Aivazovsky world flood where the ark is in the picture. Biblical paintings by Aivazovsky

Ivan Aivazovsky's painting "The Flood" was painted in 1864 on a biblical story, to which the artist repeatedly turned during his life. This picture is one of the best options created by Aivazovsky. The emphasis is on the sea element, wild beauty and the superiority of the sea over all.
A huge crest of a wave will inexorably and cruelly capture people and send them into the depths of the sea ... The inevitable death of people and the inability to escape is predicted by a sad palette of colors. The horror and despair of a person alone with the elements contrast with the artistic picture. The power of nature is primarily shown by the artist. At the same time, he emphasizes that sins and darkness go away with water. This is not death, for him the element presented is a glimmer of hope and faith, the only chance for people to cleanse themselves and receive mercy from the Creator. As a final result, the artist assumes a way out of the abyss into another world full of goodness and light.
The original of this painting is stored in the storerooms of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg: due to the impressive size (246.5 - 319.5 meters) and the small area of ​​​​the museum halls intended for the exhibition of Aivazovsky's works, art lovers cannot see the original ...

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Ivan Kostantinovich Aivazovsky - the most outstanding artist - Armenian of the XIX century Hovhannes Ayvazyan.
Aivazovsky's ancestors were Galician Armenians who moved to Galicia from Turkish Armenia in the 18th century. A family tradition has also been preserved that among his ancestors were Turks: the artist’s father told him that the artist’s great-grandfather on the female side was the son of a Turkish military leader and, as a child, during the capture of Azov by Russian troops in 1696, he was saved from death by a certain Armenian who he was baptized and adopted.

Ivan Aivazovsky discovered artistic and musical abilities from childhood. He taught himself to play the violin. The Feodosia architect Yakov Kokh was the first to pay attention to the artistic abilities of the boy. He gave him paper, pencils, paints, taught him the skill, helped him enter the Feodosia district school. Then Aivazovsky graduated from the Simferopol gymnasium and was admitted at public expense to the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Was assigned to the fashionable French landscape painter Philip Tanner. But Tanner forbade Aivazovsky to work independently. Despite this, on the advice of Professor Alexander Ivanovich Sauerweid, he managed to prepare several paintings for the exhibition of the Academy of Arts. Tanner complained about Aivazovsky's arbitrariness to Emperor Nicholas I, by order of the tsar, all the paintings were removed from the exhibition, despite rave reviews from critics.

The conflict was neutralized thanks to Sauerweid, in whose class six months later a young young artist was assigned to practice maritime military painting. In 1837, Aivazovsky received a Grand Gold Medal for the painting “Calm”. This gave him the right to a two-year trip to the Crimea and Europe. There, in addition to creating seascapes, he was engaged in battle painting and even participated in hostilities on the coast of Circassia. As a result, he painted the painting "Landing of the detachment in the length of Subashi", which was acquired by Nicholas I. At the end of the summer of 1839, he returned to St. Petersburg, received a certificate of graduation from the Academy, his first rank and personal nobility.

In 1840 he went to Rome. For his paintings of the Italian period he received the Gold Medal of the Paris Academy of Arts. In 1842 he went to Holland, from there - to England, France, Portugal, Spain. During the trip, the ship on which the artist was sailing got into a storm and nearly sank in the Bay of Biscay. The Parisian newspapers even reported on his death. After a four-year journey in the autumn of 1844, Aivazovsky returned to Russia and became a painter of the Main Naval Staff, and since 1947 he was a professor at the St.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky painted mainly seascapes. His career has been very successful. He was awarded many orders and received the rank of Rear Admiral. In total, the artist wrote more than 6 thousand works.

From 1845 he lived in Feodosia, where he opened an art school with the money he earned, which later became one of the art centers of Novorossia, was the initiator of the construction of the Feodosia - Dzhankoy railway, built in 1892. He was actively involved in the affairs of the city, its improvement.
At his own expense, he built a new building for the Feodosia Museum of Antiquities, for services to archeology he was elected a full member of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities.

In 1848 Ivan Konstantinovich got married. His wife was Yulia Yakovlevna Grevs, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a staff doctor who was in the Russian service. They had four daughters. But due to Aivazovsky's unwillingness to live in the capital, Yulia Yakovlevna left her husband after 12 years. However, the marriage was annulled only in 1877. In 1882, Aivazovsky met Anna Nikitichna Sarkisova. Aivazovsky saw Anna Nikitichna at the funeral of her husband, a famous Feodosia merchant. The beauty of the young widow struck Ivan Konstantinovich. A year later they got married.

