Ivanov Sergey Vasilyevich and his paintings

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The article tells about a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Union of Russian Artists, a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting and the Stroganov School of Industrial Art, an itinerant artist, a brief analysis of several of his works.

Ivanov Sergey Vasilyevich

For an average citizen of Russia of the XXI century, the artist Ivanov is, first of all, the author of the painting “The Appearance of Christ to the People”. Ivanov Andrei Ivanovich (1776-1848) - philosopher and romantic. But there was another artist Ivanov Sergei Vasilyevich, who lived a century later than his namesake. An original artist, a realist, depicting vivid pictures of the folk life surrounding him and historical canvases, a very interesting person. Years of his life 1864-1910

Biography

Ivanov Sergei Vasilyevich has a biography, at first glance, the usual for an artist. Born in the Moscow region, studied for five years at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His teachers are I. M. Pryanishnikov and E. S. Sorokin. For two years he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Stroganovart and industrial school. He is the author of many paintings, drawings, lithographs, he also worked as an illustrator.

But being a person who is not indifferent, truly loving his people, the artist has always managed to be in the midst of popular unrest. He was a participant in the events of the 1905 revolution and managed to convey to us a sense of belonging to it for everyone who looks at his canvases. Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov traveled a lot in Russia, was in Austria, Italy, France.

Themes of paintings by S. V. Ivanov

The main figure, thinker and bearer of the national idea for Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov was the Russian people. The attitude of the artist is inseparable from the brightest events in the life of the people. He considers turmoil and riots, lawlessness and despair not of an individual, but of a group of people, as depicted on the canvas "They are coming!" kneeling peasants stuck in the snow. And the viewer understands that in a few minutes the most brutal reprisal against the peasants who dared to rebel will inevitably begin, that the icon will not be able to protect them, that the white snow will turn red from the blood of the peasant. Scary.

It becomes no less creepy from the painting "The Execution" of 1905. In the vast empty space of the square, volleys of shots seem to sound. Shooting at the unarmed, physical reprisals against dissatisfied petitioners cannot leave a normal person indifferent, cause a desire to immediately stop this massacre.

Member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov, and in historical paintings revealed the features of the Russian character. This is the power of the popular movement (“Troubles”, 1897), beauty and prowess in the scenes of folk life (“Family”, 1907), persecution and hidden threat in the eyes of the peasant (“Fugitive”, 1886), grotesque pomposity "Sovereign of All Russia", holding on bayonets ("Tsar. 16th century", 1902). The paintings of the artist Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov, like all the paintings of the Wanderers, traveled with their author around Russia, becoming a mirror of real life for ordinary people.

Settlers to Siberia

Not indifferent to the fate of the peasants moving to Siberia, who did not get land in their native land, the main chronicler of the settlers, Sergei Vasilievich Ivanov, followed them, wrote their life. The painting "The Death of a Settler" shows the hopelessness and despair of these unfortunate people. After all, it was difficult to decide on such a long, months-long journey: first by train across the Urals to Tyumen itself, then upstream the Ob on rafts to Barnaul, and from there on foot to look for an unoccupied, no-man's land.

According to statistics, 7% of the settlers died. And what did it cost these people to find free land, cultivate it and grow crops without dying from hunger and disease during all this time! Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov knew firsthand about their hardships and troubles. That is why the scene in the picture is so terrifyingly real, that is why the government was forced to start supporting the settlers, and this is a considerable merit of the artist Sergei VasilyevichIvanova.

Features of the artist's work

The artist's harsh realistic canvases can only be compared in terms of the strength of their impact with the canvases of other Wanderers, which depict "muzzled mob" in moments fatal and inevitable for her. One of the features of the paintings of Sergei Vasilyevich Ivanov can be considered their poignancy. This ability of an artist to find just one moment of an event that reveals its origins and points to its outcome is simply amazing to the viewer.

Another feature of Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov's paintings can rightfully be considered unusual layout and amazing work with the landscape, which, like everything else, is subject to one plan, one idea. The landscape, and in Ivanov it is typical of Russian lands and is depicted at different times of the year, is good for the artist in itself, but with its usualness it makes one understand by default that the event taking place is not at all an exception, but rather a rule that the Russian people are forced to obey.

Such a unification of the brightest events in the life of the people also applies to the various types and images of the depicted people who live in the paintings. They are recognizable, although the artist has a sufficient amount of grotesqueness and caricature in his constant overflowing realism, not alien to satire.

Artist's Legacy

The paintings of the artist Sergei Vasilievich Ivanov cannot leave the viewer indifferent. Their plot is so simple and ordinary that even an inexperienced viewer, after thinking a little, understands what's what. It brings creation closerthe artist to the simple and understandable, but still unsurpassed works of the masters of antiquity and the Renaissance, for example, the statue of Laocoön. However, often the satirical interpretation of images, the social orientation of art makes one recall more S altykov-Shchedrin.

It's interesting that the whole "spirit" of the painting "Tsar. 16th century”, as well as its flavor, is simply transferred to the historical scenes of the film “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession”. The director managed to revive the canvas or the artist to inspire those working on the film, it's hard to say, but the similarity is striking. The interest in the artist's work is quite understandable both from the ideological and artistic points of view.