Born in 1842, Mr.. in the family of a shoemaker in Mariupol. Early lost his parents and lived in great poverty, tending geese, served as the contractor for the construction of the church, then at hlebotorgovtsa; learned from the teacher-Greek literacy in Greek, then briefly attended City College. From an early age manifested his desire to painting, he drew wherever he could, on walls, fences and scraps of paper. Having been a retoucher for photographers in Mariupol, Odessa and St. Petersburg, he wrote the big picture: "The Tatar hut in the Crimea, which was exhibited at the Academic Fair in 1868, and became a volunteer academy. In 1872, Mr.. for the painting "Autumn thaw" he gets the title of class artist. In 1873, Mr..
Kuindzhi exhibited in the Society of Promotion of the Arts painting "Snow", for which in 1874. at the international exhibition in London receives a bronze medal. Also in 1873. He exhibits in Vienna, his painting "View of the island of Valaam" in St. Petersburg - "Ladoga". In 1874,. the exhibition of the Association of Traveling exhibitions
Kuindzhi exposes the "forgotten village" in 1875. - Two: "The Steppe" and "Chumatski tract, in 1876, Mr.. - The famous "Ukrainian night". Critics unanimously appreciate the outstanding merits of his work. In 1878, Mr.. "Ukrainian night" along with "a view of the island of Valaam and Chumatski tract" appears on the World Exhibition in Paris. The Paris art critic extremely sympathetically greeted pictures
Kuindzhi. In 1877, Mr..
Kuindzhi is a member of the Association of traveling exhibitions; in 1878. exposes the "Forest" and "Night in the Ukraine", aroused a lot of disputes and created a lot of imitators. In 1879, Mr.. he exposes the "North", "Birch Grove", "After the Storm", in the same year
Kuindzhi left the exhibition of the Association. In 1880, Mr.. he was satisfied with the Society of the Encouragement of Arts exhibition of one of his paintings: "Night on the Dnieper; show this was an unprecedented success, about her writing is not only the conventional art critics, and Polonsky, Strakhov, Mendeleyev, Turgenev. In the same year the painting was exhibited in Paris. In 1881, also separately,
Kuindzhi exhibited "Birch grove", which had an equally big success, and in 1882, Mr.. Dnipro in the morning "with" Birch Grove "and" Night on the Dnieper ". After this show until his death
Kuindzhi anywhere else did not put their pictures, and before 1900-ies to anyone and no-shows. From 1894 to 1897.
Kuindzhi was a professor of senior art school at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1904. He brought a gift to the Academy of 100,000 rubles for the issuance of 24 annual awards in 1909, Mr.. Art Society has donated 150,000 rubles of his name and his estate in the Crimea, and the society to promote the Arts 11700 rubles for the prize for landscape painting, July 11, 1910, Mr..
Kuindzhi died. Although
Kuindzhi and can not be called a disciple Aivazovsky, but the latter had on him, no doubt, some influence in the first period of its activities; from him, he borrowed much in the style of writing, in choosing to love for a wide spaces. At the academy
Kuindzhi friends with Repin, IN. Vasnetsov and others, and with them joined the circle of the Wanderers, for most of this period is characterized by its "Autumn slush", . "The Forgotten Village" and "Chumatski tract", . although the latter has already noticed a careful avoidance of prescribing details and the desire to generalize,
. "Ukrainian night" marks a turning point in the work
Kuindzhi. Kramskoy wrote that the paintings
Kuindzhi "stunningly nova". Pictures
Kuindzhi much darker, and now can not judge the strength of their original colors, but for the time they were a revelation.
Kuindzhi boldly to pave the way for impressionism, he himself said that the artist - someone who is able to capture and recreate the internal unity. It attracted mainly light effect, its purpose was to transfer the impression from the light, he studied the laws of a combination of complementary colors for the transfer of intensity. Sometimes the pursuit of power led him to the light too theatrical effects, his manner was sometimes crude, simplistic picture, but his role in Russian painting is enormous, he was the first completely original Russian impressionist. Despite the fact that since 1882, Mr..
Kuindzhi did not exhibited, . he worked in his workshop and was deeply interested in art, he took an active part in the development of a new charter of the Academy of Fine Arts, joined the leadership of the landscape class, . he, . Professor after spending only three years, . created a whole school of artists,
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Kuindzhi was an excellent teacher; protecting their students from imitation, . he sought to develop in each of these identities, . inspire them with his ardent love for nature, to his disciples, the owner of such talented artists, . as Roerich, . Bogaevsky, . Latri, . Rylov, . Himono, . Purve,
. In 1898, Mr..
Kuindzhi took a group of their students abroad, showing them the artistic monuments and museums in Germany, France and Austria. Independent and autonomous,
Kuindzhi played a major role in the academy, he has amassed a lot of enemies, and his directness and sharpness. A man of exceptional kindness, he sought to help his students and colleagues and the board and the material, his dream was to free the artist from the power market, to give him an opportunity to develop their talents outside of heavy material worries. This partial deliverance seemed to him, and he established the prizes; the same purpose was to serve the society and its name, providing them with big capital, administered by the artists themselves.
Kuindzhi paintings are in museums or private individuals, all the rest after his death, bequeathed them to the Company's name, which some of them transferred to the metropolitan and provincial museums. "Night on the Dnieper River is located in the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, . "Birch Grove" and "Steppe" - a collection Tereshchenko in Kiev in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow are: "On the island of Valaam", . "The Forgotten Village, . "Steppe", . "Chumatski tract", . "Ukrainian night", . North, . "Birch Grove", . "After the Storm", . Dnepr in the morning "and" Sunset in the Forest ", the Museum of Emperor Alexander III in St. Petersburg -" Night in the Ukraine ", . "Fog on the sea, . "Rainbow" and the sketches: "Moonlight",
. - See. Stamp. Nevedomsky and I.E. Repin "
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Kuindzhi"; H. Alexandrov "Value
Kuindzhi" "Alexander Benois" History of Russian Painting in the XIX century ", his" Russian school of painting ", and. Ostroukhov and C. The verb "Art Gallery II. and C. Tretyakovs ". S. P-va.
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. I. Kuindzhi can be found in the section "Russian Art" on a private page, George Mitrevski (Auburn University, USA).
