The Threshing Floor By Aleksei Venetsianov

Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor.

The threshing floor by aleksei venetsianov.

Available as prints canvases and cards. Trained as forest surveyor. Rosalind polly gray the real and the ideal in the work of aleksei venetsianov russian review vol. Pairs of donkeys or oxen or sometimes cattle or horses would then be walked round and round often dragging a heavy threshing board behind them to tear the ears of grain from the stalks and loosen the grain itself from the husks.

After this threshing process the broken stalks and grain were collected. There is evidence that he also dealt in pictures and this may have helped awaken the young venetsianov s interest in art. One of the founders of the russian genre painting alexei venetsianov was born into a not particularly well off merchant family in moscow. Exact matches only.

Although the imperial academy of arts was founded in st petersburg in 1757 pre dating the royal academy in london by 11 years to train native artists its largely french and german professors taught a classical western european tradition that was ultimately designed to produce bombastic history or religious paintings and stately portraits. His father traded in fruit bushes. Information about the painting location other paintings of the artist. Russia was late in getting its own national art.

Handmade in the uk. Threshing floor was created in 1822 by alexey venetsianov in realism style. Copied paintings at hermitage. Handmade in the uk.

With vladimir borovikovsky at st petersburg academy 1802 10.