Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov (; – 22 June 1939) was a Russian and
Soviet
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Symbolist painter.
Biography
Rylov was born in the village of
Istobensk, in the
Vyatka Governorate of the
Russian Empire
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(present-day
Kirov Oblast
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,
Russia
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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
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and studied at the
Technical Design School of
Baron Schtiglitz (1888–1891), then at the
Imperial Academy of Arts under
Arkhip Kuindzhi (1894–1897).
Rylov was a member of the
Mir iskusstva movement and its spin-off
Union of Russian Artists, and also a member of the
Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. 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
Pechenegs on a
Slav 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
October Revolution
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were seen as symbols of revolutionary freedom. At that time he also painted some typical
Socialist Realism compositions like ''
Lenin
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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 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, ''Sunset
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'', 1917
Rylov Rowan.jpg, ''Wild Rowan'' (Polevaya Ryabinka), 1922
See also
*
Fine Art of Leningrad
References
Rylov at Virtual Museum Canada
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1870 births
1939 deaths
People from Orichevsky District
People from Orlovsky Uyezd (Vyatka Governorate)
Painters from the Russian Empire
Soviet painters
Symbolist painters
Imperial Academy of Arts alumni
Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts
Mir iskusstva artists