A Boyar Wedding Feast
A Boyar Wedding Feast c1883 by Russian Painter Konstantin Makovskij (1839 – 1915); specializing in Russian Historical paintings showing an idealized view of Russian life in past centuries.
This is a painting of a festive gathering at a traditional Boyar Wedding Feast, with the men and women dressed in their best and colorful dress, with servants bringing large platters of food, including a stuffed goose; as all celebrate the marriage of the bride and groom.
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Konstantin Makovsky estis influa rusa farbisto, affiliated with the “Peredvizhniki (Vagantoj)”. Multaj el liaj historiaj pentraĵoj, kiel ekzemple Sub la Krono (1889) also known as The Russian Bride’s Attire and Before the Wedding, montris idealigitan vidon de rusa vivo de antaŭaj jarcentoj. Li ofte estas konsiderita reprezentanto de Akademia arto.
Konstantin Makovsky naskiĝis en Moskvo. Lia patro estis la rusa artfiguro kaj amatora farbisto, Jegor Ivanoviĉ Makovskij. Lia patrino estis komponisto, kaj ŝi esperis, ke ŝia filo iam sekvos ŝiajn paŝojn. Liaj pli junaj fratoj Vladimir kaj Nikolay kaj lia fratino Alexandra ankaŭ daŭriĝis por iĝi farbistoj.
En 1851 Makovsky eniris la Moskvan Lernejon de Pentraĵo, Skulptaĵo kaj Arkitekturo kie li iĝis la ĉefa studento, facile ricevi ĉiujn disponeblajn premiojn. Liaj instruistoj estis Karl Bryullov kaj Vasilij Tropinin. Makovsky’s inclinations to Romanticism and decorative effects can be explained by the influence of Bryullov.
Although art was his passion, he also considered what his mother had wanted him to do. He set off to look for composers he could refer to, and first went to France. Before, he had always been a classical music lover, and listened to many pieces. He often wished he could change the tune, or style of some of them to make them more enjoyable. Later in his life it came true.
En 1858 Makovsky entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. De 1860 he participated in the Academy’s exhibitions with paintings such as Curing of the Blind (1860) and Agents of the False Dmitry kill the son of Boris Godunov (1862). En 1863 Makovsky and thirteen other students held a protest against the Academy’s setting of topics from Scandinavian mythology in the competition for the Large Gold Medal of Academia; all left the academy without a formal diploma.
Makovsky became a member of a co-operative (artel) of artists led by Ivan Kramskoi, typically producing Wanderers paintings on everyday life (Widow 1865, Herring-seller 1867, etc.). De 1870 he was a founding member of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions and continued to work on paintings devoted to everyday life. He exhibited his works at both the Academia exhibitions and the Traveling Art Exhibitions of the Wanderers.
A significant change in his style occurred after traveling to Egypt and Serbia in the mid-1870s. His interests changed from social and psychological problems to the artistic problems of colors and shape.
In the 1880s he became a fashionable author of portraits and historical paintings. At the World’s Fair of 1889 in Paris he received the Large Gold Medal for his paintings Death of Ivan the Terrible, The Judgement of Paris, and Demon and Tamara. He was one of the most highly appreciated and highly paid Russian artists of the time. Many democratic critics considered him as a renegade of the Wanderers’ ideals, producing (like Henryk Siemiradzki) striking but shallow works,[2] while others see him as a forerunner of Russian Impressionism.
Makovsky was killed in 1915 when his horse-drawn carriage was hit by an electric tram in Saint Petersburg.