VASILY POLENOV, 1878 - Grandmother's Garden / oil on canvas, 54.7 х 65.0 cm
ВАСИЛИЙ ПОЛЕНОВ - Бабушкин сад
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Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Sources: my.tretyakov.ru/app/masterpiece/16832
www.tg-m.ru/articles/1-2007-14/poeticheskaya-pravda-moskvy
One of the top works of Vasily Polenov in Russian painting of the XIX century.
The artist creates the atmosphere of a neglected but beautiful noble nest of the century before last. Most of the canvas is occupied by a feral garden. Through the lush greenery you can see the mansion, aged, like its owner, who was taken out for a walk by her granddaughter (in any case, you can judge her by the name of the work).
The old is becoming obsolete, and a new growth is replacing it. The grandmother, who goes to the garden of her youth, has an old dark brown salop and a white elegant cap, and the girl’s dress is sewn in the latest fashion of the 1870s.
Vasily Polenov is one of the pioneers of “mood landscapes” in Russian painting. At the end of the 1870s, he created such paintings, similar in mood, as “Grandma’s Garden”, “Moscow Courtyard” (1878) and “Overgrown Pond” (1879). They were shown at the exhibition of the Wanderers, where one of the critics of Moskovskiye Vedomosti accurately noted their innovative features: “Such paintings are designed to give you, first of all, the“ mood “and make up about the same thing in painting as the elegy in poetry". The picturesque pathos of the “Grandmother’s Garden” is close to the lyrics of Athanasius Fet and the novels of Ivan Turgenev dedicated to the outgoing primordial life of the nobility. "Grandma’s Garden" was written by Vasily Polenov in Moscow. The painting shows the same manor house on the corner of Trubnikovsky and Durnovsky lanes, as in the "Moscow Courtyard", created in the same year. This landowner house plays a significant role in the created elegiac image. Moscow was built up with such mansions in the classicist style after the Napoleonic fire of 1812: wooden buildings with a portico under the pediment, stucco molding over the windows and stucco under masonry for representativeness. But on the house in Trubnikovsky Lane, the plaster has crumbled for a long time, and the columns and stone steps are jagged.
Polenov creates a landscape idyll that includes genre narrative. The open air here is not only a “scenery” in which the mise-en-scene is played out, but also its full-fledged participant. The charm of the garden is created with the help of color reflections, subtle light transitions from dense shade to sun glare
VASILY POLENOV, 1878 - Grandmother's Garden / oil on canvas, 54.7 х 65.0 cm
ВАСИЛИЙ ПОЛЕНОВ - Бабушкин сад
☆📀
Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Sources: my.tretyakov.ru/app/masterpiece/16832
www.tg-m.ru/articles/1-2007-14/poeticheskaya-pravda-moskvy
One of the top works of Vasily Polenov in Russian painting of the XIX century.
The artist creates the atmosphere of a neglected but beautiful noble nest of the century before last. Most of the canvas is occupied by a feral garden. Through the lush greenery you can see the mansion, aged, like its owner, who was taken out for a walk by her granddaughter (in any case, you can judge her by the name of the work).
The old is becoming obsolete, and a new growth is replacing it. The grandmother, who goes to the garden of her youth, has an old dark brown salop and a white elegant cap, and the girl’s dress is sewn in the latest fashion of the 1870s.
Vasily Polenov is one of the pioneers of “mood landscapes” in Russian painting. At the end of the 1870s, he created such paintings, similar in mood, as “Grandma’s Garden”, “Moscow Courtyard” (1878) and “Overgrown Pond” (1879). They were shown at the exhibition of the Wanderers, where one of the critics of Moskovskiye Vedomosti accurately noted their innovative features: “Such paintings are designed to give you, first of all, the“ mood “and make up about the same thing in painting as the elegy in poetry". The picturesque pathos of the “Grandmother’s Garden” is close to the lyrics of Athanasius Fet and the novels of Ivan Turgenev dedicated to the outgoing primordial life of the nobility. "Grandma’s Garden" was written by Vasily Polenov in Moscow. The painting shows the same manor house on the corner of Trubnikovsky and Durnovsky lanes, as in the "Moscow Courtyard", created in the same year. This landowner house plays a significant role in the created elegiac image. Moscow was built up with such mansions in the classicist style after the Napoleonic fire of 1812: wooden buildings with a portico under the pediment, stucco molding over the windows and stucco under masonry for representativeness. But on the house in Trubnikovsky Lane, the plaster has crumbled for a long time, and the columns and stone steps are jagged.
Polenov creates a landscape idyll that includes genre narrative. The open air here is not only a “scenery” in which the mise-en-scene is played out, but also its full-fledged participant. The charm of the garden is created with the help of color reflections, subtle light transitions from dense shade to sun glare