Pavel Ryzhenko - a brilliant creator of historical composition
In the vastness of Europe in the modern world, it is very difficult to find a talented artist working in the style of classical realism. The character of such a creator must be revealed to match the era - contradictory in its revolutionary desire for development and simultaneous passive inaction. It was precisely because of this sinful inaction, carrying within itself a contented despondency, that the genius of Russian realism arose - Pavel Ryzhenko, whose paintings were written exclusively in this classical style.
The artist lived a short but extremely fruitful life, representing an icon of God's chosen creator and a role model for artists of realistic traditions. The death of Pavel Ryzhenko marked the final transition of modern art from the mainstream of realism to the framework of avant-gardeism, the departure of the classical canons of construction and color arrangement of a composition from the field of fine art into the expressive swimming of futuristic brevity of ideas and straightforwardness of the compositional image.
Biographical note
Pavel Ryzhenko, whose biography does not differ from several hundred similar biographies of artists, anticipating the interest of fans in this topic, left several notes about his past.
The future artist was born in 1970, in the city of Kaluga. In his autobiographical texts, Pavel Ryzhenko, anticipating how interested his fans would be in his biography, recalled that his childhood was entirely filled with the joy of communicating with his grandmother and mother. It was no coincidence that Pavel Viktorovich began his creative path - from his earliest years he was characterized by a lively mind and an excellent memory: “This for me is the Motherland, bright, quiet, full of love, which many have forgotten, but many have not.”
Since 1988, Pavel has been a graduate of the Moscow Secondary Art School at the Surikov Institute. He joined the army, where, according to him, he already clearly realized his calling in painting. After her, from 1990, he studied at the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where his teacher was professor, People's Artist of Russia I. S. Glazunov.
Landscapes
1. August night
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2. Athos.-Evening
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3. Bathhouses. sunny day
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4. Conversation
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5. Blagovest
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6. At the Morozov estate
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7. In Morozovsky Manor Park
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8. In the native estate
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9. Valaam
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10. Willow
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11. Palm Sunday. Boris and Gleb Monastery
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12. Spring day. Gorki
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13. Spring in the Lavra
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14. Spring
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15. Windy day. Priuzolye
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16. Evening. Road to Efimovo
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17. Evening. After the rain
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18. Returning home. Study for the painting Requiem
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19. High bank of Uzola. Bathhouse
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20. Glibinsky spruce forest
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21. Rooks in Kolomenskoye
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22. Wooden bridge
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23. Road to Shibashi
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24. Road
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25. Oak Alley
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26. Breath of Autumn
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27. Spruce shoots
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28. Spruce path
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29. Zheltukhino. Evening motive
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30. Overgrown Pond
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31. Withered tree
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32. River Bend
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33. For Vespers
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34. Cypress Grove. Athos
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35. To the all-night vigil
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36. Bell tower. View from Mount Maura
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37. Corula. Athos
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38. Domes. Educational sketch
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39. Forest near Khokhloma
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40. Forest slide. Spring
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41. Forest clearing
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42. Forest river
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43. Forest Lake
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44. Summer meadow. Shamordino
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45. March Blue
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46. Monastic spring. Athos
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47. Monastery road. Athos
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48. Bridge. Blurred road
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49. Embankment of old Kaluga
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50. Neskuchny Garden
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51. Nizhny Novgorod distances. Frost
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52. Night
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53. Abode
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54. Lonely tree. Beginning of autumn
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55. Waiting
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56. Fallen leaves. Monastery of Saint Euthymius
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57. Deserted monastery
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58. Autumn clouds
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59. Autumn herbs
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60. Easter day
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61. Plowing
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62. First thawed patch
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63. Yellowed fields
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64. High water
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65. Midday heat
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66. After the hurricane.
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67. Roadside cross
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68. Priuzolye. Shibashi
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69. Thawed patches
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70. River flood
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71. Early autumn
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72. Motherland
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73. September sun
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74. Old Kaluga
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75. Staraya Ladoga
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76. Ancient churchyard
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77. Old Believer cross
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78. Old Believer Forest
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79. Old weather vane
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80. Suzdal
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81. Suzdal motif. Kamenka
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82. Ice is melting
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83. At the ravine. Roots
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84. February day. Gorki
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85. Chapel by the road
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Features of the spiritual content of the composition
Pavel Viktorovich Ryzhenko was instantly glorified as a genius of an all-Russian scale after defending his diploma work - the canvas “Kalka”, where the semantic center of the composition is the figure of Prince Mstislav the Old, tied with ropes, proudly standing opposite the Mongolian governor resting after the battle. Pavel Ryzhenko, whose paintings are filled with this unbending, honest, but simple and humble character, showed the features of the Russian people in the best possible way.
