Keywords
Ivan Shishkin, Grigory Gurkin, Vasily Sheshunov, artist, Altai, Ussuriisk, Far East, St. Petersburg, etude, picture, landscape,
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Filippova O. N. The creative work of Grigory Gurkin and Vasily Sheshunov as students of Ivan Shishkin // The Art of Eurasia, 2020. № 3 (18). P. 91–104. URL: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2020.03.008.
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Abstract
The article contains a comparative analysis of the work of two artist-students of I.I. Shishkin: Grigory Gurkin (Altai) and Vasily Sheshunov (Far East). Both painters went through the school of the great Russian landscape painter at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Grigory Gurkin became one of the most significant masters of Russian realistic landscape in the first third of the 20th century, the first professional artist of Altai. Vasily Sheshunov had an equally significant influence on the formation of the artistic life of Ussuriisk and the entire Primorye. In the context of the continuity of Ivan Shishkin's art school, the genre-thematic originality, artistic manner, and creative method of these two masters are compared for the first time. The material for the study was the paintings of artists from the collections of the Sukachev Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, the Primorye State Art Gallery, the State Art Museum of the Altai Krai, the Tomsk Regional Art Museum.
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to the Sukachev Irkutsk Regional Art Museum and the Primorye State Art Gallery for providing photos of artworks from the Museum collection.
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