Message from Shevchenko to the genre of still life is not accidental. The first decades of the twentieth century were a time of flourishing of still life in Russian painting. Cubists used still lifes to resolve the narrow, purely formal problem - identify the texture, form, subject, coloristic construction, innovative plastic solutions. Shevchenko, as well as other artists of the early twentieth century, uses still life as a field for the formal and stylistic exploration, as well as heroes of his pictures are simple, ordinary things. But the objects of everyday life in pictures Shevchenko are exquisite images.
On the wooden table is a tray on it crumpled white tissue. The background is a wall of light gray-blue and pink shades, draped with heavy curtains on the left with a vague floral ornament. On the wall hangs a portrait in a simple frame (in the space of the picture got only the lower part). All this is not just some substantive form, taken by the artist for coloristic experiments and plastic, and, above all things to their utilitarian stored on the warmth of human hands to create a warm atmosphere at home, shelter, refuge. Avant-garde artists have left this to the flatness and decorative.
Painting and AV Shevchenko concentrates in itself the diverse trends of Russian Art 1910-1940-ies. Therefore, among his works there flatly decorative, built on formal principles of cubism, futurism and luchizma. But in the still lifes abroad 1910-1920-ies the artist departs from these principles. (VN Shalabaeva) for Shevchenko, the classical tradition is also very important. As opposed to extreme strain and exaggerated expression, common to many contemporary artists, he remains within the likelihood. It is characterized by constructive and generally, conventional images, laconic forms, local color, rhythmically solved plane. Shevchenko was characteristic of Cezanne relation to the painting as a special world, a living organism, all of which must be tightly fused and interdependent in the overall ensemble.
As befits a major, they are at the center, sometimes slightly shifted immediately draw attention to themselves, forced to admire his perfect form. To underscore the importance of these items, give them the solemnity, the artist depicts them against the background of a decorative fabric or a tray, and then they The artist draws free, but at the same time, a coherent game plastic forms, the beauty of rhythm. For works of Shevchenko has always characterized the precise fashioning metaphors. Rectangular table, shown with a promising reduction, responds in a rectangle pattern on the wall. Red glass, decided flatly on the form and local color, touching one corner with a white bottle with the label, is it a reflection of the contrast-contrast and color and spatial arrangement (both vertical angles or checkered in the same suit). Together they define the composition and color center of the picture.
The main objects are static, because keeping track, accentuate its core vertical. All others are on the move: scattered on the table apples, stuck in the folds of cloth, swaying curtain wall, the plane table on the items located on it, change the angle, as if pivoting upward, intersecting with the plane of the wall and ending his turn in a balanced portrait of a rectangle . But the main static objects are relative, as all the vertical in the picture - and a bottle and the decanter and glass, and side of the portrait on the wall, and a single pleat curtains - are parallel to each other, somewhat tilted to the left. Sense of imbalance, unbalanced artist avoids tipping two horizontal - the edge of the table and the top edge of the glass - just right. Towards the main verticals bows and the curtain to its contour, as though stopping just started falling. Plastic game creates a feeling of gentle swaying.
In the color picture of Shevchenko's decision also follows the principles of Cezanne. Using the ratio of flowers, he builds a space and volume. Most items are written flatly, voluminous, only apples and tissues. The depth of the space created by using color and svetlotnogo contrasts. Shining colored red and orange glass apples, contrasting with the rest of the beautiful plane solved in gray scale, though closer to the viewer, come to the fore. Still Life Shevchenko require careful contemplation. Then it becomes clear and plastic metaphors, and the beauty of form, rhythm, color, and expressiveness of the soft delicate, tender touches with a brush.
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The core of this group were artists Konchalovsky PP, Kuprin AV, Lentulov AV Mashkov, I., Falk, RR They solved the problem of constructing forms of color, identify the materiality of nature.
Cubism (French subism from the cube - a cube), avant-garde in art during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Was developing in France (P. Picasso, Braque J. and others) and in other countries. Largely based on synthetically-integrated system of scenic P. Cezanne and the experience of traditional African sculpture, Cubism representatives appealed to the construction of three-dimensional shapes on a plane with simple geometric forms (cube, cone, cylinder). and using the achievements of previous phases, tends to be harmonious decorative and colorful compositions.
Fauvism (from frantsuzsskogo fauve - wild), a trend in French painting (1905 - 1907). Fauves (Matisse, A., Mark A., Vlaminck AM, and others) share a common aspiration to the emotional power of artistic expression, to the spontaneous dynamics of the letter, open the color intensity and urgency of rhythm.
Futurism (from the Latin futurum - future), avant-garde European art direction in 1910 - 1920, mainly in Italy and Russia. For the painting are characteristic changes, nodules form, multiple repeat motifs, as if summing up the impressions obtained during rapid motion. The most important artists and futurists have been - U. Boccioni Dzh.Balla, K. Carr, L. Russolo, Dzh.Severeni. In Russia, Futurism at first manifested itself in the painting (the brothers J. and H. Burliuks, M. Larionov, N. Goncharova, Alexandra Exter, N. Kulbin, etc.), and only then - in the literature (V. Khlebnikov, B . Mayakovsky, Kruchenykh, I. Severyanin). (L. Polikovskaya) The world Futurists influenced the ideas of Nietzsche, Bergson's philosophy, rebellious slogans anarchists.
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