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Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

In a blue vastness. Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

In Blue Vastness. Soviet artist Arkady Rylov (17 January 1870 – June 22, 1939, Leningrad, the USSR)

One of the first landscape paintings of great ideological content is a picture of a prominent Soviet artist Arkady Rylov “In Blue vastness”, created in 1918. This picture is part of a number of those works, from which starts the history of Soviet art. And this is absolutely correct, because “In Blue Vastness” – one of the first significant ideologically and artistically works created in the first years of Soviet power, though those that have retained not only its historical value, but also today give us a living aesthetic pleasure. The painting was as if the result of many searches and achievements of the artist for all his previous artistic life … Arkady Rylov – wonderful landscape painter, the successor of the great traditions of the Russian school of painting, who created one of the first impressive images of Lenin (“Lenin in Razliv”) – leader, fighter, builder of the new life, which entered the treasury of Soviet art.

A. Rylov. Hot day

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov. Hot day. 1922 Oil on canvas

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov (17 January 1870 – June 22, 1939, Leningrad, the USSR) was landscape painter, graphic artist and teacher. Member of the “World of Art”, “Union of Russian Artists” AHRR, a founding member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, the Leningrad Institute Professor of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935).

A. Rylov. Squirrels. Pencil

A. Rylov. Squirrels. Pencil

Throughout all his creative life, the theme of landscapes closely intertwined with his other topic – the theme of the joy of struggle and overcoming obstacles. Swans and seagulls, to which he dedicated a series of paintings, were for him the embodiment, the symbol of a free life and freedom. The originality of this symbolism lays in the fact that it was based on his observations of life as an expert of animal and bird life.

Through his painting Rylov expresses the sentiments of many of his contemporaries, for whom the revolution was a long-awaited cleansing storm, opening the door to the kingdom of justice, of goodness and light for all common people.

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

A. Rylov. Self-portrait. Pencil. 1931

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

A. Rylov. The trunk of a birch. Pen. 1957

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

In the Forrest, 1905 Oil on Canvas

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Pine trees. 1919

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Sunset. 1917

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Wildflowers, 1922

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Boat. 1937. Pen

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Fir Tree. Pen. 1937

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Landscape. Pencil. 1892

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

The trunks of the pine trees. Pencil

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Arkady Rylov. At the sea. Oil. 1920

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

A fresh breeze on the Neva. 1914. Kostroma Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Dirty road. 1928. The State Tretyakov Gallery

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Early evening silence. 1939. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Forest dwellers. 1910

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Fresh breeze. 1918. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

From the banks of the Vyatka. 1901. The State Tretyakov Gallery

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Green Lace. 1928. The State Tretyakov Gallery

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Green Noise. 1904. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Gulls on the Kama. 1919. Museum-apartment of I. Brodsky, St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Gulls. 1910. Kiev museum of Russian art

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Gulls. Sunset. 1922. Nizhny Novgorod Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

In Blue Space (fragment). 1918. The State Tretyakov Gallery

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

In the boat (Braves). 1914. Tomsk Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Landscape with a River. 1913

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Little fir tree. Etude. 1906. St. Petersburg State Russian museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Mouth of Orlinka. 1928. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Pine and heather. 1923

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Red House. Workshop of Rylov. Etude. 1918

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Red reflection. 1928. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Ripples. 1901. Tartu Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Road through the fir forest. 1908. Private collection. St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Rocks in Kekeneiz. 1909. Kostroma Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Spring in Finland. 1905. The State Tretyakov gallery

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Still lake. 1908

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Stormy Day on the Kama. 1918. Taganrog Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Stormy Day. 1912. Yaroslavl Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Strong wind. 1916. Yaroslavl art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Sunset. 1917. Smolensk Art museum

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Swans on the Kama. 1920. Museum-apartment of I. Brodsky, St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Thundering river. 1917. Museum-apartment of I. Brodsky. St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Wild rowan. 1922. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Wilderness. 1920. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Soviet artist Arkady Rylov

Winter road. 1915. State Russian museum St. Petersburg

Sources:
Young Artist magazine 1978, 5
Soviet artist Arkady Rylov, illustrated album. 1986