The artist is a preacher of the divine idea
The artist always spoke very openly about his spiritual and practical quests. According to him, it was his training at the academy and meeting with priests that helped him take the grateful path of an Orthodox artist, immersing the viewer with his art into the beautiful world of the land inspired by God and the Russian nation as a whole. He idolized the Orthodox national idea and unwittingly became its mouthpiece, its evangelist. “Oslyabya”, “Blessing of Sergius”, “Victory of Peresvet”, “Prayer of Peresvet” - in all these images, with their unshakable calm and prudence, the appearance of a holy man is invisibly present, not at all similar to the canonical iconographic image. Paul himself explained this feature of his images by the fact that he considers classical Orthodox icon painting a monstrous hybrid of Oriental and Byzantine painting, with their European standards and manner of painting, and not original Russian cult painting.
Pavel Ryzhenko collaborated a lot with monasteries and high clergy, writing religious paintings and portraits for them. His latest work is the diorama “Standing on the Ugra”. The customer was the Kaluga St. Tikhon's Hermitage. Unfortunately, Pavel Ryzhenko, the artist whose cause of death caused the Russian world to shudder with its suddenness, was unable to attend its opening.
Major works
- Triptych “Repentance” (“Bell Strike”, “Wreath”, “Anthill”) (2004)
- Triptych “Royal Golgotha” (“Farewell to the convoy”, “Alexandrovsky Palace”, “Ipatiev House. Execution”) (2004)
- Triptych “Russian Century” (“Royal Epaulets”, “Photograph for Memory”, “Easter in Paris”) (2007)
- Triptych “The Sun of the Russian Land” (“Battle of the Neva”, “Alexander Yaroslavovich Nevsky”, “Sartag”) (2008-2009)
- Diptych “The Beginning of the 1941 War” (left side), “Battle of Moscow” (right side) (2011)
- Triptych “Heir” (2013)
- Diorama “The Baptism of the Army of Grand Duke Vladimir” joint work with A.M. Samsonov (2009)
- Diorama “The Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480” (2014)
- "Time of Troubles"
- "Blessing of St. Sergius of Radonezh"
- "Victory of Peresvet"
- "Kulikovo field"
- "Malyuta"
- "Prince Kurbsky"
- "The Quietest"
- "Life of Sergius"
- "Sartak"
- "The Last Judgment"
Pavel Ryzhenko and his paintings in the historical genre of painting
Throughout his life, with all his heart and consciousness, radiating filial love for his homeland and filling every stroke and every stroke on his canvases with this love, Pavel Ryzhenko completely and completely “imbued” his paintings with unprecedented power with greatness. This was the greatness of the Russian Spirit, contained in the images of the hero Peresvet, in the majestic but submissive pose of Emperor Nicholas II, the monumental tragic grandeur of the battles of the past and the sunlight of the monastery apiaries.
As a master of battle scenes, the composition and color scheme of which were imbued with the idea of the Divine battle with Darkness, the artist took an active part in military-patriotic actions on the territory of Russia. He was included in the Studio of Military Artists named after M. B. Grekov as one of the leading master painters, and the first published information that Pavel Ryzhenko died, the cause of death, made public a few days later, was reported to the press by the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense .
During the political upheaval in the spring of 2014 in Ukraine, Pavel Ryzhenko repeatedly expressed his support for the nascent states of Novorossiya. In addition, in the process of painting his canvas “Stokhod”, the artist continuously consulted with Igor Ivanovich Strelkov about the uniform of Russian officers and became very friendly with him, even depicting him on the canvas in the main triangle of the composition. Having learned that Pavel Ryzhenko, whose cause of death directly depended on his enormous mental activity, had died, Strelkov wrote: “I’m grieving. He was a bright man. When I consulted him, he already complained that his hands were going numb.”
Parting words for descendants
When Pavel Ryzhenko died, the cause of death was not immediately announced. Only a few days later it became known that due to intense professional activity he had suffered a stroke.
The artist was buried at the Zhdamirovsky cemetery in the village of the same name near Kaluga.
During his lifetime, he was a very progressive-oriented person, an adept of Orthodox thought as a historically changing content of human existence, the essence of which can be perfectly reflected in the principles of classical pictorial realism.
Links
- [www.museum.ru/N30139 Exhibition of Pavel Ryzhenko at the Museum of the Armed Forces]
- [pavel-ryzhenko.rf/ Website about Pavel Ryzhenko]
- [tv-hudozhnik.rf/articles/all_1/time_201407_1/article_291/ About the creation of a diorama] on the website "tv-hudozhnik.rf"
- [eparhia-kaluga.ru/news/obshchetserkovnye-novosti/4818-otoshel-ko-gospodu-khudozhnik-pavel-ryzhenko.html Pavel Ryzhenko] News archive 07/17/2014 on the official website of the Kaluga diocese.
- [eparhia-kaluga.ru/news/102-novosti-za-2014-god/4928-svyatejshij-patriarkh-kirill-posetil-skity-svyato-tikhonovoj-pustyni.html His Holiness Patriarch Kirill visited the monasteries of St. Tikhon’s Hermitage] News archive 09.09.2014 on the official website of the Kaluga diocese.
