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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Birch Grove (nn02) 1879
Oil on canvas (dimensions unknown) state Russian Museum,Leningrad
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Landscape cn40
1874
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi The night of Ukraine cn40
1876
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi The Boat on the sea cn40
1875
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Landscape cn40
1885-1890
Oil painting
39x53cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Dniester cn40
1901
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Landscape cn40
182
Oil painting
70x110cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Landscape cn40
1873
Oil painting
76x130cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Landscape cn40
1873
Oil painting
79.5x62.5cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi North cn40
1879
Oil painting
132x103cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Silver Birch cn40
1879
Oil painting
91x181cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi The empress of rain cn40
1879
Oil painting
102x159cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Dnieper-s Moonlight cn40
1880
Oil painting
105x144cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi The evening of Ukraine cn40
1878-1880
Oil painting
81x163cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi The Lake in the forest-Cloud cn40
1890
Oil painting
38.4x55.5cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Eventide cn40
1885-1890
Oil painting
29x57.5cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Eventide cn40
1890-1895
Oil painting
38.7x55.5cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Sunset cn40
1890-1895
Oil painting
40.5x53.5cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Landscape cn40
1890-1895
Oil paiting
38.8x52.9cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi Noon-the drove on the campo cn40
1890-1895
Oil painting
42x51cm
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi
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Russian Painter, 1842-1910
Ukrainian painter, active in Russia. Initially self-taught as an artist, he twice failed the St Petersburg Academy's entrance examination, despite coaching by the marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. In 1868, however, he was accepted as an external student. He persevered against conservative prejudice and poverty throughout his early career, supplementing his income by retouching photographs. In his early landscape paintings he often sought to capture seasonal moods, as in Autumn Mud (1872; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.). A more human focus, however, is noticeable after 1874, when he joined the travelling exhibitions society the WANDERERS: the village houses dominate the landscape setting in Evening in Ukraine (1878; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.). Kuindzhi's principal interest, however, was in lighting, and he obtained striking effects by using vivid colours, chiaroscuro contrasts and simple but cleverly conceived designs. Spectacular paintings, such as the Birch Grove (1879; Moscow, Tret'yakov Gal.), greatly moved contemporary viewers. Through years of experimentation, Kuindzhi developed a highly original technique, which he applied to an increasingly typical, at times almost visionary, treatment of subjects such as snow-covered mountains and moonlight (e.g. Elbnis: Moonlit Night, 1890-95; Moscow, Tret'yakov Gal.). Due to imperfections in the paints he used, many of his canvases soon darkened.
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