Biography in Polenov

There is so much grief in life, so much vulgarity and dirt that if the art will pose all over horror and villains, then it will already become too difficult to live, ”said this gifted painter. His paintings are filled with some kind of blessed meaning, and truly pacify anyone who will see them. Vasily was the eldest son in a respected and educated noble family. His father, Dmitry Vasilievich, was a prominent diplomat, archaeographer and bibliographer.

All his children received an excellent education. As a child, Vasily often went with his family to the Olonets Territory, to the Imotsky estate. The picturesque landscapes of those places impressed the boy, and years later lay on his wonderful canvases. Due to the noble origin of problems with education, like many other artists from among his contemporaries, Polenov did not.

With his brothers and sisters, he studied with teachers from the Imperial Academy of Arts. In the year, Polenov graduated from a gymnasium in Petrozavodsk, after which he wanted to enter the Academy of Arts. But parents opposed - they wanted the son to receive a classic university education. As a result, Vasily entered St. Petersburg University, at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics.

However, in the exact sciences, Polenov did not see himself. Soon he threw his studies and plunged into a creative life. Polenov was enrolled in evening classes at the Academy of Arts. In the year, he completed his studies, receiving a silver medal. After some time, Vasily Dmitrievich still decided to fulfill his parental order, and again entered the university, this time to the law faculty.

In the year, he became a doctor of jurisprudence. In addition to defending the dissertation, he received a large gold medal for the painting “Resurrection of the daughter of Jair” and the right to a foreign trip for six years. Polenov visited Germany, Italy, Spain, France. Despite the talent and already available, he could not decide on his specialization before. For four years, Polenov tried all kinds of painting - historical, genre, and portrait, and animal, and marine themes.

According to the results of a trip to the Academy of Arts, he presented the paintings “The Right of the Mr.” and “The Arrest of the Guugenok”, as well as 50 sketches made in Paris. At 32, he was awarded the title of academician. Ultimately, Polenov decided that his abilities were best applicable to the landscape genre, which eventually made him a famous, textbook artist.

Returning from the Russo-Turkish war, he settled in Moscow. The pioneer is the best suited for landscape painting.

It was from that period of his activity that the famous “Moscow courtyard” came out. It is interesting that the artist himself lowly appreciated his creation, saying that he did not have enough time to make some more serious thing in front of his debut at the exhibition of the Motraviks of the Year. But the audience was delighted. The writer Ivan Turgenev even ordered himself the author’s repetition of the “Moscow courtyard”, which is now stored in his cottage museum in Buzhal near Paris.

Later, Polenov wrote many more landscapes, of which the most famous are “Babushkin Garden” and “Overgrown Pond”. It will not be an exaggeration to say that the pacifying paintings combining landscape sketches and everyday household life are one of the highest achievements of the Russian landscape of its time. Upon reaching forty years, Polenov turned to religious topics. In a quarter of a century, he created a whole gospel cycle.

In the year, the splash among the public was made by the painting “Christ and the sinner”, which was bought by Emperor Alexander III for the Russian museum, ahead of Pavel Tretyakov. Thoughts about the public good, which occupied the minds of the creative intelligentsia of that era, did not leave Polenov. In the year, he bought the old Berokhovo estate now this is the Zaok district of the Tula region.

He himself designed a house that he intended to turn into an educational center. Polenov and his family settled here. With his money, he opened a museum and a picture gallery, built two schools for peasant children, as well as a diorama, which was a sort of installation of a round -the -world trip in the form of a light theater. Polenov himself drove excursions, taught children.

A man of multifaceted talents, he sang in the choir, led theatrical circles, taught children the basics of drawing. In the year in Moscow, with the support of Savva Mamontov, the Polenovsky House was opened, which became the first institution in the world, whose task was to assist rural and industrial theaters. With the advent of Soviet power, Polenov’s life has not changed much.

A folk painter, he was recognized as a modern classic and was awarded the highest state honors. In the year, by the summer of the artist, his exhibition was organized in the Tretyakov Gallery, and in the year he received the title of People's Artist of the Republic. He did not abandon Polenov and creativity - so, in the year he painted the painting “Spill on the Oka”, considered one of his best works.

Vasily Dmitrievich passed away on July 18 in his estate.According to the will, he was buried in the Buyokhovsky rural cemetery on the banks of the Oka, and the Olonets cross was installed on the grave. After his death, the museum of an outstanding artist and enlightener, which existed to this day, was opened in the estate, and the Polenovsky House in Moscow became the central house of folk art.

Cover: Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, Russian artist. Beginning of the x