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The event turned out to be family and cultural, because my parents showed the liveliest interest in the exhibition. His paintings struck them even in their youth, when they visited museums either in St. Petersburg or in Feodosia, so the opportunity to see almost everything and immediately in one place was impossible to miss. So, we bought tickets, got into the car and went to meet the beautiful.

Taught by the bitter experience of the queue at Serov (TM), the administration of the gallery has introduced online ticket sales for visiting sessions. 250 tickets are scheduled for each session. At the same time, the entry time is prudently divided into thirty-minute intervals: not everyone is able to appear exactly on time; theatrical, academic and other delays must also be taken into account. An electronic ticket no longer needs to be additionally issued at the gallery box office or printed out from the terminal. Now scan the barcode directly from the paper. The idea of ​​pre-sold sessions turned out to be surprisingly successful. The exhibition is very popular. Tickets are available for sessions in 10 days. On August 1, I bought tickets for 12 without any problems; on Friday, tickets were sold only for 23. However, those who do not have the Internet or do not have the opportunity to plan their affairs for such a long time also have a chance to get to the exhibition. For each session, 25-50 (depending on the occupancy of the hall) people from the live queue are also launched. Here, too, there were no special surprises left: people are also launched every half an hour, and signs with an approximate waiting time are placed along the line. So that there are no illusions... By the way, you can buy tickets in advance not only on the Internet, but also at a separate box office, but there is a sign in front of the entrance indicating the nearest possible date of the visit. In general, Serov's shortcomings were taken into account, so that the field kitchens of the Ministry of Emergencies can rest for the next couple of months. The disco will probably start closer to closing.

Since I laid a margin of time for traffic jams, parking (on weekends, when I came for reconnaissance, the queue for parking was simply dead, they stood without movement for half an hour, moving at the expense of the poor fellows who had lost their patience), etc., we arrived at the place an hour before the scheduled time. The line of spontaneous visitors lasted for an hour and a half, there is no queue as such for the passage of electronic tickets, just closer to the appointed time people gather to enter directly with the last blow of the chimes. However, we waited with great pleasure on the benches in Museon Park. The weather was just lovely: pleasantly cool, the sun slightly covered by clouds. Mom has not been out in the city center for a long time: her health does not allow her to walk. Therefore, the park delighted her. I must say, landscapers really did a wonderful job. Instead of bright flowers, various herbs are planted in the flower beds, blooming discreetly with blue tufts or gray panicles. All this looks very stylish, pleasing to the eye and very soothing. When 11 o'clock struck, we headed for the doors. There are three frames at the entrance, visitors were quickly distributed between them, so there was no delay at all. Presenting paper with printed tickets to an intelligent lady with a scanner and armed with an audio guide, we finally entered the hall.

At the entrance there is a small video installation showing an endlessly looping footage of sea waves. Black and white shots look very dull, especially against the backdrop of the amazing light pouring from the paintings.

The "main" paintings of the artist are known to all. Dad, having crossed the threshold of the exhibition hall, immediately went in search of the painting "Wave", which fascinated him even in the Russian Museum.

"Ninth Wave", "Black Sea", "Rainbow", the most diverse bays - the waves in these pictures just call you to plunge into them or, on the contrary, recoil, saving your life.



The paintings at the exhibition were brought from many museums: the Tretyakov Gallery itself, the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Naval Museum, palaces, from Feodosia, Yerevan. The painting "Chaos", located in the Vatican, did not come to the exhibition. The paintings are collected by themes: "Naval Symphonies", "Artist of the Naval Headquarters", "Captured by the Mystery of the Universe", "Nocturnes". They are united by amazing light and life. Spectators search in vain for illumination behind the paintings. Brushes, paints and talent - that's all the artist had.

His life turned out very well. A boy from a poor Armenian family, Hovhanez Ayvazyan (Gaivazovsky), attracted the attention of the Feodosia mayor Kaznacheev. Thanks to his help, the boy first studied at the gymnasium, and then was enrolled in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. As a pensioner (now such students are called scholarship holders), he visited Italy, which of course fascinated him. The main love of the artist was the sea, sometimes critics, wanting to praise some picture, said that the people in the picture surprisingly came out well, which he allegedly usually did not succeed very well.
In 1844, Aivazovsky was appointed painter of the Main Naval Staff of the Russian Empire. However, it is quite amusing that in notifications of the next official honors: either a painter of the Main Naval Staff with the right to wear a uniform (!), Or later a professor at the St. But he had enough money: both collectors and the royal family bought his paintings, the Turkish Sultan ordered about 30 paintings from him to decorate the Dolmabahce Palace. Being a painter of the Main Naval Staff, Aivazovsky enjoyed great respect among military sailors, was friends with many famous naval commanders.
"Review of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849".
The sailors even fired cannons on purpose so that the artist could see how the cannonball ricocheted through the water. He went on sea voyages, during the Crimean War he refused to leave the besieged Sevastopol for a long time.
Aivazovsky repeatedly visited Turkey, spoke Turkish, painted pictures for Sultan Abdul-Gaziz. I hung around his oriental paintings for a very long time. His images of Istanbul are very consonant with my impressions of this amazing city.




