KONSTANTIN KOROVIN
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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (1861-1939) was a leading Russian colourist, Impressionist, and later An Art Nouveau style painter. Korovin travelled within Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Italy and Spain, and loved visiting Paris every year. In Paris he visited boulevards at all different times of the day, but preferred painting in the evening ‘because it reminded him of the theatre and he thought the colours were more intense at night’.
Korovin used large flat brush strokes or directions to shape a form. He used large variety of tones, from mixed hues to purest shades, often straight out of the tubes. His colour contrasts were highly skilful that he began exploring in the design of sets. ‘All the colours of the world beckoned to him and smiled at him’.
One pupil has described him, as ‘Unusually emotional and impatient to act, he quickly burned with enthusiasm about everything that fell under his painter's eye’.
‘My major and the only ever-pursued purpose in the art was beauty, aesthetic influence on the viewer, the fascination of colours and shapes. No lecturing, no moral tendency to anybody ever.’
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