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TITLE:
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First Snow
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WORK DATE:
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2002
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on canvas
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MARKINGS:
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Signed and dated bottom right
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SIZE:
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h: 80 x w: 120 cm / h: 31.5 x w: 47.2 in
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Victor Ivanovich Ivanov was one of the founders of the "severe style” in Russian painting. The Ryasan area where his mother was born became the main inspiration of his art and the object of a spiritual attachment. There he sought inspiration, and all of his most powerful images were born there. In the village, all human life was there from the first day till the last. The artist saw in this place the truest merging between man and nature, redemption of a kind, and the preparation for the peace of eternity. He saw the monumental and yet romantic greatness of country work and life. Simple village objects in Ivanov's pictures become meaningful symbols of rural life, measured and at the same time somehow eternal. All this attains a sense of the highest solemnity and creates an atmosphere of deep significance, an intense emotional envelope. “Our art was magnificent, we created works which it seemed to us, did not distort reality in any way, - Victor Ivanovich recalls. - This was the Truth of our time and this Truth has always been most important for my art. I believe in realism. It gives us strength, speaks of beauty both physical and moral. Realism is the highest art; history shows nothing to equal it.”
This piece shows a much loved corner of the countryside: Victor Ivanov's personal view of nature from which the artist at various times of year has painted a whole series of landscapes. Ivanov had stated: “I agree with the famous claim by Levitan that it is possible to be a true landscape painter only in Russia! Indeed the Russian landscape is spiritual and it conveys what is truly important - ideas and feelings”. This work is the only version of the painting and is exhibited here for the first time.
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