Painting

Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky
Title: Fishermen and their Families on the Shore of the Bay of Naples
Type: landscape
Date: 1873
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 133.4 x 171.1 cm (52 1/2 x 67 3/8 in.)
Country of origin: Russia
Current location: Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Aivazovsky is one of my favourite artists. All his works are real masterpieces. He was a Russian marinist, so he is closed to me in two ways: firstly, he is a representative of Russian School of Art, secondly, he painted seas, oceans.
When you look at this picture you feel peace and pacification. To my mind, the artist decided to do this picture is black and white because he wanted a spectator to deep into thought about the life near the sea. I think such colour express much more than colourful pictures. The piture is rather light-coloured, I mean there are more white, grey colours which make it softer. The lines are vague. The sea merges with the sky. It makes the sea interminable. There is a balance of space and objects in the picture and also we see the unity of colours. The sea is calm, so the rhythm of the picture is also calm. The sea is the main object which makes the whole impression of the masterpiece.
I like this picture. I believe that Aivazovsky is one of the popular and modern artist nowadays inspite he is not alive. Geniuses live forever.