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- Title
Vasily Surikov and the Russian Point of View.
- Authors
Brunson, Molly
- Abstract
A member of the Wanderers and a celebrated painter of Russia’s premodern past, Vasily Surikov was, and still is, considered a master of the historical genre, and an artist particularly attuned to matters of craft. This essay contextualizes Surikov’s compositional eccentricities, for which he earned the nickname ‘the composer’, within the history of Russian painting’s assimilation of Renaissance perspective, as well as developments in art pedagogy and the physiological sciences. A sustained analysis of Boyarina Morozova (1887) reveals a persistent dialectic in Surikov’s work between Western conventions of realist painting and dispersed views that originated in modern conceptions of vision and native religious traditions. Responding in part to the prominent place of Surikov’s Morozova in twentieth-century art historiography (in, for example, a lengthy treatment by the Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein), the essay argues that Surikov’s deployment of perspective displays Russian culture’s innately dual orientation, as both premodern and modern, realist and modernist.
- Subjects
SURIKOV, Vasilii Ivanovich, 1848-1916; RUSSIAN painting; 20TH century Russian painting; REALISM in art; HISTORIOGRAPHY of art; PERSPECTIVE (Art); 19TH century painting; HISTORY
- Publication
Art History, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 5, p894
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.12402