Alexey Korzukhin biography

Korzukhin Aleksey Ivanovich Russian artist Korzukhin Alexei Ivanovich - Russian artist, mobility, academician, a bright representative of realistic realism in the painting of the second half of the 19th century, the author of numerous genre paintings, a supporter of democratic ideals. Korzukhin was born in the Perm province in the family of a serf and working mining plant.

The talent of Alexei Ivanovich woke up early, the parents gave their son to study local icon painters. The abilities of the young icon painter demanded development and vocational education. In the year, A. Korzukhin entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, in the year he received a small gold medal for the painting “The drunk father of the family”.

Korzukhin refuses to participate in the competition for a large gold medal, participates in the "riot of fourteen" and takes an active role in creating the artel of artists. The work of A. Korzukhin is a chronicle of folk life, revealing the whole originality of the life of peasants, their everyday life and holidays. Each picture, as an exciting story, presents us with bright everyday scenes.

The artist was vividly interested in everything that is happening around him, creating expressive types of his contemporaries. Art should be closer to the people, understandable to the people - these are the main ideas of their works. In the year, Korzukhin painted the painting “Wake in the village cemetery”, where the main characters were children-orphans who spent their parents on the last journey.

The artist expresses all the grief and hopelessness in the image of a girl who is detached into the distance. Korzukhin touched here a deeply emotional theme, exposing the global problem of great mortality from hunger, typhoid, and the unbearable work of the hundreds of peasants of that time, doomed to a beggarly existence. For this picture, A. Korzukhin was awarded the title of artist of the first degree.

A close topic, with the obvious revealing nature of the narrative, is disclosed in the work "Collection of arrears". A nurse - a cow is led by an almost ruined family. A poor woman with an infant in her arms looks imploringly at the performer of an unfair unauthorized sentence - a local older who stands in front of her with a stone face. By the age of years, the revealing pathos almost leaves the paintings of Korzukhin, the same loyalty to nature and interest in the everyday genre plot remains.

The realistic nature of his painting is strengthened in his status, picturesque skill becomes mature, and the plots are more diverse. Korzukhin perfectly reveals a picture of a prosperous rural life. There is no sparing sadness, or despair. The works are full of life -affirming power, enthusiasm, living author's humor. The viewer with great interest follows the development of the plot in every picture.

Korzukhin was a master of composition, wrote, investing in the accurate study of the details of the costume and objective series. The completeness of each fragment, the integrity of the general plan, the expressiveness of semantic accents, the virtuosity of the brush - these are the main characteristic features of the mature work of the remarkable painter A. The figure of Korzukhin as an artist - the householder is quite significant for genre painting of the late 19th century.

The invaluable contribution that the artist made to the common cause of enriching Russian culture was an example for many generations of artists, followers of his work, critics and grateful viewers.