Artist Basil Biography

Future famous artists at that time were ordinary poor students. Basil was kind and generous, eagerly treated friends, helped them with money and housing. Once he bought from Claude Monet a painting “Women in the Garden” for a large amount in the francs, with a noble purpose - to support a friend. Basil loved to work on the open air. His favorite plot was the image of man against the background of nature.

Of course, he was not an impressionist, no one was an impressionist then, but interest in light and color, skillful work with a palette, bright, sun -saturated colors - this was all present in his works. Moreover, he was a connoisseur of not moist overflows of a soft color, his element was a bright, even sharp sunlight, this is not dawn and not sunset, the sun of the basil at the zenith.

The innovator in search of a form, sensitively hearing modern trends, in fact, he remained a traditional artist. His images are not fleeting impressions, on the contrary, Basil himself said that he wanted to “return every thing its weight and volume, and not just depict the appearance of things”. In the year, Basil first sent his work “Girl at the Piano” to the Paris salon, but she was not accepted, they took only a small still life with fish.

Since then, he annually offered his paintings, not everyone accepted, but some placed in a prominent place. In the year, Renoir wrote a portrait of Basil, sitting behind the easel. Claude Mane really liked the portrait, and Renoir gave him to him. Thinking about painting, Basil wrote to his relatives: “... I chose modern life, because I better understand it, I chose what is of the most keen interest for people living ...” He tried to write people - friends and relatives.

Who, besides him, could grab the figure of a seated one, as if on Renoir's needles. Or play in the contrasts of the pink and black “pink dress”, which was distinguished by genuine modesty, Basil “inscribed his family” in the history of art, depicting them in “the framework of the impressionistic landscape“ in the family circle ”, however, could he know that impressionism would enter history?

It is possible that he would become the most important and successful impressionist. If not for the Franco-Prussian war. During the Franco-Prussian War-Frederick Basil volunteered for the front. He died on November 28, not having lived a week before his flight, in the battle of Beaune-la-Roland. The family of painter Frederick Basil in the year handed over to the Fabra Museum a number of works of impressionist artists.

We were in Montpellier in November and took photographs of some works by Frederick Bazil in the Fabra Museum. Frederic Bazille. La Robe Rose. La Toilette. Musee Fabre, Montpellier Frederic Bazille. La Macreuse. Petit Italienne Chanteuse des Rues. Etude de Nu. Reunion de Famile. Pierrere-Auguste Renoir. Vue Sur Le Village. Le heron. Alphonse Tessie. Rue de Village.

Etude Pour Une Vendange. Jeune femme aux pivoines. Frederic Bazille Poignant a Son Chevalet. Musee Fabre, Montpellier.