases, which today are considered real masterpieces of Russian and world painting. Aivazovsky today is considered one of the most prominent Russian artists, who had a huge impact on painting and left behind a priceless legacy. The most outstanding paintings by Aivazovsky are considered "The Ninth Wave", "Chaos. Creation of the World "," Black Sea "," Chesme Battle "," Sinop Battle "," Among the Waves "and many others.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) is a world famous Russian marine painter, one of the most successful Russian painters of the 19th century, whose works adorn museum collections in Russia and abroad and enjoy constant attention and success among viewers. The collection of the Russian Museum contains 54 paintings by the great marine painter. Along with these works, the jubilee exposition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the master includes canvases from the collection of the Peterhof Museum-Reserve, the Tsarskoe Selo Museum-Reserve, the Central Naval Museum, and the Naval Cadet Corps. A special section of the exhibition, which presents about 200 works, was made up of memorial materials and photographs introducing IK Aivazovsky's iconography. The exposition is based on both well-known works, distinguished by a high artistic level, and the works of Aivazovsky that are little known to the viewer from private collections, as well as various entourage, which constitutes the context of IK Aivazovsky's activities as a painter of the General Naval Staff. The exhibition occupies the entire space of the exhibition halls of the Benois Corps, and in terms of composition, design and semantic accents, the exhibition at the Russian Museum differs significantly from the exposition opened in July-November at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The exhibition was organized with the support of the Sistema Charitable Foundation.

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Promotional video for the exhibition



Installation of the exhibition in the Benois Wing

TASS news agency prepared video dedicated to the anniversary of I.K. Aivazovsky, with the assistance of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum

Aivazovsky's paintings from the collection of the Russian Museum are being prepared for shipment to Moscow - a report from the Kultura TV channel

Artistic relocation: St. Petersburg museums send Aivazovsky's canvases to an exhibition in Moscow - report of the St. Petersburg TV channel

Aivazovsky goes to Moscow - report of the TV channel "Mir 24"

Aivazovsky's masterpieces temporarily move from St. Petersburg to Moscow - report of the NTV channel

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky is the greatest creator of his time, a famous Russian artist who glorified the sea element like no one else. A small Armenian boy, born in the port of Feodosia, he was doomed to eternal love for the sea. The sea was everything for him - life, destiny, soul! This endless attachment to a natural miracle inspired the creation of unique creations designed to delight humanity for many centuries.

Chronology of exhibitions of works by Aivazovsky

During the artist's lifetime, many public presentations of masterpieces took place. Many of the exhibitions were held in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa. Aivazovsky was especially worried before the shows in his native Feodosia. After all, fellow countrymen came to admire his works, many of whom remembered Ivan as a boy who played the violin. And today tickets to the Russian Museum on Aivazovsky are very popular. Residents of the city and its guests are happy to contemplate the expositions of the great marine painter.

Aivazovsky was popular not only in his homeland, but also in many European countries. Many owners of foreign galleries considered it an honor to exhibit the artist's work in their salons. Thanks to public displays of paintings in Berlin, Rome, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Nice, Florence, Vienna, more and more connoisseurs of art learned about the creator. Unusual images of marine energy conquered and inspired admirers of talent.

A modern look at the works of the painter

2017 is the year marked by the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of the Russian artist. Many museums in the country and abroad celebrate the great date by showing exhibitions of the great painter's works. But the main show will take place at the Russian Museum. Aivazovsky's paintings are represented by the most famous works.

The Russian Museum contains 54 paintings by the great marine painter. But in order for the exhibition to cover all facets of Aivazovsky's life and work, it is supplemented by expositions brought from the Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo museums-reserves, the Central Naval Museum and the Naval Cadet Corps.

For the bicentennial of the artist's birth, many owners shared their private collections with the stars of the exhibition. Some of the works were brought from abroad, from museums in Florence, Rome, Berlin.

The exhibition of Aivazovsky's works in the Russian Museum consists of several rooms. The largest contains the master's canvases. 200 works, allocated in a separate exposition, there are memorial materials that acquaint the beholder with images of icons. Deeply devout, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky could not ignore the imprinting of the faces of the saints.

The basis of the presentation of the art of the marine painter is well-known paintings, which are marked by a high level and love of fans. Along with the famous canvases for the bicentennial of Aivazovsky, little-known works from private collections are exhibited. The exposition is complemented by items accompanying the artist's career. All the exhibition halls of the Benois Corps are on display. In its staging concept, it differs significantly from the exhibition that took place in the summer in the premises of the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery. The key moments of the opening of the Aivazovsky exhibition in the Russian Museum were dealt with by the Sistema Charitable Foundation.

