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Ivan K. Ayvazovsky - Chaos (Creation of World)
Utilisation: turbulences - origines - conjoncture - garder le cap dans la tempête - espoir - naufrage etc.
Beaucoup de tableaux sur la mer et la tempête: voir Elibron.
Ivan Konstantinovotch Ayvazovsky - Russian painter of Armenian descent. The son of an Armenian merchant, throughout his life he kept his links with the ancient traditions of Armenian Christian culture. He studied at the Academy of Arts, St Petersburg, in 1833–7 under Maksim Vorob’yov (1787–1855), a prominent Russian landscape painter of the Romantic period.
"The sea is my life", Ivan Konstantinovich Ayvasovsky wrote; the sea was certainly his work. Born in Armenia, Ayvazovsky (also Aivazoskij, Aivazovski) went to Petersburg in 1833 to attend the Academy of Arts under the tutelage of Maksim Vorob'yov and Alexsandr Sauerweid. He began to paint seascapes in school, an enterprise he would continue throughout his life. In Ayvasovsky's work, the sea becomes the ultimate symbol for man's struggle against the elements, and he drew heavily upon Pushkin's poetry for inspiration.