Victor Borisov-Musatov

Victor Borisov-Musatov

Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov ( _ru. Виктор Эльпидифорович Борисов-Мусатов), (OldStyleDate|April 14|1870|April 2 - OldStyleDate|November 8|1905|October 26) was a Russian painter, prominent for his unique Post-Impressionistic style that mixed symbolism, pure decorative style and realism. Together with Mikhail Vrubel he is often referred as the creator of "Russian Symbolism" style.

Biography

Victor Musatov was born in Saratov, Russia (he added the last name Borisov later). His father was a minor railway official who had been born as a serf. In his childhood he suffered a spinal injury, which made him humpbacked for the rest of his life. In 1884 he entered Saratov real school, where his talents as an artist were discovered by his teachers Fedor Vasiliev and Konovalov.

He was enrolled in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1890, transferring the next year to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint-Petersburg, where he was a pupil of Pavel Chistyakov. The damp climate of Saint-Petersburg was not good for Victor's health and in 1893 he was forced to return to Moscow and re-enroll to the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. His earlier works like by the school administration, who sharply criticised him for making no distinction between the girls and the apple trees in his quest for a decorative effect. The same works however were praised by his peers, who considered him to be the leader of the new art movement.

In 1895 Victor once again left Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture and enrolled in Fernand Cormon's school in Paris. He studied there for three years, returning in summer months to Saratov. He was fascinated by the art of his French contemporaries, and especially by the paintings of "the father of French Symbolism" Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and by the work of Berthe Morisot.

In 1898 Borisov-Musatov returned to Russia and almost immediately fell into what it is called "fin de siècle nostalgia". He complained about "the cruel, the truly iron age", "dirt and boredom", "devil's bog", and he had acute money problems that were somewhat alleviated only in the last years of his life when collectors started to buy his paintings. Musatov's response was creating a half-illusory world of the 19th century nobility, their parks and country-seats. This world was partially based on the estate of princes Prozorvky-Galitzines "Zubrilovka" and partially just on Musatov's imagination. Borisov-Musatov also abandoned oil-paintings for the mixed tempera and watercolor and pastel techniques that he found more suitable for the subtle visual effects he was trying to create.

Borisov-Musatov was a member of the Union of Russian Artists and one of the founders and the leader of the Moscow Association of Artists, a progressive artistic organization that brought together Pavel Kuznetsov, Peter Utkin, Alexander Matveyev, Martiros Saryan, Nikolai Sapunov, and Sergei Sudeikin.

The most famous painting of that time is . The painting depicts two most important women in his life: his sister, Yelena Musatova and his bride (later wife), artist Yelena Alexandrova. The people are woven into the landscape of an old park with a pond.

Another famous painting is .

In 1904 Borisov-Musatov had a very successful solo exhibition in a number of cities in Germany, and in the spring of 1905 he exhibited with "Salon de la Société des Artistes Française" and became a member of this society.

The last finished painting of Borisov-Musatov was style.

Borisov-Musatov died on October 26, O.S. 1905 of a heart attack and is buried on a bank of Oka River near Tarusa. On his tomb there is a sculpture of a sleeping boy by Musatov's follower Alexander Matveyev.

Works

External links

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*ru icon [http://www.sgu.ru/ogis/newsrad/musatov/bio.html World of Borisov-Musatov]
*ru icon [http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Horizons/Ru/bio-404.html Biography]
*ru icon [http://www.rulex.ru/01020592.htm Biography]
*ru icon [http://russia.rin.ru/guides/5489.html Biography]
*ru icon [http://ermanok.net/news/comment.php?934 Analysis of Borisov-Musatov's art]
*ru icon [http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/borisov_mus.html Analysis of Borisov-Musatov's art]
*ru icon [http://www.staratel.com/pictures/ruspaint/081.htm Biography]


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