Composition based on the painting "Flowers in a Vase" by A. Golovin

A. Golovin's still life "Flowers in a vase" is a bright and colorful picture. A simple glass vase sits on a white tablecloth. It contains an armful of variegated flowers. Apparently, they were plucked while walking in the garden. The one who put the flowers did not think about composing the composition according to all the rules of art. Probably, the bouquet just pleased him with its brilliance.

The vase combines several types of small phlox: white, scarlet, pink. Individually they would be simple, but together they create an impression of pomp and luxury. On the left side of the bouquet, several bright scarlet lilies on long exquisite stems immediately catch the eye. Green stems of all colors shine through the transparent glass of the vase.

To the right of the magnificent bouquet is a patterned curtain combining green, restrained yellow and scarlet. The curtain adds color to the picture, but its colors go well with the bouquet.

Elegant household items have found a place for themselves on the tablecloth. This is an elaborately woven and decorated ornate bread-bin, a shiny copper salt shaker, a fragile figurine, a napkin with a golden applique. In a simple glass jar, two delicate roses glow red.

The background behind the flowers is white and clean. There, light falls from the window through the air curtain-curtain.

The painting "Flowers in a Vase" leaves a feeling of light, tenderness, harmony of colors. The artist managed to depict the beauty of home comfort and at the same time the riot of natural beauty of flowers.

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Still life as an independent genre of painting finally took shape in the 17th century. in the works of Dutch and Flemish artists.

Until that time, it was not an independent genre, but only included in other genres as a frame for other paintings (for example, with flower garlands), decoration of furniture, interior, etc.

Term

The word "still life" in translation from French means "nature morte". Flowers in a vase is a still life; the same flowers in a flowerbed or in a front garden - a landscape. In a broad sense, still life is an artistic depiction of inanimate objects: plants, game, dishes, etc. The artist does not depict objects "from nature" as they are located in the interior, but deliberately arranges them in such a way in order to solve some of his own semantic and artistic task.
Often still lifes contain hidden allegory through the use of ordinary objects, which the artist gives a symbol, additional meaning and meaning. An example of an allegorical still life is vanitas (from the Latin vanitas "vanity, vanity").

Varieties of still life

Vanitas

Michael Konrad Hirt. Vanitas
Vanitas is an allegorical still life. It usually depicts a skull, among other things. Such a still life is intended to remind of the transience of life, the futility of pleasures and the inevitability of death - meditating on the meaning of human existence. The term is taken from a verse from the Bible: "Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, vanity of vanities - everything is vanity!" In Latin it sounded like this: “ Vanitas vanitatum dixit Ecclesiastes vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas". You can read more about vanitas.

Dutch still life

Dutch still life, formed in the 17th century. as an independent genre, influenced the further development of all European painting. It turns out that ordinary objects also live, but their life is quiet and invisible to humans. There is some kind of mystery in this. Apparently, this is why the genre of still life has become popular and has survived to this day. Sometimes a still life attracts the eye, excites feelings, it is impossible to tear yourself away from it - there are some associations, fleeting memories ...

Flower still life

This type of still life is perhaps the most widespread and the very first to emerge as a separate genre.

Jan Davids de Hem (1606-1684). Still life with a flower vase (around 1645). National Gallery of Art (Washington)
Traditionally in the Netherlands, many flowers were grown, gardens were planted, so floral still lifes were a natural extension of society. The earliest artists of this genre were Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621) and Baltasar van der Ast (1593-1657).

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder "Tulips, roses, white and pink carnations, forget-me-nots and other flowers in a vase" (c. 1619). Oil on copper

Scientist still life

The most intelligent type of still life. In such still lifes, it was supposed to think about what was depicted, and for this - knowledge of the Bible and other knowledge about the world. Vanitas can also be attributed to this category, but the scholarly still life is broader on the subject: it contains books, musical instruments, etc.

Maria van Osterwijk. Still life

D. Annenkov "Reflections with Baudelaire"

Still life in Russian painting

In Russia, still life as an independent genre appeared at the beginning of the 18th century. But for some time (almost until the end of the 19th century) still life was considered a lower genre and depicted only flowers and fruits.
A famous artist of this genre in the 19th century. was I. Khrutsky.

I. Khrutsky. Still Life with a Vase (1832)

I. Khrutsky "Flowers and Fruits" (1838)
In the twentieth century. Russian still life painting became equal among other genres. Artists worked on the perfection of color, form, composition, the genre began to develop rapidly.
Famous Russian and Soviet artists who worked and works in the genre of still life: Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), Igor Grabar (1871-1960), Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876-1956), Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939), Martiros Saryan ( 1880-1972), Ilya Mashkov (1881-1944), Elena Skuin (1909-1986), Peter Alberti (1913-1994), Sergei Osipov (1915-1985), Evgenia Antipova (1917-2009), Victor Teterin (1922- 1991), Maya Kopytseva (1924-2005), Yaroslav Krestovsky (1925-2003), Vladimir Stozharov (1926-1973), Boris Shamanov (1931-2008), etc.

