Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov (russian: Арка́дий Алекса́ндрович Рыло́в; – 22 June 1939) was a Russian and

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Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Biography

Rylov was born in the village of Istobensk, in the

Vyatka Governorate Vyatka Governorate (russian: Вятская губерния, udm, Ватка губерний, mhr, Виче губерний, tt-Cyrl, Вәтке губернасы) was a governorate of the Russian Empire and Russian Soviet Federative Socia ...

of the

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(present-day

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). He was brought into the family of his stepfather, a notary (Rylov's father had a psychiatric illness). He moved to

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and studied at the Technical Design School of Baron Schtiglitz (1888–1891), then at the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

under

Arkhip Kuindzhi Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (; rus, Архи́п Ива́нович Куи́нджи ; ; 27 January 1841 – 24 July 1910) was a Ukrainian Landscape art, landscape Painting, painter active in the Russian Empire, of Pontic Greeks, Pontic Greek des ...

(1894–1897). Rylov was a member of the

Mir iskusstva ''Mir iskusstva'' ( rus, «Мир искусства», p=ˈmʲir ɪˈskustvə, ''World of Art'') was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement it inspired and embodied, which was a major influence on the Russians who helped revolutionize Eur ...

movement and its spin-off

Union of Russian Artists ''Mir iskusstva'' ( rus, «Мир искусства», p=ˈmʲir ɪˈskustvə, ''World of Art'') was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement it inspired and embodied, which was a major influence on the Russians who helped revolutionize Eur ...

, and also a member of the

Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (russian: Ассоциация художников революционной России, ''Assotsiatsia Khudozhnikov Revolutsionnoi Rossii'', 1922–1928), later known as Association of Artists ...

. He was a chairman of the ''Kuindzhi Society''. He started as a historical painter (his graduation work in the Imperial Academy of Arts was ''Assault of

Pecheneg The Pechenegs () or Patzinaks tr, Peçenek(ler), Middle Turkic: , ro, Pecenegi, russian: Печенег(и), uk, Печеніг(и), hu, Besenyő(k), gr, Πατζινάκοι, Πετσενέγοι, Πατζινακίται, ka, პა� ...

s on a

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village'') but became a predominantly landscape painter, though many of his paintings have some allusions with Russian history. Many of his landscapes painted after the

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were seen as symbols of revolutionary freedom. At that time he also painted some typical

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compositions like ''

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in Razliv''. He taught in the Academy of Arts. In his studio he created what could almost be described as a small nature reserve, with squirrels, rabbits, a monkey named Manka, many wild birds (without cages) and two anthills. According to

Mikhail Nesterov Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров; – 18 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of ...

wild animals and birds loved Rylov and often came to his studio.

Notable works

Rylov's most renowned works are the ''Green Noise'' of 1904 showing a spring landscape with some early Slavic ships on the background and ''In the Blue Expanse'' of 1918 showing wild geese flying in the sky over a sea with some sailing ship in the bottom. Rylov Green Noise.jpg, ''The Green Noise'', 1904 RylovAA VLesu115x138 KIR.jpg, ''In the forest'', 1905 Rylov River.jpg, ''Thundering River'', 1917 Rylov Sunset 1917.jpg, ''

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'', 1917 Rylov Rowan.jpg, ''Wild Rowan'' (Polevaya Ryabinka), 1922

References

Rylov at Virtual Museum Canada

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Biography

Notable works

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