Artists drawing new year and Christmas. Christmas of Christ in the paintings of the artists of different countries and epochs

Artists drawing new year and Christmas. Christmas of Christ in the paintings of the artists of different countries and epochs
10.07.2019

New Year and Christmas is one of the most popular topics in world art. Most people have only positive emotions, so artists gladly depict snowy houses, fluffy trees and heroes waiting for the holiday.

AiF.Ru presents a selection of paintings dedicated to the New Year and Christmas.

Boris Kustodiev. "Christmas Torg" (1918)

Boris Kustodiev. "Christmas bargaining", 1918. Krasnodar regional art museum. F.A. Kovlenko.

Folk holidays and festivities were one of the favorite those artists. And christmas, of course, held a special place in his work.

Viggo Yuhansen "Happy Christmas" (1891)

Viggo Yuhansen. "Happy Christmas", 1891. Hirschsprung Museum.

Did not resist the temptation to portray Christmas and Dane Viggo Yuhansen - Representative of the Spring Artists Group and Director of the Danish Academy of Arts.

Henrietta Ronner-Book "under the Christmas tree" ("Kittens with Doll")

Henrietta Ronner Book. "Under the tree".

Danish an animal artist became famous for his paintings of cats and dogs. Her christmas heroes have become also kittens.

Konstantin Truitovsky "Carols in Malororsia" (no later than 1864)

Konstantin Trotovsky. "Carols in Malororsia", no later than 1864, canvas, oil. State Russian Museum.

The Russian painter became famous for the illustrations of Gogol Works. And the history and traditions of Malorussessia studied with special addiction.

Great Princess Olga Romanova. "New Year's treat" (1935)

Great Princess Olga Romanova. "New Year's treat", 1935.

In the imperial family of all children trained painting, but only Great Princess Olga (Junior Emperor's Daughter Alexandra III) I became a fairly famous artist.

Fedor Reshetnikov. "Arrived on vacation" (1948)

Fedor Reshetnikov. "Arrived on vacation", 1948. State Tretyakov Gallery.

Jenny Nistron. Christmas cards

Christmas greeting card Jenny Niktrem.

In general, the Swedish artist became famous for his images of Nissi - it was she who came up with what this gnome and house look like. She often drawn her nicely on Christmas cards - the gnomes are fed by livestock and street birds, the Christmas trees and gifts are carrying.

Sergey Leopsin. "Preparing for Christmas" (1896)

Sergey Leopsin. "Preparing for Christmas", 1896.

There is no Christmas tree and gifts in the picture, but the family (grandfather and grandchildren) gathered to make garlands and decorations for the house.

Norman Rockwell. "Very good boys and girls" (1939)

Norman Rockwell. "Very good boys and girls", 1939.

Now the paintings of the famous American artist and illustrator hunt collectors from around the world. By the image of Santa Claus, who reads a list of "very good" children and develops its own route for the Christmas night, at the Christie's auction in 2007, 2.5 million dollars helped (the illustration decorated the cover of The Saturday Evening Post).

Stewart Sherwood. Untitled

Work Stewart Sherwood.

Canadian self-taught painter especially likes to depict Christmas: you can meet Santa, and snow-covered houses, and Teddy bears in his paintings. Sherwood also creates more "serious" work - for example, wrote portraits Pope Rimsky and.

Nativity. Patriarch Learn the sovereign in the Golden Chamber.
Buchholts Fedor (Theodore Alexander Ferdinand) Fedorovich (Gustavovich) (1857-1942).
Illustration for the magazine "Niva". Engraved shyubler


Christmas bargaining.
Henry Matveevich Manizer. Canvas, oil.
Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts. M. A. Vrubel


Christmas market.
Buchkuri Alexander Alekseevich (1870 -1942). 1906


Preparatory drawing to the picture "Christmas bargaining". 1918.
Kustodiev Boris Mikhailovich


Christmas bargaining.
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. 1918. Canvas, oil. 98x98.
Krasnodar regional art museum. F. Kovalenko, Krasnodar

The canvas on the themes of festive provincial life are different, only for Kustodiev characteristic brightness, multicolored and the vitality of the smallest details. Folk holidays and festivities have reflected in many works of the artist of different years. Becpending the student of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Kustodiev the theme of his thesis chose a picture on a similar plot. He traveled around the villages, wrote etudes - portraits of peasants, landscape sketches, genre scenes. The same topic also includes the "christmas bargain" - a work created by the artist in 1918.