E. Skuin "Peonies and Cherries" (1956)

V. Stozharov. Still life with rowan (1969)

Still life in various styles and directions of art

The turn of the XIX-XX centuries. known for experiments in the field of artistic creation. Still life also did not escape this fate. The first to experiment with still life were Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and others.

P. Cezanne. Still life with drapery (1889). Hermitage (St. Petersburg)
The cubist P. Picasso boldly experimented.

P. Picasso "Jug, Glass and Book" (1908)
J. Braque also worked in the style of cubism.

J. Braque "Musical Instruments" (1908)
Cubo-futurists worked in search of a new space-time dimension.

K. Malevich "The Cow and the Violin" (1913). State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg)
His "... intuitive feeling found in things the energy of dissonances obtained from the meeting of two opposite forms" (K. Malevich "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism").
In metaphysical still lifes by Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), objects are pressed against each other, forming dense groups, as if trying to keep warm, fearing the external cold and aggression.

Giorgio Morandi. Natura Morta (1956)
The most famous representative of surrealism, Salvador Dali, in his famous work "The Persistence of Memory", which is essentially an allegorical still life, reflects on the relativity of time.

S. Dali "The Persistence of Memory" (1931)
Commercial advertising of the second half of the XX century. brought up in people a greedy attitude to things and insatiable consumption. There is a fetishization of the subject. Elements of the still life genre are beginning to transform from art to a source of consumption.

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can (1968)
Dmitry Krasnopevtsev represents Russian "unofficial" art, although he has a completely formal classical art education (graduated from the Moscow Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov).

D. Krasnopevtsev. Still life
Krasnopevtsev's main genre is a “metaphysical still life” close to surrealism with simple, often battered ceramics, dry plants and shells. These works, painted in ashy tones, develop the motive of the transience and unreality of the world.
But still life paintings by the contemporary artist Dmitry Annenkov are quite "animated". They are different: joyful, sad, funny, but quite alive. I want to touch them. Looking at these still lifes, it is impossible to resist a kind smile.

D. Annenkov "Still life with a coffee grinder"

D. Annenkov "Spring Sun"

D. Annenkov "Memories of Summer"

It is difficult to imagine the modern life of each of us without the presence of flowers in it. At all times, they delight the gaze of a person in various forms. It can be natural or artificial flowers, interior items or clothing with a variety of floral arrangements on them. The unique beauty of flowers has a positive effect on the emotional state of a person, improves mood, inspires creativity and the creation of masterpieces of art.
A similar example can be confidently considered the work "Flowers in a Vase" by artist Alexander Yakovlevich Golovin. This picture with such a seemingly simple name has a huge content that can be talked about endlessly. A.Ya. Golovin, as a man with a "fine" and sensual soul, loved flowers all his life: he grew, looked after, admired, and also conveyed their beauty in his works. After all, it is so nice after a while to look at the picture and remember all the pleasant moments associated with it.
Looking at the painting "Flowers in a Vase", it immediately becomes clear that the work was done on a clear summer day, in the season of abundant flowering of flowers in the garden. In his work, the artist depicted only a part of the table in front of the window, and on it - a vase of flowers. But how many colors and their shades he used to convey to the viewer, it would seem, this small fragment of beautiful reality. And this is all in order to convey as accurately and in detail as possible all the beauty of the flowering of summer flowers. For the main background of the picture, the artist took light colors, with the help of which he depicted a window curtain and a snow-white tablecloth on the table. Part of the window is covered with a patterned curtain, which rather resembles a woman's scarf, again decorated with an abundance of various colors and their elements. Perhaps this is the scarf thrown by the hostess or the owner in order to darken the room a little from the bright midday sun. On the edge of the table is a golden brown napkin that adds contrast and expression to the white tablecloth. On the table, we also see common objects that are used in everyday life. This is a dark vase, a porcelain figurine and a wicker basket, most likely used for storing sweets or bread.
But the most important and important object in this picture is a bouquet of flowers in an ordinary glass jug. The splendor and splendor is given to it by multi-colored phloxes, among which there are snow-white, and pink, and purple. Here and there in the bouquet, like lights, you can see bright, orange lilies. But complement and bring the completion of the flower arrangement, several branches of bright red gladioli. Looking at the bouquet, one gets the impression that it was cut and put into the water as if in a hurry, passing by a flower bed. But this negligence gives it originality and uniqueness. To the left of this luxurious bouquet, the artist depicted several sprigs of roses in an ordinary glass jar. One can guess that the roses were placed separately in order to more accurately and expressively convey all the tenderness and beauty of these flowers. Since in the total mass of the whole bouquet, they could get lost and remain unnoticed, but standing separately, they attract the attention of the viewer on an equal footing with the rest of the flowers.
Analyzing the content of this picture as a whole, the conclusion involuntarily suggests itself that from ordinary and simple things you can create wonderful compositions that arouse the admiration of others. After all, what do we see in this work? We see flowers, these are the most common and familiar plants that can be seen in almost every garden. But the most important thing is to learn to see all the beauty of their flowering, as the author of this work was able to do. Indeed, sometimes you can walk along the path or alley of the garden and not notice a blossoming flower. But in fact, despite all the commonness and simplicity, each flower does not look like the previous one or growing nearby. No wonder they say “there is beauty in simplicity,” the most important thing is to learn to notice it.

