The Threshing Floor By Aleksei Venetsianov

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The threshing floor by aleksei venetsianov.

Pairs of donkeys or oxen or sometimes cattle or horses would then be walked round and round often dragging a heavy threshing board behind them to tear the ears of grain from the stalks and loosen the grain itself from the husks. His father traded in fruit bushes. Handmade in the uk. Buy online at discount prices.

About the artist aleksei venetsianov. The threshing floor posters canvas prints framed pictures postcards more by aleksei gavrilovich venetsianov. After this threshing process the broken stalks and grain were collected. Copied paintings at hermitage.

Threshing floor was created in 1822 by alexey venetsianov in realism style. Although the imperial academy of arts was founded in st petersburg in 1757 pre dating the royal academy in london by 11 years to train native artists its largely french and german professors taught a classical western european tradition that was ultimately designed to produce bombastic history or religious paintings and stately portraits. With vladimir borovikovsky at st petersburg academy 1802 10. There is evidence that he also dealt in pictures and this may have helped awaken the young venetsianov s interest in art.

Handmade in the uk. Rosalind polly gray the real and the ideal in the work of aleksei venetsianov russian review vol. Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. Russia was late in getting its own national art.

Trained as forest surveyor.