Artist Valentin Serov

Artist Valentin Serov (1865 - 1911) came from a family of musicians: his father, D.N Serov - composer and music critic, and his mother. VS Serov (nee Bergman). - Pianist and composer. Having lost his father at the age of six. Serov his artistic education was required of the mother. In 1872 - 1874, living with her in Munich, he took drawing lessons from K. Keppinga. In 1874-1875, he moved to Paris, the artist became acquainted with VD Polenov. I. Repin, family Mamontov. Relations with the mammoth, overgrown in emotional attachment, remained all his life (included in Abramtsevo circle for a long time staying in Abramueve). In Paris, at the insistence of the mother began to study drawing and painting from Ilya Repin. Classes did not leave and return to Russia (1878 -|1880). Since 1879 the artist lived in the family Repin, who saw to it that Serov continued his studies at IAH (1880-1885) under Pavel Chistyakov. Dissatisfied with the academic routine, Serov left the Academy, leaving the task of drawing a week, and on the painting - the day before the final exam. Of great importance for the development of creative artist-operation had taken place immediately before leaving the IAH travel to Germany and Holland. He studied classical European painting in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Hohne, resumed his studies in etching|Keppinga. With him in July - August, traveled to Belgium and the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Haarlem, The Hague, Brussels, Antwerp), especially interested in the Golan landscape XVII. In the early works of Serov landscape occupies a significant place ("Oxen," 1885; "Autumn Evening. Domotkanovo", "Cloudy Day", "pond. Abramtsevo (Upper Pond in Abramtsevo) *", "Winter in Abramtsevo. The Church," all - 1886 "Overgrown Pond. Domotkanovo," "Old bath in Domotkanovo" both - 1888, "Pond," "Yard," "The Road", everything - 1880, etc.). Gradually, the artist has mastered the plein-air painting, began to use bright colors and translucent colored shadows. Genuine masterpieces of the impressionist style painted in portraits of S. Mammoth ("Girl with Peaches", 1887) and cousin of the artist, J. M. Simonovic j («Girl, illuminated by the sun", 1888). j Both canvases are beyond the scope of the portrait genre itself. The main place in the work of Serov I has always been a portrait. In 1890 he created a number of excellent works in this genre: portraits of Italian singers A. Masini (1890) and Taman F. (1891), painters Korovin I (1891), Ilya Repin (1892), Levitan (1893), writer Nikolai Leskov (1894), composer Nikolai Rimsky - Korsakov (1898), etc. At the same time was written by one of the last open-air genre portraits of "Summer" (1895) on I which shows the artist's wife, O. Serova, nee Trubnikov. Otherwise resolved, "Portrait of MK Olive" (1895), featuring a psychological depth and a muted, richly nuanced range of colors. Glory to the artist drew a portrait many customers, including members of the royal family and members of nobility. Serov created portraits of Nicholas II and Alexander III (both - 1900), Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich (1893), Pavel Aleksandrovich j (1897), Georgy Mikhailovich (1901), Grand Duchesses Olga, Xenia Alexandrovna (both -1893), Maria Pavlovna Jr. From 1908 to 1909 Serov and K. Korovin taught at the studio portrait and genre MUZHVZ. as well as in Moscow E scale. Zvantseva and AA Hotyanntsevoy. In 1909 he participated in the rate of Russian to Finnish artist-workers, in fact, marked the beginning of the "World of Art", in which Serov immediately entered. They carried portraits of its members - Sergei Diaghilev (1904. Unfinished) and Leon Bakst (first half of 1900 -. gouache, ink). Together with other miriskusnikov Serov nllyustriroval second volume edition of H II Kutepova "The Tsar and the Empire, the P \\\\ \\\\: n. The end of the XVII and XVIII (St. Petersburg. 