Архип Куинджи

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Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1841 in Mariupol , but he spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. He grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker - Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi . Arkhip was six years old when he lost his parents, so that he was forced to make his living, working at the church building site, grazing domestic animals, and working at the corn merchant's shop. During the five years, from 1860 to 1865, Arkhip Kuindzhi worked as retoucher in the photo studio of Isakovich inTaganrog . Kuindzhi tried to open his own photographer's studio, but without success. Arkhip Kuindzhi

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After that Kuindzhi left Taganrog for Saint Petersburg He studied painting mainly independently and in St.Petersburg Academy of arts (from 1868; the full member since 1893). He was co-partner of mobile art exhibitions ( Peredvizhniki , a group of Russian realist artists who in protest to academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative, which evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions ). During this early period Kuindzhi felt Ivan Aivazovskys influence. In 1872 the artist left the academy and worked as a freelancer. The painting Na ostrove Valaam was the first artwork, which Pavel Tretyakov acquired for his art gallery. In 1873, Kuindzhi exhibited his painting The Snow , which received the bronze medal at the International Art Exhibition in London in 1874.

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In his mature period Kuindzhy aspired to transfer the most expressive on illumination of a condition of the nature. He applied composite receptions (high horizon, etc.), creating panoramic views. Using light effects and intense coloros shown in main tones, he depicted the illusion of illumination .His later works are remarkable by decorative effects of color building

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Kuindzhi lectured at the St.Petersburg Academy of arts. Among his students were artists such as Arkady Rylov , Nicholas Roerich, Konstantin Bogaevsky , and others. Kuindzhi initiated creation of the Society of artists, later – the Society named after A.I. Kuindzhi .

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He died in 1910 , Kuindzhi's legacy has lived a long life. His influence can be traced not only in the works of his pupils and contemporaries but also in the creations of the subsequent generations of artists. Romanticism has not died. Art is sensitive to its every chord. And as long romanticism is alive, it will « recollect » the art of Arkhip Kuindzhi .

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Ukrainian Night

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The Dnieper in the Morning

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The Birchwood

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On the Valaam Island