Hitting the life and morals of the Russian province, Kustodiev surprisingly combined painting with verbal and musical folklore - with a song and a fairy tale. Attentive, thoughtful viewer not only sees, but also "hears" the artist's work. Written, most likely, in memory, the picture does not have an accurate geographical address - this is Russia at all, not the Astrakhan or Kostroma Christmas Bazaar. The effect on the canvas is as if "in some kingdom, in some state." The spacious sky and the gilded domes of the church over a fussy human anthill - who are only not among this motley crowd! Real wonderfully combined with fantastic: colorful tale, full of living parts, appears before us. And the artist, as if a real storyteller, emphasized everything funny, toy, which is in this uncomplicated narration, hiding everything serious that could be in it hidden. The Christmas Bazaar is depicted by an artist as a festive spectacle. The pattern of the picture resembles a stage platform. The location of the figures, at first glance, is given chaotic: the image can be continued and right, and left. The impertness of the composition, its peculiar fluidity even more strengthens this is the overall impression.

A great place is allocated in this genre scene. The scenery - fabulous seems to be church domes on the background of a snow-covered sky, ate was removed into elegant winter clothes - the main object of bargaining at the fair. The brush smear on the canvas artist did easily, smoothly, even somehow delicately. Large importance attached to the line of line, drawing, playing color spots. Light in this case does not matter much, the light becomes very conditional. Local color spots form a harmonious decorative whole. The sky closed with clouds does not have depth, the dome of the church is intense in color, so that the difference of plans is reduced almost.

On the one hand, the bush is notified and transferred to the canvas genuine types of the Russian province, the real atmosphere of the pre-New Year fuss is transferred and on the other - a festive performance, a costume performance with beautiful scenery is playing in front of us by the artist. Joyful, with nothing with a comparable feeling of fullness of life and movement permeates the canvas. Life in this work is visible everywhere: the people are happy and fussy, in the sky draws his intricate snowy winter patterns in the sky, and all this action will enhance the fresh coniferous aroma of the ate-beauties.

The world in the picture of Kustodiev is similar to the magic light with ever-changing pictures - you can endlessly observe his diverse, so simple, Nomudren and at the same time a complete deep meaning of life. The blue and gentle-white paint paintings are packed, pleased, as if they burn, creating a gentle and poetic atmosphere of the miracle standby on the eve of the holiday - timeless, always modern. They remind us eternally busy and anywhere in a hurry that everything in this world is fine that life is amazing already because it is life.

From the book: T. Kondratenko, Y. Solodovnikov "Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko". White city, 2003.


Behind Christmas trees


Return from the Christmas Fair.
MM Germishev (Bubello). Postcard


Preparing for Christmas.
Sergey Vasilyevich Leopsin (1869-1916). 1896


Christmas tree.
Corin Aleksey Mikhailovich.1910


Tree.
Nikolai Ivanovich Feshin (1881-1955). 1917


Christmas tree.
Alexander Morazov. 1921


New Year's treat.
Great Princess Olga Aleksandrovna Romanova (Sister Imp. Nicholas II). 1935


Christmas day. In the monastery.
Ivan Stolech Goryushkin-Sorokopudov. Illustration in the journal "Niva"


Slavic cities.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich. 1867 canvas oil


Slavs.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich. 1868. Canvas, oil.
State Russian Museum


Slavs.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich. Canvas, oil.
State Vladimir-Suzdal Historical and Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve


Slavs.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich. Canvas, oil.
Odessa Art Museum


