Dubovskoy Nikolai
The painting “Pearl sunset”, which is skillfully written, renders the night state of nature, and brings a strong emotional feeling. The artist described the wonderful state of “night of silence”. The artist finds unique way to show it to the audience. The spotlighted by moonlight clouds stretch along the sky in horizontal lines, occupying almost the entire upper half of the picture, reflected in the calm water. Earth loses its corporeality, as well as the water – just a mirror for the sky.
Dubovskoy Nikolay Nikanorovich
(1859, Novocherkassk – 1918, Petrograd)
As the example of the great favorites of constancy in creative ways is the Great Russian landscape painter – Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy. The artist was born in the family of Cossack, top Sergeant of the Don Military Fields. Even being young boy studying in Vladimir military gymnasium in Kiev, he drew the attention of educators that has used all his free time to paint. According to the advice of the director gymnasium “forever painting” N. Dubovskoy acted as a fellow force of Don in the Imperial Academy of Arts where he studied under the guidance of one of the best Russian landscape M. K. Klodt (1877-1881).
In 1880, for drawing from life and for the painting “Bog in a storm” N. Dubovskoy was award with a big silver medal. The artist did not finish the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1892 the Academy received a certificate for the right to teach painting and drawing in secondary schools. In 1898, “to fame in the artistic endeavors” artist awarded the title of academician.
Beginning in 1897 he was elected to various committees and commissions, acting in the Imperial Academy of Arts, member of the Academy (since 1900), an indispensable member of the Council of the Academy (since 1915). Since 1911 became a Professor, Head of Landscape workshop at the Higher Art School. Lived and worked in St. Petersburg.
In 1890-1900 the artist has traveled to the Don, Azov Sea, the Volga, the Caucasus, in Kislovodsk visiting N. A. Yaroshenko. Summer, he often spent on etudes in Silliman on the Baltic coast. He has visited many European countries: Italy, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Germany, visited the Greek islands of the archipelago, and on the Danube.
In 1900 at the World exhibition in Paris for the painting “Calm”, “Type monastery”, “In the evening” awarded a small silver medal in 1913 at the International exhibition in Munich for the painting “Monastery near Moscow”, “Before thunderstorm”, “Black Sea”- a small gold medal.
Regarding the younger generation Itinerants, N. Dubovskoy as a member of the Association of Itinerant’s art exhibitions did much to address conflict situations in the Association, especially when it comes to relationships “fathers and children”. Perhaps, due to N. N. Dubovskoy crisis in the Association has not led to early termination of its existence.
Pictures close to the works of artist A. Kuindzhi. Symbolist similar in essence unreal provides innovative art of Dubovskoy N., on the whole quite traditional and far from any fancy effects.
Landscapes of N. Dubovskoy were highly appraised by I. Levitan, believed that the artist managed to convey in it objective – “is not the author, but most elements”. His devotion to the arts went tales. Once he was so carried away working on sketches from life that completely forgot about his own wedding and was in the church when it has almost stopped to expect.
Overall, N. N. Dubovskoy has performed more than 1000 etudes and 400 paintings. The artist bequeathed his gathered collection Novocherkassk of paintings and drawings of Russian artists, as well as a large number of his works, which in 1946 became part of the Novocherkassk Museum of the History of the Don Cossacks.