What is it strange? Very Serovskaya picture. Yes, and "line from Moscow to Kuzminki" does not make me puzzled as of Serov. You see, Serov, unlike most artists, especially the 20th century, did not set himself the task to sell all means, at any cost, and therefore did not care about recognition of their special style. To him it was not the most important. For him, it was mainly to achieve excellence in each of its product. Every time he did not comply with something or someone, and was an artist in the highest sense of the word. Therefore, at first glance, it may give the impression that his creative legacy of non-integral, as it were fragmented and chaotic. In fact, it is not. This is precisely the synthesis of great talent and integrity of nature. In his perfectionism Serov is in line with Cezanne. He, like the Frenchman, every time as it decides to re-creative tasks, starting from the depicted object. This is honest, and therefore great, and art. This is exactly what is missing from many "great" artists of the 20th century, which "fingering" a certain style, exploit it to the end of his days, "squeezing out" of this specie on the advice of experienced gallerists. That is important for them recognition, which can be converted into money.


B. Serov, "The line from Moscow to Kuzminki" in 1892, 58h83, 5, oil on canvas, timing, came from the collection of Ryabushinsky (fotgrafiya with cards, money horrible, but the other does not):

What Oreshnikov?
Are you serious?
No Oreshenikov do not write!
So no one would write!

Yes I have, too.

Just Grabar writes of it as the only bad picture Serov (with which I agree).

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Write, write.


This "Woman with a Jug" - a kind of garbage is full.