Tales of the masterpieces of Vladimir Makovsky

B. E.Makovsky (1846 - 1920)
on the Boulevard
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Vladimir Makovsky painted in 1887. Between this everyday scene and today - the abyss. Far sunk into oblivion poor, illiterate Russia. The plot is simple.
But very typical for that time. In Moscow from distant villages came moloduha with the child. To visit her husband. Share sorrows with a breadwinner. Room or another property, where you can talk to, no. Here and sit on the boulevard wife.
Wife killed her Blessed behavior, has changed beyond recognition.
Foppish, drunken workman, quickly became a "city", imposingly sprawled on the bench.
Dashingly cocked hat, a red shirt unbuttoned, he did not pay any attention to the half.
Courage.

Although the soul dirty, rotten: Only the other day the owner for what a bloody his nose. However, the guy holding force. Strums an accordion fashion quadrille.
Look at the image of the peasant. Hopelessness, sadness in her a bent shape.
A small genre. But how much thought, what journalistic content.
Abyss acute observations of skill in this canvas ...
But how do sometimes is not enough now to specific exhibitions, dynamic, today's complex life filled with pathos struggle and comprehension.
Discoveries and disappointments.
Achievements.
Remember the words of Mussorgsky:
"People want to do: sleep and I see him ... He is one piece, large, unadorned and without leaf."
Vladimir Makovsky several years before the creation of the painting "On the Boulevard" wrote in 1883, "Rendezvous", as a prelude to the theme soon for a visit to the city a peasant from the provinces of Russia. Only in the "goodbye" to the little boy's mother arrives.

B. E.Makovsky (1846 - 1920)
date
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Stealthily she sits in damp and dim passage with a heavy heart sadly looks at his hungry, impoverished child. Depletes the baby is eating greedily brought fairing - loaf.
Barefoot, in a dirty shirt, a tattered rags lad is a living example of the existence of the urban poor, youth with the recognizing how much a pound Down and Out.
Do not need many words to understand the terrible truth of this small canvas.
Just look closely, as similar images of women in both paintings V.Makovskogo. The same hopeless longing in tearful sight, just crammed the blows of fate.
Hunched back peasant. Black, tightly tied handkerchiefs. Exhausted thoughts person.
Brutal, unadorned document era. Artistic understanding. Implementation of easel painting.
However, nowadays genre painting is sometimes attached implement shortcut "exemplary." But this conscience on other "connoisseurs of art."

I think, along with the development of the vast experience gained by the Soviet art, our contemporary artists - especially the young - to be deeply imbued with the great traditions of Russian realistic painting - by Alexander Ivanov, Venetsianov, Fedotov to Repin, Surikov, Vasnetsov, Levitan, masterpieces which can make all the glory of the largest collections in the world.
Their work has made to the treasury of world art its unique, characteristic of our multinational culture of civic spiritual language.
Easel painting - is a complex, deeply psychologically constructed work, performed at the highest level. See the real picture, remember forever. It brings. Becomes the same data, a wise companion. But it requires a higher skill.