Portrait of Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich - the greatest work of Russian painting

The greatest Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, who was called the conscience of the nation, drew several famous artists. The most famous portraits of the classic belong to I.E. Repina, I.N. Kramskoy, M.V. Nesterov. From domestic painters to the image of LN. Tolstoy was approached by L.O. Pasternak (the father of the writer BL Pasternak) and N.N. Ge.

World Recognition

But there is a portrait of Tolstoy Leo Nikolayevich, authored by Pablo Picasso (written in 1956). In addition, the famous Polish painter Jan Styka painted the author of the novel "War and Peace". He has several classic portraits and two paintings. One depicts the last departure of the writer with a knapsack behind his shoulders from Yasnaya Polyana. The canvas is called "On the road to infinity". The second captures the great Russian writer who embraces Jesus Christ.

In a somewhat unusual manner, Tolstoy's portrait of Tolstoy is executed by American graphic artist Mauricio Lazansky. Probably, this painting has its fans.

Works of famous masters

Our country is rich in images of a great compatriot. Especially well-known are paintings by the brush of the above-mentioned Russian artists. Some of them appealed to this image repeatedly. M.V. Nesterova - two works, dated 1907 and 1918 years. Leonid Pasternak painted a lot of the writer. In 1901 he created a portrait of Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich, against the background of a thunderstorm and the light of a table lamp. And in 1906 he painted a portrait of coal. The work of NN is very well known. Ge of 1884, on which the classic is portrayed selflessly by the writer: he does not pose, he works. The portrait was written in the Moscow apartment of the classic at the time when Lev Nikolayevich was working on the treatise "What is my faith?". Cloth distinguishes laconicism and simplicity, not one iota that does not diminish its greatness.

The Great Kramskoy

Since childhood, every Russian from the school textbooks knows the canvas, which depicts Leo Tolstoy, forty-five, - a portrait of the work of the artist-wanderer, I.N. Kramskoy. Painter-psychologist, a wonderful master of portrait painting wrote in Yasnaya Polyana one of his best paintings.

The history of creation is as follows. Leo Tolstoy refused for a long time, despite Tretyakov's entreaties, to pose to the recommended artists. But Kramskoy managed to convince the writer. This canvas is so popular because the artist managed to reveal the complex world of genius and the analyst of human souls, who was Leo Tolstoy. The portrait captures the calm look of a unique person for ages, conveying both simplicity and wisdom at the same time. I.N. Kramskoy drew two portraits - for the Tretyakov Gallery and the writer's family. The artist was so keen on work that he finished the first painting in three sessions, the second managed to be completed even faster. This painter was able to notice and capture the hidden movements of the soul and the character traits of the person depicted. The artist himself said that the portrait should firstly reflect something in a person, for which all Russia loves it. Repin wrote about this work of Kramskoy that the author succeeded in "expressing the essence of the" great Lion. " This remarkable portrait of Tolstoy Leo Nikolayevich is in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Brilliant Repin

Ilya Yefimovich Repin, the great master of the portrait genre, drew the "great Lion" more than once. He has the largest series of portraits of the writer. There is a photograph of Leo Tolstoy posing Repin. He painted Tolstoy plowing and playing on the piano alone and alone with his daughter AL Tolstoy. Very popular is the picture on which the writer is depicted lying under a tree in the woods and reading a book. There is a canvas, where in the working room (room under the arches) the table depicts the writer L. Tolstoy. The portrait on the background of a pink sofa is also unusually good.

A lot of sketching to all the pictures. Extremely popular is the picture of Ilya Efimovich, where Tolstoy is depicted standing barefoot on the grass. They always refer to it, speaking about the simplicity of the graph: he walked barefoot, plowed the earth. The last fact of the writer's biography is also captured by the great Repin, the picture is called Plowman. By the way, the family did not like all the drawings, especially the barefoot and plowing classic. The wife considered this behavior of the graph an intimate, not subject to the publicity side of life. There is also a family portrait, where the writer is depicted with his wife, there are sketches of a writer and a reading writer in different angles. There are a lot of works.

Genius in the picture of a genius

The most famous is Repin's work of 1887, on which a great writer is seated, sitting in a chair with a book in his hand. The ingenious author of the portrait of Tolstoy portrayed the "master of thought", calmly reclining on the back of a dark armchair. In the same color scheme and clothing writer. The picture tells about the genius is very simple. The color scale is very modest, which does not detract from the grandeur of the picture, nor the "person for all time" depicted on it.