Igor Grabar, "Rime" painting - one of the best landscapes of Russian painting

In the Soviet Union, every person knew who Igor Grabar was. The picture "March snow" was familiar from the textbooks. A wonderful Russian artist, a famous restorer, a talented art historian, awarded for a two-volume monograph on Ilya Repin of the Stalin Prize, Igor Emmanuilovich was loved by many for the unique and very beautiful landscapes of Russian nature.

Russian artist born abroad

His father was a deputy of the Austrian parliament, so the future brilliant singer of Russian nature Grabar (the painting "February Azure" - the brightest proof of this) was born in Budapest. He was baptized in Orthodoxy, and his daughter was the uncle of the famous Russian artist Kustodiev, who later will write a famous portrait of Igor Emmanuilovich. In 1880 Olga Grabar brought her son to Russia. He attended a gymnasium in Yegoryevsk, Ryazan province. Next was a gold medal for studying in the Moscow Lyceum of the Tsarevich Nicholas (1889), the law faculty of the St. Petersburg University, graduated in 1893, and the choice of the main cause of his life. I. E. Grabar, whose painting "Balustrade" (1901) declared him as a talented and original master, becomes an artist. In times of Petersburg life, he visited the workshop of Ilya Repin, who became his idol for life, along with Andrei Rublev. With him at the same time in the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts studied Malyavin, Bilibin, Somov.

Becoming

In 1895 the artist left for Italy and further for Europe. In Russia, Grabar returns in 1901, and the beauty of Russian nature opens before him in a new perspective. The artist tried to convey the power of his shock with several canvases - "White Winter", "March Snow".

"February Azure"

The event was the canvas, which in 1904 was written by Igor Grabar, "The February Azure." The picture is full of special poetry, the one that sounds in the poems of Boris Pasternak "February. Get ink and cry! To write about February sobs ". And Grabar wrote his picture, too, sobbing. This one of his most recognizable paintings, she is one of those paintings that create the author his own name. The artist himself was very fond of this work, which depicts a sunny, still winter day in the suburbs. In the joy that overwhelms the picture, there is already a light whiff of spring.

I painted my masterpiece in Dugino. In order to convey both the remoteness of the grove on the horizon and the huge masses of air against the azure sky, Grabar chose a foreshortening slightly from below, for which he dug a deep trench in the snow and placed there with the easel. The artist felt that if he could manage to convey at least some of the beauty that he sees, a beautiful canvas will turn out.

The charm of the picture is unique. Trees seem to lead a round dance around the central birch, the artist's favorite tree. The size of the picture is 104 cm in height and 80 cm in width. It was so good that it was immediately acquired by the Council of the Tretyakov Gallery. This work is to this day one of its main masterpieces. You can add that the canvas is one hundred of the best paintings in the world.

Winter, sun, birch, hoarfrost ...

Another masterpiece, created by Grabar, is "Rime", a picture of 1905. If he wrote it alone, it would still remain in the memory of the descendants, and in textbooks on painting. This is one of those rare paintings that does not leave anyone indifferent. It glorifies the beauty and uniqueness of the unique nature of Russia and in itself demonstrates what a great Russian painting is.

Most of all Grabar liked to draw winter, especially snow. He believed that with the passing of winter, the landscape lost a lot. At the sight of the trees covered with hoarfrost, almost always and at all there is a comparison with a fairy tale: "All the trees in frost, just like in silver, like a fairy-tale fairy now in the yard ..." And everyone knows Yesenin's poems about silver in a birch tree. The whole beauty of this phenomenon of nature, sung by dozens of beautiful poets, was reflected in this unique work. Grabar, whose painting is dedicated to winter, painted a frost, which "shines with wonderful life". He believed that in nature there are very few such polyphonic moments as frost on a sunny day, and they are unusually fleeting. Lighting is constantly changing, giving rise to new unique color schemes.

He himself called branches covered with hoarfrost, diamond lace, sparkling all the colors on the "turquoise enamel of the sky." On the canvas the size of 122.4 x 160.3 all of the above is conveyed with tremendous power. It should be noted that the winter landscapes of I. Grabar are the best in Russian painting, especially the "hoar-frost". Winter, sunny day, beautiful birches, a symbol of Russia and Russian nature, high, with a lush crown, silvered and as if ringing. Their branches cast blue, blue and violet shadows on the snow. Beauties rejoice and are proud of their beauty. In this work everything is extraordinary, it surprises and astonishes the viewer. Written oil, small fractional smears (divisiology), the picture made us talk about the author as the founder of Russian impressionism. The canvas is kept in the Yaroslavl Art Museum.

Grabar has several different paintings with this name, and they are all very good, but the work of 1905 is better than others. As soon as they called the birch Grabar, with what just did not compare. Most of all, obviously, the definition of "supernatural tree" fits her.

"... Yesenin's plot, almost biblical ..."

Another picture of this artist created with all the canons of Impressionism. This is the above-mentioned "March snow" of 1904. Here, as on the two previous canvases, the snow that has conquered the soul of the artist is glorified forever under the sun. It reflects the shadows of the surrounding nature, which can be conveyed by all shades of blue, purple, lilac. Deceptive March of Russia is transmitted surprisingly accurately: it is already spring, but the snow does not think to melt. In this case, the change of seasons is physically felt, in spite of the frost.

On the canvas depicts a young woman carrying buckets of water on the rocker. It would seem that the usual rural landscape - buildings, already snowless trees, on which buds will soon appear, a hurried peasant woman, who is encouraged by the frost. But the main character of the canvas is snow. It is not sparkling, like in winter, it's not snow-white, but it's still a lot. He is in the foreground of the picture, on which are scattered many bright spots. The canvas is full of charm. The picture is less than described above - only 80 x 62 cm. It is stored in the Tretyakov Gallery.

Every inhabitant of our country knows the splendid landscapes of Russian nature of the brush of such geniuses as Savrasov, Vasiliev, Shishkin, Levitan. Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar, People's Artist of Russia, who was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist" by the first Soviet artist, continued this honorary series with dignity. His pre-revolutionary landscapes are very good, but the canvases written in the Soviet period are no worse. The singer of the frosty sunny winter and early spring, Grabar and under the new state structure remained a great painter.