Ivan Shishkin

Portrait of the Painter

 Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) . His works are notable for poetic depiction of seasons in the woods, wild nature, animals and birds.











 

Morning in a Pine Forest

  During 40 years of his artistic activity Ivan Shishkin produced hundreds of paintings, thousands of studies    and drawings and a large number of engravings. For contemporaries, Shishkin's personality embodied Russian nature itself; they called him 'forest tzar', 'old pine tree', and 'lonely oak'.

A woman under an umbrella on a flowering meadow

 His scrupulous reproduction of nature stood in sharp contrast to the academic canons of landscape painting. For his loving approach to detail some critics called his works colored pictures, which lack of life. But despite such attention to details Shishkin's paintings do not fall apart, but give full and finished impression.