Maxim Vorobiev lived a long life, traveled a lot, worked very hard, made a successful academic career, became famous among contemporaries as a landscape painter and deserved appreciation as a teacher.
Sensitive to the tide of time, Vorobyev refuses from the already archaic, smooth and dry, stereoscopic manner of writing, a clear sketch of details, compositional symmetry, the necessary balance of the masses and the statics of the classic species landscape, which already seemed to have arisen by the early 1820s. Linear perspective is replaced by light and air, the space in the picture is interpreted dynamically, architectural motifs completely obey the landscape, the color range varies freely depending on the nature of the landscape, the season, the time of day.
Painting Vorobyov becomes emotionally expressive. A huge role in this transformation of “species” in a romantic landscape belongs to illumination. Despite numerous trips, an abundance of impressions, acquaintance with the exotic countries of the East, St. Petersburg is the favorite subject of Vorobiev.
Maxim Vorobyev opened for his contemporaries night Petersburg: an amazing city where the faint light of the night lamps dissolves in the radiance of the moon, reflected by the river smoothness, where against the background of a low, dreary, gloomy autumn sky, the fantastic silhouettes of Egyptian sphinxes are depicted, where mysterious nocturnal people live in the streets. We know, from the reviews of contemporaries, how they liked these landscapes, and even now, despite their somewhat superficial romanticism, they are excited by the imagination.
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