The study of peasant life and work on the illustrations to fairy tales - the most important areas of creativity Helena Dmitrievna. She believed that "there existed a positive affinity, both (tales and carved wooden things) is mainly based on the fact that I scooped from the folk art.
There have Polenova unpublished story "about Masha and Vanya. She has composed, or told the mother of the artist. Illustrations and framing their pattern of Russian embroidery are made by hand for 24 sheets. In our imagination gets the evening twilight cozy old child, where each episode of the story will outlive their children. But in the editions printed in hard copy, for a wide range of readers, the artist retains such a precious feeling of man-made. It seems that the book is lovingly made just for you, but not for many people.
The action takes place not in the fairy kingdom, but in the Russian countryside, against the backdrop of nature. Artist frequently painted landscapes, small in size, lyric, in which specific open psychic penetration. In nature, the artist was interested in inhabited places. Most of this work performed in the "frog" perspective. This world of the forest, seen from the bottom up - like a child, for which he was a little mysterious, and it could easily have been born a fairy tale.
Flowers Globe grew as unknown thickets, where short-lived and lost. Main in landscapes Polenova - attention to the "little things" to "nonprincipal" the inhabitants of the forest: grass, flowers, fungi, insects. They become heroes thumbnail Polenova.
One of her favorite fairy tales "War of mushrooms. She heard from her grandmother in early childhood, when they passed through the woods in a traveling coach. Polenova wrote that she tried to "step back in some distant childhood when, while listening to this story, I imagined a miniature forest monasteries and cities, lined up, so to speak, in mushroom scale in which they live and operate these amazing creatures, as in childhood prudence mushroom - this being quite lively and very attractive. " Effects of the artist brings to her well-known Abramcevskaja grove. Images of fungi are diverse and bizarre: here and mushrooms - lads friendly "," ryzhichki - rich peasants, "" butterflies - columnar noble "," Lactarius - monastic servants and, finally, "the king - boletus mushroom, whole mushrooms, Colonel." They are given in the intro books in a way in which fall into the basket mushroomer while imperceptibly turn into fantastic dressed up, fantastic narodtse. The artist opens like a mysterious curtain in this small world. Landscape, towers and mansions in the old Russian style is not something depicted on a smaller scale, not the mushrooms and attics grow to enormous size.
Her characters warmed by affection and warmth. Knowing the village life, a painter admired them in pictures - looking for inspiration and designs, walking in the huts and watching what amounts to their goods. In the tale "Little House on chicken legs" interior cabin is given a very authentic. Sinister daughter of Baba Yaga (fairy tale "Synkov-Filipko") wears a shirt embroidered with Russian, its stupa painted with flowers. But Filipko approaching the island, where calling him Baba Yaga, and in the boat - a huge colorful bark tuesok.
The artist wrote: "Tomorrow we are in the same artistic companies are going to mushroom market. I am getting the Russian spirit to tales. Very interesting, this mushroom market, something zachertila and bought a curious clay animals, I think that some of them useful for fairy tales. Animals in the illustrations Polenova resemble toys, and toys - first environment a child - is like a big world. Toy animals always safe and good-natured. In childhood his immutable law, where good is stronger than evil.
Warmth of the artist returned to work. She had a plan to paint a picture "Children" and create an image of Russian nanny. Through her whole life is worship of the hearth and home.
The magical world of illustration Polenov led to the idea to recreate a theatrical, poluskazochny life and in life. With the assistance of EG Mamontova, the wife of the founder Abramtsevo Art Circle, organized a workshop to teach the peasant children carpentry. Its main purpose - the revival of the national fisheries conservation techniques of carving, providing farmers solid earnings. Furniture created from sketches Polenova, was sold in Moscow in a special shop and was a great success. In one of her letters read: "Our Stuff ... going well, I think only because of the novelty, originality and style model.
To create household items Polenova studied the little-known monuments. Efforts entire trips to neighboring villages. There are many sketches she made during visits to Russia. Furniture Scheme set up in large numbers, most of all - hanging cabinets, racks, shelves. And no one repeats the other.
Carving artist often painted or covered with gilding, trying to make smart products. Refined by size, indicated that the clove should be gilded, and wood - dark-stained oak. In the closet were a lot of convenient pull-out drawers, sometimes closed at the tiny, like a toy furniture, latches. And furniture Polenova, as in her illustrations and easel paintings, we see the same admiration "trifles".
In the Russian carving that inspired the artist, widely found inspiration for his impressions of nature: flowers, fruits, animals, birds. In its ornaments she usually plays the shape of wild flowers: thistle, dandelion, and chamomile. Arrange them in a rhythmic sequence, stylized - unfolds on the plane in such a way as to obtain beautiful patterns. Throughout the visible element of fun games, fantasy. The artist not only painted furniture colors, and create an image - "the cupboard-meadow", "cupboard-garden". Just like in the fairy tale "The War of mushrooms, where the fungus - is a warrior, and a wardrobe Polenova turns out that the meadow, the garden, the cottage. Everyday object begins to relate to the fantastic world where the sun is shining, shining a month with the stars, and the cat sitting on the stove and then the owl with sovyatami. Things created by the artist, reminiscent of the Russian past, ceremonial rites of the ancient way of life. About one works Stasov critic wrote that "it is composed by some unknown master of our ancient Rus.
In his later years the artist has performed numerous sketches ornaments. They were used to further its work on applied things. Images of fantastic plants bear little resemblance to the real thing. She often dreamed of their fantastic combination, and woke up, she hurried Save this dream on paper.
In later work connected with each other two arts: painting and music. The artist had a "colored hearing", and many ornaments were born during the execution of music. That seemed embodied in the delicate forms of vegetation.
Abramcevo, where she worked Polenova meant for her very much. Atmosphere Mamontov theater, saturated artistry and ebullient energy of the actors and artists, inspired the creation of costumes for productions. A love of Russian history, which the inhabitants worshiped Abramtsevo, goes through her whole life. Simultaneously with the artist M. Nesterov, she started working on a sketch for "The boy Bartholomew." It operates design fabric of youth Sergei Radonezhsky - founder of the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra, a prominent public figure, Russia; pictures of Boris and Gleb "; paintings associated with the start of the Neva battle. She sang such historical and living canvases as "Icons Workshop XVI century", "Boyarsky Dvor. Interest in the history of his people called the study of ancient architecture, crafts - all that is
the foundations of Russian culture.
In the beautiful watercolor works of Helena Dmitrievna Polenova, in illustrations, works of applied art, the diverse activities - caring for the wounded in hospital, educational and artistic activity is visible to her talent, a solid character, loyal to the high public vocation .
02.03.2009, 17:48
The magical world of artist Helen Polenova
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