Rylov Arkady Aleksandrovich - a wonderful Russian Soviet artist. His paintings have a strong emotional effect, causing a feeling of unaccountable joy.
Artist's life
Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich was born in 1870 in the village of Istobensk, Oryol county, Vyatka province. This happened on the way to Vyatka, where his parents were going. The future artist was brought up by a stepfather-notary, who worked in Vyatka, since his father suffered from a mental disorder. The small quiet town and the nature around it aroused poetic feelings in the child, who asked to capture them in colors.
After graduating from high school, at the age of 18 he went to Petersburg and entered the Central School of Technical Drawing of Baron A.L. Stieglitz, where he studied for three years. At the same time, Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich studied at the Drawing School at the Society for the Encouragement of Artists. Apparently, he wanted to quickly comprehend all the technical capabilities that would help him reveal himself as a painter. But the student is suddenly drafted into the army. After serving there, Rylova was admitted to the Academy of Arts of St. Petersburg. He wants to learn from the ingenious innovator-experimenter A. Kuindzhi, whose name was then booming in Russia and abroad. His "Moonlit Night on the Dnieper" (1880) made a splash among the public and caused mixed statements from fellow workers. In 1894, Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich began to study in the workshop of Arkhip Ivanovich, who was a wonderful teacher. With his own money (he spent very little on his family) A. Kuindzhi drove his students to the Crimea and abroad, paid scholarships to the poor (remembering his own disastrous beginning to study). What did the training in this workshop give Rylov? He learned to create romantic holistic images, paying attention to lighting effects, and tried to work as much as possible in the open air, as Arkhip Ivanovich believed that nature is the most important teacher.
In 1897, studies at the Academy were completed, and Rylov received the title of artist. Then Arkady Alexandrovich made a trip abroad, having visited Germany, France and Austria. He meets the beginning of a new century as an accomplished landscape painter. Near Vyatka and St. Petersburg, he writes a lot of sketches and devotes two years to working on the painting "Green Noise" (1904).
Landscape element
This work of a young but already experienced master can now be admired in the Russian Museum.
In the foreground is a green hillock descending to a winding incredible blue river. The green crowns of white birch trees, old and young, tremble under it in strong gusts of wind. Cumulus white clouds with blue shadows run over them over the blue sky. Color combinations of color are saturated. Only an old pine with a thick trunk stands steadily, giving the composition a poise. In the gap between the trees - an immense distance. This achieves the dynamism of the solution of space. Three white triangles can be seen on the river. Is it a boat of fishermen? The joy of participation in the landscape open for him by the painter comes to the viewer, and he sees the wonderful moments of life.
Further work
Paying attention to Rylov's pedagogical talents, he was invited to lead an animalistics class (1902 - 1918) at the Drawing School at the Society for the Promotion of Artists. So combined the work of the painter and teacher Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich, whose biography is presented by us. In it, the painter made a real living corner, where squirrels, a monkey, hares, birds lived. There were even two anthills. Isn't that interesting? A beautiful self portrait with a squirrel was already placed at the beginning of the article, but now I want to look at its forest landscape.
"Forest inhabitants" (1910)
In the wilderness of a forest corner, where there is no one but a soundless and motionless artist sitting, squirrels frolic cheerfully, jumping from branch to branch. Something caught the attention of a curious animal, which is in the corner on the left. He stretched out, froze for a moment and carefully looked closely.
A few more seconds, and the squirrel will again begin to run across the fluffy paws of old fir trees. If we follow the direction of her gaze and mentally draw a straight line, we will see a white-breasted woodpecker with black wings, which works hard, pulling out from under the bark of the larvae on a tree trunk that is standing on a mossy carpet. The triangular composition is created by the second squirrel sitting on the branches at the top. The color of the canvas is extremely saturated with all shades of green and contrasting red summer skins of funny animals.
After the revolution
The artist supported the power of the Soviets and was a member of the art association AHRR, participated in exhibitions of revolutionary artists. In memory of A. Kuindzhi, a society was created in which Rylov was not only the founder, but also the chairman. The title of Honored Worker of Arts of the RSFSR, the painter received in 1935. Recognized by the authorities and the people, Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich, whose brief biography in our article is coming to an end, died in Leningrad in 1939.
