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Girl with peaches who wrote. A certificate from the educational institution must be presented with the obligatory indication of the faculty

Valentin Serov was the main portrait painter of his time. Literally everyone with a small amount of capital and ambition ordered portraits from Serov. The artist, as expected, did not want to limit himself to this. For the soul, he painted openly impressionistic canvases, which, if shown to the Russian audience of that time, would almost certainly be called obscurantism. That’s why “Girl with Peaches” remained on the Abramtsevo estate of the Mamontovs, where it was written.

Plot

One summer day, Valentin Serov, who was visiting the Mamontovs in Abramtsevo, saw 11-year-old Vera, excited about playing Cossack robbers, run into the dining room, take a peach and sit down at the table. Amazed, the artist began to persuade the girl to pose for him. Vera hardly suspected that Serov would write it for more than a month and she would have to sit motionless for several hours every day while summer flew by outside the window.

Serov was able to convey Vera’s mischievous character: it can be read in the sly look, and in the fold of her lips, which seem ready to laugh, and in her disheveled hair, and in her blush. In the girl’s pose, in her clothes, there is no tension of the poser. It seems that this captured moment is like a ray or a butterfly - once and flies away.

The trees are green outside the window. This is Gogol Alley in Abramtsevo Park, where Nikolai Vasilyevich loved to walk. On the table are peaches grown in the Abramtsevo greenhouse. Savva Mamontov bought trees from the Artemovo and Zhilkino estates in 1871.

The figurine of a wooden soldier in the corner was purchased from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The grenadier, originally unpainted, was painted by Serov. By the way, the figurine still occupies the same place in the Abramtsevo Museum. Just like the plate pictured on the wall. Savva Mamontov loved ceramics, and even opened a pottery workshop at the estate.

Having completed the portrait, Serov gave it to the girl’s mother, Elizaveta Mamontova. The painting took its place in the same room where it was painted. Eyewitnesses said that thanks to the canvas, the spacious, bright room seemed to be illuminated even more bright light. The artist Mikhail Nesterov wrote that if the canvas had been presented in Paris, Serov would have become famous that same day. But in Russia the public was not yet ready for impressionism, and therefore it was better to leave the work in Abramtsev’s dining room and not show it publicly - otherwise they would call it crazy.

Context

“I painted for more than a month and tortured her, poor thing, to death,” Serov recalled, “I really wanted to preserve the freshness of the painting while being completely complete - just like the old masters.” Shortly before starting work on “Girl with Peaches,” the painter returned from a trip to Italy. He was amazed by the works of the Renaissance masters, impressed by the country itself, its strength, and atmosphere. Arriving in Russia, the 22-year-old artist was determined to paint only joyful things. And the very first picture became the personification of this desire.

Vera Mamontova was called the “Abramtsevo goddess.” It was written not only by Serov, but also by Vasnetsov. It is also believed that Vrubel gave Tamara her features in the illustrations for “The Demon,” “The Snow Maiden” and “The Egyptian Woman.” At the age of 27, she married the Moscow provincial leader of the nobility Alexander Samarin, and they had three children. At 32, Vera Savvishna fell ill with pneumonia and died. In the 1920s, Samarin was exiled to a camp, and his daughter Lisa went with him. In 1932 he died in the Gulag.

The fate of the artist

Serov grew up in a house where creative chaos reigned. Mother Valentina Semyonovna was a convinced nihilist. Father Alexander Nikolaevich was a popular composer at that time. By the way, the age difference between the spouses was 26 years: 43-year-old Alexander Nikolaevich married his 17-year-old student.

Nihilists and revolutionaries came to my mother, writers, sculptors, musicians, and artists came to my father. After the death of his father, when the boy was seven years old, his mother gave him to Repin as a student. The boy spent so much time with the teacher that he was practically considered a member of the family.

Valentin also knew the Mamontovs from early childhood. He spent a lot of time at their house. As the older Mamontov children recalled, all their games and pranks were certainly connected with Anton - that’s what they called him because Serov did not like the name Valentin. Even little Vera made fun of him. Savva Mamontov subsequently found the first customers for the young artist. These were mainly bourgeois and aristocrats. Over time, Serov acquired a reputation as a portrait painter with a “sharp” brush: he did not portray his respectable models in the most favorable light, which, although they did not particularly like it, was accepted because it was a fashionable and almost obligatory measure of provocation.

And although the artist was ordered and paid for portraits, of all his works he most valued the frankly impressionistic “Girl Illuminated by the Sun.” Shortly before his death - at the end of 1911 - looking at this canvas in the Tretyakov Gallery, he said: “I painted this thing, and then all my life, no matter how I tried, nothing came of it, I was completely exhausted.”

