Fine art, perhaps, the oldest of the spiritual manifestations of mankind. Even in the primitive period, the first rock drawings appeared. Even then, people were characterized by aesthetic search, and the desire for beauty was born as a need to express themselves, express themselves, open their understanding of the world.
What I see is what I create
So what draws the artist? In fact, what he sees around him. Or it reproduces those moments that happened to him earlier and made a special impression on him. In this case, the painter restores events, pictures from memory or uses sketches, sketches, etudes. Thus, it turns out that the artist draws a variety of phenomena of reality. Depending on how he does it, his work relates to realistic direction, fantasy, surrealism, etc. However, such an explanation can not be considered complete. After all, more often than a talented person, the more he is original, individual, independent in his views and views. And it captures on the canvas or paper not everything, but only deeply affected it. Therefore, one can say that the artist paints, if, of course, he follows his talent, and does not sell himself, not only the surrounding, but also his inner world. After all, paintings in the visual arts are not a picture. This artwork, created by paints and brushes, pencils and charcoal, i.e. That is the working tool of the master. It embodies the author's thoughts and feelings, his dreams and hopes, ethical, aesthetic, moral values. And one more answer to the question "what does the artist draw?" Can be this: his universe.
Picturesque genres
And now more about genres and forms of fine art. Painting is divided into easel and monumental. Monumental - it's frescoes, painting walls inside and outside the room. Easel - these are the drawings, in the creation of which the author puts a piece of paper or hangs a canvas on an easel. He can work "on-the-spot", indoors - the role of the role does not play any. As for genres, here too there is a specificity. For example, the artist who paints animals is an animal painter. Remember cartoons about animals. They are called animalistic. Portraitist - the one who works in the genre of portrait. Pushkin's brush Orest Kiprensky - a classic example of the genre. Images of wildlife are transferred to the canvas by a landscape painter. Here come to mind the work of Shishkin, Levitan, other brilliant authors. But since this genre is very diverse in its manifestations, it has its own gradation within it. So, the artists who paint the sea were called "marine painters" (from the "marina" - the sea). And here you can not do without the name of Aivazovsky - it was he who first became famous in this genre from Russian artists. Fruits and flowers in vases, different things, unrelated to living objects, are depicted in a still-life. The name of the genre is translated: "dead nature". Mashkov with his famous "Strawberries and White Jugs" is one of the most obvious examples. The historical theme is reflected in historical painting. Repin created a genius painting, whose hero, Ivan the Terrible, kills his son. He worked in the genre of historical painting and Surikov (the most famous painting - "Boyarina Morozova"). Genre, decorative, religious, architectural - these are the famous scenic genres.
In each of them, Russian artists left their bright trace!