Kiprensky, portrait of Pushkin. "In the mirror I see..."

To Assess the scale of the great creative personalities – a task often impossible, especially for contemporaries. To Express the importance of Pushkin's genius by means of fine art, many artists have tried.

Among them – Orest Adamovich Kiprensky. Portrait of Pushkin by artist – a rare example of a picturesque masterpiece of the romantic era, have a timeless value.

The Master of the romantic portrait

The Painter of the classical academic school, born in 1782, was the illegitimate son of a Russian landowner. Kiprensky was one of the first Russian artists who have received this European recognition. Academy of fine arts of Florence ordered his portrait placed in the Uffizi gallery. The artist died in 1836 in Rome, as a Professor of the Imperial Academy of arts in St. Petersburg, a member of the Neapolitan Academy.

Heritage Kiprensky diverse in artistic value. There are paintings on mythological subjects full of campy sentimentality. But the best picture – a combination of outstanding beautiful craftsmanship and subtle psychology. Portraits adoptive father of the artist – A. K. Schwalbe, hero of the Patriotic war E. V. Davydov, poet V. A. Zhukovsky, the fable writer Ivan Krylov – it's a real Kiprensky. Portrait of Pushkin – one of the highest highs of artistic talent of the master.

Friend Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum

Poet and journalist Baron Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798-1831) was from one of the closest Pushkin friends. They are from the Lyceum days of highly valued poetic talent and human qualities of each other. Delvig faster than the others realized the greatness of Pushkin's literary genius. In 1827, he ordered the image of the other, and in his house wrote Kiprensky's portrait of Pushkin. Essay Delwig elegies and idylls became an example for the young Pushkin, and this largely predetermined the formation of the great poet.

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Early death of Anton Antonovich shook his great friend. Pushkin took care of the orphaned family and the rest of your life Delvig recalled in verse. He did not forget the picture which wrote Kiprensky. Portrait of Pushkin passed to the heirs Delvig and it was already a lot of money. But Alexander bought it, and until his death kept.

“Minute — And verses will freely begin to flow…”

The Poet is represented on a belt, in a simple black coat with slung over his shoulder the cloak with plaid lining. Hands-Napoleonic folded on his chest. In the background are the statue of the Muse of lyric poetry Erato with a lyre in hand. Face and hand with the legendary long fingernails lit stronger and attracts attention.

Many are calling the portrait monument. This has all the attributes of monumentality and solemnity: the majestic pose, the symbols belonging to a high art. But not only sought Kiprensky. Portrait of Pushkin very deep in its content. In the eyes of the poet – the mind and life experience, inspiration, and indomitable temper, the awareness of his talent and independence.

A Lot is seen in the form of a so – the descendants with knowledge of fate of genius. Portrait of Pushkin Kiprensky was written when the poet had to live ten years. This decade has included unprecedented artistic achievements boldins great plans remaining unfulfilled. Ahead – happy married years and the financial turmoil, reverent worship of the one and the vicious hatred of others. Will be a painful death and the great immortality. Isn't that what we see in the eyes of Pushkin?

"You're once again created, the wizard dear,

Me, pet net Muz…"

Seeing the poet in person celebrated the astonishing accuracy of a masterpiece, wrote the portrait of Pushkin. Kiprensky was able to convey all the nuances of the physiognomy of the poet and his great soul. The poet's father, Sergey Lvovich, was called the picture an expression of the essence of appearance and spiritual content of his great son.

The image of the poet was known to the masses of that time only a small youthful portrait is attached to the first edition “the prisoner of the Caucasus" (1822).

Portraits of Pushkin (Kiprensky and Tropinin – outstanding masters) was written almost simultaneously. They gave to the Russian reader the opportunity to consider the appearance of their idol. They were made of the print copies, soon appearing in many homes in Russia and abroad. That is what the poet began to learn strangers.

Portrait of Vasily Andreevich Tropinin was highly appreciated by his contemporaries. Similar to the work Kiprensky total height of the artistic image, it was more intimate and romantic poetry. This portrait was commissioned by Pushkin for a gift to a friend – A. S. Sobolev, and had to emphasize inherent in the romantic age the value of privacy. But the poet looks first and foremost the bearer of high ideals, devoid of mental laziness and blissful peace.

Live Pushkin

Pushkin liked to joke about his "Arab" featuresperson, and, although the portrait Kiprensky was very fond of him, considered him a sycophant and called the painter ‘wizard sweet”. But the value of the masterpiece of the master is difficult to underestimate. Kiprensky created not only inspired the way genius, it showed a man with his hard and strenuous life, whose intellect and labor laid the foundations of modern language and culture of subsequent generations of our people.