Igor Borozan, Tijana Boric In Pursuit of the Sublime: Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky’s Walking upon the Sea (1849) from the State Art Collection of the Royal Compound in Serbia.

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Title In Pursuit of the Sublime: Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky’s Walking upon the Sea (1849) from the State Art Collection of the Royal Compound in Serbia.
Author email borozan.igor73@gmail.com
About author Igor Borozan — Ph. D., assistant professor. University of Belgrade, Čika Ljubina 18-20, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. Tijana Borić — Ph. D., assistant professor. University of Niš, Kneginje Ljubice, 10. 18000 Niš, Serbia.
In the section Russian Art of the 18th and 19th centuries DOI10.18688/aa166-7-62
Year 2016 Volume 6 Pages 578–584
Type of article RAR Index UDK - Index BBK 85.14
Abstract

The indescribable idea of the sublime fascinated and challenged the famous nineteenth century artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, whose dwelling upon this concept gave rise to countless visual responses. In this paper, we examine the earliest known version of his piece known as Walking upon the Sea, dated 1849, from the State Art Collection of the Royal Compound in Serbia. This particular image is a peculiar combination of the stormy sea at night and religious theme that embodies the artist’s inner self- observations, thoughts, worldview, and the perceptive power of the years to come. Aivazovsky was a man of Romanticism and a visionary genius as well. He was occupied with the ideas of infinity, great drama and of the divine that challenges viewers’ senses of space and time. Walking upon the Sea, the art piece of its time, is a manifest reflection of skepticism of the era, groundbreaking experiments, innovations, and discoveries.
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Reference Igor Borozan, Tijana Boric. In Pursuit of the Sublime: Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky’s Walking upon the Sea (1849) from the State Art Collection of the Royal Compound in Serbia.. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 6. Eds: Anna V. Zakharova, Svetlana V. Maltseva, Ekaterina Yu. Stanyukovich-Denisova. St. Petersburg, NP-Print Publ., 2016, pp. 578–584. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa166-7-62
Publication Article language russian
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