Valentin Serov by Dmitri V. Sarabianov

Author:Dmitri V. Sarabianov [Sarabianov, Dmitri V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783100248
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2013-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Another landmark on the road to a new painterly and compositional system is Serov’s portrait of the writer Maxim Gorky, which has an interesting history. In the spring of 1904, Serov went to Italy where he completed a number of watercolours and drawings. The most noteworthy of these is a sepia depicting Michelangelo’s renowned Madonna of the Medici Chapel in Florence. It is only logical that this image of great grief and moral power, heroic for its sheer immensity, attracted Serov’s attention and probably later prompted the compositional arrangement of Gorky’s portrait. Whereas, in the early 1890s, Serov was attracted by the full-blooded imagery of Titian, and in his late works, to use the artist’s own words, he was “getting closer to Raphael”, this time he was drawn to the heroic, impassioned art of Michelangelo in which Serov saw his own understanding of the essence of man reflected in those years. In the portrait of Gorky, one senses an attempt on the part of the artist to evolve a modern idiom that would adequately express the heroic.

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