"Eugene Onegin" in the publications and graphics end of XIX - XX centuries. Favorites "
Exhibition at State Museum of AS Pushkin "Mikhailovskoye"
Reserve museum of Alexander Pushkin "Mikhailovskoye", July 2 - September 4, 2011
In State Museum of AS Pushkin "Mikhailovskoye" (Pskov, Pushkin etc. Mountains, Seltso Mikhailovskoye) opened an exhibition of the museum's "Eugene Onegin" in the publications and graphics end of the XIX - XX centuries. Favorites ».
| Pushkin . XX. Source: | ![MIHAIL](/content/download/news_2011/20110709_mikeshin_tatyana.jpg") MICHAEL Mikeshin Tatiana. 1862 Source: |
This small exhibition of art can serve as a short commentary on the history of illustration " Eugene Onegin. " "The main virtue of the illustrator - the ability to read Pushkin" - wrote in 1967 a famous Russian chart Nikolai Kuzmin . The story of Pushkin's famous illustration of the novel - a confirmation of the literary and artistic experience of the artist who created him the most famous series of pictures.
first illustrations for the novel appeared in 1828, when they were published only six chapters. They were met by a young artist drawings AV Notbeka and placed in "Nevsky Almanac for 1829." This engraving SF Galaktionov , EI Geytmana, AA Zbrueva. M. Ivanov, IV Ceska. Experience, however, was recognized as a failure.
| Source: | « The sky breathed autumn ... ". 1920 « The sky breathed autumn ...». 1920 Source: |
«Only the inability of the artist" stoop to "humble prose," "that is, simply," no art, "depict life as it was first made in Pushkin's novel," explained this failure, the first attempt create an artistic interpretation of the novel ( Pavlova E. . Pushkin at the Russian Soviet illustrations. Moscow, 1987., p. 8). The failure was attributed to the author's name figures, but not engravers.
After the death of Pushkin's first successful experience of the illustrations for the novel becomes "Tatiana" (1862) MO Mikeshina , steel engraving, and although the artist erred in depicting household items, in the spirit of the engraving will be responsible Pushkin's plan and will be moving artistic experience for many generations of readers of the novel. This may explain the fact that the collector of relics A. Pushkin F. Otto, Onegin, living in Paris, bookplate to his congregation to elect this known to every Russian reader engraving.
| AF Onegin. 1864 Source: | AF Funeral uncle. 1864 Source: |
interesting example of the historical, but naive in terms of artistic illustrations are drawings AF Gustafson, lithography MP Klodt , a picture of "Onegin" from the series artistic applications to the magazine "Niva", performed in the second half of XIX century.
curious picture O. Della-Vos-Kardovsky , the artist who has performed with her husband, the famous graph of Dmitry Kardovsky , the illustrations for" Eugene Onegin "by request of the theater section in 1920.
In 1933, the 100th anniversary of publication the novel was written by its anniversary edition. Illustrator become a famous Russian schedule NV Kuzmin. The cycle of illustrations for the novel was a series of 141 pen drawings in the style of drawings, sketches, imitating the style of the poet himself. It became a kind of discovery in the artistic interpretation of Pushkin. "They were new doubly in its design and the manner of execution. Kuzmin turned out to be a rare artist who thanks to his natural gift of the historian and linguist, was able to comprehend and to express graphically the perception of" live "by his contemporaries of Pushkin ... Drawings made a striking impression with their uniqueness ..." (< em> Pavlov EV Pushkin in his portraits. Moscow, 1989. pp. 107-109).
< div class = "imgcenter">  Nikolai Kuzmin «.. . Yes, after a dull afternoon ...». 1933 Source: | « his gun while Eugene ...». the twentieth century. Source: |
Another well-known illustrator and Pushkin remarkable Russian timetable presented in the exhibition, - FD Konstantinov . more known for his illustrations for "The Bronze Horseman "and" Poltava ", the exhibition presents three woodcuts for the novel" Eugene Onegin. "artists consider art a profound interpreter of Pushkin. And it became possible primarily because Franklin D. Konstantinov, as well as N. V. Kuzmin, was an attentive reader of Pushkin.
Graphics PL Bunin , pictures of the novel, made in the middle of the XX century, continues the tradition of reading the artist's careful to Pushkin's words and cautious in his interpretation of art.
O. H . Sandalyuk, curator of fine arts
As an example, the fate of publishing the novel "Eugene Onegin" at the exhibition includes books from the collections of the Museum Research Library. A fine product of beads and beaded picture of Pushkin poslepushkinskoy and pores of the fund arts and crafts are a kind of illustration of time reading, writing, crafts and home were the main content of manor life in Russia.
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