Self-portrait with her daughters Zinaida Serebryakova (1884-1967)
Zinaida Serebryakova – Self-portrait with her daughters
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Painter: Zinaida Serebryakova
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Zinaida Serebryakova was one of the first Russian women painters to write herself into the history of painting. Her work, which did not fall under any influence, is quite independent and distinctive. The painting "Self-Portrait with Daughters" is painted quickly and easily. The impression of two young daughters, catching the moment, clinging to his mother, when she decided to take a break, wearing a work shirt and with tassels in their hands.
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Zinaida Serebryakova was one of the first Russian women painters to write herself into the history of painting. Her work, which did not fall under any influence, is quite independent and distinctive.
The painting "Self-Portrait with Daughters" is painted quickly and easily. The impression of two young daughters, catching the moment, clinging to his mother, when she decided to take a break, wearing a work shirt and with tassels in their hands. Their faces and hair are not meticulously painted, but they are smooth, voluminous and academic, like in the sketches of the old masters, while their clothes and backgrounds show unfinished and carelessness, which gives the painting a more modern feel.
The girls look seven or eight years old, and they are dressed in the "vest," which in those years was often seen on children. The mother is about 35 years old, but her face seems so young - so young - as the girls pressed against her. Her face is oblong, her nose is straight and long, her neck is beautiful, and there is simplicity, nobility and modesty in her features and in her gaze. The look is open, kind and clean, deep. Self-portrait is such a personal work of the artist, in which he can most clearly and clearly show his spiritual inner world and express himself as we may not know him.
The children embracing her suggest that she cannot imagine her life without them, they are an important part of herself. This expresses her feminine nature, her essence. Indeed, it is so - Serebryakova, after the death of her beloved husband saw no joy in anything but her children - their existence cheered her up, gave her strength, life. You can tell this from the way she often depicted her children on numerous canvases.
Children - this is one of the main themes of her paintings. Serebryakova, by the way, was the granddaughter of Benois himself. Thanks to her connections, she was even offered a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, but she modestly declined.
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