hut Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (1848-1916)
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov – hut
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Painter: Vasily Ivanovich Surikov
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One of Vasily Surikov’s most underappreciated works, Izba, was painted by him in 1873 and depicts a dilapidated dwelling resembling an ordinary country house made many decades or hundreds of years before the artist decided to capture it on canvas. We see in the picture a hut of people who did not live poorly, but also not rich. This house is very old and many times repaired, as you can see by the planks of varying freshness and patches on the roof.
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Description of Vasily Surikov’s painting "The Cabin"
One of Vasily Surikov’s most underappreciated works, Izba, was painted by him in 1873 and depicts a dilapidated dwelling resembling an ordinary country house made many decades or hundreds of years before the artist decided to capture it on canvas.
We see in the picture a hut of people who did not live poorly, but also not rich. This house is very old and many times repaired, as you can see by the planks of varying freshness and patches on the roof. Despite its old age, the chimney is intact, the roof does not leak, and the log building is rather slightly crooked and faithfully serves its owner. The path around the hut is treaded, and near it there are some kind of flowerbeds and even a sapling of a tree, which allows us to assume that someone else lives there.
What is the author telling us with his work? To begin with, the hut is intentionally portrayed in such a way that you can not say whether someone lives there or not, because the emphasis is not on that. Who could live in such a hut? Only an old man and an old woman, like the ones who lived in the dugout in Pushkin’s fairy tale, or just a widowed old woman... What is important in this is that in this gray old house elderly people live out their years, perhaps all alone.
If they have children, they no longer live in this old house, and most likely not even in this village, but far away in the city. And what will happen to this house when the old people are gone? How much work was spent on its construction and maintenance, how many generations grew up in this house, and how much it has survived? And will it all be forgotten, just like the hut itself? And how many such huts in this village, all over the villages, which, when empty, remain forgotten along with the history, the bearers of which they are...
Surikov painted his painting Izba almost a century and a half ago, but even now we realize that the painting’s call to remember and appreciate their history is still relevant today.
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Perhaps it’s a painting of a log cabin with a ladder going up the side of the cabin to the right.