Tropinin biography of the picture

Not lucky from birth. Vasily Tropinin - some facts from the biography of this, the only artist in his own way. Share in social networks: Vasily Tropinin - GG. That's just Tropinin, unlike all other iconic Russian artists, for example, Korovin, Aivazovsky, Gorbatov, was serfdom, that is, in fact, a slave. The owner could sell it to another serf, flogging for the slightest disobedience, force him to engage in not his favorite painting, but by any agricultural work or cleaning manure.

And he had to not only draw portraits of his gentlemen and paint the village church with frescoes, but also paint the wells, engage in painting work, all kinds of household chores and even prepare desserts. His contemporaries-artists came mainly from the noble, or at the worst of the merchant and artisan class. As a simple peasant guy contrary to all circumstances, all the circumstances managed to get free and become a famous Russian artist in this article.

There are no brushes, but there is VAXS Vasily Tropinin from the Novgorod village of Karpovo. His father for the long service of the manager in the estate of his Count Anton Mikhin received in his old age from the Count the free, but at the same time he earned the hatred of all the surrounding peasants, since he was always on the side of his master. But the free did not apply to his children, and they were in a rather delicate position - the non -shaped glory of the parent of the loyal attitude from the serfs did not add.

Vasya himself began to draw from childhood, but his drawings were not interested in anyone-think about, some kind of yard boy is smeared, it would be better if he started to do it. But Vasya did not stop. Obstoy in everything - the harsh education and personal characteristics of a personal nature, who have been cultivated by serfs, were affected, since they tried to get rid of the overly violent and rebellious landowners by any means - they sold the other ways, sent to soldiers or fell to death, it was obsessed with painting.

Once he was forced to clean the master's boots with a vacation. It took a lot of time, but Vaska still not, we went to look and it turned out that he was in a girl, where cheap popular pictures were hung. A novice artist immediately redrawn them on the walls of this room. Similar arts did not appreciate and the boy brutally wrecked, which, however, did not get his craving for drawing.

Of the confectioners to artists at the age of 15, Vasya went to St. Petersburg to study at the confectioner. By that time, the estate of Count Anton Minin had passed into the property of his son -in -law - Count Irakli Morkov. Family portrait of Counters of Morkov. The cousin of his Barina Alexei Korokov looked after Vasya, who soon noticed that Tropinin was going to listen to lectures at the Academy of Arts.

At first, he really did not like it - which right has a slave to do not his own business and disobey the master, but, having familiarized himself with the drawings of a young artist, changed his opinion. It was immediately evident that Tropinin was talented, and then there were considerations of a purely practical properties. A good artist can bring much more income than an ordinary confectioner.

Alexei Korokov decided to beg his brother to send a talented young man to study at the Academy of Arts, promising to pay all the costs. And Tropinin, as a freedom-he could not be a real student because of his serfdom, began to study the painting of a painter. Soon the first success came. The boy, yearning for his bird who died with his bird, "The boy, yearning for his dead bird," put up at an exhibition, where, in addition to Tropinin, the quite consistent artists Orest Kiprensky and Vladimir Borovikovsky participated.

But it was Tropinin's work that took first place, critics of those years praised the artist and predicted him a great future. The artist-lame and here the burgundy tyranny of his master led out. He was afraid that Tropinin would become so famous that the owner himself would lose power over him, and therefore sent a talented painter to his ability, engage in all kinds of economic affairs.

And Tropinin, contrary to his talent, painted the coats of arms of a shitty kind of his formal owner, made cakes and desserts, painted portraits of the hated host and members of his family, and even served at the table as a footman. The portrait of Arseniy Tropinin - the son of Vasily Tropinin reached the ridiculous - once a foreigner came to the estate of the count and get acquainted with the famous painter.

The count invited him to dine in the living room, and then the guest, seeing Tropinin, began to invite him to sit at the table and tried to make a conversation with him. The count could not have been explaining the unlucky foreigner for a long time that Tropinin Lacques and Rebel and at the same table with gentlemen had no right to sit. And what was the artist himself, despite all his talent, to feel like a second -grade person, a slave who does not have the right to choose a lesson to his liking and by abilities and forced by the will of the master to serve at the table?

And this is in the XIX century. Tropinin’s wedding, however, was in a forced return and their advantages.Once, his owner, Count of Carrots, decided to build a church in his village Kukavka, and ordered Tropinin to paint it. Tropinin himself gladly recalls this time - he was engaged in his favorite painting, painted frescoes, and in his free time he drew portraits of local peasants: young girls who were wise of everyday experience of old people, men in his prime.

The girl from Podolya Tropinin created a whole gallery of interesting images, later on these drawings and sketches, he writes his best paintings. The Church of St. Dmitry Solunsky in the village of Kukavka in the same church Tropinin was married.

His chosen one was the free girl Anna Katina, and, making her choice, she married a decent, kind, talented artist, but a fortress man and thereby lost her personal freedom, became the property of Count Morkov. However, the count was not a tyrant, his wife and husband did not separate, and they lived together for more than half a century. The owner’s daughter married, and as a dowry, along with dresses, pillows, feather beds, all kinds of needlework, Vasily Tropinin also grabbed.

The lace but subsequently the relationship between Tropinin and his master got better. The Count of Carrots, seeing the outstanding talent of his painter, allowed him to engage only in writing paintings. He consulted with him, Tropinin would be aware of all the important family affairs of the count. This was no longer the relationship of the master and serf, but the boss and the subordinate appreciated by him.

Tropinin became the most faithful person in his environment. During the war of the year, the count sets off with his sons to defend the Fatherland, lead the Moscow militia, and Tropinin orders to monitor the household and prevent the plunder of property. And Tropinin successfully copes with the task. The long -awaited freedom only at 47 years of the artist’s life Count under pressure and requests of the entire Moscow nobility gives Tropinin free and he persuades him to stay in his master's house already as a friend.

But Tropinin was tired of depending on anyone, he settled in his own house, refused the post of academician of the Academy of Arts and the obligation to perform state orders to lush front portraits, but with pleasure he painted wealthy merchants and nobles. The self -portrait against the background of the Kremlin was a window in the artist’s workshop from customers, and Tropinin did not need the means.

He was called a "negligent painter" - he wrote chamber home portraits, without official and pretentiousness, so characteristic of the portrait painting of those years. But Muscovites liked this style, they saw in it the contrast between the cold official Petersburg. Portrait of A. Baryshnikov Moscow Kupykaya, Moscow Noble - according to the portraits of Tropinin, it is quite possible to make the census of the rich merchants and nobles of this city.

Tropinin died in the year 81 of life, a large crowd of admirers of the talent of the great Russian painter, who managed, managed to prove himself, which can fully realize himself contrary to all circumstances, gathered at his funeral. Pictures of modern portraitists can be found on the site of the Artalebrio gallery. Go to the site to buy a picture directly from the author.

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