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Ivan Aivazovsky's painting "Niagara Falls" was painted in 1893 upon his return to Feodosia from a trip to America. The landscape gives a feeling of freshness, shrouded in iridescent sunlight, striking in its grandeur. People standing on a rock from which an avalanche falls, a boat below seem negligible, their presence only emphasizes the power and magnificence of nature.

The artist builds the composition of the picture broadly and freely, giving the viewer the opportunity to take in the whole landscape with a glance, to feel the unrestrained power of an avalanche of water falling from a high rocky ledge.

The Feodosia Gallery keeps the artist's travel album with twenty-three drawings of Niagara, which he brought from his travels, which testifies to the great work done on location. But mainly, when creating paintings, Aivazovsky relied on his tenacious memory and impressions of what he saw. The waterfall is depicted by the artist in four paintings from different angles and under different lighting conditions.

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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 almost 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.

The texture of the canvas, high-quality paints and large-format printing allow our reproductions of Ivan Aivazovsky to be as good as the original. The canvas will be stretched on a special stretcher, after which the picture can be framed in a baguette of your choice.

This painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was painted in 1893. The work is done in oil on canvas. The work is in the National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan.

Niagara Falls (from the English Niagara Falls) is the common name of three waterfalls on the Niagara River, which separates the US state of New York from the Canadian province of Ontario. Niagara Falls is Horseshoe Falls, sometimes also called Canadian Falls (from English Canadian Falls), American Falls (from English American Falls) and Veil Falls (from English Bridal Veil Falls). Although the height difference is not very large, the falls are very wide, and in terms of the volume of water passing through it, Niagara Falls is the most powerful in North America.

The height of the waterfalls is 53 meters. The foot of the American Falls is obscured by a heap of stones, which is why its apparent height is only 21 meters. The width of the American Falls is 323 meters, the Horseshoe Falls is 792 meters. The volume of falling water reaches 5720 m?/s.

The beauty of this natural wonder attracts many tourists from all over the world, which contributes to the prosperity of the cities located on the banks of the waterfall - Niagara Falls (from the English Niagara Falls), New York, USA and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

The most colorful view of the waterfall opens from the Canadian coast. A few hundred meters downstream from the waterfall, the Rainbow Bridge (from the English Rainbow Bridge) is thrown across Niagara, open to the movement of cars and pedestrians between the two countries.

A reduced version of the painting of the same name (1893), located in the Feodosia Gallery.

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In 1892, I.K. Aivazovsky traveled to North America, where an exhibition of his works was held with great success.

The picture, painted shortly after returning from overseas, pleases with the freshness of color, perfectly conveyed the feeling of humid air. Despite the sky covered with gray clouds, the landscape is permeated with the light of the sun's rays, which have transformed the water and the shore. A wonderful decoration of the canvas is a rainbow, which Aivazovsky, judging by the drawings in his American travel album, actually observed over the waterfall. The matte surface of the canvas, light pictorial manner are common for the works of the artist of those years.

With unbridled force, a huge avalanche of water falls from a high rocky ledge. In an effort to give the viewer the opportunity to immediately capture the entire landscape, the artist does not stop at the details, he builds the composition of the canvas freely and widely. Small figurines of people on the top of the cliff and a boat on the lake reinforce the impression of the grandeur of the spectacle. The picture is written in a generalized manner, in a manner characteristic of the last years of Aivazovsky's work. The matte, unvarnished surface of the painting layer is so thin that it reveals the structure of the canvas.

Niagara Falls attracted particular attention of the artist during a trip to America. A road album filled with Niagara's drawings has been preserved (Feodosiya Gallery). Later, according to these drawings, Aivazovsky in four paintings depicted a waterfall from different points and under different lighting conditions: either in the daytime, or in the moonlight.

In the album, Aivazovsky made twenty-three drawings from life, many of them on the spread of the sheet. A significant part of the drawings was “passed through” with pen and ink in the workshop. Some of the drawings contain entries relating mainly to the color of the water and tonal relationships observed on the spot.

Aivazovsky did this great work on location, despite the fact that he had at his disposal beautiful photographs of Niagara, which he brought from America.