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Ivan Aivazovskyi

The Ukrainian landscape pieces of Aivazovskyi reveal great lyricism and keen perception of every day life. They attract one's attention by a gentle poetical mood and beautiful sonorous colouring.

In the 1870's romanticism of Aivazovskyi was replaced by the more objective perception of nature. The best canvases of this period are "The Rainbow"/1873/, "The Storm off Cape Aya'V 1875/, 'The Shipwreck"/1876/.

The '80's marked the period of final making of realistic landscape. More works appeared in restrained range of colours. Such is "The Black Sea'71881 / on show at the State Tretiakov Gallery. Its epic mood is associated with the majestically accords of the symphonic poem by N. Rymskyi-Korsakov "The Sea".

The talent of I. Aivazovskyi reached its height in the painting "Amid the Waves" created by the artist in 1898. The tendency for laconism of colour has been reflected in it. The beauty and might of the sea has been expressed in emotional colour range: The sea, the waves, the air are depicted with super skill. The emotional image of the sea is one of the masterpieces of world marine painting.

The Feodosia Gallery boasts a large collection of Aivazovskyi's drawings /over 270/. Many of them can be regarded as independent works of art: "The Kerch Gulf with Schooners", "An Oriental town", "An Italian Town".

In the Gallery there is a small collection of seascapes painted by the artists of 19-20* cc.

A. Fessler managed to reveal in his pictures "Feodosia", "Yalta", "Simeiz" the beauty of the land he lived and worked in.