Ivan Aivazovsky (July 29, 1817 – May 2,

1900)

Ivan Aivazovsky.

Photo 1898.

Aivazovsky at work. Photo.

Aivazovsky National Art Gallery

One of the halls of the Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia.

Russian Black Sea Fleet on a Parade in 1849, by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1886

Ivan Aivazovsky. Rainbow. 

1873. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Ivan Aivazovsky. The Ninth Wave. 1850 - oil on canvas - Saint Petersburg,

State Museum

Ivan Aivazovsky. 1856View of Constantinople and the

Bosphorus

No matter what awful storm we see in his picture, in the upper part of

the canvas, through the accumulation of thunder-clouds, a ray of light always breaks through, and though it is thin and weak, it announces deliverance. It is the

belief in this Light that the nation of Aivazovsky carried through the ages. It is this light which contains

the meaning of all the storms depicted by Aivazovsky.

Martiros Sarian