#russian forest

[artcorkalinin]

[madaohasegawa]

[dobrogodnya]

Алтай

[larvatrin]

Oh, if only my dream had come true.

What kind of life would come then.

Oh, if only the dream had come true,

What kind of life would have started then.

[margocooper]

Myosotis sylvatica - Незабудка лесная. Forest forget-me-not.

[ainohikari]

[mightyflamethrower]

Ivan Shishkin -- Russian Forest

[thewondermentofillustration]

Ivan Shishkin - Teutoburg Forest, 1865, oil on canvas Ivan Shishkin, Titan of the Russian Forest, (1832 - 1898) was a Russian landscape artist, famous for his painting of native forests. He started drawing as a child and used his meticulous drawings as a means of studying nature. Shishkin studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and then attended the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. He graduated with the highest honours and a gold medal. Later he would become a professor at this institution. “Shishkin - national artist. All his life he studied Russian, mainly the northern woods, Russian trees and Russian thickets. It is his empire, and here he has no contenders, he is unique.” - Stasov