Alexander Yakovlevich Golovin is a passionate admirer of flowers. He not only painted these delicate creatures, but also raised them. Many paintings by the artist are dedicated to flowers. But I would like to especially note one painting by Golovin - “Still life. Flowers in a vase". In many of his paintings, Alexander Yakovlevich Golovin depicts flowers framed by other objects. It can be golden balls or bright silk fabric, an exquisite vase or china tableware.

In the painting Still Life. Flowers in a vase ”there is nothing superfluous. Nothing that could distract the viewer's attention from contemplating the magnificent bouquet. A simple white vase is lost against the background of the same white curtains and white tablecloth. Bright sunlight from the left softens the outlines of objects even more, making them look like a light haze. Against its background, the flowers appear as a bright multi-colored spot that attracts the eye.

A bouquet of white, pink and lilac phlox is composed in a mess. It seems that the flowers have just been cut, and, without making up the original composition, they were simply put in a vase. Among phloxes, lilies stand out as an orange spot. But this ill-conceived bouquet, its disorderliness has its own special charm, which cannot be created artificially. This bouquet and the whiteness surrounding it are so pure, so touching that it is impossible not to admire the flowers, enjoying their pristine beauty.

Second version of the composition:
Many artists created interesting canvases and outstanding still lifes, but Golovin's paintings are especially sensual and touching. His works breathe with purity and kindness that attract the attention of the most demanding connoisseur of beauty.

Simple flowers are modestly located in the vase, but their simplicity is deceiving. Behind it lies a unique sophistication that arises from the clever combination of garden and wildflowers. In the composition, all of them are cleverly combined into an original, bright bouquet that seems to be perfect. To highlight the beauty of the bouquet, the artist chose a light background.

The still life created by Golovin reminds of summer, of the carefree days that fly by in the village in summer just unnoticed. I would like to breathe in the aroma of this beautiful bouquet, but at the last moment you realize that in front of you is just a picture.

Similar materials.

Among the works of many artists, you can find a canvas depicting a still life.
It would seem that with such an abundance and variety, it is difficult to surprise with something.
But despite this, Golovin's painting "Flowers in a Vase" seemed to me rather unusual.

The first thing that attracts attention is a riot of colors.
On a table with a snow-white tablecloth is a glass jug with a bouquet of flowers.
The jug is used as a vase.
It is transparent, so we can observe not only beautiful flowers, but also green stems.
The combination of unusual, variegated colors is very harmonious.
The composition is composed as if casually, not on purpose, which gives it a special charm and originality.

I am very pleased with the colorful composition.
Here are simple flowers that each of us has seen more than once in the garden.
Many grow phloxes, which the artist painted on this canvas.
Here he showed them in all kinds of colors: pink, purple-scarlet, white.
On the left we see a tall bush of red gladioli, and a little lower - roses of a delicate pink color, which are in an ordinary glass jar.
They fit perfectly into the overall composition.

The bouquet turned out to be very lush, simply luxurious.
It will become a decoration in the room and will delight any person if presented.
On the right, the artist painted a bright curtain with patterns.
It is made in the same color scheme as the bouquet: red-burgundy color, green on a beige background.
The curtain goes well with the bouquet.

On the table, we see household items.
Golovin showed us an elegant ceramic wicker basket.
I think this is a bread box or a candy box.
We also see a salt shaker, a dark brown napkin, a small figurine.
The artist painted this composition against the background of a white curtain to make the bouquet a kind of bright spot.
He succeeded.
Daylight from the window in the back fills the room, bringing with it tenderness, adding harmony to the picture.
The author skillfully showed not only family, home comfort, but also a magnificent garden bouquet.
The flower arrangement once again reminds us of natural beauty.