On my table there is now a reproduction of Khrutsky’s painting Flowers and Fruits, based on which I will make a description of this wonderful painting.
Khrutsky Flowers and fruits painting
Khrutsky is a painter who was born in Belarus. He was talented person and this is confirmed by Khrutsky’s painting Flowers and Fruits, which is a still life. I met Khrutsky and his work Flowers and Fruits, his painting, in the 3rd grade and now I will write about this painting by Khrutsky, where I will give a brief description of it.
It would seem that Khrutsky in his work Flowers and Fruits depicted many of the most different elements, from large objects to small ones. This should have made the picture look overloaded, but no. She's great and doesn't feel overwhelming. On the contrary, you look at the picture and understand how generous the earth can be if a person works hard.
What did Khrutsky depict in the picture? There is also a magnificent bouquet of flowers in a vase on the table. The author collected peonies, irises, daisies and other flowers in the bouquet. with their own multi-colored paints they lift your spirits, especially on this autumn day, because now it’s autumn outside, but the picture exudes a summer mood. In addition to flowers, the author depicted vegetables and fruits. Here we see pumpkin, grapes, fragrant peaches, juicy pears, lemon, and an apple can be seen. There is also a glass of water on the table, and in the distance there is a carafe.
Everything looks harmonious, bright, lively. The author chose for his canvas dark background, but the picture does not evoke a gloomy mood, does not seem dark, on the contrary, dark color The background only emphasized the color palette and paints that the author chose when depicting flowers and fruits in the picture.
A wonderful picture that takes us back to summer, when the earth bestows its fruits, and we gladly accept these gifts, tasting the fragrant fruits.
I. F. Khrutsky, a Pole by nationality, a Belarusian by place of birth, was finally formed as an artist in line with the Russian academic school. His talent was modest, but very characteristic of a master of the salon-academic direction, working for the market and focusing on the tastes of the general public. Khrutsky entered the history of Russian art with his still lifes - spectacular compositions where objects are painted with illusionistic precision. These works of his, completed in the 1830s. - the period of formation and spread of still life in Russia, had big success among the public and gave rise to a wave of imitations. ABOUT early years Not much is known about Fragile’s life. He was the son of a Uniate priest and in the 1830s attended classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts as a permanent, free student. The eldest son of a Uniate priest, in principle, was supposed to continue his father’s work. It is for this purpose that at the age of 10 he is sent from his native Usaya to Polotsk to the Lyceum of PR - a monastic order that educates youth. The education there was brilliant, because lyceum students studied mathematics, physics, metaphysics, Latin, rhetoric, and versification. True, Russian was considered a foreign language for Polish-speaking students, along with French and German. But at the age of 17, Ivan decided to go to St. Petersburg to study as an artist. Why St. Petersburg, since Vilna already had a university with an arts department? But a young man who speaks Russian poorly goes to the capital, which, as you know, waits for no one. Whether anyone supported him, whether he had a patron or philanthropist, nothing is known about this. But, apparently, he had a hard time. Average art education he received it at the Polotsk Lyceum. In 1827, Khrutsky came to St. Petersburg and in 1830 entered the Academy of Arts. Here, directly or indirectly, he learns the lessons of such masters as A. G. Varnek, M. N. Vorobyov, K. P. Bryullov, F. A. Bruni. The artist’s first dated sketches date back to 1832 - “Still Life with a Vase” and "Still life with a bird." They are adjacent to a group of other similar works ("Fruits and a Bird", 1833; "Fruits", 1834; "Grapes and Fruits", "Still Life with Apples, Grapes and Lemon", both b.g.), characterized by rather simple compositions This is how the main direction of Khrutsky’s creativity of this period is designated - working on a still life, referred to in official documents as “painting of flowers and fruits.” From early simple productions consisting of only a few objects, Khrutsky surprisingly quickly came to quite large-sized still life paintings with a complex composition combining many different vegetables, fruits and flowers (“Flowers and Fruits”, 1836, 1839; “Still Life with candle", "Flowers and Fruits", "Fruits, Fruits, Killed Game", all from the 1830s, etc.). These works aroused the admiration of spectators and professional critics. The success of the works was due to the fact that the artist repeated some of them with minor changes, adding “new” objects: a candlestick with a burning candle or a smoldering cigar, matches in a paper wrapper, a piece of an expense account with small change lying on it. This introduced an atmosphere of human presence into the composition. The Academic Council noted Khrutsky’s still lifes: in 1836 he was awarded a large silver medal. In the same 1836 he was awarded the title free artist"in consideration of good knowledge in landscape painting." A student of M. N. Vorobyov, Khrutsky does not leave landscape painting throughout his subsequent work (“View on Elagin Island in St. Petersburg”, 1839; “View on the Estate”, 1847, etc.).
