Vasily Tropinin 瓦西裡·特羅皮寧 (1776-1857) Romanticism Russian
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Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (Russian: Василий Андреевич Тропинин; March 30 [O.S. March 19] 1776 – May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1857) was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called The Lace Maker and The Gold-Embroideress.
Vasily was born as a serf of Count Munnich in the village Korpovo of Novgorod guberniya and then transferred to Count Morkovs as a part of the Munich's daughter's dowry. Soon he was sent to Saint Petersburg to study the trade of a confectioner. Instead of learning his trade Tropinin secretly attended free drawing lessons in the Imperial Academy of Arts.
In 1799, his owner allowed Tropinin's to study at the Academy as a non-degree student (Postoronny uchenik). He took lessons from S. S. Schukin and was supported by the President of the Academy Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov. In 1804 Tropinin's work Boy Grieving for a Dead Bird was exhibited in the Academy's exhibition and was noted by the Russian Empress at the time (most probably the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna).
At the dawn of his success, Count Morkov recalled Tropinin from St. Petersburg to his Ukrainian estate Kupavka. Tropinin was appointed a confectioner and a lackey. Soon the owner changed his mind and assigned Tropinin to copy the works of European and Russian painters and produce portraits of the Morkovs. Tropinin also painted the local church. Tropinin spent around twenty years of his life in Ukraine, and many of his works from that time were of Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian country side.
Still Tropinin continued to work and study. As a well-established portraitist, he wrote:
The most notable works of that period are Portrait of A. I. Tropinina, the Artist's Wife (1809), Portrait of Arseny Tropinin, son of the artist (c. 1818), Portrait of the Writer and Historian N. M. Karamzin (1818).
In 1823 at the age of 47 Tropinin at last became a free man and moved to Moscow. The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official certificate of a painter (Svobodnyj Khudozhnik). In 1824 he was elected an Academician.
Since 1833 he mastered the Moscow Public Art Classes that later became the famous Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1843 he was elected an honorary member of the Moscow Art Society. He died in 1857 and was interred on Vagankovo Cemetery. During his life Tropinin painted more than 3,000 portraits.
In 1969 the Tropinin Museum was opened in Moscow.
瓦西裡·安德烈耶維奇·特羅皮寧 Vasily Andreevich Tropinin(俄語:ВасилийАндреевичТропинин; 3月30日[1776年3月19日] - 5月16日[5月4日] 1857年)是俄羅斯浪漫主義畫家。他的大部分時間都是作為一名農奴工作的;直到他四十多歲,他才獲得了自由。他的三件更重要的作品是亞歷山大普希金的肖像和名為The Lace Maker和The Gold-Embroideress的繪畫作品。
瓦西里出生於諾夫哥羅德郡的科爾波沃村莊的伯爵穆尼奇的一名農奴,然後轉移到伯爵夫人作為慕尼黑女兒嫁妝的一部分。不久他被派往聖彼得堡研究糖果商的交易。而不是學習他的貿易特羅皮寧偷偷參加了皇家藝術學院的免費繪畫課。
1799年,他的主人允許Tropinin作為非學位學生在學院學習(Postoronny uchenik)。他從S. S. Schukin那裡獲得了教訓,並得到了亞歷山大·謝爾蓋耶維奇·斯特羅加諾夫學院院長的支持。 1804年特羅皮寧的作品“為死鳥悲傷的男孩”在學院的展覽中展出,當時由俄羅斯女皇(最可能是太后皇后瑪麗亞費奧多羅夫娜)注意到。
在他成功之初,莫科夫伯爵回憶起從聖彼得堡到他的烏克蘭莊園Kupavka的Tropinin。 Tropinin被任命為糕點師和走狗。不久,主人改變了主意,並指派特羅皮寧複製歐洲和俄羅斯畫家的作品,並製作了Morkovs的肖像。 特羅皮寧還畫當地的教堂。 特羅皮寧在烏克蘭度過了大約二十年的生命,當時他的許多作品都是烏克蘭人和烏克蘭的鄉村。
仍然特羅皮寧繼續工作和學習。作為一個成熟的肖像畫家,他寫道:
這一時期最著名的作品是A. I. Tropinina的肖像,藝術家的妻子(1809年),阿森蒂芬尼肖像,藝術家的兒子(約1818年),作家兼歷史學家卡姆拉津(1818年)的肖像。
1823年47歲時,特羅皮寧終於成為一名自由人並搬到了莫斯科。同一年,他將他的畫作“花邊製造者”,“乞丐”和藝術家斯科特尼科夫的肖像贈送給了皇家藝術學院,並獲得了畫家的正式證書(Svobodnyj Khudozhnik)。 1824年他當選為院士。
自1833年以來,他掌握了莫斯科公共藝術課程,後來成為著名的莫斯科繪畫,雕塑和建築學院。 1843年,他當選為莫斯科藝術學會的榮譽會員。他於1857年去世,並葬在瓦甘科沃公墓。在他的生活中,特羅皮寧畫了超過3000張肖像。
1969年,特羅皮寧博物館在莫斯科開幕。
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Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (Russian: Василий Андреевич Тропинин; March 30 [O.S. March 19] 1776 – May 16 (O.S. May 4) 1857) was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called The Lace Maker and The Gold-Embroideress.