Traveling through the showrooms

Many potential visitors to the exposition ask themselves the question: "What paintings by Aivazovsky are in the Russian Museum?" The presentation includes many paintings by the painter.

The central place in the exposition of the seascape's canvases is occupied by two monumental paintings - "" and "". The works are rightfully considered the pinnacle of the painter's work.

Sinking ship. 1854 year.

Another canvas by the artist, presented at the exhibition of paintings by Aivazovsky in the Russian Museum - "". An active participant in sea battles, the painter could not remain indifferent to the fate of Russian ships. The artist realistically depicted the collapse of one of them on canvas. Using a pencil and gouache, Ivan Konstantinovich painted raging waves and a strong wind. The emotional mood of the picture is emphasized by the images of the crew members who suffered a disaster. People are trying their last bit to save the ship and their own lives. Whether they will succeed is only known to the conduct. The mighty waves and the lurching ship evoke a pessimistic mood on the viewer. Doom and hopelessness emanates from the canvas. The force of an element that does not obey man dooms the characters to a sad ending. And only seagulls hovering over the ship bring up a timid hope for ghostly happiness. The picture is replete with broad strokes, coupled with meticulously written details. The gray and white palette emphasizes the realistic genius of the masterpiece. The queue to the Russian Museum on Aivazovsky Street is due to the audience's interest in the famous canvases of the master.

In addition to canvases, the Russian Museum contains photographic documents showing the stages of the artist's work.

Two hundred paintings by Aivazovsky are supplemented with parts of real ships - a globe, a bell, a yard. This emphasizes the realistic effect of the painted landscapes. Photos of the artist at work enhance the emotionality of the masterpieces. The viewer can feel the smells of salty waves, burning of burnt masts, wet sand. Aivazovsky's marine style is unique and easily recognizable. But from this he does not cease to be truly masterpiece.

Organizational moments of the exhibition

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky painted over six thousand paintings. Most of the canvases were images of the painter's favorite element - the sea. Each of the marinas is endowed with a unique plot, a unique story. The artist wrote all his creations from memory, considering this method to be the highest sign of skill.

Opening hours of the Aivazovsky exhibition in the Russian Museum

For visitors wishing to familiarize themselves with the exhibition, ticket sales and entrance to the exposition will be carried out through the Benois building (2 Griboyedov Canal Embankment).

Monday - 10.00-20.00
Tuesday - day off
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - 10.00-18.00
Thursday - 13.00-21.00

At the exhibition you can also admire the portraits of contemporaries painted by Ivan Konstantinovich. Images of the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin occupy a special place in the portrait collection. The celebrities knew each other and sincerely admired each other's talent. Throughout his life, Aivazovsky remembered the parting words of the genius: “Work, work, young man. Labor is the main thing in a person's life. " Subsequently, the painter was connected by tender friendship with the poet's widow and her second husband, General Lansky. There is a legend that in his youth, wanting to imitate his idol, Aivazovsky wore sideburns and a hairstyle similar to that of the poet. Many lunar landscapes ("", "", "" and others) were created under the impression of eternal poetry. The image of the great Orpheus found its imprint in six canvases of the artist on the canvas. All of them can be seen at the anniversary exposition of the Russian Museum.

Electronic tickets for the exhibition I.K. Aivazovsky will not be on sale. A ticket to the exhibition of I.K. Aivazovsky can be purchased only at the box office of the Benois building, at the box office of the Mikhailovsky Palace you can purchase a single ticket (the main exposition and exhibition of I.K. Aivazovsky).

The exhibition, timed to coincide with the memorable date - the bicentennial of the birth of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, also presents paintings from private collections. Portraits of famous contemporaries, unknown landscapes, personal belongings of the artist occupy the entire space of the Benois Corps. In addition to the artist's creations, the exhibition features items brought from the Central Naval Museum and the Admiralty. Debris from ship masts, ship rigs, deck lights, banners, bells, globes and compasses fill the exhibition spaces. The exposition is complemented by models of ships-contemporaries of Aivazovsky. However, these items not only create the realities of the 19th century, but also distract from the main exhibits - marinas, portraits and landscapes.

Feedback from visitors about the presentation of Aivazovsky's works in the Russian Museum testifies to some difficulties in viewing. Too much information is gathered in one room. However, the true admirers of the painter's talent cannot be prevented by anything.

