Painting by Aivazovsky “Chaos Creation”


“At the art exhibition in Aiivazovsky in Rome, the paintings were recognized as the first.” The Neapolitan Night “,” The Storm “and” Chaos “made so much noise in the capital of fine arts, that the halls of nobles, public gatherings and dens of artists were announced with the glory of the Novorossiysk landscape painter, the newspapers rattled him enthusiastic praise, and all unanimously spoke and wrote that before Aayvazovsky no one had ever depicted so faithfully and lively light, air and water. Pap bought his painting “The Creation of the World. Chaos “and put it in the Vatican, where only works of the world’s first artists are awarded.”

At the exhibition in Rome around the canvases of Aivazovsky, a real excitement unfolded: “There were several hunters on each picture, sold everything, but” Neapolitan night “and” Day “did not dare to sell for a long time,” he told a friend, “I did not want to give to foreigners. The English gave me 5000 rubles for two, but I did not want to succumb to them, but gave them to Prince Gorchakov for 2000 rubles. “Night” he wanted to leave them all at home.

Considering his paintings, go from the brightest point – for example, the source of light, we admire the moon, does the rest matter? The moon is a cloud nearby, the sea in which the same moon is reflected. Everything else melts, disappears. In the paintings of Aivazovsky in the first place – the light, and around the world he builds everything else. Figures of people do not register already because they are nothing more than a decoration or extras, while the main character here is not them! And the sea and the reflection of light, the moon or the sun, from which I begin to look, they seem to move in directing my view.


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Painting by Aivazovsky “Chaos Creation”