Artist Fyodor Vasilyev

Artist Fyodor Vasiliev is one of the founders of the lyrical direction of Russian landscape painting. Premarital son of a small postal clerk. Artistic talent displayed ranoyu In the early 1860s, was assistant conservator of IAH PA. K. Sokolov. In school, finally clear attraction to the landscape Vasiliev. Year of graduation dates from the urban landscape "After the Rain" (1867), featuring a lyrical and direct perception of nature. Decisive for the formation of a young artist was communicating with Shishkin I.I who took him under his wing, and their joint summer travel and work in the open air. The first was a trip. Balaam. Subject villages, rural nature firmly established in the artist's work, she devoted many of his works: "The watering hole," "The Return of the herd," "Village Street", "After the Storm." Vasiliev summer of 1870 with IE Repin, his brother, a student at St. Petersburg Conservatory, and the artist, EK Makarov spent on the Volga. From the trip brought back sketches made in oils and watercolors, and drawings. Already recognized by contemporaries, his talent was a painter could argue with the talent of the artist. Images are easy to Vassiliev, a special artistic performance. They're not forced contrasts of black and white, everything is transparent, airy and light. Theme of tragedy in human life sounds full of deep feeling in the movie "The Thaw" (1871), interwoven with metaphorical themes of the road, home, fortune. Featured in the exhibition OPH, the picture has become an event in the Russian landscape painting, giving rise to many imitations. The artist was awarded the first prize OPH. Even before the opening of the exhibition "The Thaw" acquired Tretyakov, and the artist was commissioned to repeat the royal family. In 1872 the "Thaw" was exhibited at the World Exhibition in London and has been highlighted by critics. In February 1871 Vasiliev was enlisted as a volunteer at IAH, but did not attend classes. In May 1872 IAH bestowed him with the class artist grade 1 without performing the competitive program, but with the condition to pass examinations in science subjects. Because of illness he was unable to do so, the title of class artist changed the title of honorary associate of the free. Work on the painting "Thaw" in the open-air cheese provoked in the artist development of TB disease, to which he had a hereditary predisposition. In the summer of 1871 he had to leave Kharkov Province. And then to Yalta. Vasiliev is not immediately perceived southern nature, yearning for flashy, but such an intimate landscape of the middle band. In 1872 appeared one of his best paintings "Wet Meadow", written by carrying a life, but on the basis of the synthesized sketches of the artist. A short time Vasilyev started writing and the nature of the Crimea. Best picture, combining the Crimean experience, was the picture of "The Crimean Mountains" (1873), won first prize OPH. A sense of wholeness, of monumentality rare for an artist create a vertical format and color, designed in a uniform grayish-ocher and green-blue din. However, within this range, even a small piece of each painting surface is replete with subtle shades of color. Last year the artist's life was marked by the landscape, not only with the southern, but also with the central Russian motives, among which is a recognized pattern, as the "Abandoned Mill" (1871-1873), which is imbued with a deep sadness, almost turning into the silence of nothingness. Realizing a remarkable colorist, he became more and more immersed in the elements of color. Vasilyev died and was buried in Yalta. But his views and today continues to delight and touch our hearts. Channel http://v-protasov.ru