Artist Isaac Ilyich Levitan | Classical Russian landscape Painter | WAA

Name: Artist Isaac Ilyich Levitan | Classical Russian landscape Painter | WAA
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Isaac Ilyich Levitan

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Isaac Ilyich Levitan was born 30 August 1860, died 4 August 1900, he was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years. After a year in the copying class Isaac transferred into a naturalistic class, and soon thereafter into a landscape class.

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, mentioned by Nesterov, 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.

Birch trees, which grow freely in central Russia, were a common motif in Levitan's work, which he painted in various seasons. In Spring Flood (1897) the thin curved white trunks, devoid of foliage, are reflected in the floodwaters left by the melting snows from nearby mountains. Birch Grove (1885–89), another spring scene, with dappled sunlight and low viewpoint, was painted in an Impressionist style. Golden Autumn (1895) shows a grove of autumn birches with orange and yellow foliage beneath a cloud streaked sky which is reflected in a dark blue river winding up from the lower right of the frame. Levitan painted not only the trees, but the light itself illuminating them, and this was most evident in a painting such as Moonlit Night: Main Road (1897) where two row of birches line a straight road in moonlight. The white trunks shine through the moonlight against the darkening leaves and fields. His ability to capture the various qualities of light has been compared to Claude Monet, but it is unlikely that he used Monet's work as a model for his own.

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Isaac Ilyich Levitin was born August 30, 1860, died August 4, 1900. He was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape. In September 1873, Isaac Levitin entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years. After a year in the copying class Isaac transferred into a naturalistic class, and soon thereafter into a landscape class. Levitin's work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape. Levitin did not paint urban landscapes, with the exception of the view of Simonyf Monastery, mentioned by Nesterov. 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. Birch trees, which grow freely in central Russia, were a common motif in Levitin's work, which he painted in various seasons. In Spring Flood 1897 the thin curved white trunks, devoid of foliage, are reflected in the floodwaters left by the melting snows from nearby mountains. Birch Grove 1885-89, another spring scene, with dappled sunlight and low viewpoint, was painted in an impressionist style. Golden Autumn 1895 shows a grove of autumn birches with orange and yellow foliage beneath a cloud streaked sky which is reflected in a dark blue river winding up from the lower right of the frame. Levitin painted not only the trees, but the light itself illuminating them, and this was most evident in a painting such as Moonlit Night. Main Road 1897 where two row of birches line a straight road in moonlight. The white trunks shine through the moonlight against the darkening leaves and fields. His ability to capture the various qualities of light has been compared to Claude Monet, but it is unlikely that he used Monet's work as a model for his own.