Portraits with biographies

The paintings of Fedor Rokotov depict members of the imperial family and other famous people of their time. The work of the portraitist reflects the inner world of models, their character and emotions. Fedor Rokotov preferred heated portraits. Its models seem to be shrouded in a haze, smoothly dissolve in a dark flickering background, the facial features are slightly blurred.

The artist’s painting is characterized by interesting color combinations and wealth of the palette. He was born in or G. Many facts of the artist’s biography are shrouded in secret, including his social origin. Most researchers believe that Fedor was a serf, possibly an illegitimate son of Prince Peter Repnin, and in childhood received free. At the end of the year. Rokotov was in St.

Petersburg, where he quickly got used to the court circles. Probably, Repnin himself helped him with recommendations, introduced to Ivan Shuvalov, the favorite of Elizabeth Petrovna, the founder of the Art Academy. At the same time, the young man studied in the land gentry corps military affairs. From the city of the Academy of Arts was in the house of Shuvalov. The artist created the first famous work in the year - this is "a portrait of a young man in a guards uniform." It is assumed that in the picture Fedor Rokotov portrayed himself.

In the same year, the work “Cabinet I. Artist began to regularly receive orders, among them were portraits of members of the imperial family. In the city of Rokotov, he portrayed the Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich on the canvas. At the end of X Fedor graduated from the land gentry corps and began military service. In the year he was enrolled in the Academy of Arts.

At first, the painter had to combine work with a military career until he received the rank of captain, who granted the right to the nobility. Fedor Rokotov began to teach at the academy. Its popularity grew, and with it the number of customers. In OM for a picture on a mythological plot, a free copy of Luke Jordano Luca Giordano, the artist was awarded the title of academician.

In the year, the painter returned to Moscow. The artist became close here with poets and writers, created their portraits. In e gg. Fedor Rokotov turns to a chamber portrait. Many characters of his works, Moscow nobles, were internally close to the artist.

A special place in the work of the master is occupied by images of women. These works are more lyrical, accuracy of the expression of emotions. In the last years of his life, the painter began to lose sight, which did not allow creativity to devote much time. The master of December 24 died in Moscow. The most famous paintings by Fedor Rokotov, the paintings of Fedor Rokotov characterize him as an insightful psychologist and represent the art connoisseurs that are attractive in their inner essence.

Among the best works, the following stand out: “Portrait of Catherine II” - a work created in honor of the coronation of the Empress, became her reference image. Rokotov managed to convey the mind, energy, desire for power of this woman. The portrait is made in exquisite color scheme, built on pink overflows, which creates a flickering effect. Female beauty here is unsteady, mysterious and disliked.

Her concentrated and smart look is completely unkind, and her lips are compressed in an arrogant smile. The type of portrait created by Rokotov was very popular among contemporaries and became an entire era in the development of this genre in Russia. But then the artist was undeservedly forgotten. His work was again appreciated only at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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