The artist generally had a chance to travel a lot. At the end of his life, he even visited the United States, seeing Niagara Falls with his own eyes.


But in our country, he had something to draw. In the paintings depicting Dagestan, its colors are surprisingly similar to the palette used to paint the Himalayas by Nicholas Roerich.


He painted pictures on both mystical and religious subjects. In the picture "The Flood" we diligently searched for Noah's Ark, but never found it :-) The picture is very large, with an abundance of details, it is extremely reminiscent of Bryullov's "The Last Day of Pompeii" (which greatly influenced Aivazovsky's work). I really wanted to take a picture of a kneeling visitor who looked at some important detail in the picture in this way, but I was too shy. There is in this something from peeping through a keyhole. Uncomfortable.


In the painting "Walking on the Waters" Christ is depicted ephemerally, as the light of the world.


One of the most terrible pictures is "The sinking of the ship Lefort". This is still the largest catastrophe of a Russian warship. Together with him, 843 people perished in the depths of the sea. In the picture there are neither terrible waves, nor a broken ship. The ship lies at the bottom, around it are the souls of the dead. Someone is accepted by Christ, and someone does not ascend to heaven, only crying: "Remember me, Lord, in your kingdom," and someone does not even look up. The painting is usually exhibited at the Naval Museum.

The most vivid idea of ​​Aivazovsky's gift, not talent, but precisely the gift, is given by the painting "Creation of the World".

"The earth was formless and empty, and the spirit of God hovered over the waters." The canvas itself is not the brightest in the exhibition, but there is one detail. The artist painted it in nine hours. The size of the painting is approximately 1.5 by 2 meters, that is, an area of ​​at least 3 square meters. If you paint such an area with a wide paint brush, it will take about an hour. And then oil paints, small details, small brushes. In short, he did not and could not have time to think about his actions. His hand seemed to be led by someone.
So he lived, kissed by God. His life was not the easiest, but certainly happy. And even if at the end of his life he was accused of salonism and commerce, it only meant that his works sold well during his lifetime, which is usually a rarity for brilliant artists.

We spent four hours at the exhibition. I would go again, since there is still time until November.
Everyone will have their own Aivazovsky. For example, I involuntarily overheard how one lady complained to her companion that she could no longer look at it: in every picture someone is sure to drown. Although critics believe that the artist gives his heroes a chance, albeit illusory, but to survive. But another lady, having fallen into a kind of euphoria, walked around the exhibition and, stopping at the paintings, read poetry. In a whisper, just for myself. There were a large number of mothers and grandparents trying to introduce their children to beauty. The children were joined with varying degrees of success. Someone tried to turn the steering wheel, prudently hidden under a glass cap, and someone sobbed violently, because everything was tired. I still have a feeling of bright joy from these pictures. Parents were also happy, because these pictures reminded them of the joyful events of their youth. We were also lucky with the weather. When we went outside, it turned out that during the hours spent in the museum, the pleasant coolness turned into an icy wind that overtook the lead clouds. But the downpour kindly waited until we got into the car, for which special thanks to him.

Go to the exhibition if you haven't been yet. You will not regret.

Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich is known as the author of numerous paintings on the marine theme. Anyone who is at least a little familiar with the work of Hovhannes knows that the author painted more than one picture on biblical, historical subjects. In 1862, another work by Aivazovsky, The Flood, was born. It is known that the artist repeatedly returned to the plot, trying to create other options, to improve the existing ones. The variant created in 1864 was recognized as the best.

Aivazovsky's "Global Flood" - distinctive characteristics

If you have read the Bible, heard the stories described in it, you know that the flood was sent by God because of the unbelief of the people living on earth, the violation of the commandments, the killing of animals, and the commission of other atrocities.

