The famous Russian writer spoiled a lot of blood of the famous Russian painters, adding from time to time a headache to each of them when trying to write his successful images. Consider walking through these torments of a remarkable Russian artist, including a magnificent portrait painter, Repin Ilya Efimovich, who painted a portrait of Turgenev more than once.
Art karma
Indeed, contemporaries after the death of Turgenev noted that there was some kind of curse hanging on the Russian classic, since there was not a single truly satisfactory image of the writer, given the grandeur that had a hand in this difficult mission. But within the framework of this material we will not delve into this strange karma. We only note that even the brightest portrait painter of the contemporary writer was not able to realize the dream of Tretyakov. Repin was never able, despite two serious attempts to create a portrait of Turgenev, which would satisfy both the writer himself and the customer of his artistic image.
The first pancake is lumpy
By the way, about the customer, he was, as many have probably guessed, the famous Russian collector, entrepreneur, philanthropist, in general, you can’t list all the regalia. This, of course, is about the Tretyakov, a portrait which, by the way, is painted by the same Repin, pleased the artist much more than the creation under discussion. Yes, it was Pavel Mikhailovich who introduced the famous Russian writer and no less eminent painter back in St. Petersburg. But the story begins in Paris in 1874. Repin reacted to Tretyakov’s order to write a portrait of Turgenev with great enthusiasm.
The first session led to the appearance of a good undermine from the point of view of the artist. However, fate in the person of Polina Viardo did not allow the sketch to turn into a portrait. The wayward singer criticized the work that had begun, which did not slow to affect Turgenev’s desire to start work again. Which Repin did, subsequently cursing himself for this concession, since the second call brought disappointment not only to the writer, but also to the artist himself. According to Repin, the image was boring and dry. The picture was clearly unsuccessful from the point of view of the customer, since then the portrait went for a walk on the hands of collectors at the suggestion of Tretyakov. By the way, this work returned to the gallery only many years later, already in Soviet times.
Second attempt
It should be noted that all three maintained the hope that a worthy portrait of Ivan Turgenev could still take place, despite the clear presence of evil rock. And this happened a few years later, this time in Moscow in 1879. Tretyakov for work, which he dreamed of getting more than one year, allocated a place in his own apartment. Work on this picture continued for quite some time. However, because Repin put so much effort into this work, nothing has changed. This picture disappointed the critics even more, and, therefore, the philanthropist, who was so upset that he offered to paint the portrait of Turgenev to another artist - Kramsky, who can also tell a lot of interesting things, but this is a completely different story.
Conclusion
As you can see, the life and works of famous people are always shrouded in a haze of attractiveness. Learning each time something new about the work of great writers and artists, you get not only an idea of ​​their personalities, characters, but also you begin to see something hitherto invisible, invisible in their works, gaining more understanding about them, and, therefore, opportunities for analysis , reflection. Briefly reviewed stories about how the portrait of Turgenev Repin wrote, shows us a simple moral of life that you should trust your vision of the situation if you have taken up a creative vision of the world. This should be wished to all beginners, and not just creative people.