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Alexander Ivanov
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov ( July 16, 1806 –
July 3, 1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition
of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries.
Alexander Ivanov studied together with Karl Briullov
at the Imperial Academy of Arts under his father, Andrey A. Ivanov.
He spent most of his life in Rome where he befriended Gogol and
succumbed to the influence of the Nazarenes. He has been called
the master of one work, for it took 20 years to complete his magnum
opus, The Appearance of Christ before the People (1837-57). Ivanov's
disappointment with the public reception of this grand work undoubtedly
contributed to his premature death.
It was for the next generation of art critics to
do him justice. Some of the numerous sketches he had prepared for
The Appearance have been recognized as masterpieces in their own
right. Although Ivanov's major painting is a gem of the Tretyakov
Gallery, the most comprehensive collection of his works can be viewed
at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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