 Djeneeff family estate, Ukraine (ca. 1913) |
The
works produced by Djeneeff as late as the 1940s bear the stylistic echoes
of his artistic training during the 1890s. However, rather than judging
him as a carry-over from earlier times incapable of accepting and incorporating
change, it is important to recall his early belief in the aesthetic value
of Greco-Roman classicism. To this he added the conviction that the artist
must work entirely within the confines of the natural world.
Ivan Alexeyevich Djeneeff would never recreate the environment of his youthful past in a new and foreign world, but clinging to his beliefs throughout exile, he survived the trauma of dislocation. Over time he succeeded in adjusting to his new home and life in America. Curtis N. Sandberg,
Ph.D. |
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