Vasnetsov in m biography

Vasnetsov V. studied at the Vyatka Theological School - and then at the Vyatka Theological Seminary. He took drawing lessons from a gymnasium drawing teacher N., with the blessing of his father, left the seminary from the penultimate course and left for St. Petersburg for admission to the Academy of Arts. He studied painting in St. Petersburg - first with I.

Kramskoy in the drawing school of the Society for the promotion of artists -, then at the Academy of Arts - during the years of study he came to Vyatka, met with the exiled Polish artist Elviro Andriolly, whom he asked for painting with his younger brother Apollinaria. At the end of the Academy, he went abroad. He began to exhibit his work since the year, first participating in the expositions of the Academy, then in exhibitions of the Wanderers.

Member of the Mammoth circle in Abramtsev. In the year, Vasnetsov became a full member of the Academy of Arts. After a year, he was close to the Union of the Russian people, although he was not his member, participated in the financing and execution of monarchical publications, including the Book of Russian Sorrow. In him, the "noble Russian Empire was granted to him with all the descending offspring." In the year he participated in the creation of the Society for the Renaissance of Artistic Rus', along with many other artists of his time.

Viktor Vasnetsov died in Moscow on July 23, in a year of life. The artist was buried in the Lazarevsky cemetery, after the destruction of which the dust was transferred to the Vvedensky cemetery. Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov was born in the distant Vyatka village of Lopyal. His father, Mikhail Vasilievich, the priest, soon after the birth of his son moved to the village of Ryabovo.

Mother, Apollinaria Ivanovna, came from the old family of Vyatichi. For a very modest income, Vasnetsov’s father had to feed and teach six children. Mother died early. The first thing the future artist remembered for life was the mysterious, blurred around the room, the bluish twilight of the winter dusk and the stories of unknown wanderers. In many ways, they determined my path, gave the direction of my future activity, ”Vasnetsov wrote.

Mikhail Vasilievich, a widely educated person, tried to give children a versatile education, to develop inquisitiveness and observation in them. Grandma Olga Alexandrovna in her youth was fond of painting. The future artist was breathtaking with happiness when the grandmother opened the cover of the old chest, where the colors were. The boy began to draw early, but, according to tradition, the sons were Dolzhny to follow in the footsteps of his father, and Victor in the city in Vyatka, the young man began to seriously engage in art.

In years, he performed seventy -five drawings on the themes of Russian folk proverbs and sayings for the "collection of Russian proverbs" of ethnographer Nikolai Trapicin. In them, he NPOCTO and accurately displayed the features of the village life of the Vyatka KRAI. The decision to become an artist Vasnetsov was strengthened after a meeting with the exiled Polish artist E.

Andrioli, from him he learned about the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. And Victor decided to experience fate, he decided to leave the penultimate course of the seminary. The rector of the seminary blessed him on the path of the painter, saying that there are many priests, and Rublev is still alone. Father also agreed, however, warning that he could not help financially.

When Vasnetsov turned to Andrioli for advice, he did not think long. He introduced Viktor to Bishop Adam Krasinsky, who attracted the Governor of Campaneshchikov, and both of them assisted in the lottery - the sale of the genre pictures of Vasnetsov “Zhnitsa” and “Thrush” The location of the picture is unknown. The existence is known from the letter of Vasnetsov to Stasov. Sixty rubles and a small amount, quanted by his father, amounted to the entire “solid” capital of the future artist.

In early August, Vasnetsov went to Petersburg. He kept the exams to the Academy, but, being shy and modest, he did not even dare to check himself in the lists of the enrollment.

The ordeal began: almost without money, in search of a corner and at least some work. Having accidentally met his brother of his Vyatka teacher Krasovsky, Vasnetsov gained hope: he helped him get a drawer in a cartographic institution. Subsequently, Victor received a job on illustrating books and magazines. At the same time, he began to attend the drawing school of the Society for the Promotion of Artists, where he met the artist I.

