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So, Konstantin Korovin (1861 – 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. [WP article]
In 1885 Korovin traveled to Paris and Spain. “Paris was a shock for me … Impressionists… in them I found everything I was scolded for back home in Moscow!”, he later wrote.
I guess it goes to show that… “Impressionism” wasn’t necessarily like a flash-fire that near-instantly traveled around the world, transforming art everywhere, but was in fact more like a philosophy / technique / approach that took time to disseminate around the world.
Or something like that?
I mean, Moscow being so close to the hub of European culture, I would have thought that Impressionism, just like other other art movements of the day, would have more quickly seeped in to the ‘painterly arts,’ but I guess there was more of a… gap, as it were?
Anyway, here’s ~20 more of Konstantin’s excellent works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Korovin#Works
Impressive! ;)
Seriously though, the light, shadows, reflections and textures in general are fucking insane!
Sort of like a ‘spooky castle,’ yeah?