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Сообщение от sergejnowo; 318715"

My wife was in shock, said only one "fear of God" on their arrival home, threw a reproduction.

Oh, about the same about this artist spoke one doctor and writer June 23, 1884:

I scare their children by the artist Vasnetsov. This artist otrodjas I have not seen, but otherwise can not imagine it, either as a ghost with green, dull eyes, a sepulchral voice, and a white gown. It is remarkable that this rather popular artists nobody has ever seen. What prevents think he lives in an abandoned cemetery, eats the corpses of babies and drinks from a skull? His paintings like "Alyonushka" and "Three princesses" supports this idea that it strahovidnosti. They are muddy, green, hospital and panihidny. And his picture that he is preparing for our Historical Museum, before the horrible, that tossed the bones in the graves of all who lived from the beginning of the century to today and the hair turns gray, even on the floor brush. When you look at it, you feel creepy, not only on the back, but even on a coat and boots. This picture shows basically nonsense, but this nonsense must be understood is not nonsense, but something prevysprennee, chief allegorical ... Dead Man Vasnetsov thinks depict a few moments of bygone days "Stone Age". At that surrendered Historical Museum Vasnetsov "Stone Age", it is difficult to understand ... I think that a grateful posterity shrug his shoulders, staring at the strange improvisation. If even the Anuchin (whose writings enjoyed the artist) can not imagine at least some period of this hypothetical, then how much more Vasnetsov, not a geologist and archeologist, it would poobuzdat their nerves, inclined to all sorts of allegory ...
Since it is his picture stuff. Then he and the naked women, and caves, and making fire by friction, and the first number "Son of the Fatherland, and hunting for mammoth, and brigadirsky rank ... Yes, Allah will forgive him this muddy mess! And, they say, there was a time when Mr. Vasnetsov not engaged in allegories and gave hope ...