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An American Impressionist Trained in Russia |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,293 Words, 8,165 Characters |
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If you can imagine an art world spared the fracturing "isms" of twentieth-century Western art, where the tenets established in French Impressionism continued to flourish uninterrupted, then you have some idea what's been going on in Russian realism for the last one hundred thirty years.
"Russian art doesn't fit neatly into the classification system of Western art history," says painter John H. Wurdeman V. "These painters took the definition of plein air painting literally; they built on what the French Impressionists started. French Impressionism produced fifteen masters, and the Barizon school produced five significant artists. A long school produces a lot of good artists. With the Russians we're talking about perhaps eight hundred master painters."
It was this uninterrupted traditio...
. . .
...ger allowed outside of Russia.
"Things are changing at the Surikov," says Wurdeman. "The old masters are dying, and without their presence, younger teachers are yielding to pressure from the administration to place less emphasis on tradition. I was really there at the last moment to acquire this kind of knowledge. I tell my friends we have a responsibility to the legacy, to the tradition."
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