Painting by Aivazovsky “The Coast in Amalfi”


In 1840 Aivazovsky, among other boarders of the Academy of Arts, went to Rome to continue his education and improvement in landscape painting.

In Italy he went to the already established master who absorbed all the best traditions of Russian art. The spent years abroad are marked by tireless work. He acquainted with classical art in the museums of Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, visits Germany, Switzerland, Holland, France, England, Spain, Portugal.

The artist worked in Italy with great enthusiasm. For him there were no secrets in how to write, what method to convey the movement of the wave, its transparency, how to portray a light, scattered network of falling foam on the bends of the waves. He perfectly knew how to convey the wave rolling on the sandy shore so that the viewer could see coastal sand shining through the foamy water. He knew a lot of techniques for depicting waves crashing against the coastal rocks.

Finally, he deeply comprehended the various states

of the air environment, the movement of clouds and clouds. All this helped him to brilliantly embody his picturesque plans and create bright, artistically performed works.

Representing the vast expanses of the sea and sky, the artist conveyed nature in a lively movement, in the endless variability of forms: then in the form of gentle, calm calmness, then in the form of a formidable, raging element. With the artist’s insight, he conceived the hidden rhythms of the motion of the sea wave and, with inimitable mastery, knew how to convey them in images of fascinating and poetic.

Aivazovsky created about fifty large paintings in Italy. Exhibited in Naples and Rome, they caused a real stir and made the young painter famous. Critics wrote that no one had previously depicted light, air and water so vividly and reliably. Particularly admired were his seascapes: View of the Venetian lagoon (1841), the Gulf of Naples (1841), the Coast in Amalfi (1841), Chaos. World creation. (1841), the Gulf of Naples in the moonlight (1842), the Coast. Calm. (1843) and many others. This success was received at home as a well-deserved tribute to the talent and skill of the artist.


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Painting by Aivazovsky “The Coast in Amalfi”