Lermontov Biography of the picture

Lermontov’s painting and graphics are known that Lermontov all his conscious life, until his untimely death, devoted not only literature, but also drawing. Much of his artistic works has not been preserved, but what has survived to this day is more than a dozen paintings with oil, more than fifty of the Asswarel work, over three hundred drawings - gives us the opportunity to evaluate its artistic heritage.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 18 19 20 21 Memories of the Caucasus. In the foreground, two horsemen with guns in the covers behind the hills go along the hill slopes in the covers: one on a white horse in a burke, the other in the bay in Circassian and the papaha. In the distance the mountain ridge is blue. Written in Novgorod during service in the Grodno Hussar regiment, in the Selishchensky barracks.

Typhlis. In the foreground along the slope of the mountain among pyramidal poplars and shrubs, houses are scattered; On the banks of the Kura River are two female figures. On the left side, on the high rocky bank of the river, a number of houses with a temple; On the right is a high hill with the ruins of the Metekh castle. In the distance mountains. The regiment in which Lermontov served was located near Tiflis - just a hundred miles.

And the poet has repeatedly been to this wonderful ancient city. So Lermontov’s painting “Tiflis View” appeared. It is an excellent example of romantic painting, characteristic of that era. Cross mountain. One of Lermontov’s best picturesque works of the “Cross Mountain” is written under strong impressions of what he saw in the Caucasus. It is made by sketches made from nature at the end of the year.

The episode of the battle of Valerik on July 11, Avarel M. Lermontov and G. Lermontov made a drawing of the composition, and Gagarin finished it with watercolors. This drawing discovers in Lermontov a brilliant drawer and battalist. The war is depicted by him in all her drama, without embellishment. Self -portrait M. In the years, Lermontov creates his own self -portrait.

He portrayed himself in the uniform of the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment: in Circassian with gazyrs on his chest, thrown on his shoulder, with a saber on his belt, against the background of the mountains. This is one of the best and most popular portraits of the poet. The view of Pyatigorsk. In the year, the landscape "View of Pyatigorsk" was written. In the painting "The ruins near the village of Karaagach in Kakheti" Lermontov portrayed his surroundings, where the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon regiment in which he served.

The rocks depicted in the picture over Karaagach were visible for many tens of kilometers from the left -bank part of the Alazan Valley, where the old trade route ran. The Georgian Military Road near the Mtskheta. Lermontov sang these places in the poem "Mtsyri", which takes place "these places Lermontov captured in his painting" The Military-Georgian Road near the Mtskhta.

"The tower in Zioni.

Many Georgian paintings and drawings of Lermontov depict the guard towers or ancient fortresses. He so correctly felt a characteristic feature of the Georgian landscape, in which these The silent witnesses of the former battles against the foreigners were an integral part, for example, the painting “Tower in Zioni” by G. Rasty in the mountains of Dagestan. Here, Lermontov by means of painting managed to show the harsh atmosphere of military life and the tedious fight of Russians with the Circassians.