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The sun above the roofs. Sunset
Aristarkh Lentulov • Pintura, 1928, 77×65 cm
Descripción del cuadro «The sun above the roofs. Sunset»
"The sun above the roofs" shows us the main object that Lentulov portrayed in his paintings all his life, sometimes directly, as here, sometimes ironic, as in his the portrait "a Great artist" sometimes indirectly because the sun in the picture could not be but its light was felt.
The American Slavist, Professor of art history John Boult compares the value Lentulov Russian painting place Matisse in the world: "Matisse is perhaps more experimental than Lentulov, but Lentulov same fascination with the paint itself, which we find Matisse". Indeed, the boldness and richness of colors Lentulov comparable with the manner of the famous Fauvist (1, 2).
Marianna Lentulova, the artist's daughter, recalled how father woke up early in the morning, I saw on the roof of a neighboring house a huge glowing Orb that fills all around with rays, come in unusual excitement, woke home to show for it, and then immediately sat down to write. Sometimes he even complained that my eyes get tired when he writes the sun "from nature", but to refuse such pleasure could not.
In relation to the work Lentulov word "energy of color" become the literal definition. The setting sun, painting the house in the crimson, it seems endless source of power and energy. The picture sunset Lentulov addicted on the Volga. But, strange to say, moved to Moscow, Volzhskaya the sun, devoid of natural framing, played gets higher and brighter. If Volzhskiy sunset written soft, natural colours, trapped in the city solar element, whether sunrise or sunset, filled with expression, passion, this is a real event, distracting from the natural course of things.
In the 1920-ies Lentulov returned to the scenery, partly departs from the ideas of cubism in his paintings, one feels the passion Cezanne (and Lentulov for comparison). In the works of this period felt internal tensions in contrast to earlier paintings in which Lentulov sought to stun the viewer external tools to the maximum. Even the radiance of the sun in this period – either for the background shading his gloomy buildings, or in the natural environment. Early Lentulov, perhaps, portrayed the "sun on sun".
Author: Alain Esaulova
The American Slavist, Professor of art history John Boult compares the value Lentulov Russian painting place Matisse in the world: "Matisse is perhaps more experimental than Lentulov, but Lentulov same fascination with the paint itself, which we find Matisse". Indeed, the boldness and richness of colors Lentulov comparable with the manner of the famous Fauvist (1, 2).
Marianna Lentulova, the artist's daughter, recalled how father woke up early in the morning, I saw on the roof of a neighboring house a huge glowing Orb that fills all around with rays, come in unusual excitement, woke home to show for it, and then immediately sat down to write. Sometimes he even complained that my eyes get tired when he writes the sun "from nature", but to refuse such pleasure could not.
In relation to the work Lentulov word "energy of color" become the literal definition. The setting sun, painting the house in the crimson, it seems endless source of power and energy. The picture sunset Lentulov addicted on the Volga. But, strange to say, moved to Moscow, Volzhskaya the sun, devoid of natural framing, played gets higher and brighter. If Volzhskiy sunset written soft, natural colours, trapped in the city solar element, whether sunrise or sunset, filled with expression, passion, this is a real event, distracting from the natural course of things.
In the 1920-ies Lentulov returned to the scenery, partly departs from the ideas of cubism in his paintings, one feels the passion Cezanne (and Lentulov for comparison). In the works of this period felt internal tensions in contrast to earlier paintings in which Lentulov sought to stun the viewer external tools to the maximum. Even the radiance of the sun in this period – either for the background shading his gloomy buildings, or in the natural environment. Early Lentulov, perhaps, portrayed the "sun on sun".
Author: Alain Esaulova
