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Alexander Benois would write about Ivanov: "There was a child's inquisitive soul living in him, the true soul of a prophet hungry for the truth who dreaded no anguish ..." When he was still a young artist, Alexander Ivanov conceived a noble idea worthy of a great master, that of producing a painting that would trace the universal appeal of ...
For Benois and for Mir iskusstva, the usable past in Russia traced its origins to the classical, Europeanizing Russia of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and not to the patriarchal Russia of Muscovy or the idealized peasant Russia of
As a designer for the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev, Benois exerted what is considered a seminal influence on the modern ballet and stage design.
Russian painter and designer. One of the key figures of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Like Diaghilev he studied law at the University of St Petersburg and in 1899, along with Diaghilev, Bakst, and Nouvel, founded the art magazine Mir Iskusstva (The World of Art).
As a designer for the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev, Benois exerted what is considered a seminal influence on the modern ballet and stage design. Alexandre was born into the artistic and intellectual Benois family, prominent members of the 19th- and early 20th-century Russian intelligentsia.
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The career of an art critic Alexandre Benois began in 1894, when he wrote an article about Russian artists for the German collection of Richard Muther, “The History of 19th Century Painting”. In 1896, Benois, together with Leon Bakst and Konstantin Somov, came to France, where he immersed himself in the study of the history of French art ...
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A. Benois recalls his father's stories about Alexander Ivanov, the "painfully dull" author of "The Appearance of Christ", 'the appearance of the artist was amazing by its ridiculousness (a pair of dark glasses under a high straw hat, worn clothes without buttons, an eternal umbrella and rubbers).