Ivan Shishkin art

Ivan Shishkin art Music, John Sokoloff. The works of this outstanding artist enjoy vast popularity in Russia; the best of them have become the classics of Russian landscape painting. 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, Shishkins personality embodied Russian nature itself; they called him forest tzar, old pine tree, and lonely oak. Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was born into the family of a merchant. His father, a selfmade and broadminded man, after long hesitations, supported his son s desire to become an artist. In 18521856, Shishkin studied in the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture, in 18561860, he continued his studies in St. Petersburg, in the Academy of Arts. He made rapid progress and got all the awards the Academy offered. Having received a Major Gold Medal for two pictures with the same name View of Valaam Island. and