In Kiev will host an exhibition of works by Vrubel

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In Kiev will host an exhibition of works by Vrubel
 Korrespondent.net

October 8 at the Kiev Museum of Russian Art will host an exhibition Wrobel and Kiev, dedicated to 155th anniversary of the artist.

Life Vrubel closely connected with Kiev. Here began an independent career of the artist. During his stay in Kiev (1884 - 1889), which itself Wrobel, was "the best period of my life," were a time of rapid formation of his creative method, which has become an integral part of Russian modernism.

In Kiev, he wrote such masterpieces as The Girl on the background of the Persian Carpet, Oriental fairy tale, an angel with a censer and candles, here Wrobel began working on a way the Demon.

The exhibition is devoted to the Kiev and Wrobel 155-th anniversary of the artist and is the tenth (Jubilee) exhibition of his works in the Ukrainian capital. Exhibit of works by Vrubel in Kiev museum of Russian art have become a tradition since 1976, according to the press service of the Kiev Museum of Russian Art.

According to organizers of the exhibition, the museum owns one of the most important collections of works of the Kievan period, which formed the basis of exposure Wrobel and Kiev.

The idea of ​​the exhibition - to show the most significant thematic layers and different facets of the master. The exposition is divided into four sections (for details, people, flowers, gods, angels, prophets).

The exhibition will feature approximately 120 paintings, drawings and sculptures.

In addition, the exhibition will be lectures, theatrical performances for children. At the conclusion of the exhibition will be held Piano Concerto.

Wrobel and exhibition will be opened in Kiev Kiev Museum of Russian Art (Street Tereschenkivska 9) from October 8 to November 6, 2011.

[Seriy]

I went . Oil paintings , in addition to those exhibited in the permanent exhibition , it was not . In general, plus watercolor pencil work . Watercolor is often covered with varnish. Watercolors , mostly very small in size , such as 20x10 cm Kiev Museum has the largest collection of works by Vrubel with flowers, watercolor m e , the largest of about 40x50 .
 Magical quality of work , remember petunias , and near white peonies almost cried , so piercingly drawn.
Alas, some information accompanying documents, photos of the Kiev period Vrubel was not. There were two posters with the known facts .
 There were exhibited more than 100 works.
No photography allowed.
Such exhibitions of works by Vrubel Museum are held in every 10 years .

[uriart]

I am here on the site exhibited watercolor Vrubel is just the Kievan period .
He took part in painting the Cathedral of St. Vladimir in Kiev .
Because of Prakhov in Vrubel had some friction , then he got an order for painting columns, and only some details.
And he put on for larger murals. And at the exhibition in Kiev shows sketches for paintings that have never been osuschestveleny Vrubel.
Presented watercolor just shows the development of capitals and arch set of the cathedral .

[Tana]

Seriy, and the catalog for an exhibition there ?

MA Wrobel primarily involved with the restoration work at St. Cyril's Church of Kiev ( vobschem something to do it, and was invited to Kiev AV Prakhov ). Strange, never heard of it " friction " with Prakhov , well, his wife, he was in love .... It is very beautiful its frescoes in the church and the iconostasis is simply no words!


uriart, your sketch reminded me of St. Cyril's Church, may still be a sketch for the restoration work is in this church?

[Seriy]

Tana, separately for the exhibition catalog is not produced, but there is a small booklet with works by Vrubel at the Museum -25 hryvnia.

 As explained by a poster exhibition on proposed designs for Vrubel Vladimir Church did not like the builders, for example , the figures were just standing on the floor, tons of e coincides with the edge of the frescoes from the floor. His ideas were rejected.

[uriart]

Tana, I am confident that Vladimir, since the restoration of the Cathedral of St. Cyril in was completed earlier.

From 1884 to 1896. supervised finishing novosooruzhennogo Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev.

from the memoirs of A. Prahova:

«Fearing that my lack of committee in charge of the funds (for the restoration of St. Cyril's Church), was commissioned to write the image to some local artist-Bogomazov, I took care to find talented student in St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, which could be carried out in Kiev, this order does not go beyond sparingly dispensed according to the estimate of funds. In St. Petersburg, arriving in autumn lecture at the university, I could not just do this thing ... Finally packed up and went straight to the Academy of Fine Arts for his old friend, PP Chistyakov. "

Describing the discovery of ancient mosaics in Kiev Sofia, on the detected and stored them without the restoration of the frescoes in the church of the former Kirillov monastery, Adrian V. asked to recommend someone from the students, "who would be willing to come to Kiev and to write for 1,200 rubles, with its materials, zinc on the boards for four-way single-tiered marble iconostasis in the Byzantine style. "

"Just finished, someone knocked at the door.

- Come in! - Called PP Chistyakov.

The door of the studio opened, and went with a rather large folder in the hands of a slender, thin young man of medium height. On the face of no Russian type. He was dressed neatly in a student form, even with the sword, which students at that time were reluctant.

- And here - on the hunter and the beast running! Here's an artist! Better, more talented and more suitable for your order, I can not recommend anyone ...».

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There he met his wife Adrian V. - Emilia Lvovna, 32-year-old mother of three children, gifted and well-educated young woman who was the soul of the Kiev Art Society.

It will take quite a bit - and Wrobel passionately in love with her, she would become his Beautiful Lady, muse and inspiration, but partly, - and the reason that talent Vrubel will not be realized in Kiev in the extent to which it would like the artist and and many generations of Kiev.

