The appeal of A. M. Vasnetsov to the historical architectural landscapes of Moscow was simultaneously a work of gratitude and difficulty. Grateful, for the artist had to open a new and in its own way a very peculiar page in the history of Russian painting.
Difficult – if only because the chosen path of constant striving for great authenticity and archaeological accuracy of images of old cities concealed the danger of a withdrawal from creative immediacy, threatened to replace the present artistry with a dry historical illustration.
In his best works Apollinarius Vasnetsov escaped this danger. If you take the most famous paintings performed at the beginning of the 20th century, such as “Street in China Town”, “At Dawn at the Resurrection Bridge, End of the XVII Century”, “Moskvoretsky Bridge and Water Gates of China Town.” Mid-XVII Century, All-Svyatsky Stone Bridge, the End of the 17th Century “, and later his compositions -” The Moscow Shack: End of the 16th Century “,” The Gons.
Early in the morning in the Kremlin. Beginning of the XVII century, “we are convinced that, striving for the historically accurate transfer of the” image of the city “- Moscow XVI-XVII centuries – Vasnetsov pays much attention to the creative, figurative and direct penetration into the peculiarities of life of that time.
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