A special place at the exhibition is occupied by paintings brought from the artist's homeland - Feodosia. The Feodosia collection contains landscapes "", "", etc. The canvas "" makes a strong impression. Created two years before his death, the picture captured the biblical story - one of the miracles of Jesus Christ. The boat with the apostles follows the clear light emitted by the Savior hovering over the waves. The Apostle Peter was the first to believe in the Miracle and dared to meet the Teacher. Waves lick the bare feet of the follower, not daring to completely absorb him. The rest of the students, enchanted, guide the fragile ship to the light path, shining in the middle of the dark sea. The created picture of being bewitches the viewer, completely absorbing him with its depth. The schematic images of the apostles, their darkened faces are intended not to distract the beholder from the key moment of the canvas - the figure of Jesus. The light that comes from Christ brings hope of salvation and eternal life.

The schedule of Aivazovsky's exposition in the Russian Museum is designed so that as many spectators as possible could enjoy the painter's work. On the opening day of the exhibition - December 22, 2016, many residents of St. Petersburg and guests of the Northern capital visited. Until the end of the show (03/10/2017), it is expected to receive several million visitors. The monumental idea of ​​showing the works of the great genius of the brush is the artistic enlightenment of his contemporaries.

Permanent list of works

Description

Due to the large number of visitors at the exhibition “I.K. Aivazovsky. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth ”, the Russian Museum extends the opening hours of the exhibition from 11 to 20 March 2017 (inclusive) in the Benois Wing.

The following operating mode is set:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10.00 to 21.00
Thursday from 13.00 to 21.00
Tuesday - day off
Ticket offices close 30 minutes earlier.

Sale of a complex ticket for visiting the permanent exposition and exhibition “IK Aivazovsky. To the 200th Anniversary of Birth "in the Mikhailovsky Palace and Benois Wing is carried out until 15.00.

The Russian Museum will open an anniversary exhibition of the outstanding Russian marine painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. His paintings have long won fame among connoisseurs of realistic art around the world.

The collection of the Russian Museum contains two masterpieces by Aivazovsky, which are considered the pinnacle of his work, "The Ninth Wave" and "Wave" - ​​these canvases will occupy a central place in the ongoing exhibition. In addition to famous paintings by the artist from the collection of the Russian Museum, the exhibition will feature paintings from other Russian museums and private collections. Visitors will get acquainted with historical photographs and memorial materials related to the life of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky and his entourage.

Aivazovsky's pictorial style in the image of the sea element is recognizable and unique. The artist has achieved perfection in conveying any state of the sea - be it calm or storm, the color palette accurately conveys the mood of sunrise, daytime solstice, sunset and night at sea. He admires his skill in conveying the textures of the elements of water and air, when the abyss of the ocean and the vastness of the sky are physically felt, combined into a raging element on the master's monumental canvases.

During his long life, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900) created many paintings that in our time are considered masterpieces and have long been adornments of any collection, a significant part of them will be presented at an exhibition in the Russian Museum.

A jubilee inter-museum exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Ivan Aivazovsky begins work in the Benois building. The grandiose exposition occupied both wings, containing 250 works - painting, engraving and applied works, as well as the artist's personal belongings. Among them are paintings from the Admiralty that were previously inaccessible to the general public and works from a gallery in Feodosia. Bearing in mind the excitement at the Aivazovsky exhibition in Moscow, the Russian Museum prepared thoroughly for the opening - so much so that the "lined straw" stuck out from everywhere.

The first visitors not only have not yet threatened to break the doors, but have not even gone to the museum - since the exhibition for the general public will only open on December 22. But at the entrance to the Benois building, yellow metal rails have already appeared.

There was also excitement inside the museum itself. Employees rushed the press to enter the halls, the cloakroom attendant, taking clothes, did not have time to finish the sandwich, and the souvenir saleswoman glared angrily in response to ironic remarks about the phone cases displayed in the window with paintings by Aivazovsky and the Ninth Wave raincoat for less than three thousand rubles.

“It doesn't matter where there are more visitors, and where there are fewer,” said Vladimir Gusev, director of the Russian Museum, raising the ungrateful topic of comparing Moscow and St. Petersburg. “It is important that the artist who gets the attention of the audience wins, and the visitors win, because they have the opportunity to see Aivazovsky in different ways - in the Tretyakov Gallery and here”.

