Morozov, Alexander Ivanovich (1835-1904)

AI Morozov did not leave a lot of pictures, because all life had to make uncreative work of thirty years he taught drawing at the School of Law in St. Petersburg, gave private lessons, doing custom portraits (sometimes with photos), painted icons.

However, almost all of his paintings are characterized by high levels of scenic and now on display in the largest national museums.

In his youth, Morozov was trying to keep up with the times: was a member of the "revolt of fourteen", headed I. Kramskoi , and left the Academy of Arts in 1863, became one of the founding members of the St. Petersburg Artel of Artists (1863-70).

First of Morozov's criticism and the public was very friendly. Picture "out of the church in Pskov" (1864) Stasov praised as one of the first mass scenes where the main characters - all illustrated, the critic found it "facts of life" (especially the opposition of wealth and poverty). Young I. Repin and B. Polenov admired the thoroughness of working with nature and skill transfer of bright sunlight. Picture of Pavel Tretyakov bought, as well as the following distinguished critics work - "Rural Free School" (1865). It Morozov depicted his wife and her friends dealing with the peasant kids in a village hut.

However, after the 1860s. Morozov's forget for a long time he goes into the shadows. With TPHV relationship had never happened - probably because it did not fit the gift of social and accusatory toward art Wanderers. It attracted more than nature, and in its harmonic, that is peaceful, perfect, "eternal" state. Man he was thinking in full communion with nature. And in outlook, and artistic method Morozov was the only one in the second half of XIX century. successor Venetsianov tradition, because the critics turn of the century , AN Benoit , I. Grabar - and called it "a belated venetsianovtsem." These are his painting "Rest on the Haymaker" (two versions - approx. 1860 and 1861), "Summer Day. Gatchina" (1878), "Field of green rye" (1880), "A Rented Room Care" (1898). At the beginning of the XX century. this tradition have turned, each in his own way, K. Petrov-Vodkin and 3. E. Serebriakova, B. Kustodiev and KA Somov .