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Tsarevna-Lebed by Mikhail Vrubel (brightened)

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Tsarevna-Lebed by Mikhail Vrubel (brightened)

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The Swan Princess by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel, based on the The Tale of Tsar Saltan opera of Rimsky-Korsakov (which was based on the fairytale of the same name by Pushkin). Vrubel designed the decor and costumes for this opera. The part of the Swan Princess was performed by his wife, N. Zabela-Vrubel. Русский: «Царевна-Лебедь», картина Михаила Александровича Врубеля, написанная на основе сценического образа героини оперы Н. А. Римского-Корсакова «Сказка о царе Салтане» по сюжету одноимённой сказки А. С. Пушкина.

MIKHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH VRUBEL (1856–1910) was one of the first modern Russian artists—modern in the sense that he broke away from academic traditions, expressing his own artistic vision in a unique vocabulary. Although Vrubel is sometimes considered a Symbolist, his art is rather difficult to categorize. He perhaps tried to be different from everybody else. It is quite clear that, unlike the Peredvizhniki, those realist painters who dominated Russian artistic life during the 1870s and 1880s, Vrubel was not interested in making art that told a story easily understandable by many people. Vrubel’s concern—his “mania,” as he called it—was technique. Over and over again, he experimented with the expressive potential of color and line. A painting to him was a decorative surface, and he explored formal means for covering that surface with carpet- and mosaiclike patterns. If the impact of Vrubel’s artistic innovations on 20th-century Russian artists has yet to be completely documented, except in regard to the Symbolist painters of the Blue Rose movement, it is nevertheless difficult to believe that the creations of artists like Larionov and Malevich, who conceived of painting in terms of pure form, would have been the same without the example of Vrubel’s obsession with technique.

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