In the Penza virtual branch of the Russian Museum, another video session was held for the youngest students of the V.E. Tatlin. Today they heard Fafali's story about the work of a Russian artist-painter and architect, a master of historical and folklore painting.
In Vasnetsov's work, various genres are clearly represented, which have become stages of a very interesting evolution: from everyday life to a fairy tale, from easel painting to monumental, from the earthiness of the Itinerants to the prototype of the modern style. At an early stage, everyday subjects prevailed in Vasnetsov's works.
Later, the main direction becomes the epic and historical, which for the smallest viewers is special interest. At the end of the 1890s, an increasingly prominent place in his work is occupied by a religious theme: he performed works in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev and in the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, watercolor drawings and, in general, preparatory originals of wall paintings for the Cathedral of St. Vladimir. painting of the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in Presnya).
Vasnetsov worked in a team of artists who decorated the interior of the Alexander Nevsky memorial church in Sofia. Collaborated with V.D. Polenov, M.V. Nesterov, I.G. Blinov and other artists. After 1917, Vasnetsov continued to work on folk fairy-tale themes, creating the canvases "Fight of Dobrynya Nikitich with the seven-headed Serpent Gorynych" (1918); "Koschey the Immortal" (1917-1926).
