DOI Heft:
No. 133 (April, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Modern Russian art: some leading painters of Moscow
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0239
Modern Russian Art
K. Korovine sent two of his characteristic and extent decorative in feeling, are the thoroughly
life-like portraits of men, treated in his usual artistic and yet historically true scenes from
pleasing but somewhat commonplace manner, and St. Petersburg as it was in the eighteenth century,
a portrait of a lady, which it must be confessed was by A. Benois, which would serve admirably as
but little removed from the trivial in style and illustrations for a book dealing with that epoch,
execution. K. Somoff showed a rather uninterest- In spite of its vast size, the painting exhibited by
ing portrait study of a young lady, and two small, S. Ivanoffof A Sixteenth- Century Muscovite Military
delicately executed water-colour drawings, on a Expedition also impresses the spectator rather as a
very small scale, of ladies in fancy dress. L. Paster- clever illustration than as an independent com-
nak's only exhibits were a small but very faithful position. As a rule, landscapes of a noble and
study of Count L. Tolstoy, and a few charm- dignified character are the most noteworthy features
ing, tasteful and life-like drawings in colour, of Russian exhibitions, but in this case there were
There was nothing very remarkable in the portraits only a few, and those few of a very ordinary
of O. Braz, treated in the broad manner affected character. One, however, did justly attract a special
by him. The predilection of many artists for the amount of attention, and that was a very impressive
decorative style was very noticeable in this show, autumn scene, remarkably fine alike in composition
especially in the work of Apollinaris Vasnetzoff, and in colouring, by J. Grabar. Last, not least, a
who sent a large, gorgeously coloured panel and a special word of recognition must also be given
continuation of the fine series of water-colour and to K. Tuon, whose paintings of episodes of life in
black-and-white drawings,
in which, with masterly skill,
he gives various character-
istic reconstructions of
scenes from Moscow as it
was several centuries ago.
Another artist whose work
is decorative rather than
pictorial is Rerich, whose
Maison de Dieu gives the
impression of being a de-
sign for mosaics, and yet an-
other painter who may be
dubbed a true stylist is S.
Mali outine. The few
studies from Nature he
exhibited proved him to
be endowed with much
true art feeling, but his
numerous designs for build-
ings and furniture in the
Russian style, seem more
satisfactory from the pictur-
esque than from the
constructive point of view.
In A. Golovine's designs
for the decoration of a
theatre, on the other
hand, considerable deco-
rative ability is combined
with a strong dash of
imagination and a very
keen sense of harmony
of colour. More realistic,
and only to a certain "portrait" by k. korovine
220
K. Korovine sent two of his characteristic and extent decorative in feeling, are the thoroughly
life-like portraits of men, treated in his usual artistic and yet historically true scenes from
pleasing but somewhat commonplace manner, and St. Petersburg as it was in the eighteenth century,
a portrait of a lady, which it must be confessed was by A. Benois, which would serve admirably as
but little removed from the trivial in style and illustrations for a book dealing with that epoch,
execution. K. Somoff showed a rather uninterest- In spite of its vast size, the painting exhibited by
ing portrait study of a young lady, and two small, S. Ivanoffof A Sixteenth- Century Muscovite Military
delicately executed water-colour drawings, on a Expedition also impresses the spectator rather as a
very small scale, of ladies in fancy dress. L. Paster- clever illustration than as an independent com-
nak's only exhibits were a small but very faithful position. As a rule, landscapes of a noble and
study of Count L. Tolstoy, and a few charm- dignified character are the most noteworthy features
ing, tasteful and life-like drawings in colour, of Russian exhibitions, but in this case there were
There was nothing very remarkable in the portraits only a few, and those few of a very ordinary
of O. Braz, treated in the broad manner affected character. One, however, did justly attract a special
by him. The predilection of many artists for the amount of attention, and that was a very impressive
decorative style was very noticeable in this show, autumn scene, remarkably fine alike in composition
especially in the work of Apollinaris Vasnetzoff, and in colouring, by J. Grabar. Last, not least, a
who sent a large, gorgeously coloured panel and a special word of recognition must also be given
continuation of the fine series of water-colour and to K. Tuon, whose paintings of episodes of life in
black-and-white drawings,
in which, with masterly skill,
he gives various character-
istic reconstructions of
scenes from Moscow as it
was several centuries ago.
Another artist whose work
is decorative rather than
pictorial is Rerich, whose
Maison de Dieu gives the
impression of being a de-
sign for mosaics, and yet an-
other painter who may be
dubbed a true stylist is S.
Mali outine. The few
studies from Nature he
exhibited proved him to
be endowed with much
true art feeling, but his
numerous designs for build-
ings and furniture in the
Russian style, seem more
satisfactory from the pictur-
esque than from the
constructive point of view.
In A. Golovine's designs
for the decoration of a
theatre, on the other
hand, considerable deco-
rative ability is combined
with a strong dash of
imagination and a very
keen sense of harmony
of colour. More realistic,
and only to a certain "portrait" by k. korovine
220