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1865 - 1911

Valentin Serov

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Serov was a Russian painter, graphic artist, author of several hundred portraits and historical canvases, landscape painter, animal painter and a talented teacher. He worked at different times in various styles – from Realism and Naturalism to Impressionism, and from Neoclassicism and Symbolism to Modernism.

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– Serov depicted beauty and youth in his early portraits and the charm of nature in his landscapes. He had two main aims: to express the simplicity and beauty of nature or the model and interpret them persuasively.
The freshness and fragility of the young artist’s canvases arose not only from his reworking of light and color, but also from the the complex harmony of reflexes, and the saturation of air.

– In his later works, Serov began to use a method of stylization characteristic of modern aesthetics. He was the first to create his own versions of ancient scenes in a painting, which stood out from the canons of Academism (a good example is “The Abduction of Europe”). Critics called his rhythm of work “resilient.” He was a master of transforming silhouettes, as if pulling them. He placed them diagonally, which emphasizes the dynamics of movement in the composition.

Valentin Serov

On Artist

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Impressionism

friends

Mikhail Vrubel

Vladimir Derviz

artists

Henri Matisse

Ilya Repin

Karl Capping

Pavel Chistyakov

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Academic art

Post-Impressionism

friends

Konstantin Korovin

Lev Bakst

artists

Petr Konchalovsky

Fedor Krichevsky

Martiros Saryan

Nikolai Milioti

Mikhail Larionov

Robert Falk

Vladimir von Meck

Pavel Kuznetsov

Nikolay Sapunov

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Nikolay Ulyanov

Konstantin Yuon

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

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Mediums: tempera, cardboard. Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

1910

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 72 x 99 сm. Location: The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.

1905

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

1899

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 91 x 85 сm. Location: The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.

1887

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Mediums: graphite, tempera paints, canvas. Dimensions: 147 x 233 сm. Location: The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.

1910

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

1901

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.

1889

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery.

1888

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Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Museum of Russian Art, Yerevan, Armenia.

1880