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Valentin
Alexandrovich Serov was an outstanding Russian painter. In his
childhood he studied under Ilya Repin. The biggest influences on
Serov were paintings of the old masters in museums of Russia and
Western Europe, friendship with Mikhail Vrubeland later with
Konstantin Korovin, and the creative atmosphere of the
Abramtsevo Colony circle to which he was closely connected.
The greatest
works of Serov's early period were portraits (The Girl with
Peaches (1887), The Girl Covered by the 5h»i(1888). In these
paintings Serov concentrated on spontaneity of perception of the
model and the nature. In development of light and color, in the
saturation of the environment by air, in freshness of perception
of the world there appeared the features of early Russian
impressionism.
From 1890 on, the
portrait became the basic genre in Serov's art. Serov's favorite
models were actors, artists, and writers (Konstantin Korovin,
Isaac Levitan, Nikolai Leskov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). He
often produced intimate, chamber portraits, mainly of children
and women. In portraits of children Serov managed to capture
pose and gesture, sincere cleanliness and clearness of attitude
of the child {Children, Mika Morozov).
Receiving wide
popularity, becoming in 1894 partners with Peredvizh-niki, Serov
had to work much above custom-made, as a rule, smart portraits
(portraits of grand duke Pavel Alexandrovich, his portraits of
S. M. Botkin and F. F. Yusupova). In these truthful,
compositional!} skillful, and picturesque paintings, Serov used
decorative color combinations.
In 1890 to the
beginning of 1900, Serov produced many landscape compositions on
country themes. During his late period (which began in 1900),
Serov was connected with 'The World of Art', an association
Serov was a member of from its beginning.
At the turn of
the century, Serov was at a stylistic turning point: features of
impressionism disappeared from his work, and his modernistic
style developed, In the middle of 1900 Serov created heroic
portrait images; having selected for them the genre of a smart
portrait, Serov developed a former theme of the artist finding
freedom in the revealing of talent and his public importance
(Maxim Gorki's portraits); Maria Yermolova, Feodor Chaliapin.
Serov's
democratic beliefs were clearly shown during the Revolution from
1905 to 1907: being a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy
of arts since 1903, in 1905 he left it as a gesture of protest
against the execution on January 9. His
late creativity was
dominated by historical painting {Peter Fs departure and Empress
Elizabeth Petrovna on hunting, 1900), and depth of comprehension
of an epoch ('Peter Г).
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1. Серов— выдающийся русский художник, самое значительное
влияние на которого оказали Репин, старые мастера, Коровин и
творческая атмосфера Абрамцевского кружка, с которым он был
тесно связан.
2. Самые значительные работы этого периода — портреты, в которых
он обращал основное внимание на спонтанность восприятия модели и
природы.
3. Его ранние картины демонстрируют черты раннего русского
импрессионизма — игру света и тени, насыщенность атмосферы
картины воздухом, свежесть восприятия мира.
4. Портрет стал основным жанром его искусства, он рисовал
интимные камерные портреты, в которых ему удалось передать позу
и жест.
5. Когда Серов завоевал широкую популярность и стал сотрудничать
с передвижниками, ему пришлось много работать над традиционными
парадными портретами, которые отличаются искусной композицией и
живописны.
6. Позже он создал много пейзажных композиций и стал
сотрудничать с «Миром искусства».
7. На рубеже веков он стоял на перепутье в отношении стиля:
стиль его картин стал модернистским, а черты импрессионизма
исчезли из его работ.
8. Он работал в жанре героического парадного портрета, в котором
развивал тему свободы художника, которая реализуется в
проявлении его таланта и общественной значимости.
9. В его позднем творчестве главную роль играла историческая
живопись, которая характеризовалась глубиной понимания эпохи.
1. Serov is an outstanding Russian painter,
the bigest influences on him were Repin, the olf masters, Vrubel,
Korovin and the creative atmosphere of the Abramtsevo Colony
circle to which he was closely connected.
2. The greatest works of his early period were portraits,
where he concentrated on spontaneity of
perception of the model and the nature.
3. His early pictures showed the features of early Russian
impressionism — development of light and colour, the saturation
of the environment by air, freshness of perception of the world.
4. Portrait became the basic genre of his art, and he produced
intimate, chamber portraits where he managed to capture pose and
gesture.
5. When Serov received wide popularity and became partners with
Peredvizhniki, he had to work much above custom-made smart
portraits, which are compositionally skilful and picturesque
paintings.
6. Later he produced many landscape compositions and became
connected with The World of Art'.
7. At the turn of the century he was at a stylistic turning
point: his modernistic style developed, and features of
impressionist disappeared from his work.
8. He worked in the genre of a heroic smart portrait, where he
developed the theme of the artist finding freedom in the
revealing of talent and his public importance.
9. His later creativity was dominated by historical painting
showing depth of comprehension of an epoch.
Из пособия "ЕГЭ. Английский язык.
Устные темы" Занина Е.Л. (2010, 272с.) - Part
two.
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