I've posted about Golovin previously; I focused then on his paintings that prominently featured flowers, as so much of his work did. But the thing that I find so striking about him and the other Mir iskusstva (World of Art) artists - Benois, Bakst, Lanceray, Kustodiev, Somov, etc. - is the breadth of their artistic talent. They designed costumes and stage sets, painted portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. They designed and illustrated books; some even sculpted. One of the the things I find most remarkable about that artistic milieu is that they were allowed to develop and deploy their gifts in so many directions... and then that they seemed to so effortlessly excel in all those endeavors. Golovin's oeuvre is a perfect example.
 |
| Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko, circa 1910-1914. |
 |
| Birches, circa 1908-10. |
 |
| Design for "The Dead City" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1910. |
 |
| The ballerina Elena Alexandrovna Smirnova, 1910. |
 |
| "Mourning Hall" - design for "Masquerade" by Mikhail Lermontov, 1917. |
 |
| Count Vladimir Ivanovich Kankrin, 1909. |
 |
| "Clowns" - costume sketches for the opera "The Ice Palace" by Arseny Koreshchenko, 1900. |
 |
| Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov - study, 1912. |
 |
| "A terrible play" - design for "Masquerade" by Mikhail Lermontov, 1917. |
 |
| P. A. Berkman, 1917. |
 |
| Neskuchny Garden, circa 1910s. |
 |
| "Portrait of Kahn", 1920. |
 |
| Three costumes and a curtain design for "Masquerade" by Mikhail Lermontov, 1917. |
 |
| Lydia Yakovlevna Rybakova, 1920. |
 |
| "Eurydice's tomb" - design for "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Gluck, 1911. |
 |
| Mikhail Alexeievich Kuzmin, 1910. |
 |
| N. P. Efimova, 1921. |
 |
| "Masquerade Hall" - design for "Masquerade" by Mikhail Lermontov, 1917. |
 |
| Costume design for Escamillo for the opera "Carmen", 1908. |
 |
| "View in the park. Landscape with blue pavilion," 1910. |
 |
| Nadezhda Evseevna Dobychina, 1920. |
 |
| Portrait of a lady, circa 1920. |
 |
| Design for "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky, 1901. |
 |
| Portrait of a man, ND. |
 |
| "Marquise", 1908. |
 |
| "Marquise", 1908. |
 |
| Autumn, circa 1920s. |
 |
| Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov, 1912. |
 |
| Dmitri Smirnov as the chevalier des Grieux in "Manon" by Massenet, 1909. |
 |
| Pavlovsk, 1911. |
 |
| Design for "At the Gates of the Kingdom" by Knut Hamsun, 1908. |
 |
| Maria Troyanova, 1916. |
 |
| "The Kingdom of Eros" - design for "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Gluck, 1911. |
 |
| The singer Valentina Kuza, circa 1910s. |
 |
| Willows, 1909. |
 |
| Iosif Izrailevich Rybakov, 1923. |
No comments:
Post a Comment