This acquaintance played a significant role in the life of Vasnetsov. When in August Victor again decided to try his luck in the walls of the Academy, he, to his surprise, found out that he was enlisted last year. Here he quickly made friends with Repin, Maximov, Antokolsky. Together with them, in a small apartment on Vasilievsky Island of Vasnetsov, he listened to a young scientist, historian and poet Mstislav Prakhov, who vividly outlined his doctrine of ancient Rus'.

In the academic period, the artist and teacher Pavel Chistyakov also had a beneficial influence on Vasnetsov in the academic period. Their first meeting took place in the year. The first year of study at the academy brought the artist a well -deserved award - a silver medal of a second dignity. The following, his father died in the year.The need to earn a living has become even more urgent, since Vasnetsov took a sixteen -year -old brother Apollinaria to St.

Petersburg, later a famous artist. And from G. In these years, he performed about two hundred illustrations for the people's alphabet, the soldier's alphabet of Polopyansky, to the Russian alphabet for the children of Vodovozov. He illustrated fairy tales of the humpbuildings, firebirds and others. Along with the illustrations of Vasnetsov, he also worked on independent topics.

Numerous drawings of these years depict citizens, peasants, separate household scenes. Contemporaries praised Vasnetsov as a “typist”. Gradually, Vasnetsov cooled to teach in academic walls, feeling the strength for independent work. In the city, he later explained the reason for his departure: “I wanted to write paintings on topics from Russian epics and fairy tales, and they, professors, did not understand this desire.

So we broke up ”.. By this time, he had already created genre paintings“ Beggar Singers ”and“ Tea Party in the Treatary ”. The latter was so significant that it was accepted at the exhibition of the Wanderers. Vasnetsov includes in the exposition of the painting “Bookstore” and “From an apartment to an apartment”. The last one is more successful. In the spring, G. Vasnetsov went to Paris, where he had been called Repin, Kramskoy and Polenov for a long time.

He studied the life of the French people. The result of these observations was the painting “Balaganes in the vicinity of Paris” G. He built his family in the likeness of his father’s, patriarchal family. Without year. As his wife later recalled, when they moved to Moscow, the artist liked to wander around the old Moscow streets. And having returned home, he often said: “How many miracles have I seen!

The one saw and experienced grew into the painting “Tsar Ivan Vasilievich Terrible”, conceived at the turn of the x. The figure of the king occupied almost the entire canvas. Ivan the Terrible, one in a brocade to a brocade, in a hat with images, in sewn mittens, descended along a steep staircase. His appearance was magnificent, his face expressed the will, a great mind and at the same time - suspicion, bitterness and anger.

A strictly sustained colorogram of the picture created the impression of monumentality. Vasnetsov began to write a picture “After the battle of Igor Svyatoslavich with the Polovtsy”, which became one of the first in the historical-whinish cycle. In it, the artist wanted to solemnly and celebrate the heroism of the Russian soldiers solemnly and poetic, as the creator of “Words about Igor’s Regiment” did.

That is why he portrayed not the horrors of the battle, but the greatness of death for his homeland. The peace blows from the bodies of the fallen. A wonderful mighty hero lying with his hands widely spread, and the young prince in the lazor robes personified the idea of ​​selfless service to the Motherland. The color scheme of the picture created an alarming mood. On the dark green background of the steppe, the tough-red shields and red boots of the warrior are illuminated by the crimson moon.

However, the picture did not meet unanimous approval. She was so unusual that there could be no consensus about her. Immediately felt the “main” in the picture only Repin and Chistyakov. The latter in a letter to Vasnetsov wrote: “So distant, so grandiose and in its own way of his own distinctive Russian spirit smelled at me that I simply saddened: I, the Dopetravsky eccentric, envied you with the artist depicted the twilight steppe, the field of the former battle with bones scattered along it.

The evening dawn is burning out. Protectively stands at the crossroads of three roads stone-Veshchun. The idea that stopped in front of him was immersed in a deep Duma to draw the idea of ​​a Bynetsov Stasov on a dense stone. In the image of a knight at a crossroads, an artist, as if involuntarily, portrayed himself, his hard thoughts about the future.