The artist loved to create on biblical themes, but the resulting work is difficult to rank among the most successful, because his element was the sea. Repeatedly he painted Mount Ararat, mentioned in the Holy Gospel, the descent of the righteous Noah from a high volcanic massif. The paintings were exhibited for the first time in Paris. After a while, Aivazovsky's painting The Flood was presented by the author himself as a gift to the Novo-Nakhichevan school. But it so happened that when the civil war began, the educational institution was turned into a barracks, alternately occupied by representatives of formations warring with each other. The door was closed with a canvas, but once there was a board instead of it, and no one knew where Aivazovsky's Flood was without the ark. The theft was committed by a student of the school, in 1921 he managed to put together several works of art created by the hands of Aivazovsky.

If we consider Aivazovsky’s painting “The Deluge, the Ark” itself, then it’s hard not to agree that it shows more how wild the sea element can be than describes the biblical legend. As in other canvases of the marine painter, here the main emphasis is on the beauty and rigidity of the deep sea. Successfully made contours with maximum accuracy demonstrate the dominance of waves over the environment.

Aivazovsky's painting "The Flood. Ark, we see that the crest of the wave covers absolutely everyone. This proves that man is powerless against nature, it is impossible to overcome the depths of the sea. People try to climb a hill, but they also sink under water and die, which once again emphasizes the horror of the cataclysm.

There are descriptions of the Flood by Aivazovsky, where a work of art is viewed from a slightly different angle. The presented element is not death, it is perceived as a ray of faith, reliable, a chance to be cleansed, having received mercy from the Creator.

On this description of Aivazovsky's painting The Deluge, I would like to finish and move on to interesting facts from the life of the artist.

The Flood - Aivazovsky and everything connected with him

There was an interesting incident in the life of the painter. In Venice, a man approached him and offered to paint a picture in exchange for a sausage. Then it turned out that it was the owner of the sausage factory. The artist was a little surprised, but agreed to barter.

Aivazovsky's painting The Flood, where the ark was not depicted, was born in 1884. Then the painter got into a storm while in the Bay of Biscay. One of the local newspapers published a note about the death of the famous artist. It's no secret that after the death of the author, works are valued more, so the seller of Aivazovsky's paintings, until the truth became known, managed to sell the canvases at an inflated price.

Ivan Konstantinovich, thanks to the celebrity, was rich. He spent his cash reserves not only on himself, but also helped to develop the city where he lived. With the funds allocated by him, an educational institution was built in Feodosia, an institution where they collected, studied, exhibited, kept memorials of natural history, material / spiritual culture. Under the auspices of Hovhannes, a gallery, a railway, and a water supply system appeared in the seaside town (partially financed by him).

From this we can conclude that Aivazovsky was not only a talented, but also a generous person.

In the Museum of the city of St. Petersburg, there is an amazing painting by marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky called "The Flood". The painting began in 1864. The masterpiece reflected the faith of the marine painter. A huge number of paintings were created on biblical themes. "The Deluge" is the epitome of beautiful stories from the Bible. The versatility of Ivan Aivazovsky's art never ceases to amaze. The ability to convey life and emotions on paper with paints makes every person who has seen the work of the artist at least once in his life breathe heavily.

The foamy sea again appears in the picture of the great marine painter. This art canvas clearly shows the wild life of the sea element, rather than a tale from the bible. The emphasis is on the sea, its beauty and rigidity, the contours of the artist's brush show the advantage of sea waves over all.

The catastrophic wave crest spares no one. Clear laws have been established by which the sea element lives. They are relentless and cruel. The nautical luxury overshadows the overall look of the art, as the power is released with the speed of thought. It was very important for the creator to show how strong nature can be before man. It is impossible to defeat her, and if you fall into the depths of the sea, you can’t go back.

People who die in the sea abyss show the role of this cataclysm. The powerful element attracts attention to itself so strongly as if by hypnosis. An alluring sad set of colors predicts the death of people and the inability to escape. The contrast of the artistic picture complements the horror and despair of a man who was left alone with the sea.

Along with water, sins and gloom go away, this is not death, the artist showed. The presented element is a glimmer of hope and faith, through darkness and sadness. For people, the only chance to purify and receive mercy from the Creator. The end result of the picture suggests a way out of the abyss into another world - the realm of goodness and light.

In the State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg, Aivazovsky's painting "The Flood" is stored in storerooms. Unfortunately, art lovers are deprived of the opportunity to see its original. Perhaps the reason for this is the small area of ​​​​the hall intended for the exposition of Aivazovsky's works. After all, the size of this masterpiece is really impressive 246.5 x 319.5 meters and it could take up an entire wall.

This can be said to be a terrible story, the painter began to write in 1862, and two years later he returned to this topic again and created another version, which is in the museum. It is painted in oil on canvas, there is also a version of drawing in watercolor on paper. It is worth noting that, having a multifaceted talent, Aivazovsky wrote a lot on biblical and historical topics.

