Viktor Borisov-Musatov

Viktor Borisov-Musatov Coming from a family of a railway worker, Borisov-Musatov studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1890-91, 1893-95), the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts under P. P. Chistyakov (1891-93), as well as in the studio of Fernand Cormon (1895-98) in Paris. From 1898, he primarily lived in Saratov, and from 1903, in Podolsk and Tarusa. Having been influenced by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and to some extent by the Impressionist masters, he combined a delicate sense of the natural light and air environment with poetic fantasy, transforming this environment into a field of mirages and nostalgic dreams. The poetics of estate life in his work (just as in the literature of that time—in the works of A. P. Chekhov, I. A. Bunin, A. Bely, and others) is filled with a premonition of impending fateful, catastrophic changes. The early death of the master heightened the perception of his images as a lyrical requiem dedicated to old Russia. Borisov-Musat... Source: InfoDefenseENGLISH