WAN GENTLE ARTIST
Isaac Levitan In the Tretyakov Gallery
Text: Sergei Khachaturov
"Painfully delicate" characterized the relationship Levitan their pictures Sergei Diaghilev. The same epithet applied to the artist himself, and his short life. Enthusiastic about the art of essay Diaghilev admired artist opens a magnificent exhibition catalog THG, marking the 150 anniversary of the birth of Isaac Levitan. The exhibition can be called a historically significant: it assembled a phenomenally large archive of the master of many Russian museums, the museums of the former Soviet republics and even from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, which is rich in works of Levitan due diligence of the artist's nephew - Zachary Petrovich Birchanskogo.
Few painters from the circle of the Wanderers and their followers to stand the test of personal exhibition. Levitan not just survived, but will see the complex, not always read threads Russian art history, her fate and prospects.
Thanks to the successful work of the studio "About Design" exhibition, despite the huge amount of work, got a light, airy and some of "their", translating the feeling of aching tenderness that emit a landscape master.
What is the secret Levitan? Why he does not seem old-fashioned, archaic? Why his art is not infected with viruses salon, typical in a conversation about the realist landscape painter of the second half the last century? Why it was adopted not only in the circles Peredvizhnichestvo, but among miriskusnikov symbolist? Exposition suggests the answer: Isaac Levitan created a universal formula for the plastic landscape of Russia, giving a portrait of nature all the qualities of a great historical picture. From the history of Russian art is well known that in the late 60's peredvizhnicheskaya idea of painting - Acting of exposure of the document such as a pamphlet - has survived the crisis. The very language of art, its space-plastic laws require a scale of expression. It was necessary to return to the territory of a good painting, and tackle the big, far from newspaper journalism of the problem. And the image of the positive hero was tea and privechaem. And it so happened that in many respects landscape - first the first teacher Levitan, Savrasov, then the second teacher, Polenov - took the mission of the great plastic and semantic synthesis, which previously served as the historical picture. Scenic view of the world can unite and historical canvases Polenov, and even "Procession" Repin. In the work of Levitan this pantheism landscape vision Rasei realized completely.
When you look at the artist's paintings up close, admiring the rough and bumpy texture, then one wonders how far it is mostly from the Impressionist "steps" smear technique: tone principle levitanovskom landscape is important and in demand. Color Levitan largely corps, in the form of the objective world. Even the skies in rem by the difficulty of erecting the picture of the universe. And this eternal thingness ingeniously correlates with increasingly cloudy, not a luxury and not a frivolous Russian nature, love and understand you - great work. Work test painful tenderness.
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