Victor Vasnetsov - an outstanding Russian painter. Born in 1848. in Vyatka, education in the local seminary in 1868 - 73 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, at the end of which went abroad. Display launched in 1869, first in academia, then at the road shows.
Creativity
Vasnetsov embraces genre, folk epics, history and religious subjects. By
Vasnetsov's paintings belong to the domestic nature, for example, from apartment to apartment "(1876, Tretyakov Gallery)," The military telegram "(1878, ibid)," Book shop "(1876, ibid)," Balagan in Paris "( 1877, Museum of Alexander III). From the epic and historical paintings
Vasnetsov issued: "The Knight at the Crossroads" (1882, Museum of Alexander III), "After a battle with Igor's Polovtsy" (1880, Tretyakov Gallery), Tsarevich Ivan on the Gray Wolf "(1889) was.
The greatest fame reached
Vasnetsov in religious paintings. Particularly noteworthy of his work in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev and in the temple of the Resurrection in St. Petersburg. Color drawings and general preparations for the original wall paintings of the cathedral of St. Vladimir kept in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of Alexander III; in the latter are stored as originals for the mosaics in the Church of the Resurrection, . for the Church of Darmstadt, . as well as the "Shroud" (1896),
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Religious Paintings
Vasnetsova marks him start a new movement in this area and led to the creation of a kind "GVARDIYSKE" style, which many try to emulate, but for the most part unsuccessfully. No less great merit
Vasnetsov in recreating ancient decorative art.
Vasnetsov was able to penetrate his high, noble, calm, monumental, and sometimes cozy and intricate nature of. Such, for example, its various decorative outline of his designs in the Vladimir Cathedral, staging "Snow Maiden" (for SI. Mamontov).
The main advantage of decorative works
Vasnetsov - their colorful effect, which manifests itself in a purely Russian combinations and shades of rich, full and calm colors. - See: VV. Stasov "Art and Art Industry" (1898 - 99); "Album Art", . edition Figner (M., . 1901), "The Cathedral of St. Vladimir in Kiev", . album of photographs of Lazo, "World of Art", . I; "Vladimir's Cathedral", . edition Kulzhenko (Kiev, . 1899); Deadly "Book Week" 1896; Baron de Baye "L'ouvre de V,
. Vasnetzoff "(Reims, 1896).
Biographies
Portfolio
- In Pictures. M. Vasnetsov site A. Tarasenko, "Russian painting" presented in two rooms ". Clicking the mouse on a portrait of the artist, you can see his curriculum vitae.
- 10 works in. M. Vasnetsov can be found in the section "Russian Art" on a private page, George Mitrevski (Auburn University, USA).
- Painting in. M. Vasnetsov Portrait of Borodina Shurochka.
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Miscellaneous
