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Video: Estonian Aivazovsky and 1000 of his landscapes chased by private collectors: Self-taught artist Sergei Lim
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is difficult to find a person who would not be admired by the sea, whether it be the endless surface or the raging elements of the waves, ready to demolish and absorb into their abyss everything in their path. This is exactly what the sea writes incredibly exciting, admiring the gaze. painter from Tallinn Sergey Lim. His works delight and excite the way the elements can delight and excite. Today you will have the opportunity to see the magnificent gallery of seascape landscapes by the artist, who is sometimes called the Estonian Aivazovsky.
A few words from the history of the seascape
To begin with, I would like to say that the history of the seascape has more than seven centuries. And in the fundamental form in which we are used to seeing the marina, it stood out as an independent type of landscape painting only at the beginning of the 17th century.
Over the past three centuries, many artists have worked in this genre and, curiously, everyone saw the sea as an object for their creativity, in their own way. Some were guided by battle scenes on the water, others - made a bias towards romanticism. There were also those who, having completely revised the presentation of the sea space, depicted the impressions and emotions that arise at the moment of contemplation.
And it's not for nothing that they say that water is one of three things that you can look at for an infinitely long time. The seascape can both calm and pacify the viewer, and excite the imagination, overwhelming with emotions, like seething waves. Undoubtedly, lyricism - on the one hand and drama - on the other, are very attractive for the human perception of the world. Therefore, this theme was, is and, for sure, will be the basis of their work for many artists.
And today we will talk about the talented contemporary marine painter Sergei Lim, who skillfully creates picturesque landscapes on a marine theme, which literally beckon and fascinate the viewer with their endless water spaces, as well as the drama of the "boiling" element. It is the stormy sea that is the horse that has become the key for the modern marine painter in his work.
However, the most incredible thing is that Sergey Lim is a self-taught artist. This master has absolutely no special art education. He mastered the technique and color, especially the composition and drawing on his own, relying on intuition and studying the work of other marine painters, including Aivazovsky.
Like Ivan Konstantinovich, Sergei Lim works exclusively in oil technology. For oil, in the best possible way, conveys the smoothness of the water and its shine in the sun, sea foam and, of course, the heavenly space. By the way, the sky on many of the artist's canvases is almost to the same extent as the sea, striking in its beauty - it as if merging with him in harmonious unity, blurring the horizon line.
A few words about the master
Artist Sergei Lim was born in Tallinn in 1972. Educated at a railway technical school in St. Petersburg with a degree in refrigeration mechanic. But in life the artist had to master many other professions in his life. He worked on the railway, and in trade, and on an ambulance, and even was engaged in repair work. But, for the second decade, he has been working closely on his canvases, which reveal all the beauty of the sea. He was finally convinced that painting became the main business of his life.
Sergey Lim, talking about himself, says:
And, curiously, Koreans have an interesting tradition, according to which they are considered the most important dates in a person's life - one year and 60 years. So, when the baby is one year old, they spread all sorts of things in front of him. And the fact that he is the first to pick up, portends his professional future. For example, a kid who took rice was destined to become a farmer. And little Sergei immediately took up a pencil. Therefore, the painter himself believes that becoming an artist was destined for him by the very destiny from above.
Over the ten years of his creative career, the artist has created more than a thousand seascape landscapes, the lion's share of which has already been sold to private collections of art lovers in Russia and Estonia, many of Sergei's paintings went to France, Finland, Sweden. Compared to Aivazovsky, the self-taught artist humbly replies that he is still far from the world-famous Ivan Konstantinovich. Indeed, unfortunately, today Sergey Lim is little known to the general public, but I think he still has everything ahead of him.
Continuing the theme of the famous seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky, who occasionally changed his role and worked on land landscapes, read a fascinating article: Why are two paintings by the seascape painter Aivazovsky banned from showing in Russia today?
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