It is unlikely that among the visitors to the exhibition, well, except that, apart from a few art critics, there will be such fans of Aivazovsky who would travel from city to city to his exhibitions and could compare which paintings were removed and which were added, and how accents were placed. But it was precisely this story that caused special excitement among museum workers (and with their submission also among journalists).

Another topic of discussion was the scale of the author's creative personality, who, judging by the phrases sounded, someone allegedly intended to belittle.

The deputy director of the museum for scientific work, Evgenia Petrova, began to explain that Aivazovsky was reproached for the salon and the commercial nature of his art, although they are present in the work of other authors as well. While the masterpieces created by him "justify everything."

"Don't be snobbish about this artist!" - in conclusion she called. But for some reason it seemed that this would lead to the opposite effect.

Either after such an introduction, or for objective reasons, but without snobbery somehow it didn’t work. But it was not concerned with the artist, but with the organization of the exhibition. The fact is that, in addition to Aivazovsky's paintings, it displays items of ship equipment from the Central Naval Museum and the Admiralty - bells, lanterns, flags and anchors, as well as models of ships. All these evidences of the era, with their impressive size, fair amount and, basically, primitive (along the walls) arrangement, push the paintings themselves into the background and provoke their too literal perception. They begin to be perceived as illustrations, but not as allegorical subjects. And the real sea looks just as literally and concretely on the video in the last hall of the exposition, destroying rather than adding new meanings to artistic reality.

But in the paintings of Aivazovsky there is always an additional image and meaning hidden - faith in the best, hope for salvation. No wonder the same Evgenia Petrova told how in 2003, having sent the "Ninth Wave" to a temporary exhibition in Japan, she and her colleagues witnessed the literal worship of this picture by the inhabitants of a country that has experienced more than one natural disaster in its history.

There are no “complaints” about the artist: commercial success has long ceased to be a negative characteristic of someone's work, and the magic of art is the magic of art. All the same beckon to the abyss transparent sea waves, all the same languid views of Constantinople under the tired sun, just as peaceful "Moonlit nights" - regardless of which country the moon rises. And besides everything else, the colors are striking - no reproduction (including in the exhibition catalog) conveys their shades, depth and richness.

We were pleasantly surprised by the pictures from the Feodosia collection. Although specialists headed by the head of the painting department of the 18th - early 19th centuries of the Russian Museum Grigory Goldovsky considered the landscapes Niagara Falls and Ice Mountains to be more valuable in the Crimean collection, the painting Walking on Waters (1897) leaves a strong impression. As well as the allegorical painting "The sinking of the ship Lefort" located next to it from the collection of the Central Naval Museum. The glowing translucent images of Christ in both works convey the feeling of a miracle at work.

Yes, the artist - whether alone or with the help of colleagues - has written as many as six thousand works. Yes, somewhere in his paintings the light falls at the wrong angle, and the image of people is not his strong point at all (which Aivazovsky himself admitted). Yes, someone will not see high art in his gift mini-landscapes, mounted in photographs of the artist himself. And someone will tell either a story or a reality that Aivazovsky had a whole “roll” of a “sea” written in advance, which he unwound as needed and added a ship, mountains or whatever else the muse or the customer would ask for.

Today, views on art have become much broader, a talented person is accepted as a whole, with far greater sins than greed. And even then, how can Aivazovsky be called greedy if, having collected all sorts of awards and occupying the second line in the table of ranks (at the admiral's level), he did not give up art. And most importantly, he was engaged in the protection of the Crimean monuments, at his own expense he built the building of the Feodosia Museum of Antiquities, initiated the construction of a concert hall, a seaport and the Feodosia-Dzhankoy railway, and even ran a water pipeline to Feodosia from a Subash spring that belonged to him, not far from the Old Crimea ... Residents of the city began to receive free water, and the fountain built then in the park near the embankment (modeled on the Constantinople fountain) now bears the name of Aivazovsky.

It will be useful to consider his work in the context of his personality - the scale of which makes it possible to evaluate the numerous awards he has won (the exhibition presents not the specific orders that the artist who served as a painter of the Main Naval Staff of Russia wore on his chest, but their samples). And also - the painting “Ships in the Feodosia roadstead. Honoring Aivazovsky on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday ”, in which the visitor of the exhibition sees many ships lined up in the harbor in front of the greatest singer of the sea.

By the way, as announced in the Russian Museum, this parade in Crimea is planned to be repeated on July 29, 2017 - when the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky will be celebrated in Feodosia.

Alina Tsiopa, Fontanka.ru