Ivan Aivazovsky was born and lived in Feodosia in a house on the very edge of the sea. Here he spent his childhood and the years of his maturing as a painter; Here his great and inimitable ideas were born, and pictures which still move the word were painted.
Aivazovsky’s pictures are full of sounds – They are full of the gentle sounds of a moonlight night, or the dangerous sounds of a storm of the distant subdued beating of waves against a rocky shore.
It is not only the sea that is impressive in Aivazovsky’s pictures. Look closely at Aivazovsky’s sky, which like the sea has on the canvas, ever-changing, now in complicity with the stormy sea.
