Perov portrait painter biography

Vasily Grigorievich Perov - painter, one of the ancestors of the genre picture, December 23, Tobolsk - May 29,, the village of Kuzminki near Moscow "A constant desire for life truth, full of painful doubt, sometimes heavy disappointment did not leave Perov until recently. This is the secret of the charm that he had a frown The landscape, a skinny horse, with difficulty pulling out heavy sledges, crushed by a misfortune of a peasant, who pressed against a roughly knocked out of the rude coffin from childhood remembered this image of a hopeless folk grief, with a huge, generalizing force, embodied in the picture of V.

Perov, a state -owned fabric In G., one of the first among Russian artists, Perov perceived the aesthetics of the revolutionary democrats of N. Chernyshevsky and N. Dobrolyubov, who put forward the task of public ministry before art, substantiated his right to make a “sentence of life”. Perov became one of the founders of the “accusatory genre” in painting, the largest master of critical realism.

This happened not by chance. Perov was born in Tobolsk in the family of a provincial prosecutor, a liberal man and a free -thinking person. Being a premarital child of Baron G. Scotti and S. with caustic sarcasm, he beats the immorality and the hypocrisy of the clergy in his early works “rural procession on Easter” and “tea drinking in Mytishchi” Hot sympathy “humiliated and offended”, protest against the ugliness of modern life determined the plan of such paintings as “The last tavern at the outpost”, “Troika” “Master's students are driving water”, the life of children, peasant and urban, whose destiny was hunger, cold, poverty and overwhelming work, interested Perova throughout the work.

This picture is one of the most famous works dedicated to the children's topic. The main attention of the artist is drawn to the image of children, their images are written lovingly and carefully. It is known that, working on sketches for the “three”, perov, trying to cause a sense of pity for poor children, emphasized in them the features of ugliness and extreme exhaustion. But later he abandoned this idea and followed the path of poetization of images, giving them the features of prettyness and the expression of suffering.

In the film “Drowned” with stingy picturesque means and precisely the compositional solution found by the artist gave the ordinary episode from the “police chronicle” the nature of a high human tragedy. In the artist, he created a gallery of portraits of contemporaries, figures of advanced Russian culture, characterized by deep psychological expressiveness of images.

Punctive and perpetual eyes peering into the world of playwright A. Ostrovsky is tormenting thoughts about life, about the human suffering of the writer F. Dostoevsky in this portrait, the artist created the image of the Russian intellectual, the “social conscience” of his time. There were among the artist’s works and genre scenes, the heroes of which catch birds, hunt, tell each other stories of “birds”, in recent years of Perov turned to a historical topic: he conceived a triptych about Emelyan Pugachev, pondered plots from the Gospel and Russian folklore.

Many plans of the artist were not destined to come true. Perov died in the year from a fleeting consumption. All of the listed paintings by Perova are stored in Moscow, in the Tretyakov Gallery. Perov’s work was left a deep mark in the history of Russian art. The theme of folk suffering, the art of a realistic psychological portrait developed by contemporaries and followers of Perov, members of the partnership of mobile art exhibitions, one of the founders and leaders of which was Perov.