FEATURES OF COLORING OF NORTHERN SEASCAPES OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

Abstract

Northern landscapes using silvery northern coloring are a special phenomenon in Russian painting of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries, which appeared as a result of the expansion of the geography of artistic travel further north of St. Petersburg: to the island of Valaam, in the vicinity of Sortavala, to the Arkhangelsk region, to the Solovetsky Islands and to the shores of Novaya Zemlya. An exclusively natural rendering of the landscape was replaced by a study of the characteristics of the light-air environment. A.I. Kuindzhi, followed by K.A. Korovin, V.A. Serov, A.A. Borisov, S.G. Pisakhov in their northern series used cool shades of silver-gray, blue, gray-blue, pink, lilac, violet, carmine, turquoise. At the same time, there is a tendency towards tonal generalization. To convey the subtlest nuances of the light-air environment, the valeur technique is used.