Recently, memes based on images of classical paintings have become increasingly popular. Even the President of Russia demonstrated his knowledge of Internet folklore during his visit to an exhibition of paintings at the Tretyakov Gallery artist Valentin Serov. AiF.ru recalls the history of the creation of original works, which today increasingly appear in an unusual form.

Valentin Serov "Girl with Peaches"

One of the most famous female portraits in Russian painting appeared thanks to a happy coincidence. Valentin Serov visited the estate Savva Mamontov, when his daughter, twelve years old, ran into the house, inflamed by a street game Vera Mamontova, and picked up a peach. The young artist invited the girl to pose, and almost two months later “Girl with Peaches” appeared, embodying the author’s idea. Nine years later, Serov painted another portrait of Vera Mamontova, calling it “Girl with a Maple Branch.” Vera’s features appeared more than once in his works, but the fate of the “girl with peaches” herself was extremely tragic: at the age of 32 she fell ill with pneumonia and died.

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And you are familiar with at least several of their paintings. But when it comes to impressionism with Russian roots, it turns out that most of our contemporaries have a very vague idea of ​​what shoots these roots gave. With realism - everything is in order here! Russian artists showed truthfully... angrily denounced... called with their paintings... and so on. Undoubtedly, they showed, denounced, and called, but they also felt and conveyed sensations in their works. The work of many Russian painters is directly related to impressionism, and their works are recognized by world art criticism as bright and worthy examples of this direction.

One of the very first paintings created in this direction in Russia was a portrait of Vera Mamontova, which is known as “Girl with Peaches.”

Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov entered the chronicles of Russian painting as a wonderful landscape painter, a master of canvases on historical and everyday themes.

But a special place in the list of the artist’s paintings includes his numerous portraits.

Famous statesmen and figures of literature and art, society ladies and very young girls, charming children and images of people wise with life experience - from their faces, framed, you can create an entire art gallery.

But if we imagine that a huge number of these portraits were not created, but only one was painted, then even then the artist’s name would not be “lost,” because such a face simply cannot help but pay attention.

“Girl with Peaches,” which is considered one of the most famous paintings in Russian painting, was painted by Valentin Serov when he was only 22 years old. It was the summer of 1887, the artist had recently returned from a trip to Italy, bright impressions of sunny country, amazing architecture and brilliant Italian art overwhelmed him. He wrote:

"IN this century they write everything that is difficult, but I want, I want, joyful things, and I will write only joyful things.”

The estate of the famous Russian philanthropist Savva Mamontov, Abramtsevo, has always been such a “pleasant” place for the artist. In this family, Serov was known and loved since teenage years, his friends came there to paint the most beautiful surrounding landscapes, and the very atmosphere of the hospitable manor’s estate was conducive to creativity.

For the next painting, the artist chose completely young model- daughter of the owner of the house Vera Mamontova. The twelve-year-old girl was not a beauty, but her face with bright lips, dark “currant” eyes and a delicate blush simply begged to be painted. In working on it, the artist used techniques characteristic of impressionism: plein air painting, fine color palette, light pouring from the windows, which creates a luminous halo around the figure sitting at the table.



But in this work there are not only techniques - they would not be worth much without the most important thing - Valentin Serov managed to convey a momentary feeling of happiness, youth, the joy of being. Looking at the picture, one gets the impression that this is a randomly snatched “frame” from life, seen by the attentive and friendly eyes of the artist: that a maple leaf was fluttering on a branch just recently, that a peach with a ruddy side will soon be eaten, and the tablecloth was wrapped on the table because that there are small children in the house who could pull her down to the floor. The master’s “living” brush captured just one moment of a wonderful summer day and the serene life of a teenage girl. Art critic Mark Kopshitzer very accurately said about this feeling:

“...life continues outside the picture and constitutes the beginning of what is not included on the canvas big world, where there are chairs, and tables, and other peaches, and other girls"

The painting was highly praised by critics, who were unanimous in the opinion that it was painted in the tradition of impressionism, and a master of European caliber appeared in Russian painting. The artist gave this painting to Vera’s mother, and it hung for a long time in the very room where the painting was painted. It is currently exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery.

Vera Mamontova subsequently had to pose for great painters more than once. So, two of her portraits were painted by the Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov.

Unfortunately, this wonderful woman passed away early, at the age of 33. Her husband, leader of the Moscow provincial nobility, and then chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod, Alexander Dmitrievich Samarin, had a hard time with the loss. He remained faithful to Vera until the end of his life, and in memory of her he built a temple in the village of Averkievo Life-Giving Trinity in the style of the 17th century.



Many members of the famous Abramtsevo circle took part in its design; for example, the tiles were made according to sketches. Currently, this is one of the many operating churches in the Moscow region.

