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Pavel Fedotov (1815-1852)
Portrait EG . Flug (circa 1850)
Oil on canvas
33 x 24,5
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Portrait of Yegor Gavrilovic (Georg-Gottfried) Flug was written is unusual, but usually could not be written. Pose There was no one: Egor Gavrilovic, dear Georg Gottfried died quietly a year or two ago, and at the same time Fedotov love carefully plotted his head lying in a coffin pillow. (Figure E. ON AG Flug in his grave ».)
This figure, without changing anything in it, he used a beautiful portrait.
Portrait conceived and configured, as a link to any of his paintings. The old man set the table with a lighted candle - so cleverly managed to justify the unusual light, which came into picture from the figure. All space and part of the figure plunged into a deep shadow, from which were made only by the person, a piece of the table, lighted a candle, but in his hand a sheet Flura paper, which he barred us from a candle, something seemed to read or looking at that leaf.
Live like a man, in his usual frock coat with a neatly issued by the corners of the collar, standing next to a very real with green baize card-table and hot polished candlestick on it - like Flug moved away from us, separated mysteriously luminous rectangle of the sheet and his eyes half-closed eyelids drooping eyes never meet our: it is already there, in a different world, detached from life and funeral closed.
himself gesture of the hand model, obscured by a sheet of paper candle, snatching his light figure, his face and a piece of the table and part of the space separating the viewer, as if disqualify an alien world from the world of old age, impending death. Figure Flug merges with a dark background, like acts of oblivion. All this in the space varies, the contours are not defined, the volume in those places where they merge with shadow, plunged into darkness. Due to the special approach to the problem of the image is portraiture tragic stiffness, reaching effect purely pictorial means.
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