Nowadays recreation is not so easy, especially during the New Year vacations. Unfortunately, to go skiing, as some of our wonderful officials most can not afford, so you have to sit at home in front of the TV, watching stultifying programs. But many famous artists with a vacation things were much better, about how vacationed Salvador Dali, Ernst Kirchner and Konstantin Korovin we will talk about in this article.
Salvador Dali. The permanence of memory
Salvador Dali preferred work to idleness, and he can well be called a complete workaholic, although the work itself must have given him great pleasure, and was really interesting. But in 1939 the Second World War broke out, and he was determined to find a quiet, and as comfortable a place as possible, where he could survive it. He was a real gourmet, so he settled in the French small town of Arcachon, located south of Bordeaux, famous for its oysters and red wines. There Dali and his wife Gala rented a mansion and continued to enjoy life - created, for example, wrote the painting "Two pieces of bread, expressing the feeling of love", visited expensive restaurants, received guests, in particular, Coco Chanel, about whom he later enthusiastically said: "she - a great talker.
Salvador Dali. Two pieces of bread expressing the feeling of love
And he was also sincerely proud that he "did not participate in any way in this madness that swept Europe, did not succumb to the tricks of propaganda, and just continued to live his life, trying to stay away from the war and keeping a critical mind".
True, in 1940, when the Germans got to their place and seriously promised to shoot all the locals, Dali's stoic calm was broken, and Dali and Gala tried to move as quickly as possible to America, away from all this. It's good to have such an opportunity, it's just a pity that only Dali had it.
Salvador Dali. Elephants
German artist Ernst Kirchner liked to vacation with friends on the German island of Femarn. However, that vacation was quite free - they widely practiced nudism, and Kirchner diligently sketched everything he saw. In general, a triumph of closeness to nature and the German notion of healthy and proper recreation, although Kirchner and his friends from the artistic association "Most" managed to put a whole philosophical concept under this case.
Ernst Kirchner. Bathers on the island of Fehmarn.
Happiness and meaning of life - in the maximum closeness to nature, and nudity is only a manifestation of this closeness, in contrast to the soulless civilization, which increasingly dominates over man. This idea he tried to reflect in his paintings in the style of expressionism, and the city there - a place quite uncomfortable, poorly adapted for life, erasing any individuality. Kirchner sincerely regretted that summer and fall are so quickly over and have to return again to the city that he was fed up with. He associated all happiness with this island, creativity and its amazing nature. "There are thousands more things I would like to sketch there and every day brings me new joys." Indeed, one can envy this artist.
Ernst Kirchner. Fehmarn dunes with bathers under Japanese umbrellas
Konstantin Korovin was on vacation in Barcelona, where he went at the expense of the Russian manufacturer and patron of art Savva Mamontov. That conceived to put in his home theater opera "Carmen" Bizet, and Korovin asked Mamontov to pay for the trip, so that he could sketch the necessary sketches on the spot.
Sketch of the scenery
Nothing surprising - to enter into confidence in people the artist knew how to perfectly, was characterized by a light and cheerful character, and cleverly used the disposition to him on the part of persons rich and noble, although unscrupulous careerist he can not be called by any means. Korovin did not know the Spanish language, and when he arrived at night in Barcelona, asked as he could from the porter, where he would stay for the night. He took him to the local monastery, where he was given a place on a pile of straw in the cellar. But there were some other strange things there, such as an iron maiden and ominous kinds of ticks, which did not contribute to a peaceful rest.
Konstantin Korovin. At the balcony. Spaniards Leonora and Ampara
Korovin was not forcibly kept there, so he hurried to leave the cellar and settle down in a more civilized place. On the way he stopped at a tavern where a beautiful Spanish woman was serving wine. Korovin did not heed the warnings he had received in Russia that local wine should not be abused and got drunk. He woke up without money in the street, but at least he had some documents and a ticket to Valencia, which he had bought in advance.
Konstantin Korovin. In a Spanish tavern
There he stayed and worked, wrote sketches, and some time later local artists invited him to "obscene dances" and told him to take with him a navakha - that is, a special knife for self-defense.
Konstantin Korovin. Buying a dagger
"Fun entertainment" - thought the artist, but agreed to go with them. When they came to a small tavern where gypsies danced, then Korovin realized - this is the ideal setting for the scenery for the opera about Carmen and immediately began to draw numerous sketches. The trip was clearly not in vain.
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