Hello, friends. The topic of this article has been asking for a very long time, and we will talk again about art.
Although, as always, we will probably not speak entirely about art, but about its technique. Almost always, in my articles, for some reason I ignored subjective sources of visual information, namely painting. More precisely, easel painting. Maybe because a person can distort the natural essence and bring his fantasies into the image in full accordance with Freud. But let's not talk about Freud today, but just see some pictures with peripheral vision. As a child, I was engaged in painting and can draw certain conclusions by looking at the work of artists. But now we will ignore the plot and leitmotif of the works, and look exclusively at the background. It's hard for someone to take it, but try it. Today we will not go into foreign painting, for example, this:
And in general, we will leave it and Sotheby's catalogs even of domestic painting for later. Today we will look at the simplest thing that we have been taught at school since childhood, namely the work of the Itinerants. Probably, readers under the age of 30 will not understand what this is about, now this is no longer happening in schools. But if there are any, please see the link, for further information perception it will be very useful. So, the Wanderers artists who moved their art around the country are not entirely clear why. But they portrayed their paintings quite realistically. I will not cite all their well-known and not very well-known creations here, I will focus only on the most interesting from the point of view of background mysteries.
G. G. Myasoedov. Pushkin and his friends listen to Mitskevich's declaration in the salon of Z. Volkonskaya (2nd half of the 19th century).
An excellent picture, but for some reason the chandelier is half cut. Usually, artists do not do this; for the composition to be complete, it is necessary to draw the object either completely or not at all. And there are a lot of such reproductions of paintings by the Wanderers. What is it? It is possible that the communist art critics cut the canvas and now give out the sequestered part of it to the public. The conclusions are supported by the fact that the figures of people from the side are also cropped, which the artists also try to avoid.
G. G. Myasoedov. Congratulations to the young in the house of the landowner (2nd half of the 19th century).
Well, here the lamp attracts attention. A lot of discussions on this matter were once conducted here. What kind of fuel does she use? If gas, where is it stored? In the picture, this is very difficult to understand.
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K. E. Makovsky. The kissing ceremony (2nd half of the 19th century).
I do not presume to discuss the plot of the picture, but the metal connections in the upper part of it are very confusing. Is this a temple? But even there, I have never met vertical metal bonds that bend around horizontal ones in this way. If you have an idea of forging, try to imagine what it would be like to do it on site.
G. G. Myasoedov. Bourgeois lunch (2nd half of the 19th century).
Let's take a close look at the porch and again make sure that this is a kind of music kiosk. Why was it necessary to make such a porch?
V. Demidov. The dying feat of Mikhail Konstantinovich Volkonsky.
Again, it is completely unclear what kind of candle stands in the hanging structure and whether it is a candle at all. For the most part, it looks like painting a flame at a later time when compared to similar background lights.
Further, all the pictures are without comment.
V. Savinsky. Nizhny Novgorod ambassadors at Prince Dmitry Pozharsky (2nd half of the 19th century).
K. E. Makovsky Boyarsky wedding feast in the 17th century (2nd half of the 19th century)
N. Bogdanov-Belsky. Sunday reading in a rural school (2nd half of the 19th century)
N. Nevrev. Oath of False Dmitry I to the Polish King Sigismund III for the introduction of Catholicism in Russia (2nd half of the 19th century)
N. Petrov. The bride's show (2nd half of the 19th century)
G. G. Myasoedov. Marina in Yalta (2nd half of the 19th century)
This is the pier. It is not even invented, there are photos confirming the existence of this structure.
The lights on this gazebo are very embarrassing (if I may say so). How did they burn? Again, I remember the proverb about a holy place that is never empty. Judging by the picture, it certainly does not happen.
So our painting is the richest cultural layer that we have left without proper attention.
To be continued.
P. S. Anyone interested in what is now in the same place in Yalta, please.