Artist still life biography

Pictures of the artist Khrutskiy Ivan Trofimovich Fomich - Ivan Fomich Khrutskiy is known as the artist who worked in the line of the Russian Academic School. He entered the history of art with his still lifes. The first dated sketches of the artist - “still life with a vase” and “still life with a bird” - dates back to the year. The main direction of Khrutski's work during this period is work on a still life, called in official documents as "painting of flowers and fruits." At this time, he creates a group of similar works similar in style - “fruits and bird”; "Fruits" ; “Grapes and fruits”, “still life with apples, grapes and lemon”, which were distinguished by the simplicity of the composition.

Soon I. Khrutskiy moved from early productions, consisting of only a few objects, to significant sizes of still lifes-hearths with a complex composition that combines many different vegetables, fruits and colors: “flowers and fruits”,; “Still Life with a candle”, “Flowers and fruits”, “Fruits, fruits, broken game”, all the years. In the year, for the painting “Flowers and Fruits”, I.

Khrutskiy was awarded the Academic Council with a large silver medal. In the same year, he was awarded the title of free artist "into account to good information in landscape painting." Ivan Khrutskiy was engaged in landscape painting throughout the subsequent work “View on Elagin Island in St. Petersburg”,; “View in the estate”, often the landscape served as a background in portraits and genre semi -figures of the artist.

So, in his most significant work of the X - “Portrait of a wife with flowers and fruits” - a young woman is depicted at the table, caused by baskets with fruits, a decanter with water and a bouquet in a ceramic vase. The background for the entire scene is the autumn landscape, resolved in crimson colors. A similar composition, which is a certain synthesis of a genre portrait, still life and landscape, appeared in Khrutski as a tribute to romanticism.

If the work of I. Khrutskiy “Portrait of the wife” stands closer to the academic direction represented by artists such as K. Bryullov and F. Bruni, then the other picture “The old woman, the knitting stocking” brings him closer to the artists who did not have academic education, for example, A. Venetianov and especially V. In the year for this work, as well as for the still life “Flowers and Fruits”, Ivan Khrutskiy was awarded a small gold medal.

Khrutskiy “for excellent works in portrait, landscape and especially on the painting of fruits and vegetables” was awarded the title of academician of painting. Since that time, Khrutsky ceases to write spectacular still lifes. After moving to the Vilnius province, Khrutsky does not leave painting, but now in his works a different orientation and other areas prevail. With the years, the artist completed a large number of works on orders of his patron - Lithuanian Metropolitan Joseph Semashko.

He writes icons for the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Kovno, for the Church of St. Joseph of the Trinopolis in Trinopol, the cave church of the three martyrs in Vilna-; For the bishop's house in Vilna - 32 portraits of people of the spiritual rank, including copies from lithographs and picturesque originals. For the city and suburban residences of Metropolitan, Ivan Fomich performed the types of Vilna and his environs, still lifes and interiors, copies from the paintings of European masters.

During this period, Khrutskiy takes part in the publication of the so -called “Vilensky album” by J. Vilchinsky - a series of lithographs of city species released in Paris. Another line of the artist’s work at that time is represented by an image of the interiors - a kind of genre “in the rooms”: “The artist’s workshop” without a year, “Metropolitan Iosif Semashko listens in his office of the secretary's report”, “In the rooms of the artist I.

Khrutskiy Zakharnichi”, the artist also often writes portraits, which, as a rule, were usually introduced into the one. His "interiors". In the actual portrait creativity, Khrutskiy manifests himself as a master by a somewhat dry and naturalistic, a student rather western than a Russian school. These are the portraits of Joseph Semashko, Potyralovskaya, unknown young man, the whole portrait of Mikolai Malinovsky - perhaps the best of the genre he created.

Here, just as in the “self -portrait”, written a year before death, Khrutskiy strengthens expressiveness with the successful use of contrast lighting - a reception to which the artist resorted quite often. In addition to single, personal images, Khrutsky also writes group portraits. An example of works of this kind can serve as a “family portrait” with its dry thoroughness in the drawing of details and strict objectivity in the transmission of the similarity of the depicted.

Family group Mother and three children are presented against the background of a park landscape. In colorful terms, this is a well -cooked work, solved in restrained, muffled tones.