Wrobel love. He wants to give Emily Lvovna his canvases. Sketch of the future masterpiece - "Eastern tales" - she refused to accept on the grounds that such pictures are worth stored in the museum:

"- When you throw at us you do not need, unfinished sketches or giving me some little work - I can take it from you at the memory, and this" Oriental Tale "- too serious, it is a complete thing. Show her Nikolychu Ivan (Ivan N. Tereshchenko - Kiev, patron of the arts, the owner of the meeting, which became the basis for the art museums of Kiev), he was willing to buy it for his collection .- Oh, you do not want? - Wrobel said, he immediately broke into several pieces watercolor, threw it on the floor and left with no one saying goodbye. "

When a few days later he came to apologize, Emily L. gave him an envelope with the stored pieces. Later, he used some of them stick to the paper, and appending the rest.


Here's another interesting snippet:


   work at St. Cyril's Church was completed in 1885, and Vrubel went to Odessa to soon go back to Kiev.

Meanwhile in Kiev were the preparatory work to design a new church - the Cathedral of St.. Vladimir. The cathedral was laid in 1862 and completed its construction was planned for the 900 th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia (1888), but because the supply of substandard materials and errors in the construction of the design calculations, only begun, was suspended for ten years. In 1882, when construction of the temple, finally nearing completion, Prof. Malyshevsky offered an unusual concept to design - inside it was supposed to look like ancient cathedral, since the era of Prince Vladimir.

Their services on the drafting immediately offered Prakhov Adrian, who had a deserved reputation as a great expert on art of Kievan Rus. In 1885 he was appointed head of the construction committee and entrusted the decoration of the cathedral. The main contractor of painting was Viktor Vasnetsov, who carefully studied the original old Russian mosaics of St. Sophia Cathedral and the newly discovered frescoes of St. Cyril's Church, where he worked on the restoration at the time Vrubel, and selflessly went to work.

Why Vrubel was not involved in the paintings of the church?. Art historians agree that the decisive role played in that time nothing but the tension in personal relationships Vrubel and Adrian Prahova.

Mikhail knew about the plans for the design of the cathedral and wanted to take part in this work. By the time the work of St. Cyril's Church had already been a lot of sketches for murals in the Cathedral of St.. Vladimir. He worked on them and in Kiev, and in Venice. But the works are distributed without him, but talented Vasnetsov and Nesterov, dust invites Polish artists and Kotarbinski Svedomski who used the then popular among the public and that, despite the constant is truncated estimates were paid a substantial fee.

Ignoring him from Prahova Wrobel perceives as heavy a personal insult. But when he returned to Kiev from Odessa, and cooled down a bit, he still comes to the Prahova and offers him assistance in the development of at least some elements of the painting.

Later, Adrian V., trying to explain non-participation in Vrubel's major works on the design of the cathedral, in which he was accused during his lifetime, and he made no secret of personal reasons:

"I had to lead the creation of the cathedral. The point is, I gave into the hands of Vasnetsov ... With Vrubel we did not find a common language for purely personal reasons. In 1886, I had to go back to the East for further research and for a long time about Vrubel did not have any news ... Only in 1887, when work in the cathedral were already in full swing, Wrobel came to me and asked if I would not take it back with them to work. I asked him to paint the arch itself opposite the entrance. I knew all the originality of talent Vrubel and wanted to give him a job where he was the least restricted to the general plan and character of the painting. "

Wrobel took on any job in the Vladimir Cathedral. He was invited to paint the ceiling of the "5-day creation of the world," and he did it, but the work was not accepted by the building committee, which previously claimed sketch Svedomski. The reason - made Vrubel work was significantly different in style from the sketch. And the work has been redrawn by another artist. Was not accepted and a sketch of Vrubel's "Resurrection." Another idea - "The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles" was not even translated into a sketch, and left pencil drawing - it did not fit into the overall plan of painting the cathedral.

After the refusal of one of the involved in the paintings of artists got a chance to perform Vrubel painted the walls of one of the stairs of the cathedral, and was even chosen theme - "The Life of Prince Vladimir the Red Sun," but soon learned that in St. Petersburg Construction Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs significantly reduced the estimates for the end of the interior of the church. And painting ladders will be replaced by a simple masking coating paint with a little ornamentation. As a result, Vrubel went to a performance of a few ornaments, and who now guides show visitors to the city of Kiev.

  His initial sketches for the decoration of the cathedral Mikhail Prakhov already shown only on the eve of his departure to Moscow in 1889.


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[Tana]

"Another idea -" The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles "was not even translated into a sketch, and left pencil drawing - it did not fit into the overall plan of painting the cathedral."

strange to read about it, just disconnect!
as He was not pencil drawing!

  "Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles' magnificent fresco of St. Cyril's Church (some murals Vruble restored to the church, some were written), I was in St. Cyril's Church just a month ago and your sketch reminded me a lot of painting in St. Cyril's Church (unfortunately there can not be photographed and photos on the Internet is also not found), possibly inspired by the paintings of your sketch in St. Cyril's Church.
Yes, Wrobel also partly painted and the Hagia Sophia-vault of the central dome.



"Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles' mural made in Kirilovskaya church in 1884, how is pencil drawing it can be to the paintings in the Vladimir Cathedral?
on the iconostasis at St. Cyril's Church Vrubel worked in 1885.,

I think that for some time at St. Cyril's Church and at the Vladimirsky Cathedral went hand in hand.


may nepriyaz Prahova to Vrubel was due to the fact that the prototype image of the Virgin for the iconostasis was Emilia Prahova, though, and "The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles," he portrays the Prahova, myself, svyaschennikoa P. Orlovsky protoireem ...

[uriart]

Tana, disagreement with Vrubel was out of love for Emilia Petrovna.