Vasnetsov Life Biography

From the greatest luminaries, filling world spaces, to the smallest bug and an inconspicuous flower - all are full of beauty, everything is imbued with beauty ”V. M. Vasnetsov. The Tretyakov Gallery in this diary record of the year contains the artist’s idea of ​​the beauty of the universe as evidence of the existence of the Creator. Viktor Vasnetsov’s love for nature originated in his soul from childhood.

He made a young man sketching his native places, and later, after completing his studies at the Academy of Arts and moving to Moscow, the landscape became the most important component of his work. It is enough to recall the paintings “Alyonushka” and “Lockery”, in which the landscape is filled with poetry, is imbued with an elegic mood of the secluded corner of nature; Or the “heroes” whose majestic power and strength echoes the endless heroic steppe.

Vasnetsov always sought to live near nature. In his Moscow house, where he settled with his family in the fall of the year, there was a beautiful shady garden. However, the artist did not leave dreams of a country estate. In the year, he acquired a plot with an overgrown pond, mixed forest and an old mill, in the Dmitrovsky district. Here Viktor Mikhailovich rested in the summer hot months and wrote field sketches in which he transmitted the lyrical poetry of the Central Russian landscape.

The son of the artist Mikhail recalled his father: "He has been serving his beauty all his life, Vasnetsov loved nature with his whole soul, finding a reflections of eternal beauty everywhere." Recall my dear father of a priest, deep -corn and philosophically configured, who, walking with us children, through the fields into the star August nights, poured a living indestructible idea of ​​a living, really in true God!

Two years later, the family moved to the village of Ryabovo, where my father received a parish. Mikhail Vasilievich took an active part in the upbringing and education of children. Being a versatile person, he managed to arouse interest in sciences in children, love of history, developed observation and ability to see beauty, and supported the enthusiasm for drawing. Having shown an outstanding artistic talent, in the year Viktor Mikhailovich left his parental house and went to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St.

Petersburg. However, he always warmly recalled his childhood and appreciated the opportunity to return to his native land: “Only a sick and bad person,” Vasnetsov was sure, “did not remember and does not appreciate his childhood and youth.” Suppose that this one seemed to us quite narrowed. The only “truth” of life was emphasized by the revealing and instructive in a certain civilian sense, which, however, did not at all prevent us from living a complete artistic life, striving as much as possible to perfection and love, in our own way, the beauty of the Petersburg period of Vasnetsov was associated with his training at the Imperial Academy of Arts and the choice of a creative path.

A great influence on him at that time was exerted by I. Kramskoy, who taught at a drawing school in a society of encouraging artists, and a teacher of the Imperial Academy of Arts P., he owes much to his friends - M. Antokolsky, I. Repin, V. Polenov and other artists - in long conversations and disputes with which a new understanding of art was born. During his studies at the Academy, Vasnetsov attracted his attention to work in the field of the household genre: in picturesque works and graphic drawings, he depicted the truth of his life surrounding him with ethnographic accuracy.

These works were accepted with approval in the Russian and even foreign artistic environment. So, P. Tretyakov acquired one of the first paintings with oil “workers with cars” for his collection, and Heliogran from the drawing “Boy with a bottle of vodka” was awarded a bronze medal at an international art exhibition in London. The fascination of the genre brought Vasnetsov closer to the artists of the partnership of mobile art exhibitions.

Since the year, he participated in exhibitions as an exhibit, and C became a member of the partnership. I only know that during the most ardent fascination with the genre, in academic times in St. Petersburg, I was not left by obscure historical and fairy -tale dreams ”V. Balagans in the vicinity of Paris. The Tretyakov Gallery, while studying at the Academy of Arts of Vasnetsov with interest, discovered the world of folk and ancient Russian art.

At the evenings by I. Repin, he listened to the epics, in his free time he carefully studied the works of scientists - experts in Russian antiquities V. Prokhorov and F. attended lectures by historians M. Pogodina, N. In the future, a great influence on the understanding of nationality and nationality had his acquaintance with the researcher of Russian folklore F.

the artist captured new creative ideas, he wanted to embody the images of Russian poetic antiquity, ancient tales and epics in painting. Already in the year, he created the first pencil sketches for future paintings “Knight at a crossroads” and “heroes”. However, Vasnetsov especially felt a craving for a folklore topic in the years during a trip to France. In Paris, he got acquainted with European art culture and modern French painting.Distributing from work on the genre picture “Balagin in the vicinity of Paris”, he increasingly dreamed of images of Ancient Rus'.

