Bodarevsky Kornilievich Nicholas (1850-1921)

November 24, 1850 in Odessa, born Nicholas Kornilievich Bodarevsky. His first artistic training he received in the Odessa School Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.

In 1869, he enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied with TT Neff , PM Shamshina, VP Vereschyagina .
In 1881 he exhibited at the Academic painting exhibition, "Repose of St.. Nicholas "and" Translation of the Relics of St.. Nicholas of Bari. "

Since 1884, he participated in exhibitions of touring exhibitions each year exhibiting portraits and everyday pictures. And by the nature of realistic painting, genre priorities it can be attributed to the "late" the Wanderers, the artists who develop traditional themes and subjects of the Wanderers, but without the same breadth of generalization of social and emotional intensity.
Thus, the "Portrait of a Girl" in 1844, located in the Saratov State Art Museum named after AN Radishcheva image of the girl is not an aristocratic class, from middle-class or intellectual environment. only costume jewelry - white collar with lace, which peeks out of thin teenage neck. Hair parted in the middle combed over his ears. The pale thin face stand out big brown eyes that are looking keenly at the viewer. Portrait attracts commonplace and yet the depth of the created image. Same can be said about the landscape, "Spassky-Lutovinovo. The estate of Ivan Turgenev. " The beauty of the landscape of the identified motif is traditional for the Russian middle of the strip. Receding into the distance skyline. In the distance one can see the buildings of the estate. Closer to the viewer, right - compressed the field and in the foreground - a dark meadow with flowers. Scenery is nice, recognizable and at the same time similar to many other landscape painting in the second half of the XIX century, when the tradition of the domestic landscape has been formed and unsettled. at the State Russian Museum displays picture Bodarevsky "Wedding in Little Russia" in the Tretyakov Gallery - "The Fisherman".