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Alexei Savrasov
was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical
landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a
merchant. He began to draw early and in 1838 he entered the
Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. He
graduated from it in 1850, and immediately began to specialize
in landscape painting. In 1857, Savrasov became a teacher at the
Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. His
best disciples, Isaac Levitan and Konstantin Korovin, remembered
their teacher with admiration and gratitude.
The Rooks Have
Come Back was painted by Savrasov near Ipatiev Monastery in
Kostroma. In 1857, he married Sophia Karlovna Hertz, sister of
art historian K. Hertz. In their home they entertained artistic
people and collectors including Pavel Tretyakov. Savrasov became
especially close with Vasily Perov. Perov helped him paint the
figures of the boat trackers in Savrasov's Volga near Yuryevets,
Savrasov painted landscapes for Perov's Bird Catcher and Hunters
on Bivouac, In the 1860s, he travelled to England to see the
International Exhibition, and to Switzerland. In one of his
letters he wrote that no academies in the world could so advance
an artist as the present world exhibition. The painters who
influenced him most were British painter John Constable and
Swiss painter Alexandre Calame.
The Rooks Have
Come Back (1871) is considered by many critics to be the high
point in Savrasov's artistic career. Using a trivial episode of
birds returning home, and an extremely simple landscape,
Savrasov emotionally showed the transition of nature from winter
to spring. It was a new type of lyrical landscape painting,
called later by critics the mood landscape. The painting brought
him fame. In 1870, he became a member of the Peredvizhniki
group.
In 1871, after
the death of his daughter, there was a crisis in his art. He
became an alcoholic. All attempts of his relatives and friends
to help him were in vain. Only the doorkeeper of the Moscow
School of painting, sculpturing and architecture and Pavel
Tretyakov, founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, were present at his
funeral in 1897.
Translate the
following sentences into English.
1. Саврасов, выдающийся русский пейзажист, известен тем,
что создал жанр лирического пейзажа, позже названного «пейзажем
настроения».
2. Он закончил Московскую школу живописи, скульптуры и
архитектуры, несколько лет преподавал там, и его ученики
вспоминают о нем с восхищением и благодарностью.
3. На его творчество оказали большое влияние британские и
швейцарские художники.
4. Многие критики считали его картину «Грачи прилетели», которая
принесла ему славу, вершиной его творчества.
5. Саврасов считал, что участие в международных выставках может
внести больший вклад в профессиональный рост художника, чем
учеба в художественных академиях. .
1. Savrasov, an
outstanding Russian landscape painter, is famous for creating
the lyrical landscape, later called mood landscape by critics.
2. He graduated from the Moscow school of painting, sculpturing
and architecture, was a teacher of it for some years and is
remembered by his disciples with admiration and gratitude.
3. In his work, he was influenced by British and Swiss painters.
4. Many critics considered his painting The Rooks Have Come Back
Home, which brought him fame, to be the high point in his
artistic career.
5. Savrasov believed that participation in international art
exhibitions could advance an artist more than art academies.
Из пособия "ЕГЭ. Английский язык.
Устные темы" Занина Е.Л. (2010, 272с.) - Part
two.
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