“Girl with Peaches” is certainly the most famous painting by V. Serov. The canvas was painted by a young artist in the summer of 1887 at the estate of S.I. Mamontov. The teenage girl depicted on the canvas is Mamontov’s daughter, twelve-year-old Verochka.

The painting was difficult to create - the work took more than three months - but it seems to us that the work was created quickly, in a fit of happy insight. What qualities of this picture make it so inexplicably attractive to the viewer?

Probably, the secret of the charm of this work is simple - the painter managed to convey the thrill of a fleeting moment, but at the same time give the picture completeness and completeness. A dark-skinned girl in a light blouse with a bow sits at the table. It seems to us that she sat down for a moment, mechanically took a peach in her hand, and a moment later she fluttered like a butterfly and flew back into the garden.

The girl has delicate skin, dark eyes with bluish whites and the same dark hair. She simply looks at us with a barely noticeable smile. She has a peach in her hand, on the tablecloth nearby there are peaches, a knife, maple leaves... The room is flooded with sunlight. The sun's rays, penetrating into the room, gently fall on the table, on the girl's hands, and on the antique furniture of the winter dining room...

The picture captivates the viewer with its freshness of color and harmony artistic image, and amazing internal harmony, and enormous vitality. Using impressionistic techniques, in particular the free vibration of the brushstroke, Serov conveys with great skill the play of light, its saturation, and the way shadows lie.

And most importantly, the artist managed, with the help of a small painting, to tell a whole novel about a girl, about her character, feelings - as bright and pure as her appearance. The painting “Girl with Peaches” is an ode to spring, the charm of youth and spontaneity, to everything that delights and pleases us in life.

In addition to the description of the painting by V. A. Serov “Girl with Peaches”, our website contains many other descriptions of paintings by various artists, which can be used both in preparation for writing an essay on the painting, and simply for a more complete acquaintance with the work of famous masters of the past .

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Valentin Serov received his initial art education under the guidance of I. E. Repin. He learned from him the way Renaissance artists once learned, working alongside a master - often on the same model. I. E. Repin passed on his love of life and passion for painting to the young student, and they fell on fertile soil.

Valentin Serov. Girl with peaches

Then in the life of Valentin Serov there was the Academy of Arts with the Chistyakov teaching system, which combined the best traditions academic school and a new, realistic perception and depiction of nature. And it all ended with an acquaintance with classical art in European museums, which V. Serov visited as a child, living with his mother in Paris and Munich. In 1885-1887, he examined them as an adult with a professional understanding of painting. Admired and enchanted by Venice, Valentin Serov nevertheless wrote in one of his letters to his bride: “In the current century they write everything that is difficult, nothing joyful. I want, I want joyful things and I will write only joyful things.”

Such a “pleasant” work of art, a work of youthful happiness and a bright perception of the world, is the “Portrait of V. S. Mamontova.” The young artist painted it in the summer of 1887 in Abramtsevo, on the estate of the famous philanthropist Savva Ivanovich Mamontov, where he visited after Italy.

Valentin Serov lived in Abramtsevo as if at home; he was almost a member of the Mamontov family. He was known and loved here from his earliest youth; he lived a cheerful and free life here. So this time he was unable to quickly leave here, although he tried to visit his relatives.

The artist eagerly peered into familiar landscapes. Often he ran away alone, in the morning, without even having breakfast. He walked - and suddenly stopped for a long time at the sight of a ray of sunlight falling on a flower, at the sight of a shadow falling on the grass from a cloud. He looked closely at how the air turns out in bad weather, how its properties change when it is penetrated by light, how its darkening changes and what shades the shadows lying nearby... The artist was gradually and completely possessed by one thought: “Write as I see , forgetting about everything that was taught. And, of course, to paint first of all a portrait, not a landscape."

But the adults had no time to pose. The Mamontov boys also grew up and became young people - restless, talkative. You can’t force them to sit... More than once V. Serov caught the eye of the grown-up Verochka Mamontova, whom he had known since birth. She, too, turned into a cheerful, independent person, charming with her youthful freshness.

She still loved to play pranks, bullied her artist friend, loved to ride horseback or on a boat with him, and V. Serov more than once started talking about her portrait. This sweet teenage girl was very colorful: bright lips, dark hair, dark as ripe currants, eyes with bluish whites. And the skin is tender, still a little fluffy like a child, and now, under a summer tan, it’s completely peachy...

And V. Serov, whom everyone in Abramtsevo called Anton, began to persuade Verochka: “Well, sit down, do me a favor... I’ll paint such a portrait, you won’t recognize yourself. You’ll be a beauty!” And she, sweetly and slyly capricious, answered: “You’ll torture me... It’s boring to sit, it’s summer...”.