It was there, far from the homeland, that Vasnetsov performed the first picturesque sketch for the painting “Bogatyr”, which outlined the beginning of a new period in the artist’s work. When I arrived in Moscow, I felt that I had come home and has nowhere else to go - the Kremlin, Vasily Blessed was forced to almost cry, to such an extent, all this blew the soul, unforgettable ”at the invitation of I.

Repin and V. Polenov in March Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov with his young wife Alexandra Vladimirovna moved to Moscow, from now on, having connected his life with this city. The artist was here for the first time, but very soon Moscow became his home for him. Kramskoy advised him to “not get used to”, take the most interesting and return to St. Petersburg, but Vasnetsov decided in his own way.

Having graduated from the last genre painting “Prefers”, he directed all his strength to the development of a new topic dedicated to epic and fabulous plots. Persons are needed not only by art itself, but also by the atmosphere and the environment in which can live, flourish, develop and improve art. Such was our deceased friend Savva Ivanovich Mamontov ”V.

Three Princesses of the Underground Kingdom. Six months after the Tretyakov Gallery, Vasnetsov met to Moscow, he met the builder of the railways and the famous philanthropist S. Savva Ivanovich, according to V. Polenov, “cause an artistic rise”. He gathered talented artists around him, Comrade Abramtsevo art circle. Soon, the first option, “Three Princesses of the Underground Kingdom”, wrote his active participant in the orders of Mamontov in the years of Vasnetsov in the years of Vasnetsov-wrote the paintings “Corgovans” the first option and “The battle of the Scythians with the Slavs”, intended to decorate the board of the Donetsk Railway.

The enthusiasm for ancient Russian and folk art among artists of the Abramtsevsky circle contributed to the development of a folklore theme in the work of Vasnetsov. He repeatedly stayed in the summer - first in Akhtyrka near Abramtsev, and then in Abramtsev, the mammoth estate near Moscow.

The surrounding places inspired Vasnetsov to create Alyonushki in the same year in a workshop attached to the Yashkin House, he began to write a picture of “heroes”. Thanks to Mamontov, Vasnetsov opened as an architect, becoming the co -author of V. Polenov in creating a project of the Church of the Savior of a non -missed rescue in Abramtsev, as well as a theater decorator. The scenery and sketches of costumes to staging the spring tale of A.

Ostrovsky “Snow Maiden” on the home stage of S. Subsequently, the artist revised them for the production of the opera N. Let my performance be imperfect, even bad, but I know that I put all my strength to the fruitful business. Vasnetsov received an offer to take part in the painting of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv, dedicated to the flying of the baptism of Rus'. The paintings of the cathedral should have reflected the idea of ​​the continuity of Orthodoxy in Russia from Byzantium, to tell about the history of the Russian faith.

To better cope with the task, Vasnetsov visited Italy, where he met with early Christian monuments, in Kyiv he studied mosaics and frescoes of the oldest Russian temples. The work in the cathedral lasted 11 years, the paintings in it were a huge success and were repeated in many temples of Russia. For this work in the year, Vasnetsov was awarded the Order of the Holy of Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Vladimir IV degree.

In subsequent years, Viktor Mikhailovich took part in the decoration of Orthodox churches in Russia and abroad. Mary Magdalene in Darmstadt, the temple-monument to St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia and the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Warsaw. In the year, for work in the Warsaw Cathedral, he was erected to hereditary noble dignity. In the year, the Holy Synod, recognizing the exceptional importance of Vasnetsov’s religious painting, appropriated him the title of honorary member of the Imperial Moscow Theological Academy.

In the everyday life of our petty, you can diverge in tastes, but in the heights of the Middle Kingdom, in ideals to people spiritually close, you need to believe in one thing, enjoy one thing and love one thing. Then there will be strong spiritual unity, strong sincere friendship ”among Vasnetsov’s friends, many famous personalities can be called. In his student years, he became close to I.

Kramsky, P. Chistyakov, I. Repin, V. Polenov, M. Antokolsky and V. Stasov, communication with them did not stop in the future. The artist knew how to show his sympathy for his neighbor, based on a common interests, to render confidence, to appreciate mutual affection. These qualities helped him quickly get comfortable in Moscow, get closer to the artists of the Abramtsevsky circle and acquire real like -minded people.

Mamontov once in a letter to Vasnetsov said briefly and capaciously: “Know firmly that you are firmly sitting in the hearts of people who expressed your friendship genuinely and sincerely.” The joy of mutual understanding, love and respect lived in the house of Vasnetsov.With his wife Alexandra Vladimirovna, he consulted on all issues, told her about his creative hopes and unrest, was always affectionate in relation to her and warning.