"Flowers and Fruits" 1838.
"Still life with a candle"
Luxury and naturalness of still lifes Ivan Fomich Khrutsky were so attractive that the number of artists who began to work in this type of painting in mid-19th century has increased many times over. A seventeen-year-old young man who came from Polotsk to St. Petersburg fulfilled his desire to become a painter by studying with the English master J. Doe, who painted portraits of the heroes of the War of 1812, and by visiting the Academy of Arts as an outside student. Since 1830, I. Khrutsky studies at the Academy and begins to paint his famous flowers, fruits, vegetables and mushrooms. It was for their quality writing that three years after graduation (1836) the artist was awarded the title of academician (1839). In the early 1840s, I.F. Khrutsky leaves St. Petersburg and settles in family estate Zakharenichi near Polotsk. The themes of his works change. He paints a lot and willingly portraits (including religious leaders of the western provinces of Russia), family portraits, interiors of his estate, landscapes, iconostases for Uniate churches in Vilnius, Kaunas, Polotsk. His works meet the requirements of official academic art. And this means that they are verified in drawing, composition, color tone, although this leads to a certain static nature in many paintings. However, I.F. has Khrutsky's individual creations (Portrait of Mikolay Malinovsky, 1855; Self-Portrait, 1884), which have all the hallmarks of high art.
"Dead Game"
"Flowers and Fruits"
"Fruits"
"Fruits"
"Fruits and Melon"
"Fruits" (fragment).1839.
"Still life with mushrooms"
"Meat and Vegetables" 1842
"Still life with a bird"
"Still life with a vase"
Imperial Academy of Arts Mr. Academician Ivan Khrutsky. The Imperial Academy of Arts, in its solemn Assembly on September 24 of this year (1839), recognized you as an Academician in attention to your excellent works in portraiture, landscape and especially in the painting of fruits and vegetables. Congratulating you on this election Members of the Academy, I have no doubt that with your future works you will not fail to justify the Academy’s attention to you and that you will receive a Diploma for the title of Academician upon completion. President. Olenin.
(NPIKMZ funds, Polotsk)
"Portrait of a Boy"
“Portrait of an unknown woman in a white dress with a book” (mid-19th century) By the way, the unknown woman is very similar to Ulenka, Ulyana Klodt’s wife famous sculptor, but this is just my personal opinion. Did they intersect in life? Time-wise it's possible...
“View of Elagin Island in St. Petersburg” (1839)
"Family portrait"
"Old Woman Knitting Stockings"
Portrait of a young woman with a basket. 1835.
Portrait of an unknown woman with a basket in her hands. 1830s
"In the room"
Ivan Khrutsky is the most famous Belarusian artist. Everyone knows his paintings. Of course, Belarusians hold a fragment of one of the still lifes in their hands many times every day. After all, it is located on the thousandth bill.