1902). In the tempera technique. Due to the fact that filed jointly with V. Polenov in its Council a letter in which then-president of the Academy of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich was accused of organizing the shooting of unarmed people on 9 January, was not delivered to the discussion. The artist has taken an active civic stance, remembering the events of those days in several papers: "The defeat of the demonstration in 1905" (gouache, whitewash), "Soldiers, bravo lads" 1908 - 1909 nachalj Serov made two portraits Andreev lithographs. The last decade, the artist has been extremely productive. In 1898 he was elected the first Russian member of the Munich Secession and in 1903 he joined the SRS. Permanent participant of numerous exhibitions: "World of Art" (1899-1903, 1906, 1911), SRS (1905-1910), World in Paris (1900, Grand Prix) and Brussels glory? "(Pastel, gouache)," Funeral H . Bauman. 20oktyabrya 1905 "(gouache, white). In 1905, the acquaintance and closer Serov with Maxim Gorky. He has been involved in the production of well-known satirical magazine "Tip" and "bogey", which published his sharp satirical cartoons of Nicholas 11 - "1905. After the pacification. " "Views on the harvest." The new mood in the power of the artist was at this time, reflected in a number of portraits. The best of them - the monumental, the growth picture Yermolova (1905) and Fyodor Chaliapin (1905, charcoal, chalk). At the same time were written portraits of Gorky (1905. Unfinished) and LN Andreeva (1907, watercolor). In con-(1910), International in Munich (1898.1899), Vienna (1902), Berlin (1903), Venice (1907), Rome (1911), Russian art in Paris (1906, 1910), Berlin (1906) , Vienna (1908), np. Since 1899 was a member of the public council Tretyakov gallery, created after the death of Pavel Tretyakov. In the 1900s, Serov art developing in several styles. One of them is connected with the interpretation of the classical tradition (Portraits ES Karzinknnoy, 1906: GL Hirschmann of the mirror. 1907, tempera, and in a blue turban, 1911, pastel: EA Ball and Noah. 1911). Other shows renewed search for artistic communication system with a modern French art is clearly affected in the image Morozov (1910), a Moscow industrialist, collector of contemporary French painting. The hallmarks of Art Nouveau marked a formal portrait of Princess Orlova, DC (1911) and is extremely bold, innovative form of image dancer Ida Rubinstein (1910, tempera, charcoal). Quality of modernity and historicism organically coexist in a large formal portrait of Princess P. Scherbatova (1911, j charcoal, pastel, tempera) - the last, unfinished work of the artist. Search for new expressive possibilities and noted the work of so-called classical cycle, which appeared after the artist visited in 1907 in Greece. It is known in several versions, stretched like frieze composition "Odysseus and Navzikaya" (1901) and conceived as a wall panel, "The Rape of Europa" (1910). For the latter is characterized by monumental treatment of forms, stylized under the influence of archaic statues, and a comparison of large planes, painted in contrasting local mating, which would create an additional decorative effect, on the same subject. Finished sculptures in plaster, bronze and terra cotta (all - 1910). Remained unimplemented monumental paintings depicting scenes from the "Metamorphoses" of Ovid ("Diana and Aktson", "Eros. Apollo and Daphne. Venus," "Apollo and Daphne, who kills the children Niobe", etc.) for the dining room in a Moscow mansion V. and E. Nosov (1910-1911). Until the last days of life Serov did not stop work begun in 1895 with illustrations for the fables of IA Krylov. Some of them were executed in the technique of etching ("Pike", 1896, "The Lion and the Fox," "The Wolf and the Crane", both - between 1896 and 1898, "The Wolf and the Shepherds", 1899). Others, intended for publication, conceived I. II. Kpsbelem, the artist painted legom 1911 ("The Wolf and the Crane," "Quartet," "crow in peacock's feathers," "The Lion and the Wolf," "Monkey and glasses," "Lion in old age") In late October, early November 1911 there was a Serov's meeting with visiting Moscow PWM Matthew A. issom. He died suddenly and was buried in the cemetery of the Donskoi Monastery, in 1939 the ashes of the artist was moved to Novodevichy kladbische.Istochnik http://v-protasov.ru