VALENTIN SEROV. Female Model with Loose Hair. 1899. Watercolour, ink, whitewash on paper mounted on cardboard. 52.4 × 35.5 cm. Tretyakov |
He brought models into the studio, but he wanted students to think of them as real people, with a life and a soul behind their appearance.
According to Svetlana Yesenina, "Serov replaced the professional models used at the school with ordinary people - caretakers, cabmen, street traders and the like - whom he would find on the streets and bring to the school."
"Nikolai Ulyanov reminisced how he and Serov once found in the Khitrovka marketplace a young lad who turned out to be a peasant from Ryazan, and invited him to sit for the student artists."
Semyon Nikiforov. Standing Female Model. 1902. Study. Oil on canvas. 157 × 68.5 |
Semyon Nikiforov. A Boy by a Column. Valentin Serov’s Studio. 1903. Oil on panel. 37.5 × 22 cm |
Semyon Nikiforov. A Nude Female Model. 1903. Oil on canvas. 149.5 × 74.3 cm. Ryazan Art Museum |
Mikhail Shemyakin. A Female Model. (At Valentin Serov’s Studio). 1903. |
Serov painting the aristocrat Felix Yusupov, 1903 |
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Quotes are from Svetlana Yesenina, in the Tretyakov Museum Bulletin
Wikipedia on Valentin Serov
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Valentin Serov: Paintings, Graphic Works, Stage Designs
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Those eyes - Yusopov's countenance is rather steely. Harbingers of things
ReplyDeleteto come in thirteen years.
Thanks for the fascinating and inspiring posts. And your well done books. They have been a great help to a self taught, beginning
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Since you seem to come up with endless new art to showcase in your blog, I thought you might be interested in the store front art in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Used where there are many languages, the visual images tell everyone the shop message.
Quite a variety of images too; some effective art here.
Thanks,
Susan Cushing
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/sep/03/no-language-barrier-brazzaville-illustrated-shop-facades-in-pictures