Silver coin of Belarus with a face value of 20 rubles, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of I. F. Khrutsky (2010)
Polish researchers managed to question the artist’s grandson shortly before his death. But the 84-year-old told them more family legends than facts. For example, that Khrutsky in St. Petersburg began to take lessons from George Dow, a brilliant English painter who was invited to Winter Palace to paint 327 portraits of heroes of the War of 1812. Why on earth should he give lessons to a boy from Polotsk? Most likely, Khrutsky simply brought paints to the Englishman. And he enters the Academy of Arts as an “outsider” student. But the young man seemed to have strong character and immense ambitions. After all, in order to survive, you had to earn money, and in order to earn money, you had to have connections and recognition. However, nothing has changed over the past almost 200 years. Ivan Khrutsky found connections among fellow countrymen who settled in St. Petersburg. Academician of the Academy of Arts, nobleman of the Minsk province, freemason and good-natured man Ezef Oleshkevich arranged for him to visit the Hermitage, which was not yet a museum. You can get into the royal palace only by recommendation. “It is there that he makes copies of Dutch still lifes, and adapts them to academic taste and romantic tendencies,” says Nadezhda Usova. Soon, still lifes from the brush of the artist Ivan Khrutsky decorate salons and living rooms metropolitan public. And despite the fact that the still life genre was already in decline, Khrutsky brought back the fashion for them and became its trendsetter. He has to do 6-7 repetitions of each still life, so popular are they. This is how his first money and first recognition come to him. For the still life “Flowers and Fruits” he received his first award - a small silver medal from the Academy of Arts. And this at 26 years old. Two years later he already has a small gold medal. All that remained was to get a big gold medal to make the dream of any Russian artist of that time come true. The winner of gold medals could qualify for six years in Italy at public expense. The Academy of Arts drew up a program for artists, and they had to send works written according to it to their homeland. This is exactly how Alexander Ivanov came to Italy, who spent 20 years writing “The Appearance of Christ to the People” there. But these grandiose plans were not destined to come true.
Postage Stamp THE USSR. I. F. Khrutsky “Flowers and Fruits” (1839), 1979
Khrutsky's father Foman Khrutsky opposed the unification of the Uniate Church with the Orthodox. By the way, one of the initiators of such a union was Bishop Joseph Semashko, who later played a significant role in the fate of the artist. An audit immediately came to the parish of priest Khrutsky, they imposed penance on him and sent him to a monastery for bread and water, since priests were not sent to prison.Ivan Khrutsky immediately writes a letter to Metropolitan Josaphat Bulgak, his father is released. And Ivan, obviously, in gratitude for this liberation, paints portraits of the entire leadership of the Uniate Church.But as soon as the Uniate Church was banned in 1839 and priest Thomas Khrutsky found himself without a parish, he died. Ivan's mother and five younger brothers and sisters remain. He must take care of the family. Goodbye Italy!At the age of 29, Ivan achieves the title of academician of the Academy of Arts “for excellent work in portraiture, landscape painting, and especially in the painting of fruits and vegetables.” This title was given by nobility, not only personal, but also hereditary. Khrutsky became, in fact, twice a nobleman, because around the same time he was able to confirm noble title his family. Confirmation of the nobility of the gentry Russian empire demanded after the 1830 uprising.But what to do with the family? He took his younger brothers to St. Petersburg, where his sisters and mother were is unknown. Perhaps they lived with relatives. Khrutsky works a lot. Over three years, he painted 21 portraits, that is, every 2 - 3 months. Today such people are called workaholics. And he writes powerful of the world something like the mayor of St. Petersburg or the publisher of Pushkin and Lermontov, Ilya Glazunov. He really needs money.
