Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov was born in Russia. After attending the Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing in St Petersburg in 1888-91, he studied at the Academy of Arts.His teacher was Arkhip Kuindzhi, whose luminarist style greatly influenced Rylov's approach to painting and predetermined his concentration on landscape. Rylov's early paintings such as Green Sound maintain the delicate color harmonies of Kuindzhi and also connect with the concurrent work of other students of Kuindzhi such as Nicholas Roerich. Rylov exhibited hi paintings with the World of Art group, although he did not share their enthusiasm for Art Nouveau and, in closer sympathy with the less affected style of the Moscow landscape school, he joined the Union of Russian Artists in 1903. Rylov favored the Russian forest, the Black Sea, birds and animals as subject-matter, as in Seagulls and rarely investigated the portrait or the still-life.