The mood of complete harmony, of contemplative calm was realized by Kuindzhi in his etude Crimean work. Joyful and clear is the azure, among which the favorite – the “Kuinjevo cloud” – rising vertically upward, lush and luminous. Quiet and peaceful depth sounds on this charming sunny day spent on the Black Sea coast.
In constant concern for his students Kuindzhi in the summer of 1895 organized at his own expense an excursion of a whole group of them to the Crimea. Having reached Bakhchisarai by rail, the youth from there on foot along the Yail reached the southern shore and encamped around the “villa” Kuindzhi in his estate: here was a hot work of studying the mountainous Crimean nature and the sea… Next to learning creativity there was also a close study of nature, – a demanding and even picky attitude to the accuracy of those translations from the “language of nature” to the “human language”, which are the sketches of painters…
Arkhip Ivanovich was able to convey to his disciples his enthusiasm and that love for art, which he himself burned. Recalling subsequently in one newspaper note the years of his apprenticeship in Kuindzhi’s studio, H. K. Roerich aptly compares Arkhip Ivanovich to the Renaissance painters: “A master artist of the distant past revived…
His pupils were for him not occasional objects of the mentor’s activity, but his close beings, to whom he wholeheartedly desired the best achievements… As in the old workshop, where they taught real life art, the students in Kuindzhi’s workshop knew only their teacher, they knew that for the sake of art he will defend them in all ways, they knew that the teacher is their closest friend, and they themselves wanted to be his friends. “
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