There are many artists, but truly talented, masterfully mastering their craft and putting their soul into works, you can count on the fingers. The more valuable their work.
Ivan Fomich Khrutsky: a brief biography
The future artist was born in 1810 on January 27. His birthplace today is known as Belarus. However, in those years it was part of the Russian Empire, so its small homeland - Vitebsk province - was part of Russia. Parents belonged to the Catholic Church, were very devout.
The artist himself from childhood showed interest in painting, so he early began to develop abilities in this direction. He was educated at the IAH (Imperial Academy of Arts) and worked there for a long time. At one time, he had access to paintings by the Hermitage with the right to copy them.
The main painting styles in which he worked are as follows:
- academic direction;
- classicism;
- baroque.
Both in Russia and in Poland, Khrutsky is known as a wonderful painter, specializing mainly in beautiful still-life paintings, rich in colors. In addition to them, he painted landscapes, portraits, and other paintings. However, it was his excellent still-life works that brought him wide fame in art circles. "Flowers and Fruits" ("Flowers and Fruits") is Khrutsky's most famous painting . Still life causes a lot of discussion around the world so far.
Painting "Flowers and Fruits"
It was written by Ivan Fomich in 1836. The description of Khrutskyâs painting âFlowers and Fruitsâ today finds expression not only in oral utterances, but also in school compositions of children, descriptions in art articles, and so on.
For this picture, the artist received a very good and well-deserved award - a large silver medal from the Academic Council. This confirmed almost the general impression of silent admiration that was caused by the audience with the canvas.
Description of Khrutsky's painting "Flowers and Fruits"
The painting depicts a vase of flowers in the center of the canvas. A gorgeous bouquet of beautiful and very lovely wildflowers: small lilac and white flowers are combined with large pink and blue buds and open flowers. The sprig of feather grass and some beautiful wide wide long leaves of field herbs give the bouquet splendor.
The overall impression of a vase of flowers is joyful, good. The picture causes a feeling of freshness and uplifting.
Description of Khrutskyâs painting âFlowers and Fruitsâ can be made even by a child. It is so simple, accessible, but at the same time deep and capacious on the objects depicted. In addition to a vase of flowers, a glass of water is clearly drawn in the picture. Perfectly clear clear water in which a lemon slice floats.
A basket of colored grapes and a wicker box with juicy peaches, pumpkin and pears are also highlighted in the work. In the background, a carafe of water is visible.
Bright accents in the paintings
Khrutskyâs painting âFlowers and Fruitsâ, written in 1838, almost completely repeats the plot of the still life âFlowers and Fruitsâ. In both paintings, bright accents - a vase of flowers, juicy, as if real, fruits and handmade wicker boxes under them.
If the description of âFlowers and Fruitsâ comes down to such bright spots as a glass of water with a slice of lemon and bright blue and pink flower buds in a vase, then âFlowers and Fruitsâ differs in only one. The fruits are somewhat different, and the flower vase is completely transparent, and is not in the center, but on the side of the picture.
But, despite such a similarity of plot and content, both paintings deserve separate reviews, separate discussions and descriptions. Indeed, the differences are obvious, and the general impression of the paintings is different.
The spelling of fruit
The artist Khrutsky tried to paint as naturally as possible. And he undoubtedly succeeded. Looking at juicy peaches, large grapes and a lemon sparkling with juice, it is difficult not to feel their taste and not want to try it right away.
The painter's work deserves separate praise for the nativeness, naturalness of the depicted objects. Here lies a pear. Blush on one side, as if just torn from a tree, where on one side it was covered with a shadow of foliage, and the other turned to the sun. Nearby you can see the second pear, but already cut in half. It is juicy, shiny with sweet moisture. Even the seeds are drawn so clearly and precisely that there is no doubt of naturalness.
Thanks to such a feature of the great artist as the naturalness of writing still lifes, he managed to become famous and become very famous. Such people are few, because in the XVIII-XIX centuries, few wrote still lifes, all the more so high-quality and beautiful in execution and content.
The description of Khrutskyâs painting âFlowers and Fruitsâ can be reduced to the moment the composition for work on the painting was built. Obviously, the artist thought out all the smallest details of the location of each object, the rotation of each fruit and fruit, the position of all objects on the table surface.
Popularity of a work of art
How popular Ivan Fomich Khrutsky's still lifes are, is not so difficult to judge. Indeed, today his work âFlowers and Fruitsâ, âFlowers and Fruitsâ are themes for the compositions of schoolchildren. The canvases are in the Tretyakov Gallery and enjoy the constant attention and love of the public.
In 1838, Khrutsky was awarded a gold medal in the field of painting for the excellent work "Flowers and Fruits." Until now, his still lifes are copied and used to decorate rooms, restaurant and creative halls. Anyone (and there are many) can buy a smaller copy of the artistâs excellent works. But, of course, natural paintings delight the eye only on the walls of the famous gallery.