The Threshing Floor By Aleksei Venetsianov

After this threshing process the broken stalks and grain were collected.

The threshing floor by aleksei venetsianov.

Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. 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. One of the founders of the russian genre painting alexei venetsianov was born into a not particularly well off merchant family in moscow. The threshing floor posters canvas prints framed pictures postcards more by aleksei gavrilovich venetsianov.

Threshing floor was created in 1822 by alexey venetsianov in realism style. Copied paintings at hermitage. Information about the painting location other paintings of the artist. There is evidence that he also dealt in pictures and this may have helped awaken the young venetsianov s interest in art.

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. Exact matches only. About the artist aleksei venetsianov. With vladimir borovikovsky at st petersburg academy 1802 10.

Handmade in the uk. Trained as forest surveyor. Available as prints canvases and cards. Handmade in the uk.

Russia was late in getting its own national art.