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Among the "young peredvizhniki" who joined the World of Art group, the most brilliant portraitist was Valentin Serov. Like many of his contemporaries, he delighted in painting out of doors, and some of his most appealing portraits – such as Girl with Peaches, Girl in Sunlight and In Summer - owe their naturalness to their setting or to the interplay of sunlight and shadows. Indeed, Serov regarded them as "studies" rather than portraits, giving them descriptive titles that omitted the sitter's name. The subject of Girl with Peaches – painted when Serov was only twenty-two – was in fact Mamontov's daughter Vera. The model for In Summer was Serov's wife. When only six years old, Serov began to display signs of artistic talent. At nine years old, Repin acted as his teacher and mentor, giving him lessons in his studio in Paris, then let Serov work with him in Moscow, almost like an apprentice. Eventually Repin sent him to study with Pavel Chistiakov – the teacher of many of the World of Art painters, including Nesterov and Vrubel. Chistiakov was to become a close friend. Because Serov's career spanned such a long period, his style and subject matter vary considerably, ranging from voluptuous society portraits (the later ones notable for their grand style and sumptuous dresses) to sensitive studies of children. Utterly different from any of these is the famous nude study of the dancer Ida Rubinstein, in tempera and charcoal on canvas, which he painted towards the end of his life. Although Serov's early style has much in common with the French Impressionists, he did not become acquainted with their work until after he had painted pictures such as Girl with Peaches.
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Table of contents
1Valentin Valentin
2Author: Dmitri V. Sarabianov
3INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN PAINTING
4Academy of Sciences.
5Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, 1901. (p. 6)
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6Itinerant Art Exhibitions.
7THE FIRST MASTER OF RUSSIAN PAINTING
8with Peaches.
9his extraordinary talent on the whetstone of prodigious industry.
10with the creative endeavour of Serov.
11for instance, lent expressiveness to his images through composition, precise draftsmanship, and
12example, and his characteristic awareness of an artist’s lofty mission.
13models and paint in colour from nature.
14typical local scenes with Repin.
15originality of his artistic concept manifest themselves.
16different messages.
17temperamental, painterly sweep, and the deliberate outspokenness of its characterisation. A
18to the most adequate reflection of the main, salient idea.
19abhorrence for the insipid “verisimilitude” that, in Serov’s opinion, destroys art.
20likewise rank among the artist’s significant achievements.
21his perception.
22conversation with the artist.
23conveys all the lucid harmony, the utter naturalness of Pushkin’s inspiration.
24these phenomena to the very marrow.
25everything in grey hues and grey silence.
26Placeapart from other works by the “peasant” Serov.
27dreary, and insipid copies.
28(The Bugaboo) a tempera drawing entitled Soldiers, Soldiers, Heroes Every One...(pp. 86-87).
29hard labour.
30an interest in stage design.
31of the woman’s hands.
32reveal in manifest and unambiguous terms.
33an impression of weakness and vulnerability.
34Portrait of Anna Staal, 1910. Tempera. Private collection.
35production of fully-modelled, three-dimensional forms.
36recreation of the Petrine and Catherine epochs.
37heroic and bloody revolution.
38creative energy.
39beach, with Odysseus a little further behind.
40GRAPHIC WORKS
41BIOGRAPHY
42Valentin Serov as a child.
43Valentin Serov as a young man.
44Valentin Serov, late 1880s.
45Valentin Serov’s studio in Paris.
46Index
47later Prince Yusupov, 1903
48Count Sumarokov-Elston (father), 1903
49The Rape of Europa, 1910 The Rape of Europe, 1910
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