Painting of Ivan Karpoff - Via Molino delle Armi, Milan, italy

Artist: Ivan Karpoff (1898-1970)

Born in Russia in 1898, Ivan Karpoff was initiated into painting by his father, who seeing his predisposition entrusted him to a local painter. After finishing his studies at the Rostov art school, in 1916 he was called up and sent to the southern front. Wounded and taken prisoner first by the Austrians and then by the British, he fled to Bulgaria, in Sofia, where he began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1925 he won an American scholarship that allowed him to leave for Italy. Arriving in Milan in 1925, he brilliantly graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts after following the painting course of Ambrogio Alciati. During the years at the Academy he met the painter Julia Ivanovna Lund (1905-1974), of Norwegian origin but born in Russia, who later became his wife. Despite the pause from the Second World War, Karpoff produced a very large production, and immediately distinguished himself in the Milanese environment: particularly appreciated was his ability to combine a sensitivity characteristic of Slavic art with themes that recall typically Italian landscapes (in this case , Lombard). In fact, his subjects present elements reminiscent of Russian landscapes and which betray the painter's nostalgia for his motherland, to which he never returned.

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Views/City Glimpses

Artistic technique: Painting

La pittura è l'arte che consiste nell'applicare dei pigmenti a un supporto come la carta, la tela, la seta, la ceramica, il legno, il vetro o un muro. Essendo i pigmenti essenzialmente solidi, è necessario utilizzare un legante, che li porti a uno stadio liquido, più fluido o più denso, e un collante, che permetta l'adesione duratura al supporto. Chi dipinge è detto pittore o pittrice. Il risultato è un'immagine che, a seconda delle intenzioni dell'autore, esprime la sua percezione del mondo o una libera associazione di forme o un qualsiasi altro significato, a seconda della sua creatività, del suo gusto estetico e di quello della società di cui fa parte.

Technical specification: Oil on Board