Vasily was born as a serf of Count Munnich in the village Korpovo of Novgorod guberniya and then transferred to Count Morkovs as a part of the Munich's daughter's dowry. Soon he was sent to Saint Petersburg to study the trade of a confectioner. Instead of learning his trade Tropinin secretly attended free drawing lessons in the Imperial Academy of Arts.
In 1799, his owner allowed Tropinin's to study at the Academy as a non-degree student (Postoronny uchenik). He took lessons from S. S. Schukin and was supported by the President of the Academy Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov. In 1804 Tropinin's work Boy Grieving for a Dead Bird was exhibited in the Academy's exhibition and was noted by the Russian Empress at the time (most probably the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna).
At the dawn of his success, Count Morkov recalled Tropinin from St. Petersburg to his Ukrainian estate Kupavka. Tropinin was appointed a confectioner and a lackey. Soon the owner changed his mind and assigned Tropinin to copy the works of European and Russian painters and produce portraits of the Morkovs. Tropinin also painted the local church. Tropinin spent around twenty years of his life in Ukraine, and many of his works from that time were of Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian country side.
Still Tropinin continued to work and study. As a well-established portraitist, he wrote:
“ I studied little...at the Academy, but I learned...in Malorossia. There I painted from nature without rest, painted everything and everyone and these works, it seems, are the best of all of those created by me thus far. ”
The most notable works of that period are Portrait of A. I. Tropinina, the Artist's Wife (1809), Portrait of Arseny Tropinin, son of the artist (c. 1818), Portrait of the Writer and Historian N. M. Karamzin (1818).
In 1823 at the age of 47 Tropinin at last became a free man and moved to Moscow. The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official certificate of a painter (Svobodnyj Khudozhnik). In 1824 he was elected an Academician.
Since 1833 he mastered the Moscow Public Art Classes that later became the famous Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1843 he was elected an honorary member of the Moscow Art Society. He died in 1857 and was interred on Vagankovo Cemetery. During his life Tropinin painted more than 3,000 portraits.
In 1969 the Tropinin Museum was opened in Moscow.
Васи́лий Андре́евич Тропи́нин (19 марта 1776, с. Карпово, Новгородская губерния — 3 мая 1857, Москва) — русский живописец, мастер романтического и реалистического портретов.
Vassili Andreïevich Tropinine (en russe : Василий Андреевич Тропинин) est un peintre romantique russe, né le 30 mars 1776 dans le gouvernement de Novgorod et mort le 16 mai 1857 à Moscou.
Né serf, d'abord des comtes Munich puis de la comtesse Hercule Ivanovitch Markoff (qui lui assura toutefois une formation de peintre, au rebours des souhaits de son époux), il garda ce statut une grande partie de sa vie : il ne fut libéré que dans l'année de son 47e anniversaire, en 1823, et fut reçu académicien3 la même année.
Il est enterré au cimetière Vagankovo de Moscou.
