Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter regarded as one of the finest artists of maritime painting The mid-nineteenthcentury movement in Russian art from Romanticism to Realism exposed Aivazovsky, who would always maintain a Romantic style, to criticism. The position of Feodosia in the vast Russian empire, far from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, was suggested as a factor for his refusal or incapacity to adapt. His thinking and worldview were also regarded as outdated and out of step with advancements in Russian art and culture. Despite being Vorobiev's student, Alexandre Benois claimed in his The History of Russian Painting in the Nineteenth Century that Aivazovsky stood apart from the overall growth of the Russian landscape school. Later works by Aivazovsky included dramatic settings and were usually done on a greater scale. In nineteenth-century Russian art, Aivazovsky was the most important seascape painter "He was the first and for a long time the only representation of seascape painting," according to the Russian Museum, and "all later artists who painted seascapes were either his own students or influenced by him "

I'm overly impressed, and I get a lot of inspiration from his work because when you look at his paintings you get a sense of peace but the same time you see the conflict in his work for example in his Battle of Cesme at Night painting. This painting makes me feel the fear and the trauma the soldiers felt in that moment, I get a warm feeling from the fire, and I get the pictures in my head as if I was there.