Bleaching of canvas Zinaida Serebryakova (1884-1967)
Zinaida Serebryakova – Bleaching of canvas
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Painter: Zinaida Serebryakova
Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Государственная Третьяковская галерея).
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Serebryakova was a Russian artist, one of the first women to enter the history of painting. She was born into a very creative family, her father was a sculptor, her grandfather an architect, her mother an artist, one brother also an architect, the other a major contributor to Soviet painting and graphics. In such surroundings, the girl could not remain indifferent to the arts, and after graduating from high school, went to art school.
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Description of Zinaida Serebryakova’s painting "Whiting the Canvas"
Serebryakova was a Russian artist, one of the first women to enter the history of painting. She was born into a very creative family, her father was a sculptor, her grandfather an architect, her mother an artist, one brother also an architect, the other a major contributor to Soviet painting and graphics.
In such surroundings, the girl could not remain indifferent to the arts, and after graduating from high school, went to art school. After was a student of Braz, traveled to Italy and France. Of all genres, she preferred portraiture and genre scenes. She painted people she knew, liked to go out into nature and take subjects from the lives of peasants who depended on the land and lived near it until death.
"Whitewashing the Hosta" was her last major work, done, however, at a high level, after many sketches and sketches distinguished by strong compositional differences. On some the girls spread the canvas, on others they carried it, and on others they waited for the right time to pass. The sketches included morning, evening, and noon. At the end, the artist settled on a version in which the girls were just getting to work. They are standing on the bank of the river, four girls in plain clothes.
They do not pose for the portrait, but they are engaged in business - one spreads the canvas, the second serves it, the third unwinds it, the fourth is about to join in the general work.
The composition of the picture is built so that the girls stand as if on the very edge of the sky, the viewer looks up at them, which gives their figures of scale and size. All of them are tall, even by appearance hardy, with pleasant faces, it seems that soon one of them will sing, and the others will catch up, and the riverbank will flow a lingering folk song, telling of love or of grief.
The painting shows the strength of the girls, their freedom, which is not to do nothing, but to give themselves fully to their cause voluntarily and joyfully.
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