Un musée Tropinine est ouvert à Moscou.
Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (Rusça: Василий Андреевич Тропинин; 30 Mart [E.U. 19 Mart] 1776 – 16 Mayıs [E.U. 4 Mayıs] 1857) Rus romantik ressam. Hayatının çoğunu serf olarak geçirdi; özgürlüğüne kavuşması kırk yaşını geçtikten sonra gerçekleşti. En önemli üç çalışması, Aleksandr Puşkin'in portresi, Dantel Yapan Kız ve Nakışçı Kız'dır.
Alexander Averianov the national artist of Russia
Was born on 1950 in the town of Lopasnya, Moscow region.
Has graduated from the M.I. Kalinin Moscow Art School. N.S. Prisekin, the national artist of Russia, well-known painter of battle-pieces, a member of the M.B. Grekov War Artists Studio, as well as his teacher in composition, has played a significant role in displaying inner aspiration of the artist for the heroic topic. Alexander Averianov is well-known as a recognized master of battle scenes. His works are interesting and authentic. The artist is working with conjunction with major war-and-history museums of the country. Many his paintings are put on exhibitions in the complex «Panorama of Borodino battle», the museum-reserve « The field Borodino », as well as in the historical museum located in the town of Malyi Yaroslavets. Alexander Averianov was an assistant of N.S.Prisekin in creating a panorama « The Kursk battle » assembled on the mountain Poklonnaya.
... « The extent of his works is amazing, that is generally specific for a battle genre. This serious artist of battle-pieces is not only a painter of war events, but also a subtle and careful historian and researcher. Not only pathos of a multi-figured battle, but also each detail in expressing this battle and its participants, are important for A. Averianov. That is why works of the artist amaze one with an organic combination of completed composition, historical accuracy and pictorial palette, thereby making an audience far from being just a spectator »
From the book « 1000 Russian artists. The big collection »
«M.:,Beliy Gorod, 2006»
« In the 90s the process of revival of lost traditions in a battle-piece painting has begun. Among Russian artists, who are actively evolving a historical these of the genre, Alexander Averianov's name is of a special place. His pictures, which decorate now many museums and private collections, attract equally attention of an amateur, a war historian, and a connoisseur. Each of them is a serious work of the real master. All amazes: masterly treatment of big compositions, the abundance of details which do not disturb the integrity of a picturesque canvas, colors reflecting the freshness of the winter morning and summer midday heat. Many, often imperceptible, components give the impression that does not allow one to confuse Averianov paintings with works of other artists, and impels one to come back to his pictures again and again ».
A.Kibovsky. A history of Russia in pictures of modern artists. M.: The charitable foundation in memory of Maria, 2007.
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Konstantin Makovsky 康斯坦丁·馬科夫斯基 (1839 - 1915) Realism Romanticism Russian
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Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (Russian: Константин Егорович Маковский; June 20 [O.S. July 2] 1839 —September 17 [O.S. September 30] 1915) was an influential Russian painter, affiliated with the "Peredvizhniki (Wanderers)". Many of his historical paintings, such as The Russian Bride's Attire (1889), showed an idealized view of Russian life of prior centuries. He is often considered a representative of Academic art.
Konstantin Makovsky was born in Moscow. His father was the Russian art figure and amateur painter, Yegor Ivanovich Makovsky. His mother was a composer, and she hoped her son would one day follow in her footsteps. His younger brothers Vladimir and Nikolay and his sister Alexandra also went on to become painters.
In 1851 Makovsky entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he became the top student, easily getting all the available awards. His teachers were Karl Bryullov and Vasily Tropinin. Makovsky's inclinations to Romanticism and decorative effects can be explained by the influence of Bryullov.
Although art was his passion, he also considered what his mother had wanted him to do. He set off to look for composers he could refer to, and first went to France. Before, he had always been a classical music lover, and listened to many pieces. He often wished he could change the tune, or style of some of them to make them more enjoyable. Later in his life it came true.
