Genre of the portrait in the work of Konstantin Somov

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Portrait of Alexander Blok. 1907

Somov Konstantin (1869-1939), -? Russian painter and graphic artist. The son of an art museum and figure AI Somov. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1888-97) and Paris (1897). From 1925 he lived in Paris. One of the founders of the magazine "World of Art", a member of the same name association. Turning to the noble life of XVIII century. Ironically stylizing motives of art and rococo Italian commedia dell'arte ("Evening", 1900-02, "Harlequin and the lady," gouache, 1912 - both in TG), Somov, largely determined the composition characteristic " World of Art "neo-romantic genre of retrospective, created in his works, particularly the fictional" world of the past ", inhabited by puppet characters staffazhnymi, ironic convention which often emphasized the elemental life, sunlit landscape environment.

< br /> Somov entered the Russian art as a clever and subtle portrait painter, who made a lot of new things in this difficult genre. Som creates a new portrait - Retrospective . His contemporaries, he writes in dresses a bygone era, against the background of the old parks. Typical of "modern" idea of ​​the portrait-masks combines his many portraits works up psychological characteristics of the model ("Lady in Blue", 1897-1900, portrait of Alexander Blok, graphite and colored pencil, gouache, 1907 - both in GTG).

Woman in Blue

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