Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov was a Russia

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n and Soviet

Soviet Union

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 Symbolist

Symbolism (arts)

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 painter

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Biography

Rylov was born in the village Istobenskoye, Vyatka

Kirov Oblast

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 gubernia. He was brought in the family of his stepfather, a notary (Rylov's father had a psychiatric illness). He moved to Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 and studied at the Technical Design School of Baron Schtiglitz (1888-1891), then at the Imperial Academy of Arts

Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts. Catherine the Great renamed it the Imperial Academy of Arts and commissioned a new building, completed 25 years later in 1789...

 under Arkhip Kuindzhi

Arkhip Kuindzhi

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was a Russian landscape painter.Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1841 in Mariupol , but he spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. He grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi...

 (1894-1897).

Rylov was a member of the Mir iskusstva

Mir iskusstva

Mir iskusstva was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement it inspired and embodied, which was a major influence on the Russians who helped revolutionize European art during the first decade of the 20th century. From 1909, many of the miriskusniki also contributed to the Ballets Russes...

 movement and its spin-off Union of Russian Artists also a member of the Association of Artists of the Revolutionary Russia. He was a chairman of the Kuindzhi Society.

He started as a historical painter (his graduation work in the Imperial Academy of Arts was Assault of Pechenegs on a Slav

Slavic peoples

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 village but became a predominately landscape painter. Still many of his paintings have some allusions with Russian history.

Many of his landscapes painted after the October Revolution

October Revolution

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 were seen as symbols of the revolutionary Freedom. At that time he also painted some typical Socialist Realism

Socialist realism

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 compositions like Lenin in Razliv. He taught in the Academy of Arts. In his studio he created almost a small nature reserve. There lived squirrels, rabbits, monkey Manka and many wild birds (without cages) and two anthills. According to Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was a major representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He was a pupil of Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki...

 wild animals and birds loved Rylov and often came to his studio.

Works

Rylov's most renowned works are the Green Noise of 1904 showing a spring landscape with some early Slavic

Slavic peoples

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 ships on the background and the In the Blue Expanse of 1918 showing wild geese flying in the sky over a sea with some sailing ship in the bottom.