Thirty paintings in and around "Holy Moscow" reveal the deep reverence with which the people hold the ancient capital of their civic and religious life. There are no ordinary scenes in Moscow.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Saint Petersburg Paintings in Geocoded Art
Forty paintings by a dozen artists showing the majesty of the Imperial creation, and the mystery of the city that invented itself.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Semyon Fiodorovich Shchedrin Paintings in GeocodedArt
Painting by Semyon Fiodorovich Shchedrin (1745-1804)
The elder of the painting Shchedrins (uncle of Silvestr), he painted royal locations, but it seems without intent to overawe the viewer with the prerogative and power that attaches to these locations. These look like sites that any person would enjoy, with far more natural effects than with architectural bravado.
Silvestr Shchedrin Paintings in Geocoded Art
Painting by Silvestr Shchedrin (1791-1830)
Nephew of Semyon, the younger Shchedrin did very evocative paintings in Italy that hold up today for their "now-ness". The atmosphere, the sound of waves, every sense of the place is conveyed through careful inclusion of detail, realistic lighting and color, and with iconic subjects in the background that are instantly familiar
Monday, April 4, 2016
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky Paintings in GeoCodedArt
Painting by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900). One of the foremost marine and seascapes painters in history, Aivozovsky worked in many countries, and liked to incorporate mountainous views into the scenes. As capable as any of capturing the drama of a turbulent sea, he more often showed a tranquil sea that brings on a mood of reflection. Dramatic lighting, dominated by sun or moon, with almost Turner-like intensity, was a specialty of his coastal paintings, but not always present, as in the example below.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov Paintings in GeoCodedArt
Painting by Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov (1824-1896) This highly prolific artist painted hundreds of outdoor scenes, covering a wide variety of countries, styles, and subject matter.
His earliest works were maritime and detailed many of Russia's naval battles of the time. Of his many, many works capturing city and nature, he. more than almost any other artist who captured the world around us, titled his works by the location shown in the image. Most other landscape artists are not as consistent, or less specific, in naming the location, but for Bogolyubov (or Bogoliubov) it is much more the rule than the exception. This is true even when to all appearances the work might be any river bank, just as likely in Normandy as on the Neva. But the artist was usually very specific about the location, even painting the title onto the work.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Alexei Gornostayev Paintings in Geocoded Art
Painting by Alexei Gornostayev (1808-1862). His elegant works show all of the refinement that the royals wanted their structures to evoke, There are some foreground figures in each work, but not to distract from the overall effect the correctness of royal prerogative in how it ordered life around it. The sites which he painted were those that were far from the centers of power, though: a yet more controlled, if artificial, world.
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