Realism

A Russian Luminist School? ARKHIP KUINDZHI’S "RED SUNSET ON THE DNIEPER" [1]

John E. Bowlt

Article:

POINT OF VIEW

Magazine issue:

#3 2018 (60)

One of the Metropolitan Museum’s important acquisitions in European painting is a large landscape by the Russian, or, strictly speaking, Ukrainian, painter, Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1842-1910): “Red Sunset on the Dnieper”. Despite its late date, 1905-08, the work is representative both of Kuindzhi’s own artistic career and of what might be called a Russian Luminist school. To those unfamiliar with the history of modern Russian art, this painting, reminiscent in its expressivity of the work of Western Luminists such as Albert Bierstadt, might seem to be a curious anomaly. But in the context of 19 th and 20th century Russian painting, “Red Sunset on the Dnieper” is a remarkable and important work. Its presence in the Museum helps focus attention on a field of aesthetic study still neglected and misinterpreted.

A Russian Luminist School? ARKHIP KUINDZHI’S "RED SUNSET ON THE DNIEPER"

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Nelson White: A Life between the Tuscan and American Landscape

Zoe Bray

Article:

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST

Magazine issue:

#1 2009 (22)

With the elegant courtesy of his native New England, Nelson White welcomes me to his studio space at the Florence Academy. Seascapes hang from the partitions. On the main easel, a portrait is a work in progress. But there’s little room to sit down and talk, so we withdraw to a table in the library. Around us, FA students browse through its rich collection of art books.

Nelson White: A Life between the Tuscan and American Landscape