Khrutsky estate. Zakharnichy(1910s; no longer extant)
And in 1844, at the age of 34, he bought land near Polotsk. In those days, only an Orthodox, Russian-speaking nobleman had the right to such a purchase. Khrutsky builds a house on the shore of the lake according to his own design, lays out a garden, which was then considered a luxury. The artist also establishes connections here - he paints portraits of the leaders of the nobility of the Vitebsk province, Polotsk province, Lepel district... A year later he marries his neighbor Anna-Katarina Bembnovskaya and... soon leaves. That same Bishop Semashko invites him to Vilna to decorate the bishop’s house and write portraits of the clergy. “Some of the researchers believed that Khrutsky fell into bondage,” says Nadezhda Usova. - In fact, it was a great success. He found a patron of the arts who regularly gave him orders and provided him with housing and money. Probably, these ten years that the artist lived in two houses explain why he had only two children. Years later, Semashko “releases” Khrutsky before his death. He returns to Zakharnichi and turns into a real landowner. He is actively involved in farming, although he continues to paint portraits of children and his favorite fruits, mushrooms and vegetables. But we know very little work from that period. - I have my own version of why this happened. Firstly, in the 30s the daguerreotype appeared, and everyone rushed to take pictures. There was no longer such demand for portraits. And secondly, there was a bloody uprising in 1863, which affected many landowners - some were exiled, some were shot, some emigrated. But the apolitical and loyal Khrutsky did not participate in it in any way. It seems to me that they simply stopped giving him orders. Ivan Khrutsky spent the last twenty years of his life in complete oblivion. He probably didn’t even know that Tretyakov himself bought his still life at one of the auctions in Moscow for his gallery. And getting to Tretyakov meant recognizing the undoubted artistic merit of the painting. Before his death, Khrutsky painted two self-portraits - for his son and daughter. This is the only image of the artist that has come down to us. After his death in 1885, no obituary for the death of the academician of the Academy of Arts appeared either in Polotsk, or in Vitebsk, or in St. Petersburg. Complete oblivion. The artist’s heirs lived in Zakharnichi back in the 20s of the last century. Afterwards, the estate was nationalized, the house burned down, the cemetery was demolished, and Ivan Khrutsky’s grave disappeared. The monument stands in the place indicated according to the memories of the great-granddaughter.
RIDDLES OF THE ARTIST
Unknown woman with flowers - wife or sister ?
Charming women's portraits Khrutsky has a lot. But it still remains a mystery who these women are. Many art historians are perplexed why the artist did not depict his wife on any canvas, although he painted all his relatives.- But long before his marriage, he always painted the same woman, whom we know well from the painting “Unknown Woman with Flowers and Fruits.” She appears on his canvases as a little girl, grown up, pregnant, aged. There is a legend in the family of Khrutsky descendants that this is, after all, his wife, whom he knew as an 8-year-old girl, and when he built the estate, he married her. It is believed that "Unknown" is his younger sister. And all the girls and women on his canvases in the images of “beautiful gardeners” are his sisters. After all, they look alike.
Option 1
Ivan Khrutsky is a nineteenth-century Belarusian painter known throughout the world for his talent for still life paintings. One of his most famous works is the painting “Flowers and Fruits”. The artist managed to perfectly convey the mood of the picture, its liveliness and color variety.
The painting depicts a still life in the early autumn period, since there is a pumpkin here, which appears only at the end of August or at the beginning of September. The work conveys perfectly autumn mood- time to reap the fruits of your hard work and enjoy them.
I like this work, since autumn is my favorite time of year, and Ivan Khrutsky, in my opinion, is one of best artists who managed to convey this time. It was thanks to those details and the color palette that he used that it was possible to create such an unsurpassed masterpiece as “Flowers and Fruits”.
Option 2
Khrutsky Ivan Trofimovich - Belarusian painter. He lived in the nineteenth century, and that is why still lifes and group portraits became the main genre of his work. Soon it was thanks to still lifes that he managed to achieve fame and recognition. His work "Flowers and Fruits" deserves special attention, since it has become one of the most famous still lifes Ivan Trofimovich.
Here is a picturesque pile autumn gifts: plants and fruits of a wide variety of pure and juicy colors, as well as all kinds of kitchenware. There is a huge amount of color in the work different shades, ranging from light and warm to many shades of red and very dark colors.
Overall, the work turned out to be very warm and pleasing to the eye, and such a huge variety of vegetables and fruits gives it a special flavor and personality.
