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In 1910, Pyotr Konchalovsky was going to France. Many communicates with VISurikova and learns from his "mastery of the picturesque vision. Continuing fascination with French Impressionism.

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from Paris, traveling with VISurikova in Spain (Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Seville, Valencia, Barcelona). Meets with the art of Velasquez.
From Spain back to Arles, then takes off with the family villa in Kaldetase, where numerous sketches and sketches, made in Spain, wrote the picture "Bullfight".
Artist also interested in Spanish folk art, and in the "Bullfight" strive to make it look like a bull on the popular toy, the primitive is to give the form typical.

"I originally wrote" Bullfights "very realistic, Surikov thought the remarkable thing for the vitality of the transfer, but I did not like it. I wanted to do more characteristic of a bull, not the way everyone sees it as similar to a primitive, a toy. I have always loved folk art. Remember these Trinity Toy, who all his life were cut from a tree some bear with a man. With what simplicity and power, they passed the very essence of man and beast, blowing to the most basic means it all comes down to two or three characteristic detail. That's how it is, "a peasant", "in toy and wanted to give me a bull during a fight. I wanted, what would it seem not like a toy, not like himself" the devil ", as depicted by the Middle Ages in church vestibule . So I rewrote it. Surikov, remember, thought that I was wrong and sorry for all the old bull, but I liked the new more. Op. by VA Nicholas op. cit., p.46-47.

Spanish Painting palette changes Pyotr Konchalovsky. The color palette warms up, the shades are murky. Artist strive to reach the Spanish "simplified synthetic colors.

Paints a picture: "Home", "Amateur bullfighting", "Spanish Room" and "Matador Manuel Hart.

In the same year, returned to Moscow and became one of the founders of the Art Society "Knave of Diamonds".

The main advantage of painting proclaims its quality. The artists of the public awareness of the need to "work on a new and very specific method."

One of the central works written by Konchalovsky after returning from Spain is "Portrait of the artist George Bogdanovich Yakulov.
The artist himself describes it: "Portrait Yakulov I wrote in a kind of triumphalism, such a strong feeling in the painting, after Spain. Quite frankly, in the most blatant form I wanted this portrait to oppose the favorite by many artists, pretty, and prichesannosti prilizannosti portrait of a that was considered generally felt ugly, but in fact it was extremely beautiful. Mostra like scenic beauty and power of this supposed outrage, to show the very nature of Yakulov. On this portrait I heard from someone Benua, entered the shop and persuaded to show the portrait to the nearest exhibition "World of Art before he will be on display in the Jack of Diamonds." Konchalovsky, 796-4. C 23.

In 1911 the artist holds in Moscow, leaving in the summer Abramcevo, where as in the Spanish scheme wrote a series of landscapes. At the same time takes an interest in Russian folk art, street signs, enters them into their urban landscapes.

"The roots of interest in folk art and the sign lying in Konchalovsky, as well as some other painters of the era, in the scope of their efforts to identify painting in only one characteristic, using the simplest means. Inherent folk art and generally primitive generalized forms with extraordinary stinginess of the artistic language was in essence, the confirmation sezannovskogo teachings of the synthesis of form, as time and performs while the triumphal procession in painting in many countries and peoples. " Nikolsky. Uk. cit., p.51

Writes the first family portrait - a group portrait of the artist's wife and children ( "Family Portrait", 1911). This pattern also applies to a series of works of Spanish artist.
"In him, in Spanish, is dominated by two colors: black and white. No matter how much given the portrait of red and green, they play a strictly subordinate role, the case underscores the sonority of the two main notes of the portrait. Introduced into the background accompaniment of Chinese painting is that key tones. It is given again in black, gray sweats, and repeated for the red - pink fish gills and green - the blue-green wave. In this portrait, if you look intently, will have some sense of thinghood items and the beginnings of constructivism. " Nikolsky. Uk. cit. P.53

Along the Spanish passion for painting still interested in the artist's creativity by Paul Cezanne. In 1912 published a book by Bernard E. "Cezanne, his unpublished letters and memories of him in translation PP Konchalovsky.

In March, the family Konchalovsky accompanies VISurikova in Berlin, then moved to Italy (Siena, Pisa, Assisi, Perrudzhu).

In Siena, the artist examines the frescoes by Signorelli, Simone Martini, Benozzo Gozzoli, Piero Pollaiolo. The old masters, he learns the structure of the composition, flattened shape.

