Ivan shishkin

Russian artist Ivan Shishkin (1831-1898) was famous for his classic forest landscapes, to the extent that in his homeland he was even known as the lesnoy bogatyr (forest hero). But the Russian forest in the master artist's hands is not dense and foreboding, fraught with danger, but warm and welcoming, strewn with sunlight.

Category:Paintings by Ivan Shishkin in the Russian Museum - Wikimedia Commons

Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 125 x 193 cm. Source: www.wikipaintings.org/en/ivan-shishkin/oak-grove-1887.

“Forest Landscape, 1874 https://t.co/JrTwM8tmZQ #shishkin #ivanshishkin”

tierradentro: “Bark on a Dry Trunk”, 1889-90, Ivan Shishkin.

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832 – 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Peredvizhniki, often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870. For biographical notes on Shishkin see part 1 and for earlier works, see parts 1-3. Parts 1-4 feature his paintings, part…