Option 3
The painting “Flowers and Fruits” is the work of the famous Belarusian artist and the nineteenth-century painter Ivan Temofeevich Khrutsky. His still lifes became known in many countries of the world, and now the paintings of this artist are recognized almost everywhere. That is why we should pay attention to his works, including the painting “Flowers and Fruits”.
The picture is dominated by warm colors and shades, great place occupies here Brown color and many of its shades. It is worth noting that this still life also contains bright spots of color, such as red poppies in the center of the canvas. In general, the bouquet located in the middle of the composition is the main one, since the first thing we pay attention to is it. After all, there is a large number of different types colors, various shades.
That’s why it’s so pleasant and joyful to look at the picture.
If you see in the picture
Cup of coffee on the table
Or fruit juice in a large decanter,
Or a rose in crystal,
Or a bronze vase,
Or a pear or a cake,
Or all items at once -
Know that this is a still life
(Gladkov)
Before us is a still life by I.T. Khrutsky “Flowers and Fruits”.
Still life is one of the most famous painting subjects, to which almost all artists paid tribute. The Dutch, English, and French enthusiastically painted flowers and fruits.
Lush peonies and purple irises stand in a chased vase, pleasing the eye. A little further away there was a decanter with a transparent liquid, which can barely be seen in the depths of the picture.
On the table, grapes and pumpkins lie in picturesque disorder, and there is a basket of peaches. Everything that autumn, with its bountiful harvest, has to offer is presented here. The artist perfectly balanced the composition of the drawing and even introduced a small sprig of field oats into the drawing. The oats have already dried and with their golden sprig draws attention to the left edge of the picture.
All flowers and fruits are carefully painted by the artist. You can see the transparent grapes filled with juice, the velvety skin of peaches, and how beautifully the glass of water is written, you just want to take it and drink the water, acidified with a slice of lemon. The lemon itself with a cut slice lies right there.
The picture mixes autumn, spring and summer, because the flowers and fruits depicted here grow in different time, but in the picture this does not cause the viewer’s rejection and overall it is a very beautiful work.
To the next one essay on a painting be ready!
I have no doubt that you yourself will cope well with this school assignment, I’ll just give an example of our description of “Flowers and Fruits”. Let it become the starting point for your essay and inspire you to literary exploits. There are so many overdue essays on the Internet, duplicating each other, that I wanted to add a fresh, unique note to this dominance of plagiarism.
My son and I first encountered the genre of still life. There is no action, no backstory, just descriptions of details. To avoid a dry listing of the objects depicted in the painting, it is recommended to pay attention to colors, composition, and mood.
So, let's go! This is how our story came out.
Essay based on the painting by I. T. Khrutsky “Flowers and Fruits”
The painting was painted in the still life genre.
In the center of the canvas there is a vase with garden flowers. The bouquet is luxurious: here lush peonies are bent under the weight of their buds, modest cornflowers add a blue accent, exquisite irises are drowned in a riot of colors. The relief vase with dogs is reminiscent of the autumn hunting season, and all the fruits in the picture are the fruits of bright autumn. The colors: gold, red, orange sing in unison a hymn to nature and its gifts.
The juicy fruits beckon, attract the eye, and seem to exude aroma. The artist skillfully emphasized the texture of each: rough, matte peaches are ripe and filled with juice, yellow thin-skinned pears are crowded next to lemon and apple. It seems that a bunch of grapes are about to fall off the table, crowded out by this fruit abundance.
Pumpkin, the only vegetable in the composition, prides itself on its exclusivity and takes pride of place near the center. Its peel is thick, with a metallic tint, it itself is heavy, solid, with its whole appearance it contrasts itself with light, perky fruit.
Transparent grapes echo the crystal of the decanter and clean water in glass.
The painting “Flowers and Fruits” fully corresponds to its name. All the gifts of generous autumn and sunny summer are collected here.
