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White Willows

Creation period
1909
Dimensions
142,3x116,5 cm
Technique
Canvas, tempera
15
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Alexander Golovin
White Willows
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Alexander Golovin painted White Willows in 1909. The painting was named after the type of willow depicted, which is called ‘silver willow’, so sometimes the piece is called Silver Willows. This is one of many park landscapes by the artist. He often depicted deserted places, where nature has taken over piers and pavilions. This is how the artist depicted the landscapes of Pavlovsk, Tzarskoye Selo, and Neskuchniy Garden. For Golovin that brushwood did not demonstrate decay and degradation. On the contrary, the trees looked as if they had found a place where they could evolve to the fullest extent of their power.

In this painting, we see the white willows vegetating ‘at full blast’; the clean water reflects the effects of silvery light. The artist painted numerous green gradations with individual brush strokes, so that they create figured tracery of leaves resembling emerald panels.
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Alexander Golovin, Pavlovsk Landscape, 1910. Source: wikipedia.org 
This ornamentality is Golovin’s “signature writing”. He developed it due to many years of cooperating with theatres: by the time of creating White Willows Golovin was a world-famous scene designer. Starting from 1900, he designed the scenes for operas and ballets in the Bolshoi Theatre, then he worked with Mariinskiy and Alexandrinskiy theatres, and in 1908, he joined Sergei Diaghilev’s ‘Ballets Russes’ in Europe.
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Golovin’s work with Vsevolod Meyerhold influenced this artistic manner greatly. Working in this tandem, Golovin started using pure colors and manifested himself as a master of grotesque. For example, in Masquerade he created a special system of curtains and backdrops.
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Self-portrait of Alexander Golovin, canvas, oil painting, 1919. Source: wikipedia.org
The faster the events were enrolling on the stage, the more frequently the scenery and the costumes of the actors changed creating the feeling of delusiveness of what was happening. Thanks to such method, each episode converged into one scenic fabric with a bright color emphasis. Masquerade became one of the most popular performances of the 20th century — он outlived the revolution and withstood more than 500 productions.
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The scenes and costumes by Alexander Golovin received almost higher appreciation than the actors — the audience started to applaud and to cry Bravo! As soon as the curtain went up. His contemporary Boris Asafyev, the composer, wrote:
“Golovin and his creations in opera and ballet theatre have long ago <…> become synonymous to pure taste, elegance, stagecraft and generosity of artistic imagination”.
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Alexander Golovin, tempera landscape Neskuchny Garden, 1910-s. Source: wikipedia.org
The landscape paintings often were Golovin’s preparation for future scenes. He used nature for inspiration for his best scenes designs. Eros temple for the opera Orpheus and Eurydice had similarities with the painting Landscape. Pavlovsk. In addition, the ravine from the drama Thunderstorm by Ostrovsky — with the painting Neskuchny Garden.
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Fanciful tracery of leaves, fabulousness, abandoning the real world for the illusions — all these features germinated in Golovin’s landscapes and then manifested themselves on the stage. His unique pieces influenced the appearance of the new modernist style. The painting White Willows with its redundant ornamentality belongs more to this style than to realistic landscapes.
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White Willows

Creation period
1909
Dimensions
142,3x116,5 cm
Technique
Canvas, tempera
15
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