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Summary
Viktor Vasnetsov : Alyonushka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q204138
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Title |
Russian:
«Алёнушка»
Alenushka
title QS:P1476,ru:"Алёнушка"
label QS:Lru,"Алёнушка"
label QS:Lde,"Aljonuschka"
label QS:Len,"Alenushka"
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
Not targeting a specific theme or event, Vasnetsov managed to portray in his picture the soul of Russian fairy tale, akin to quiet Mid-Russian nature. The image of Alyonushka, painted with a peasant girl as the model, conveys the suffering of a meek, lonely orphan, abandoned by everybody, who is present in many a tale. She spends an eternity sitting on a white stone, as if turned into stone with suffering, her eyes a mirror of unspoken despair. The girl's eyes pull you in like a whirlpool. The deep dark water, with a shimmering transparent reflection, is pulling at Alyonushka like a magnet. The girl's figure seems to have been put together using naturally occurring shapes, dying evening colours and foliage patterns, to project a distilled inward-turned sadness of autumn nature, which takes care to conceal and safeguard the heroine. Nature consoles her like a mother consoles her baby. Landscape motifs are suggested by poetical folklore images, for example the swallows that are gathered on a twig above Alyonushka's head as good message bringers, while the fluttering aspens are a symbol of bad luck.
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Date |
1881
date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions | 221 × 173 cm (87 × 68.1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q183334
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Accession number |
1010
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Tretyakov Gallery
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Source/Photographer | Tretyakov Gallery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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