Mikhail Vrubel is one of the most extraordinary and beloved Russian artists.He created landscapes and images reveal the wonderful world that is like the border between the ordinary and magic.Best of all this ephemeral reality reveals the "Lilac" - one of the fabulous "Nocturnes" Wrubel, who is so fond of the audience.
Fairy World
Vrubel Mikhail Vrubel had an incredibly versatile artistic gift, as evidenced by the temple paintings, decorative panels, stained glass, sculpture and easel paintings and graphic designs.Devotion vocation and focus on the work Vrubel allowed to create a lot of great work, but the most favorite is his series of fabulous "Nocturne" - a series of paintings depicting the magical characters against the backdrop of night or twilight landscapes.
unique talent Vrubel was a distinctive vision of mythological and fairy-tale characters and stories.Satyrs and Dryads, and the mermaid goddess, demon captive princess - all of them in the paintings of the artist are presented not as what looks to public opinion and familiar descriptions.In addition to being endowed Vrubel "Russian spirit" almost everything it touches his brush, the artist's imagination was incredibly rich and self-sufficient, and therefore did not need tips and prejudices.
Mikhail Vrubel, "Lilac": description of the picture
One of the most subtle and delicate "Nocturnes" that ever wrote Vrubel - "Lilac" - creates a small area, which is mixed with real fabulous.Because of a spreading lilac bush at the very moment when dusk turns to night, like a frightened girl floats tender.Long hair is completely concealed her figure and dress and skin reflects the moonlight, creating a magical image of a mermaid or a forest fairy.
Vrubel wrote lilac palette knife (and the leaves and inflorescence), and the female figure - a brush, so that the picture created by the volume texture of flowers and leaves, which contrasts with the smooth and soft forms of the girl.Against the backdrop of bright, as if fresh flowers lady, covered cascade of long black hair, merges with shadow and like peeping out from under the cover of darkness, trying to see something.
M. Vrubel, "Lilac": an analysis of the painting
Many critics associate "Lilac" on the other Vrubel's painting from the series "Nocturnes" - "Pan".The long-haired beauty guess they nymph, which was in love satire.This assumption is confirmed by the words of Mikhail Vrubel, who said that "Lilac" is the name of the alliteration of the nymph, whose name was Syrinx.
Just as Pan, the nymph Wrubel More Russian than Greek.Out of it the ease and serenity inherent in classical mythical Dryads and Naiads.Woven from twilight and hidden in dense inflorescences Syringa more like a slumber, a mermaid or other representative Navi;as Vrubel's Pan - more Russian devil than the Greek Satyr.
Options "Lilac»
At the mention of the painting Vrubel "Lilac" is almost always the first to come to mind painting, written in 1900 and described above, but it is not the only artist painting, which depicts a lush purple inflorescences.There are also two works by Mikhail Vrubel of the same name, one of which the author was unable to finish.
At the beginning of XX century artist decided to show the world his vision of Tatyana Larina from a poem by Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin".Vrubel planned to portray the girl sitting on the bench at the lush lilac bush.In 1900 he was finished sketch for the painting, which is also called the "Lilac".
In 1901, Vrubel started work on the big picture, the plot of which was again a girl hidden in the shade of a blooming lilac bush.Unfortunately, the artist did not have time to finish work on the web, and the audience did not see what was Tatyana Larina in the representation of the great painter.However, in the figure, posture and obscure portrait sketches guessed favorite model Vrubel - his muse and wife Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel.
