Vasily Grigorievich Perov (1833-1882) lived a short and personally difficult life. His works of different genres characterized the search for the artist, reflecting the maturity of the skill. They represent the life of a modern artist in many ways. He does not shut himself up in his workshop, but shows people his thoughts. To create a new pictorial language, Perov did a lot, the description of the pictures of which will be given below. Therefore, his painting has not lost relevance to our days. From the paintings of V.G. Perova speaks to us with Time.
The Wanderer, 1859.
This painting of Perov was written by a disciple, and she was not awarded medals. However, it is indicative to choose a topic that was not accepted at that time. In this work, the artist's interests are joined: to a portrait and to a simple dispossessed person, who later on will mark his entire creative career. The young twenty-five-year-old artist presented the viewer to the old, who had endured a lot in his life, who saw more sorrows than joys. And now, quite an old man, without a roof over his head, walks, scourging for Christ's sake. However, it is full of dignity and tranquility, which not everyone has.
"Sharman"
This painting Perov was written in Paris in 1863. In it we see not lumpen, but relatively according to the Russian standards of a prosperous person, clean and neatly dressed, who is forced to work on the street. He can not find other ways of existence. However, the character of the French people is comparatively easy. Parisian reads a lot of newspapers, willingly argues on political topics, eats only in cafes, not at home, spends a lot of time on walks along the boulevards and in theaters or just gazing at the goods on the streets, admiring the beautiful women. So the organ-grinder, who now has a pause in his work, will never miss the passing monsieur or madam, who will surely say a flower compliment, and, having earned money, will go to a favorite cafe to sit over a cup of coffee and play chess. Everything is not the same as in Russia. No wonder V. Perov asked to return home, where it was clearer to him than a simple man lives.
"Guitarist-bean", 1865
Perov's painting in this genre scene tells a lot to a Russian person, even one hundred and fifty years after its creation. Before us is a lonely person. He does not have a family. His bitter grief he drowns in a glass of wine, fingering the strings of the guitar, his only companion. In an empty room it's cold (the guitarist is sitting in the upper, street clothes), empty (we see only the chair and part of the table), not well-groomed and not cleaned, cigarette butts on the floor. Hair and a beard for a long time did not see a crest. But to the person all the same. He waved his hand for a long time and lives, as it turns out. Who will help him, a young man, find a job and find a human image? No one. No one cares for him. The hopelessness of this picture. But it's true, that's the main thing.
Realism
Acting as a pioneer in this field of painting, Perov, whose pictures are news and an opening for Russian society, continues to develop the theme of a small, dependent person. This is evidenced by the first picture created after the return of Perov "Seeing the deceased." On a cloudy, cloudy day, under a cloud of clouds, the sleigh with the coffin is slowly walking. They are ruled by a peasant woman, a boy and a girl are sitting on either side of the coffin of the father. A dog runs by. All. No one else escorts a man to the last path. And this nobody needs. Perov, whose paintings show all the homelessness and humiliation of human existence, exhibited them at the exhibitions of the Association of Wanderers, where they found a response in the souls of the audience.
Genre scenes
The everyday, light household scenes also interested the master. These include the "Ptitselov" (1870), "Fishermen" (1871), "Botanist" (1874), "Dovecote" (1874), "Hunters at halt" (1871). Let us dwell on the latter, since it is simply impossible to describe Perov's pictures of all those you want. Three hunters successfully spent a day wandering around the fields, overgrown with bushes, in which hides field game and bunnies. They are dressed rather tattered, but they have excellent guns, but this is a fashion for hunters. Nearby lies the prey, which shows that it is not murder that is the main thing in hunting, but excitement, tracking down. About one episode, the narrator tells enthusiastically to two listeners. He gesticulates, his eyes are burning, the stream is flowing. Three lucky hunters, shown with a touch of humor, arouse sympathy.
Portraits of Perov
This is the unconditional achievement of the master in his work of the late period. It is impossible to list everything, but its main achievements are portraits of IS. Turgenev, AN Ostrovsky, F.M. Dostoevsky, A.N. Maikova, V.I. Dalia, M.P. Pogodin, merchant I.S. Kamynin. The wife of Fyodor Mikhailovich greatly appreciated the portrait of her husband, believing that Perov caught the moment when F.M. Dostoevsky was in a creative state, when he had a vision.
Perov's painting "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane"
Personal losses, loss of the first wife and older children Perov suffered, directly splashed out on the canvas. Before us is a man, crushed by a tragedy, which he can not comprehend.
It can only be accepted by the higher will, accepted and not murmured. The questions that arise in the woeful losses of close and serious illnesses, and Perov at that time was already seriously and hopelessly sick, for what and why it happened, they never find an answer. It remains only one thing - to endure and not to complain, because only He will understand and give, if necessary, consolation. People can not ease the pain with such tragedies, they continue to live their everyday life without going deep into the pain of others. The picture is dark, but the dawn rises in the distance, giving hope for change. Everything passes, it will pass.
Vasily Perov, whose paintings are relevant in many ways to this day, was not afraid to leave the beaten track and change. His students M.V. Nesterov, A.P. Ryabushkin, A.S. Arkhipov became famous Russian artists, who always remembered their teacher as a man with a big heart.