Konstantin Korovin graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In the early 1900s, he became fascinated by French impressionism, perceived its best achievements and switched from tonal painting to a harmony of color combinations. The impressionists considered the main task of an artist to recreate in the most accurate way the swift states of nature and human beings, as well as to transmit the light-air environment which defines and changes everything in nature: the contours of objects, mood, intensity and overtones of colors. Light and color became the main subjects of Korovin´s paintings who preferred to create outdoors. His works display a particular freshness and purity of color, studiousness, randomness of composition that is not according to the established classical canons, but in accordance with the spontaneity of life.
Roses. Bouquet by the sea
Creation period
1912
Dimensions
70x93 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
Collection
13
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Konstantin Korovin
Roses. Bouquet by the sea
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Korovin’s painting is a metaphorical embodiment of the painter’s happiness and the joy of life. He was attracted by all the colors of the world and they smiled to him.
That was the characteristic given to the work of Konstantin Korovin by his contemporaries.
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Since the 1910s, the colorfulness of Korovin’s paintings was especially intensified and marked by sweeping brushstrokes and free picturesque manner. The virtuosity of the artist reaches its peak. In this period he created a lot of still-life paintings using an intense color palette.
The study “Roses” was painted while at a country house in the Crimea in Gurzuf, and appeared in the Omsk museum collection in 1924. At the cusp of the 19th – 20th centuries, the Southern coast of Crimea became a place of pilgrimage for artists. Their admiration for the beauty of the South was reflected in hundreds of paintings. However, no one could be compared with Korovin in the number of paintings of Crimean roses. The artist created more than twenty works that depict these sublime flowers. He painted them everywhere, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but most of the works were painted during his stay at the country house in Gurzuf.
The style of the artist illustrates his spirit, love for the surroundings and for the color itself. His works, created with free, vivid, wide and pastoral brushstrokes seem fresh, as if not dried out yet, but just out of the artist’s brush. In the still-life study of ‘Roses’, the artist transmits the heavy moist sea air, the beauty of a rich bunch of flowers, and the light of the Southern Sun that whitens everything around, leaving color overflows only in the shadows. Korovin declares ‘I paint not for myself, but for everyone who knows how to enjoy the sun and the infinite diversity of colors and shapes, for those who never cease to be amazed at the ever-changing play of light and shadow.’
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The M.A. Vrubel Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts
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Roses. Bouquet by the sea
Creation period
1912
Dimensions
70x93 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
Collection
13
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