29,5" ALEXEY SAVRASOV "The Rooks Have Come Back" painting art printed on canvas
ALEXEY SAVRASOV (1830 – 1897)
Title of artwork: "The Rooks Have Come Back"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1871
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 29,5" or 75 cm.
Size: 17,7" x 23,6" (in) or 45 x 60 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Alexei
Kondratyevich Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the
lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He
began to draw early and in 1838 he enrolled as a student of professor Karl
Rabus (1800-1857) at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
(MSPSA). He graduated in 1850 and immediately began to specialize in landscape
painting. The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) is considered by many critics to be
the high point in Savrasov’s artistic career. Using a common, even trivial,
episode of birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape, Savrasov
emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter to spring. It was a new
type of lyrical landscape painting, called later by critics the mood landscape.
The painting brought him fame. In 1870, he became a member of the Peredvizhniki
group, breaking with government-sponsored academic art. In the late 1870s, he
gradually became an alcoholic. The process may have begun with the death of his
daughter in 1871, which led to a crisis in his art and, possibly,
dissatisfaction with his artistic career. In 1882, he was dismissed from his
position at the MSPSA. All attempts of his relatives and friends to help him
were in vain.
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