The girls at the piano Zinaida Serebryakova (1884-1967)
Zinaida Serebryakova – The girls at the piano
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Painter: Zinaida Serebryakova
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Zinaida Serebryakova’s work includes quite a few portraits of children. The world of childhood is one of the important themes for the artist. Serebryakova loved to write small children, as they are open, natural and skillfully express love and interest in the world around them. In particular, she loved to paint portraits of her children, whom she had four: 2 boys and 2 girls. "Girls at the Piano," 1922, is a portrait of Serebryakova’s daughters, Katya and Tata.
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Zinaida Serebryakova’s work includes quite a few portraits of children. The world of childhood is one of the important themes for the artist. Serebryakova loved to write small children, as they are open, natural and skillfully express love and interest in the world around them. In particular, she loved to paint portraits of her children, whom she had four: 2 boys and 2 girls. "Girls at the Piano," 1922, is a portrait of Serebryakova’s daughters, Katya and Tata. The picture was painted 2 years before the artist’s urgent departure for Paris. And if Katya was soon able to follow her mother on the road, Tata had to spend several years before she met her family.
But while Zinaida Serebryakova is in Russia, and she often draws her children. They constantly surround their mother and have no idea yet that soon they will be separated for many years. Nature has endowed them with a beautiful and noble appearance, which has been noted more than once by the people around them. Standing next to the piano is Katya, the owner of golden, curly hair and a gentle face. At the piano sits Tata. The girl has brown hair and dark, glittering eyes that look so much like her mother’s. The painting is done in shades of gold and blue. The girls are dressed in blue, and the piano seems to play along with the color and give off a blue glow.
Tata’s fingers lightly touch the keys. It seems as if the girl was just about to play the instrument. The gaze of both girls on the viewer is incidental: the mother drawing them seems to have distracted the girls from the process, and they decide to look in her direction for a moment.
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