In 1858 Makovsky entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. From 1860 he participated in the Academy's exhibitions with paintings such as Curing of the Blind (1860) and Agents of the False Dmitry kill the son of Boris Godunov (1862). In 1863 Makovsky and thirteen other students held a protest against the Academy's setting of topics from Scandinavian mythology in the competition for the Large Gold Medal of Academia; all left the academy without a formal diploma.
Makovsky became a member of a co-operative (artel) of artists led by Ivan Kramskoi, typically producing Wanderers paintings on everyday life (Widow 1865, Herring-seller 1867, etc.). From 1870 he was a founding member of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions and continued to work on paintings devoted to everyday life. He exhibited his works at both the Academia exhibitions and the Traveling Art Exhibitions of the Wanderers.
A significant change in his style occurred after traveling to Egypt and Serbia in the mid-1870s. His interests changed from social and psychological problems to the artistic problems of colors and shape.
In the 1880s he became a fashioned author of portraits and historical paintings. At the World's Fair of 1889 in Paris he received the Large Gold Medal for his paintings Death of Ivan the Terrible, The Judgement of Paris, and Demon and Tamara. He was one of the most highly appreciated and highly paid Russian artists of the time. Many democratic critics considered him as a renegade of the Wanderers' ideals, producing (like Henryk Siemiradzki) striking but shallow works, while others see him as a forerunner of Russian Impressionism.
Makovsky was killed in 1915 when his horse-drawn carriage was hit by an electric tram in Saint Petersburg.
康斯坦丁Yegorovich Makovsky(俄語:КонстантинЕгоровичМаковский; 6月20日[O.S. 7月2日] 1839年 - 9月17 O.S. 9月30日] 1915年)是一個有影響力的俄羅斯畫家,用“巡迴展覽畫派(流浪者)”下屬。他的許多歷史畫,如俄羅斯新娘的服飾(1889),顯示前幾個世紀的俄羅斯人生活的理想化視圖。他通常被認為是學院派藝術的代表。
康斯坦丁·馬科夫斯基出生在莫斯科。他的父親是俄羅斯藝術圖和業餘畫家,葉戈爾·伊万諾維奇·Makovsky。他的母親是一位作曲家,她希望她的兒子有一天會跟隨她的腳步。他的弟弟弗拉基米爾·尼古拉和他的妹妹亞歷山德拉還去成為畫家。
1851年Makovsky進入莫斯科學院繪畫,雕塑和建築,他成為班上的尖子學生,很容易讓所有可用的獎項。他的老師是卡爾·布賴洛弗和瓦西裡·特羅皮寧。 Makovsky的傾向浪漫主義和裝飾效果可以通過Bryullov的影響來解釋。
雖然藝術是他的激情,他也被認為是他媽什麼都想要他做的。他動身去尋找作曲家,他可以參考一下,先去法國。之前,他一直是一個古典音樂愛好者,並聽取了許多作品。他經常希望自己能夠改變調子,或者其中的一些風格,使他們更加愉快。後來在他的生活中它變成了現實。
1858年Makovsky進入了藝術在聖彼得堡翰林院。 1860年他參加了學院的配畫展覽,如盲人(1860年)和假德米特里劑殺死沙皇鮑里斯(1862年)的兒子的固化。 1863年Makovsky等13學生舉行反對從競爭學術界的大金牌斯堪的納維亞神話主題的學院的設置抗議;全部離開該學院沒有正式文憑。
Makovsky成為由伊凡·克拉姆斯柯依率領的藝術家合作社(合作社)的成員,通常產生於日常生活(1865年寡婦,鯡魚暢銷1867年,等),流浪者的畫作。從1870年,他學會了旅行藝術展的創始成員之一,並繼續在致力於日常生活的繪畫工作。他同時在學術展覽和流浪漢的旅行藝術展覽展出他的作品。
在他的風格顯著的變化在1870年代中期前往埃及和塞爾維亞後發生。他的興趣從社會和心理問題的顏色和形狀的藝術問題改變。
在19世紀80年代,他成為肖像和歷史畫的老式作者。在巴黎舉行的世界1889年博覽會,他收到了大金牌為他的繪畫伊凡雷帝,巴黎的判決,和惡魔和Tamara的死亡。他是當時最高度讚賞和高收入的俄羅斯藝術家之一。許多評論家民主視為他為流浪者理想的叛徒,生產(如亨利克·錫米拉德基)醒目,但淺的作品,而其他人看到他作為俄羅斯印象派的先驅。
Makovsky是在1915年殺害了時,他的馬車是由位於聖彼得堡的電電車撞。
Romantic Art - 17 Painting: Russia
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Romanticism is born in XIX century. It is about the manifestation of feelings and sensations through art. It began in literature by the ideas of Goethe, Rousseau and Hegel. Ideals as revolution, nationalism, freedom, independence are the pillars of the romantic thinking. Historicism, coming back to the old forms, but reinterpreting it. Dramatic emotions, the sublime and ruins. Nostalgia for the past.