The painting The Flood, which was exhibited at the exhibition of the Academy of Arts, received rave reviews from the Russian intelligentsia. The following year, Emperor Alexander II bought it for the Hermitage.

The beautiful stories of the holy book seemed to come to life under his magic brush. The palette of colors skillfully conveyed vitality and emotionality on the canvas. Please note that it is in front of Aivazovsky’s paintings in the museum that a handful of people always stand, unable to tear themselves away from the contemplation of these iridescent azure-turquoise hues that imperceptibly flow from the water element to the gloomy sky. In the picture "The Flood" golden-yellow colors, as if written only to illuminate the blue-violet darkness of the rest of the world, abandoned by Noah's ark.

The foamy sea surface appears before our eyes. The picture shows a more evil essence of the elements of the sea than is told about in sacred books and legends. Aivazovsky deliberately focuses on the image of the sea, its charms and rigidity, the master's brush depicts a clear victory of the sea element. You should not expect mercy from her giant crest. There is a clear law, and only the sea obeys it. He is relentless and ruthless. And there is luxury and majesty in this too. The power of the elements is faster than human thought. The author convincingly shows the power of nature over living beings. No need to expect indulgence from her, and once in the abyss - there is no return.

The power of nature has always attracted the curiosity of mankind, like hypnosis. The woefully bewitching tones and shades are already a kind of prediction of death and inevitability. The contrast in the work adds to the despair of people left alone with the disaster.

However, water cleanses from sinfulness and hopeless blue-violet darkness, this is not the end - says Aivazovsky. The element that appears before us carries both a weak hope and faith, despite the darkness and sadness. This is a chance granted by the Almighty for purification and salvation. The work does not cause pessimism among the audience, since we are sure that a way out of the abyss into the bright world of goodness will be found very soon. The artist's sea is a peculiar basis of nature and history, especially in religious themes. However, religious iconography can hardly be called Aivazovsky's great success.

Aivazovsky's worldview with national roots was closely associated with the culture of Armenia. Ararat - the symbol of Armenia - the painter depicted more than a dozen times. His famous work "Noah's Descent from Ararat" was presented at the Paris exhibition.

The flood is a universal cataclysm, which is spoken of in many religions of the world. This gigantic flood is the punishment of the Supreme Being(s) for sinfulness and disobedience. The flood is retribution for the loss of morality. God wanted to rid the Earth of people mired in immorality and leave only the pious Noah with his family. Noah was then, according to the Bible, five hundred years old. He had three sons and it took them about a hundred years to build this "antediluvian" ship.

Having completed this grandiose activity, Noah boarded the ship, took a pair of each creature that then lived on Earth. The doors slammed shut, and at the same moment the water hit the land like a powerful wall. The disaster lasted 40 days and everyone died. Only those on board survived. The water rose above the mountains. Five months later, it slowly began to decrease, and on the 17th day of the 7th month, the ark sailed to Ararat. It took a long time before the land became visible.

Aivazovsky's painting "The Flood" is a rather rare work on a plot borrowed from the Bible. Here Aivazovsky brilliantly combined talent, imagination and love for improvisation. It is possible that none of his contemporaries could have portrayed the scale of the cataclysm so magnificently, the storm in the heavens and the sea, the huge waves sweeping over the rocks, where people and animals are unsuccessfully trying to escape. The author combined all the heroes of the work into groups - in the center the figure of an old man is visible, which is surrounded by a family, a woman dies nearby, nearby people are kneeling with their eyes turned to the sky. Naive images that denounce greed, the hope of avoiding fate are the king and priest sitting on elephants with golden vessels and jewelry. The sea at Aivazovsky is the basis of nature. He is more interested in the sea element. not a biblical story. It is to the sea, its indomitable power, that our eyes are riveted.

On the right side of the picture, the embankment of the city and residential buildings peep a little out of the darkness, there are no pompadas burning in any of the windows, most likely it’s three o’clock in the morning, all the inhabitants are sleeping peacefully, but soon the city will begin to wake up, and the serene sea will wake up behind it. With the help of oil paints on canvas, the artist was able to convey this short moment of serenity and tranquility of the sea element, when everything around seemed to freeze in anticipation of something important. Morning will soon come and the haze of mystery will disappear, a new day will come, but this will be a completely different story ...

Today, Aivazovsky's painting “Moonlight Night. Bath in Feodosia "is located in Taganrog in the city art gallery, its size is 94 by 143 cm.