About which of the domestic artists cansay: "The most Russian artist"? Of course, this is Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin. The master's biography is the life course of a talented person, not burdened with psychological or mental pathologies, that is, with what is driven by many representatives of the art world. After all, talent, according to many, is a kind of deviation from the norm, a kind of anomaly. However, even the most profound psychoanalyst will not say so about Ivan Shishkin.
Artist Shishkin, whose biography and workwell known and studied - a vivid example of a good soul, divine spark, diligence and love for the native nature. His talent has developed on the fertile and clean soil of the Vyatka province.
What does the artist's biography look like?From birth, a good family, Orthodox traditions, kindness, care and respect for every creature on the way. This attitude was reflected in every painting canvas created by Shishkin.
Biography and paintings of the artist will be discussed in this article in a somewhat unusual perspective. We are driven by great love and respect for the master. His life and work are devoid of scandals and riddles.
Slava herself found Ivan Ivanovich, and she came toit is pretty early for him without infecting it with a dangerous star disease. Probably, a deep inner world, patriarchal upbringing, high morality and spirituality created for him a strong immunity. But this disease - fame - ruined very many lives and destroyed the whole fate.
Beautiful and honest was Ivan Shishkin.His biography is a description of a person rare in his spiritual qualities. Interesting in this regard, the story of the famous painting "Morning in a pine forest." The canvas was written in collaboration with Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky. Savitsky proposed an idea. He wanted to paint a landscape with a bear family.
Ivan Ivanovich painted a virgin deaf forest,on which no man’s foot has gone. For Shishkin, dark nature is nonsense. In all his paintings there are either rays of the midday sun, or a lot of open sky, or a body of water, or a road. "Morning ..." is completely devoid of all this. Accident? Gloomy mood? Not at all! The picture turned out to be full of life and joyful fresh energy. Three suckling cubs can frolic in this way only if they are completely safe. A strict mother-bear would not allow noisy romp near a human dwelling. Moreover, she has not two babies, as is usually the case, but as many as three. The bear and two bear cubs were drawn by Savitsky, and the third one, that on the right, Shishkin drew for greater harmony and plausibility.
The work really liked the famouscollector Peter Tretyakov, but he demanded that Savitsky’s signature be blacked out, leaving authorship to Shishkin. Savitsky agreed, although he considered the decision unfair. Shishkin, Ivan Ivanovich, was very upset about this. A brief biography of a noble person who is able to compromise is shown in the example of the story with this picture. After all, Ivan Ivanovich wrote it for Savitsky and picked up a landscape for the background that matched his friend's plan, because he himself did not like such deaf places. Tretyakov decided the fate of the picture in its own way. He had some sort of friction with Savitsky.
How few artists Ivan Ivanovichversed in the intricacies of the image of nature. Where did Shishkin get his knowledge from? The artist’s biography is closely and inextricably linked with the central part of Russia, with its forests, fields and rivers. He was born in Elabuga in a merchant family. And the merchants at that time were a respected class - educated and cultural.
Ivan Ivanovich's father loved books, was fond ofhistory, even wrote a book about his native land. Being a wealthy and successful entrepreneur, he spent a lot of money on charity, whether it was building a church or laying a water pipeline.
His interest in painting evoked approval in his son.The boy was bought paints, paper, hired good teachers. Ivan as a child even painted the fence of his house, as was preserved in the archives of his hometown. After all, Shishkin's biography is not a secret and has no white spots. Everything is clean and transparent, like the rays of sunlight on its landscapes. Without being complicated and not going through sharp ups and downs, the biography of Shishkin, the artist and man, was not at all serenely happy and even.
Ivan Ivanovich received a good education.He studied in Moscow at the School of Painting and Sculpture, then at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. These schools provided excellent fundamental knowledge in the field of art and architecture. They have become a successful start for many talented people. No exception, and Ivan Shishkin.
