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    Isaac Levitan: Selected Paintings
    Isaac Levitan: Selected Paintings
    Isaac Levitan: Selected Paintings
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    Isaac Levitan: Selected Paintings

    By Katerina Ivanova

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    Isaac llyich Levitan (1860 -1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". Isaac Levitan's hugely influential art heritage consists of more than a thousand paintings, among them watercolors, pastels, graphics, and illustrations.
    Levitan's work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape. Levitan did not paint urban landscapes; with the exception of the View of Simonov Monastery and the city of Moscow appears only in the painting Illumination of the Kremlin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublisher s13381
    Release dateAug 10, 2017
    ISBN9788822810397
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      Surely is impossible to represent such complex life of a genius, that was Levitan. This book manages very well to capture essential works and life paths of this extraordinary artist.

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    Isaac Levitan - Katerina Ivanova

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    Foreword

    Isaac llyich Levitan (1860 -1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape. Isaac Levitan's hugely influential art heritage consists of more than a thousand paintings, among them watercolors, pastels, graphics, and illustrations.

    Levitan's work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape. Levitan did not paint urban landscapes; with the exception of the View of Simonov Monastery and the city of Moscow appears only in the painting Illumination of the Kremlin. During the late 1870s he often worked in the vicinity of Moscow, and created the special variant of the landscape of mood, in which the shape and condition of nature are spiritualized, and become carriers of conditions of the human soul. During work in Ostankino, he painted fragments of the mansion's house and park, but he was most fond of poetic places in the forest or modest countryside.

    Characteristic of his work is a hushed and nearly melancholic reverie amidst pastoral landscapes largely devoid of human presence. Fine examples of these qualities include The Vladimirka Road, 1892 Evening Bells, 1892, and Eternal Rest,

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