Nikolai Tarkhov Biography

Home »Blog» Nikolai Tarkhov - the chief Russian impressionist Nikolai Tarkhov - the main Russian impressionist to Russia is returning the work of the main Russian impressionist. The works of the artist Nikolai Tarkhov were in oblivion for almost years, starting with the October Revolution. Tarkhov created in Paris next to the great impressionists. What is the difference between Russian impressionism and European?

The unknown of Tarkhov in Russia can be explained by his early departure to France - he forever left Moscow and moved to Paris in the year, already at the age of 28. The main part of the wizard's extensive heritage is abroad-after death, a significant part of his work fell into the collection of the Bird Pale Museum in Geneva. It was all the more interesting to visit the Tarhov exhibition in the Gallery "Our Artists" and compare the undeservedly forgotten art of Tarkhov with the paintings of his contemporaries, who had long received worldwide recognition.

Nikolai Tarkhov turned out to be the only Russian artist with whom Ambroise Vollar himself worked, the famous Parisian Marshan, who paved the way for impressionism into the largest world collections. Vollarus successfully exhibited and sold Tarkhov’s paintings - and often for the amounts large than Van Gogh for work! Despite this, we still see about him only 12 meager lines on Wikipedia, of course, I mean Tarkhov, and not Van Gogh.

The words of Sergei Makovsky, the organizer of the exhibition of N. Tarkhov in St. Petersburg in the year, are still relevant: “Tarkhov is still knowing little in Russia. It is time for us, Russians, to understand that Tarkhov is a great native talent. It's time to bow to his deeply true, sincere, beautiful creativity. ” Tarkhov and Claude Monet's close neighborhood with eminent impressionists, then with the post -impressionists and finally formed a peculiar and bizarre man of Tarkhov painting with the Fovisters.

At the exhibition, you immediately begin to feel the familiar style and techniques of Monet and Van Gogh, but with some elusive Russian raid, adjusted for the Russian perception of the landscape. Here is the “morning above the water” of Tarkhov, but the program for all impressionism is the landscape of Claude Monet “Impression. Sunrise". Claude Monet "Impression. Sunrise of the Sun ”The same reflections of the light, transmitted by pastel strokes of a thick orange with streaks, the same waves of the waves transferred by the glare of white and cream.

Pure colors, separate strokes, but the impression is created completely different! Vincent Van Gogh “Star Night over Rona” pay attention to the same number of glare on the water! The similarity of the plan is obvious, but it seems that Tarkhov simply did not dare to draw such bright stars. The Russian impressionism of Russian artists of the first half of the 20th century, who would most part of their lives write very little in the style of impressionism - the early works of Falk, Korovin, Grabar and ...

Tarhov. The identity and talent of the Russian impressionist was highly appreciated by Malevich, Benois, Makovsky, Rothschild, Diaghilev ... “You will recognize Tarkhova in Parisian salons among thousands of paintings at once. Starting from his nervous, often even a convulsive manner, ending with his tone, hot, bright, precisely “sonorous”, all the best in him belongs to him and only to him.

In my opinion, Tarkhov is unlikely to open a new page in impressionism, as well as in all the other Izmas of the beginning of the 20th century. The same well -recognized French field plots are transmitted by no less recognizable intense strokes. But Russian light and color take their own. It seems that a long life in sunny France did not save Tarkhov’s landscapes from heavy colors and cloudy shades.

In his works, the alarming contrasts of the harsh Russian nature and a more restrained northern flavor are still clearly emerging. It seems that such a color palette is absorbed into a Russian artist from birth, once and for all, and does not leave him until his death. The phenomenon of the color elements of Russian artists sharply and categorically spoke out of Salvador Dali, but this will be a separate post.

And which of the great ones does this landscape of Nikolai Tarkhov remind you?

Nikolai Tarkhov "Valle-de-Revex" Fragment.