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Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov (russian: Илларио́н Миха́йлович Пря́нишников; – ) was a Russian
painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
, one of the founders of the
Peredvizhniki Peredvizhniki ( rus, Передви́жники, , pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restr ...
artistic cooperative, which broke away from the rigors of their time and became one of the most important Russian art schools of the late 19th century.


Biography

Illarion Pryanishnikov was born in the village of Timashovo in the Borovsky Uyezd of
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(today's
Borovsky District Borovsky District (russian: Боровский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Kaluga Oblast and municipalLaw #7-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area ...
of
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) in a family of merchants. From 1856 to 1866 he studied in the
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (russian: Московское училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества, МУЖВЗ) also known by the acronym MUZHZV, was one of the largest educational insti ...
in the classes of Evgraf Sorokin and
Sergey Zaryanko Sergey Konstantinovich Zaryanko (Russian: Сергей Константинович Зарянко; 6 October 1818, Lyady, Vitebsk Region, Lyady – 1 January 1870, Moscow) was a Russian portrait painter and art teacher of Belarusian people, Belar ...
. His picture ''Jokers.
Gostiny Dvor Gostinyi dvor ( rus, гостиный двор, p=ɡɐˈsʲtʲinɨj ˈdvor) is a historic Russian term for an indoor market or shopping centre. It is translated from Russian either as "guest court" or "merchant yard", although both translations a ...
in Moscow'', painted in the last year of education, straight away brought to him a wide reputation. In this small canvas he gives an original solution of a theme of the humiliation of human dignity, callousness and cruelty in the world, where everything is bought and is sold. After depicting the tipsy merchants, who with a jeer are compelled to dance under the concertina and a poor elderly official, the artist authentically demonstrates a whole gallery of the specimens of moral deformity and complacent caddishness. The painting caused indignation in some adherents of official academic art who felt that the young painter appeared as the destroyer of the "high" destination of the art which was to express in the ideal form the eternal truths. In 1870 Pryanishnikov received the title of the "painter of 1st degree". From 1873 until his death he was a teacher in the MSoPSA and his apprentices were
Konstantin Korovin Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (russian: Константи́н Алексе́евич Коро́вин, first name often spelled Constantin; 11 September 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Biography Youth and education Konstan ...
,
Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya Vitold Kaetanovich Byalynitsky-Birulya ( be, Вітольд Каэтанавіч Бялыніцкі-Біруля, russian: Вито́льд Каэта́нович Бялыни́цкий-Бируля́; in Krynki, (now Byalynichy District), Mogil ...
,
Mikhail Nesterov Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров; – 18 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of ...
, Alexei Stepanov and others. From the outset of the existence of the union of Peredvizhniks, he was a member, and from the second exhibition he was one of directors of the union. Although Pryanishnikov lived in mainly in
Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
, he often visited the Russian north where he sketched. He took part in the decoration of the original
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour ( rus, Храм Христа́ Спаси́теля, r=Khram Khristá Spasítelya, p=xram xrʲɪˈsta spɐˈsʲitʲɪlʲə) is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskv ...
, which was demolished in 1931. Pryanishnikov died in Moscow where one of the streets was named after him.


Gallery

File:Illarion Michajlowitsch Prjanischnikow 002.jpg, ''Jokers.
Gostiny Dvor Gostinyi dvor ( rus, гостиный двор, p=ɡɐˈsʲtʲinɨj ˈdvor) is a historic Russian term for an indoor market or shopping centre. It is translated from Russian either as "guest court" or "merchant yard", although both translations a ...
in Moscow'' (1865) File:Pryanishnikov Porozhnyaki.jpg, ''Empties'' (''Порожняки'', 1872) File:French_retreat_in_1812_by_Pryanishnikov.jpg, ''Episode of the war of 1812'' (1874) File:1887 Pryanishnikov Auferstehungstag anagoria.JPG, ''Resurrection day in the north'' (1887) File:Illarion Michajlowitsch Prjanischnikow 001.jpg, ''Easter procession'' (1893) File:Приготовление почвы для посева льна в Вологодской губернии.jpg, Preparing the Ground for
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(1890)


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Biography
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Article in Ogonyok
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pryanishnikov, Illarion Mikhailovich 1840 births 1894 deaths People from Borovsky District People from Borovsky Uyezd 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters Russian realist painters Peredvizhniki 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture faculty