Painting was very developed in Romanticism. Great imagination, theme of the Middle Ages, legends from the north and national legends. Exotism, ruins, sublime landscapes, monsters, fantasy, dramatism are some of the characteristics.
Russia: the forms of the West came to Russia, and revolutions made that the way to realism was faster.
Sylvester Shchedrin: he painted landscapes. New Rome Castel Sant’Angelo, Lake of Albano, Moonlight night in Naples, Balcony of Sorrento, Terrace in seashore
Karl Briullov: he was teacher in the Academy. Italian morning, Last Day of Pompey
Aleksándr Ivánov: he is known as the master of the single artwork, since he spent 20 years to paint it. Aparition of Christ
Portraitists as Vasili Tropinin (Portrait of Pushkin), Orest Kiprenski (Portrait of Pushkin too), and Aleksei Venetsianov (Girl)
Pável Fedótov: after the Rebellion of Pugachov to abolish the servants, the theme of the poor people became popular. The way to realism. This painter did domestic scenes of the bourgeouisie but ironic and funny scenes. Young widow, Petition of marriage, Hard bride, Breakfast of an aristocrat, Fresh gentleman
Lev Lvovich Kamenev: painter of landscapes. Winterway, Fog Red Swamp in Moscow in autumn, Moonlight night at the river
Aleksandr Litóvchenko: he made historic and mythological paintings. Ivan the Terrible shows his treasure chamber to english ambassador Horsey
Foreigner painters were academicists, as Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Empress Isabel of Austria, Eugenia and her Company Ladies, Leonilla Princess of Sayn) and Carl Timoleon von Neff (Alexandra Petrovna and Bather)
Aleksander Orłowski: from Poland. Self-porrtait and Slaughter of Prague
Music: Symphony N. 5, First Movement by Beethoven
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Lucas Ananias vs Kirill Tropinin - SBC 25 Revenge
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Vasily Damayev sings 2 extracts from operas
Vasily Damayev (1878-1932):
1. May Night, Rimsky-Korsakov - Song of the headman - Boys, have you heard. Rec. 10 February 1911
2. Oprichnik, Tchaikovsky - As before God, so before you. Rec. 26 October 1911
Oleg Maximov and Viktoria Klimenko - Corcovado
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Quiet Jazz - The Girl from Ipanema
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Quiet Jazz - Chega De Saudade
Oleg Maximov - guitar
Viktoria Klimenko - vocal
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Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components of modernity. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. It had a significant and complex effect on politics, with romantic thinkers influencing liberalism, radicalism, conservatism and nationalism.The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that experienced in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublimity and beauty of nature. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, but also spontaneity as a desirable characteristic (as in the musical impromptu). In contrast to the Rationalism and Classicism of the Enlightenment, Romanticism revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived as authentically medieval in an attempt to escape population growth, early urban sprawl, and industrialism.
Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events and ideologies of the French Revolution were also proximate factors. Romanticism assigned a high value to the achievements of heroic individualists and artists, whose examples, it maintained, would raise the quality of society. It also promoted the individual imagination as a critical authority allowed of freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a Zeitgeist, in the representation of its ideas. In the second half of the 19th century, Realism was offered as a polar opposite to Romanticism. The decline of Romanticism during this time was associated with multiple processes, including social and political changes and the spread of nationalism.