Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov
Drawings
Christ by the Sea of Galilee
The Oyat River
Moscow patio
The Lookout
Barge on the River Oka
Ill girl (preliminary version)
Parthenon. Temple of Athena Parthénos
Erechtheum. The Porch of Caryatids
Portrait of N. V. Yakunchikova
Self-portrait of Vasiliy Polenov
SI Mamontov, PA Spiro, at the piano
The bylinas narrator Nikita Bogdanov
"What People Think about Me". From the series "The Life of Christ"
Baalbeck. The ruins of the temple of Jupiter and the Sun Temple
Vasily Petrovich Schegolenok (Schegolenkov) narrator
Portrait of V.D. Khrushcheva, sister of the artist
Portrait of V.N. Voeikova, grandmother of the artist
Portrait of the artist Ilya Repin
Fishing boat. Etretat. Normandy
A soldier with a bundle of firewood
Столовая в землянке. Брестовец
Getting cold. Autumn on the Oka River near Tarusa
Killed soldier. Near the village of Mechka
Small medieval city with a wall
Cathedral of the Assumption. South gate
Haram Ash-Sharif, ancient Temple of Jerusalem
Temple of Isis on the island of Philae
St Helena Church. Chapel of the temple of the Holy Sepulchre
On the Genisaret (Tiberias) Lake. From the series "The Life of Christ".
Egyptian Figure
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Christ by the Sea of Galilee
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (Russian: Васи́лий Дми́триевич Поле́нов; 1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927) was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.
Life and career
A native of St. Petersburg, Polenov studied under Pavel Chistyakov and at the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1863 to 1871. He was a classmate and close friend of Rafail Levitsky, a fellow Peredvizhniki artist and famous photographer. Their letters, which are now stored in the Polenov's House museum, are an interesting account of the many art exhibitions, movements and artists of their day.
As bachelors, Polenov and Levitsky lived and worked together in "Devich'e Pole" (the name of the street "Maiden's Field"), in an attic of the Olsufevsky House (the home of Rafail Levitsky's future wife Anna Vasilevna Olsufevsky). This house is illustrated by Polenov in his painting “Grandmother's Garden” (1878).
Polenov was a pensioner of the academies of arts in Italy and France, where he painted a number of pictures in the spirit of Academism on subjects taken from European history, such as "Droit du Seigneur" (1874) Tretyakov gallery; at the same time he worked a lot in the open air.
Polenov took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) as a war artist. Returning from the war, he joined the Peredvizhniki, taking part in their mobile exhibitions. His works won the admiration of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who acquired many of them for his gallery.
In the late 1870s, Polenov concentrated on painting landscapes in the realist tradition of Aleksey Savrasov and Fyodor Vasilyev. He attempted to impart the silent poetry of Russian nature, related to daily human life.
He was one of the first Russian artists who achieved a plein air freshness of color combined with artistic finish of composition (The Moscow courtyard, 1878; The Grandmother's garden, 1878; Overgrown pond, 1879). The principles developed by Polenov had a great impact on the further development of Russian (and especially Soviet) landscape painting.
Polenov's sketches of the Middle East and Greece (1881–1882) paved the way for his masterpiece, "Christ and the Sinner" (1886–87), an interesting attempt to update the academic style of painting. In his works of the 1880s, Polenov tended to combine New Testament subjects with his penchant for landscape. From the 1870s, Polenov also turned to stage design. Most notably, he decorated Savva Mamontov's mansion in Abramtsevo and his Russian Private Opera. In 1910-1918, Polenov was involved in a folk theatre project.
Polenov was elected a member of the St.Petersburg Academy of arts in 1893, and named as a People's Artist of the USSR in 1926. For many years, he coached young painters in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His pupils included Abram Arkhipov, Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Korovin, Emily Shanks and Alexandre Golovine. Polenov's former home in Borok has been designated a national art museum, and the village was renamed Polenovo to commemorate his name. The coordinates of his home/museum approximately two hours south of Moscow are: 54°44'53.19"N - 37°14'8.46"E
He died at Polenovo, near Tarusa, in 1927.
Stamps
Wassilij Dimitriewitsch Polenow,
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