The future artist spent his childhood and adolescence moving around, and after settling in Moscow in 1895, he studied painting at prestigious schools: first at Ilya Mashkov's studio, then at the Bolshakov and Rerberg art schools.
Ivan Klyun devoted much attention to color issues and was well versed in the theory of light and movement, as well as in the natural sciences. The creator of his own painting method, he advocated the synchronous change of color and shape in an object. Today, Ivan Klyun's tables of color and shape relationships and his research in non-objective painting form an integral part of his creative legacy.
One of the artist's works, "Life of the Sea," is housed at the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), a Russian state research center. The painting was created in the second half of the 1930s specifically for the All-Union Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (now VNIRO). For many years, the monumental panel adorned the lobby of the institute's old building on Verkhnyaya Krasnoselskaya Street in Moscow.
A solo exhibition of the great artist, "Ivan Klyun. Color Forms. Understanding Space," is currently underway in Yekaterinburg. It will also feature a photograph of Ivan Klyun's monumental oil on canvas, "Life of the Sea." Professional photographers visited VNIRO to photograph the painting, which will be included in the catalog.
VNIRO Press Service