For significant works of this period also include "Family Portrait".
Portrait characterized primarily by the spatial structure of the composition, the desire to "fresco" style. "It was in Siena for some reason, I drew the attention of the fact that real people sometimes sit in the Italian room, as if they pose for the frescoes of the day. Life itself has prompted me to day is a fresco portrait of Siena, the circular building. Roundness of composition, its spatiality particularly well here showed the door to the stairs behind his wife, the highest point in semicircles. Siena and gave me the monumentality of the composition, which is in this portrait. The color of his decision, I have kept primitive simplistic tones. The frescoes also all terribly simplified, although the image of They often seem quite alive. I remember how happy my little "discovery" in Siena portrait: once about standing on the floor near the wall the canvas randomly placed chair, and found that it just grows in the picture, merges with it in spite of throughout the simplicity of its forms. They tried to put a portrait of the other things - all the same, grow into a canvas and they are. It opened my "secret" of the real painting, the opposite of its qualities of naturalistic illusion. This "secret" gave some new boldness and strength provides a new quality of painting, quite distant from the Impressionist ...". Op. by Nicholas. Uk. cit., pp 56-57

Also in Siena and environs wrote a series of urban landscapes and still lifes, attentively studying the structure of natural forms.
In Siena the artist's works can be seen clearly the influence of Cezanne and the Cubist painting. Just following the example of Cubist, on his return to Moscow, the artist wrote a series of still lifes by entering into a composition of paper labels.
Sticker, which was introduced in the paintings, according to the wizard makes the artist to improve the quality of painting, bringing it to the realism, to achieve "tangible transfer thinghood items not falling into the naturalistic extremes. Nikolsky. Uk. cit. P.57.
In parallel, the desire to transmit "material nature" of the subject and attempts at expansion colors on the plane, Konchalovsky exploring efficient method of constructing objects - cubism.

Works written in this manner: self-portraits in 1912 and "The Model".

Method of Cubism helps the artist to learn to extract from nature the most characteristic, teaches the construction of the composition.

"That I had," - explains the artist - to finally master the art derive from the nature of one characteristic, essential to learn how to build the track, we finally do away with the traditions of painterly naturalism, which afflicted me from all sides, which have lived and breathed a huge of Russian painting .... Nicholas, op. cit., p. 58.

In 1912, Konchalovsky performs sketches of scenery and costumes for opera Rubinstein "Merchant Kalashnikov" Opera for SI Zimin. Decorations are not preserved (killed during the fire). Previously created sketches Curtain "Hamlet, Piero and the magician" for the theater of miniatures MA Artsybushevoy.
In 1913 he visited the south of France, in the city of Cassis, near Marseilles, where he created a dozen paintings: the port, sea shores, cliffs and mountains.
Still continues to operate using the techniques of Cubism.
The summer of 1914 traveling with his family in Krasnoyarsk. Along the way, in the Urals, he finds the news of the beginning of the war, and Konchalovsky mobilized as an artillery officer.
In war, wrote several watercolors as a reminder comrades in the service. Also during the two-month stay in Moscow in 1915 wrote a portrait of "Natasha in her chair."
During his visit to Moscow next year paints a picture "Violin."

The work is written in a thoroughly atypical for an artist rather dry manner, and may be considered a signal of the coming of the new period. Also in still lifes, painted in 1916, there is a turn toward realism. In the "Agave" - apparently the artist's attention to the very surface of the canvas, to the "-designed" his painting, for exploring the picturesque textures.
 
"I definitely wanted to then dilute the surface of the canvas. The value of texture in painting was, of course, it is clear to me before. I've always admired, for example, texture, Renoir, Titian and texture specially studied even, but the most certain tasks texture of the order had not set up to turn, because there were other, more pressing tasks. Caring for texture may occur to the artist only when his picturesque style has matured, as it happened I have only to 1916, I am particularly carefully prepared the canvas for "Ahava", and painting sought to herself transferred outside the texture properties of objects: mat paper sheet to the elasticity suffused with juice leaves of the agave plant, oily polished wood. Here and Technology letter I had the extraordinary: he wrote on the dry, resorted to the glaze, drank a lot of polish. But after the "Ahava" I almost could not get rid of the issues the invoice, no matter what he wrote - care of the surface has become an integral part of my mannerisms. " Nikolsky. Uk. cit., p.63-64.

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1.Avtoportret. 1910
2.Boy bulls. 1910
Artist 3.Portret GB Yakulov. 1910
4.Chaynaya in Khotkovo. 1911
5.Semeyny portrait. 1911
6.Semeyny portrait. 1912
7.Natyurmort. Tray and green cardboard box. 1912
8.Pod Siena. 1912
9.Natyurmort. Beer and roach. 1912
10.Kassis. Ships. 1913