The Threshing Floor By Aleksei Venetsianov

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The threshing floor by aleksei venetsianov.

About the artist aleksei venetsianov. His father traded in fruit bushes. With vladimir borovikovsky at st petersburg academy 1802 10. Exact matches only.

Threshing floor was created in 1822 by alexey venetsianov in realism style. Handmade in the uk. There is evidence that he also dealt in pictures and this may have helped awaken the young venetsianov s interest in art. Rosalind polly gray the real and the ideal in the work of aleksei venetsianov russian review vol.

After this threshing process the broken stalks and grain were collected. Russia was late in getting its own national art. The threshing floor posters canvas prints framed pictures postcards more by aleksei gavrilovich venetsianov. Copied paintings at hermitage.

Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. One of the founders of the russian genre painting alexei venetsianov was born into a not particularly well off merchant family in moscow. Pairs of donkeys or oxen or sometimes cattle or horses would then be walked round and round often dragging a heavy threshing board behind them to tear the ears of grain from the stalks and loosen the grain itself from the husks. Although the imperial academy of arts was founded in st petersburg in 1757 pre dating the royal academy in london by 11 years to train native artists its largely french and german professors taught a classical western european tradition that was ultimately designed to produce bombastic history or religious paintings and stately portraits.

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