Ivan Susanin
Ivan Susanin c1914 by Russian Painter Konstantin Makovsky (1839 – 1915); erikoistunut venäläisiin historiallisiin maalauksiin, jotka näyttävät idealisoidun näkemyksen venäläisestä elämästä menneinä vuosisatoina.
This is a painting depicting Ivan Susanin, consider to be a Russian National Hero and Martyr of the early 17th Century during the “Times of Trouble”; a time of political crisis during the Tsardom of Russia, which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I or Fyodor Ivanovich, who was the last of the Rurik Dynasty and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.
Legend has it that Ivan was hired as a guide by Polish troops that were seeking to kill Tsar Mikhail; but Ivan persuaded the troops to follow him through a secret path in the Russian forest; and he nor the troops were ever heard of again.
In the painting Ivan is about to be stabbed to death by a Polish soldier, while another holds him and the other soldiers freezing from the winter snows look on while seated by a campfire; with one Polish soldier already lying dead on the ground due to exposure.
In the background in the upper right we can see the Russian ruler with his troops in a city with the Russian people bowing before him.
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Konstantin Makovsky oli vaikutusvaltainen venäläinen taidemaalari, sidoksissa “Peredvizhniki (Vaeltajat)”. Monet hänen historiallisista maalauksistaan, kuten Beeath the Crown (1889) tunnetaan myös nimellä The Russian Bride's Attire ja Before the Wedding, osoitti idealisoidun näkemyksen Venäjän aikaisempien vuosisatojen elämästä. Häntä pidetään usein akateemisen taiteen edustajana.
Konstantin Makovsky syntyi Moskovassa. Hänen isänsä oli venäläinen taidehahmo ja amatöörimaalari, Jegor Ivanovich Makovsky. Hänen äitinsä oli säveltäjä, ja hän toivoi, että hänen poikansa jonain päivänä seuraisi hänen jalanjälkiä. Hänen nuoremmat veljensä Vladimir ja Nikolay sekä hänen sisarensa Alexandra ryhtyivät myös maalareiksi.
Sisään 1851 Makovsky tuli Moskovan maalauskouluun, Veistos ja arkkitehtuuri, jossa hänestä tuli paras opiskelija, saada helposti kaikki saatavilla olevat palkinnot. Hänen opettajansa olivat Karl Bryullov ja Vasily Tropinin. Makovskin taipumukset romantiikkaan ja koristeellisuuteen selittyvät Bryullovin vaikutuksella.
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.
Sisään 1858 Makovsky tuli Pietarin keisarilliseen taideakatemiaan. Alkaen 1860 hän osallistui Akatemian näyttelyihin maalauksilla, kuten Curing of the Blind (1860) ja Agents of the False Dmitry tappavat Boris Godunovin pojan (1862). Sisään 1863 Makovsky ja 13 muuta opiskelijaa protestoivat Akatemian asettamia aiheita skandinaaviseen mytologiaan kilpailussa Large Gold Medal of Academiasta.; kaikki lähtivät akatemiasta ilman virallista tutkintotodistusta.
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.). Alkaen 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 tapettiin vuonna 1915 kun hänen hevoskärrynsä törmäsi sähköraitiovaunuun Pietarissa.