The artist’s biography shows that to studyhandicrafts he took seriously and in good faith. Professional education gave the artist an understanding of the fact that a painting is a complex composition, it is the ability to handle light and shadow, to see everything, but to capture only the characteristic and the main on the canvas.
Some dilettantes claim that Shishkin’s paintings are a kind of photographs of the time.
If chronologically consider the pictures thatwrote Shishkin, Ivan Ivanovich, a brief biography, not even a brief one, but a complete one can be traced in his works. They have no politics and social orientation. It is obvious. In his paintings - a sensitive attitude to detail. Hence, the reliability and life in his paintings. Judge for yourself.
Precision in detail made the picture “Morningin a pine forest "so famous. Everything is accurate and honest. Therefore, his paintings are so loved and popular. Their calm harmony never caused controversy and conflict.
Любителям «жареных» фактов и будуарных секретов There is no need to delve into the personal life of the artist. Everything is fair and clean. Shishkin's biography, his inner world, emotional experiences, ups and downs - all this is in his paintings. During his life, and Ivan Ivanovich lived for 66 years, he painted several hundred paintings.
Why is Ivan Shishkin called a noon artist,not hard to guess. In general, landscape painters love to depict nature during sunrises or sunsets, in a thunderstorm, storm or fog. Ivan Ivanovich chose a time of day when the shadow is almost absent, and expressiveness and authenticity are achieved by other means. Having lived all his childhood in Elabuga, having absorbed the beauty and tranquility of his beloved land, Ivan Shishkin would later return to his beloved landscapes all his life. The biography of the artist closely weaves together the milestones of his fate and the paintings created by him. Characteristic in this sense, "Rye".
It was written in Elabuga in 1878.The midday sun does not create a shadow, but we clearly feel the gusts of wind through the stuffiness of a summer day. They just started to weave heavy ears. In a few minutes a thunderstorm will break out, which will dampen the earth, and the grain will not crumble.
The landscape is full of life and healthy energy, but whyin the background - dried pine? So in real life does not happen. This tree should have been cut down for firewood for a long time. What does Shishkin's biography say about this period of his life? He recently buried his wife and two little sons. So in real life does not happen, we repeat. The artist does not agree with such a fate, but he is trying to come to terms, looking for a way to learn how to live in a new reality. Hence the road, lost in the field. What is ahead? "Should I go on it, trying to recover from the grief of work?" - Thought Ivan Shishkin. The artist's biography is encrypted in his works. That is certain.
After a series of tragedies with relatives Ivan Ivanovichtried to drown grief in the old way. However, to give up was not in his character. Gradually, he managed and started life from the beginning. Biography Shishkin contains information about his second marriage, but he ended in tragedy. Young wife died. More Ivan Ivanovich was not looking for a life partner. To help raise and raise two girls from the first marriage came the sister of the second wife.
Родился Иван Иванович Шишкин 13 января 1832 года, and died on March 8, 1898. Judging by his drawings, it was the most beautiful, the most peaceful, the most full and serene time for our country, only occasionally clouded, but, by and large, the country developed, grew rich and flourished. It was in those years when ordinary students with good academic performance received state scholarship and studied partly in Russia, partly in Italy, France, Germany or other countries. So it was with Shishkin.
How did Ivan Shishkin live his life?The biography is brief and piercing read in his last testament, The Ship Grove. A strong man who did not break under the blows of fate, and to the end of his life retained in his heart light and Christian humility, not letting darkness and shadow of insults and disappointments in him.
It will take hundreds of years, and people looking at the picturesShishkin, will find out what our planet looked like when there were still forests and undeveloped territories on it. They will be embraced by a feeling of tenderness for their land, for their small homeland. The artist Shishkin, whose biography and work is inextricably linked with Russia, wrote not only domestic landscapes. He has a whole layer of works made in Germany, Switzerland and Finland, where his eldest daughter lived with her husband. He often came to her, and, working in the open air, for his subjects he chose such places that reminded him of Elabuga, I understand the Kama, pine groves.
