Ivan Aivazovsky

These last 3 entries of my blog will talked about colour mood and narrative.  In this particular entry, I will show you some paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky.  He is a Russian painter that is well known for his seascapes paintings.  I have look a lot of his paintings and indeed the sea paintings are awesome.  The mood and atmosphere was set up beautifully in the painting.  He was born in July 29, 1817 and died at the age of 83.  And now let's take a look at his paintings:

A beautiful painting called 'Moonlit Seascape with Shipwreck'.  I think Ivan really did a magnificent job in this painting.  You can easily tell the drama in this painting.  There are several people looking at the shipwreck in the middle of the sea.  But they can't see it clearly because it is dark in the night.  There's a strong contrast between the silhouette of the ship and the sky and also the watch tower and the sky.

This one is also immensely wonderful.  A great battle takes place in the sea, and several ships are destroyed and burned.  The fire roars and burns mighty high in the sky, coloring its surrounding.  This fire really captures our attention because the environment is quite dark which creates a great contrast in stauration.

These paintings has a lot of different mood and atmosphere to each other, but they all have strong emotions tied to it.  Like a sunset, a sunrise, a misty sea and a really cold mountain.  The exaggeration on the atmosphere really speaks to us, the audience.