Here, in Abramtsevo, V. Serov painted one of the youngest portraits in Russian painting. Not only because it depicts a 12-year-old girl and that the artist who painted it was young. The main thing was that Verochka Mamontova’s childhood happiness and her cloudlessness coincided with the happiness of the artist himself. He painted every day for about three months, but his “pangs of creativity” are invisible to the viewer, and it seems that the picture was created in a single burst of happy inspiration.

There is probably no person now who does not know this work of art. The portrait of V. Mamontova became something much more than just a sketch from life; it is not for nothing that the name “Girl with Peaches” was firmly attached to it. It was precisely a painting, and not a portrait, since this canvas had outgrown any ideas about a portrait.

“Everyone remembers,” writes art critic V. Smirnova-Rakitina, “the corner of a large room, flooded with silvery daylight: a dark-skinned, black-haired girl in a pink blouse with a black bow with white polka dots is sitting at the table. In the girl’s hands is a peach, the same dark-skinned pink, like her face. On a dazzling white tablecloth lie withering maple leaves, peaches and a silver knife. Outside the window, it’s a bright, bright summer day, tree branches stretch into the glass, and the sun, making its way through their foliage, illuminates both the quiet room and the girl. and antique mahogany furniture...".

The portrait of Verochka Mamontova enchants the viewer with its extraordinary vitality and ideality of artistic image. This work of the young artist immediately amazed many contemporaries with the freshness of its light, radiant color, and the subtle transmission of light and air. Savva Ivanovich Mamontov and everyone who came to Abramtsevo just gasped in front of the picture. Konstantin Korovin also grunted, and Valentin Serov’s colorful skill pierced him to the depths of his soul.

Everything in this picture is natural and relaxed, every detail is connected to one another, and all together they create a complete work. The beauty of a girl's face, poetry lifestyle, light-saturated colorful painting - everything in this work seemed new. It is not without reason that it became clear to the most insightful critics that in the person of the 22-year-old artist, Russian painting had acquired a master of European caliber.

In this small-sized painting, which preserved all the charm and freshness of the sketch, two trends, two forces were organically combined, forming a single form of pictorial vision. Every detail in “Girl with Peaches” is in its place, all the chairs in the winter dining room are painted, the candlesticks on the window, even a figurine of a toy soldier in the back of the room, there is a porcelain plate on the wall, and there is a garden outside the window in the days of late summer. Nothing can be removed or moved without disturbing the internal balance of the entire canvas.

Everything seems so simple and natural, but there is so much depth and integrity in this simplicity! How in all these supposed “accidents” the unique joy of life shines through! With utmost expressiveness, V. Serov conveyed the light pouring like a silver stream from the window and filling the room. This light shines on the wall and on the porcelain plate, reflects in reflections on the backs of the chairs, softly falls on the tablecloth, glides over the girl’s face and hands. A White color the tablecloths, the white color of the wall, the white color of the plate suddenly turn out to be completely different, and the shadows, the green reflection of the foliage and the pinkish reliefs of the blouse also fall on them differently.

The girl is sitting at the table and is not busy with anything, as if she really sat down for a moment, mechanically picked up a peach and holds it, looking at you simply and frankly. But this peace is only momentary, and through it the passion for high-spirited movement peeks through. Even the bow, like a butterfly, seems ready to fly away any moment. And the girl herself looks like a butterfly: she fluttered into the house for a moment, with the sun and warm wind, sat down on the edge of a chair, lighting up the room with a smile, and will immediately fly back - to the street, where the summer day is shining with all its might.

And in the room itself, everything seems to want to disturb the silence and tranquility. The table “ran” into the depths, carrying the viewer’s gaze with it. The ringing rays of the sun are pouring, bringing with them the aroma of the garden, the door to the next room is open...

That, it would seem, is all that Valentin Serov depicted in his painting. And at the same time, this is a whole novel about the people who own the house, the garden, all these things; This is the story of a girl, a story about her character, about her experiences - pure, clear and young. The artist was interested in the heroine’s inner world not because of its complex contradictions, not because of its deep psychological nuances, but because of its natural simplicity and chastity. In her soft, but intelligent and energetic face, V. Serov foresaw an insight into the future. Perhaps, without realizing it, the artist told in this painting everything he knew about the Mamontovs, showed everything he loved about them - in their family and in their home.

The painting “Girl with Peaches” was in Abramtsevo for a long time, in the same room where it was painted. And then she was transferred to Tretyakov Gallery, a copy of this work is currently hanging in Abramtsevo.

“One Hundred Great Paintings” by N. A. Ionin, Veche Publishing House, 2002

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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov(January 7 (19), 1865, St. Petersburg - November 22, 1911, Moscow) - Russian painter and graphic artist, master of portraiture.

 

 
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