Field Rowan
So Arkady Alexandrovich called a modest landscape, written in 1922.
The diagonal is set by a quiet ultramarine clean rivulet. Thin openwork birch branches peep to the left. In the foreground is a lawn covered with yellow tansy with dark green leaves and dense umbrellas of white flowers smelling of honey. Rylov Arkady Aleksandrovich found a quiet river corner. "Field Rowan" became a song to the world that came after the wars that shook the country. No human foot has stepped here. Tall thick grass is not crushed, there are quiet bushes along the steep banks of the river, behind which again, as the artist loves, the immense Russian spacious and free distances come off, where you can breathe deeply and calmly. The horizon is covered by a barely visible strip of a bluish-green forest. On a field behind a small river, the trees grown in the felling area were piled up in a pile. Next to it is a stack. There was the first mowing. Above the classic compositional triangle, which forms a river and a far field, fluffy white clouds froze in a calm sky, through which azure peeps in some places. This is a favorite Central Russian landscape, which is sweet to the heart and soul. His emotional impact is great. He enhances the love of such a simple native nature and in general for his small homeland. Shows the hidden corners Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich. "Field Rowan" - an essay that is taught to write at school, then, with age, will lead to your own vision of the discreet beauty of the Russian expanse.
"House with a red roof" (1933)
The landscape was dominated by two birch trees huge to the sky, standing exactly in the center of the picture, and the magnificent summer blue sky, which occupies two-thirds of the canvas, with snow-white clouds.
Near them, without trying to compete, a corner of the coniferous forest peeks out to the left. The abundance of all shades of green that the artist found on his palette on this sultry summer day is striking: a greenish-yellow color of a sloping meadow, a dark green forest, joyful fresh green birch trees, light green - bushes and fruit trees at the foot of the forest and covering a cozy house on the other side of the canvas. A magnificent song to the top of the summer was sung by Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov. House with a red roof, with white pipes and
whitewashed walls, excites the imagination: who created this beauty and who was lucky to live in it. One character, a bewitching woman in a white dress, who slowly removes hay, we see. Joy is the definition that all the paintings that Rylov Arkady Alexandrovich, a landscape painter, brought.
Most famous painting
The painting “In the Blue Expanse” (1918) fascinates and bewitches once and for all. A flock of swans in the sky, the blue sea with a sailboat is calling for a romantic distance.
The artist painted it in the cold gray Petrograd, where there was not even firewood to warm the room. But the picture is full of bright light, delight, glee. In the viewer, it causes a slight euphoria, turning into amazement before the mastery of the author.
Green Lace (1928)
The tender green meadow in the spring forest is slightly opened to the viewer by the painter.
A dense forest limits it to the left, and for us it peers through openwork, fragile, graceful bushes covered with whitish greens. No sharp contrasts in color combination. Their relationships are smooth and natural. The airiness that permeates the image, caresses the eye and makes you wonder how you can keep such a beautiful place untouched and pristine. I would like to protect him from the rude touches of man and, with bated breath, endlessly admire the splendor of nature, with such skill transferred to the canvas.
In the fairy tale - "Wilderness" (1920)
Now the multifaceted talent of the painter has led us to the witching forest lake.
Its dark, green waters, surrounded by a mysterious forest along the shore, where the goblin are found, where the witch lives, are not frightening, but fascinating. Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov and himself - a magician and a sorcerer, once found this place hidden from all. The lake, which occupies a third of the picture, comes close to the frame, and on the opposite shore it is covered with sedge and moss. Bare roots and the remains of whitening trunks that have fallen into black waters are visible. There is a feeling of expectation that someone should now go to the water and sit down, thinking in sadness. Masterfully, as in all his landscapes, he uses the green color, collecting all its shades on the canvas, the artist. The picture leads to ancient Russia, where there has always been a place for a magician and a wizard, who can save from grief and sorrow with his powerful knowledge. The work awakens a fantasy that disappeared in the bustle of city life.
Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov left us an invaluable legacy - his soul embodied in canvases.