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Pavel Fedotov (1815-1852)
aristocrat breakfast (not a guest at the time) (1849-50)
oil on canvas
51 x 42 cm
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
After the success of the painting "Courting Major" Fedotov, went through their sketches decided to stay on the subject, prompted by articles.
Anonymous feuilleton (Later found that it was a young GI Goncharov) remarked: "And if you accidentally try to come to these people home and zastavat them by surprise?" - As if suggesting eyeballs for a picture.
All this was very close Fedotov, all of which he has repeatedly derided - vanity, vanity, life is paraded, lying, trouble under the guise of external brilliance. All right on the satires, it was possible and draw: master apprehended intruders in his carefully concealed misery, guest, or blindsided razverzsheysya before him the truth, or schadenfreude. Fedotov, however, was not tempted by such a move.
presented in the picture of the situation itself is not ugly, not ugly he showed not the event, not a phenomenon of the guest, and the moment, precedes it.
plot, as always with Fedotova, read clear enough: an impoverished aristocrat sits in a luxurious flashy interior ..
already creaking door ...
worried dog ...
Hearing steps guest aristocrat hides a piece of bread, which makes all of his breakfast.
before us one of the favorite Fedotovskaya so - lies, cheating, hiding behind see the well-being. Prior to that, the artist repeatedly solves this topic on a different way - one of his graphic work was accompanied by the inscription: "Ah, the Russian lady parading live! "Perhaps the hero of" The Breakfast aristocrat "finds its way in the life of a dishonest ways, than the actors prior to early works, such as "Fresh cavalier." Fedotov disclaims cartoon solutions, like more than simple. Illusory world of illusions, in which living aristocrat contrasted the beauty of the world object. As a result of human weakness, sounding in contrast to the lovingly passed subject environment, can be seen, perhaps more than if the artist chose grotesque-caricature solution.
Wieden not a guest, but only the floor of his coat so hand in glove move over the curtain.
A boss - in a chair by the table at which he breakfasted, while leafing through a cheap affair in a yellow cover. Noise in the hallway caught his surprise, and he breaks to jump forward, without forgetting the miserable contrivance vanity. He is trying at the last moment as a mask piece of evidence - a book cover hunk of black bread, which makes him breakfast.
around a wide variety of subjects: the carpet underfoot fop, silly wastepaper basket in the shape of antique vases, pictures on the wall, lying on a chair with its leaflets (one of them offers oysters), the elegant polished table, a slide with the dishes, a comfortable green chair, folding screen.
Every single thing - from nature: the statue, and a glass of ochinennymi feathers, and scissors, and binoculars in a case and another glass, dark glass and light in the blue lace abazhurchike and copper bell at the fanciful stand and devastated wrenching purse, and much more from what gathered around a young man, making him the joy and delight.
tangible world plays a role Fedotov positive start in the picture. Superbly written with the usual interior beauty items, it was inhabited, the world is opposed to fraud, which plunged into a hero. In this comparison and provides moral sense. Fedotov gave him a tinge of comedy, no wonder he remembered in connection with a picture of the wise folk saying: "On its belly silk and silk in the belly." Edification not choke perfectly recreated a "picture in a picture" - "office of the aristocrat." Tranquility of the surrounding objective world resembles a calm vibrant small Dutch genre paintings. Here again, the important difference is manifested by Fedotov the next generation genre painter, considering the beauty of art by old masters, their admiration for the world as a "dessert, without which you can do."
Painting not promised to be an event and did not. Thought collected from the feuilleton was too small. Maybe Fedotov himself saw it, but how much could wait something is unclear loomed? He worked with pleasure. So skilled musician plays to practice difficult passages, joyfully making sure the flexibility and glibness of his fingers in the subjection of each key.
Perhaps nowhere and never reached Fedotov such perfection in the transmission of Beauty the material world, becoming the beauty of the picture itself.
new picture - a respite before anything else, much higher that had yet to (He believed) to overpower, but sweet respite and are likely worthless.
the example of "Breakfast aristocrat" or "discerning bride" are usually talking about impact Bryullov. It is mainly in use Fedotov bryullovskoy favorite colors green, purple-red and blue tones. Of course, Fedotov be felt to some extent a kind of "hypnosis" bryullovskogo artistry. But Bryullov love spicy oriental flavor harems, exotic volcanoes and carried this color in their portraits, to strengthen their emotional meaning. In Fedotov color solutions reinterpreted in a fundamentally different basis. It depends primarily on the impressions received from nature, and then the right is the detail story with carefully and lovingly transferred items.
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