In the nursery. 1925 Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939)
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin – In the nursery. 1925
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Painter: Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin
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Petrov-Vodkin was a Russian and Soviet artist, graphic artist, art theorist, writer, and teacher. Like many artists, he was led into art by chance - first he met two iconographers, watching whom he felt a desire to take up the brush, and then his mother slipped her son’s drawings to a famous sculptor, who was so impressed with Petrov-Vodkin’s work that he took him with him to St. Petersburg and gave him a brilliant education.
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Petrov-Vodkin was a Russian and Soviet artist, graphic artist, art theorist, writer, and teacher. Like many artists, he was led into art by chance - first he met two iconographers, watching whom he felt a desire to take up the brush, and then his mother slipped her son’s drawings to a famous sculptor, who was so impressed with Petrov-Vodkin’s work that he took him with him to St. Petersburg and gave him a brilliant education. If not for these two incidents, who knows how his artistic destiny would have turned out.
"In the nursery" is one of the paintings dedicated to motherhood, which Petrov-Vodkin, at a certain period, praised with all his works. In some he invested it with sanctity and incomprehensibility - as in "The Madonna of Petrograd," for example - in others he showed how commonplace motherhood is and at the same time how sacred it is.
"In the nursery" is of the latter. A baby is asleep in its crib. Turned away from the viewer, hand clenched in a fist, hair outlined with light strokes that give it fluffiness. Collected toys, stacked in a box, placed on the nightstand. Blue blanket covers the baby. The mother stands in the doorway - she is dressed simply, the emphasis is on her very figure, frozen in the doorway. This figure is large, the picture is slightly slanted diagonally, as if pushing the eye just to her.
The woman clings to the jamb with her hand, her other hand preparing to close the door, and there is a weary tenderness on her face. She has played with the child all day, walked with him, fed him and taught him, and when he falls asleep, she feels relief and at the same time a strange emptiness. Her face is slightly perplexed, as if she does not understand why she is bored, why she is sad, why she is lonely without her baby.
In the next moment, she will close the door, go to the TV or the kitchen, but she will still peek from time to time into the nursery, which has turned into a sleepy realm. She would make sure her son was all right.
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