Slavs.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich. 1872. Canvas, oil. 40.3? 51.5.
Ulyanovsky Art Museum


Country-christian.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich (1837-1883). 1872. Canvas, oil.
Perm State Art Gallery

Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich (1837 - 1883) visited the classes of the Imperial Academy of Arts and received a small silver medal for the paintings of the "Name Day" (1862) and "Slavic-Gorodi" (1864), which V. V. Stasov welcomed as "Wonderful Fresh Fedotovskaya Siblings schools. The last plot was subsequently repeatedly repeated, not less than 18 copyright replicas, although the first option was not preserved. Art Catalog

In the cellar on a spanime week.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich (1837-1883). 1878. Canvas, oil. 26.5x21.5.
Art Gallery of the Foundation Generations of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District of Ugra
Arrival: 2003

In the painting "In the cellar on a batch week", Solomatkin depicts his favorite heroes - stray musicians. Talent is a burden or gift, happiness or curse? Talent is fate. The artist himself and his heroes did not make talent happy, but they with dignity fulfill their destination. The musicians depicted in the picture knew the best days. The Cello, which plays an old man is a professional tool that allows the musician to qualify for a certain chosenness, indicating a certain level of living, remaining in the past. The old man is accompanied by a boy blowing on him on a pipe. Apparently, for the sake of this boy, carefully covered with a warm scarf, the old man has to wander with a heavy zucchini tool in a zucchini, earning bread. In the room there is a Christmas tree decorated with toys, and masks and masquerade costumes hang on the hanger, giving all this a phantasmagoric tint. Art Gallery Fund Generations KhMAO Ugra

Waits. (Children of the Old Village).
Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov (1870 - 1958). 1935. Canvas, oil. 63x83 cm
Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzi


With a star.
Reproduction from the picture M. Rhermashev, published by Rishar, printed in the printing house of the Partnership "R.Golike and A.Vilborg". Petrograd, 1916


Christmas card Figure Boris Zvorikina

Carols in Malorussia.
Truitansky Konstantin Aleksandrovich (1826-1893). No later than 1864
Russian painting


Carols.
Nikolay Kornilovich Pimenko. Second floor. 1880s. Canvas, oil. 170x130.
Donetsk Regional Art Museum
museum-painting.dp.ua.


Skating.
Buchkuri Alexander Alekseevich (1870 -1942). Canvas, oil.

What bliss that snow shine,
That cold is faster, and in the morning you dried,
That wild and gently sparkles foil
At every corner and in the shop window.
While Serpentine, Mishura, Danitel
Go up over the missing other property,
Tomission of the New Year's week
To tolerate and demolish - what a wonderful fate ...

(Bella AhmadulinaDecember 1974)

  1. (Artist-illustrator Alexander Dudin, 1953)

I start my New Year's review of painting dedicated to the annual Christmas celebration and a new year meeting with this common symbolic summarized illustration for creating an appropriate mood at the reader. This does not mean that I will show reproductions with ordinary decorated Christmas tree decorated and fun around them and adults, but I will try to show something non-born, and the original type of paintings on the title called the topic, which, as it turned out, not so many artists is written. If you do not assemble the entire classic biblical series of paintings written by great masters of the past, then the name and tasks of our research would be different. But there are modern original exclusive painting stories that it is worth highlighting and showed as a reflection of the Christmas holiday and a new year meeting. ...

I, naturally, I can't appreciate the New Year's Eve and Christmas painting in your manner from the point of view of the doctor, as I tried to do in previous reviews, but I will try to discuss reproductions as a conventional viewer and an amateur in art. And it is entitled to choose nontrivial plots in his real review, rare pictures of famous artists and images are unexpected for some authors, paintings with humor and with exclusive plots. But all of them are written on the occasion of Christmas or New Year holidays, often combining both celebrations.

For example, a completely unusual picture of El Salvador Dali, written for the French women's magazine"Vogue" (pronounced vog., FR. - "Fashion") - Women's magazine about fashion, published since 1892 by the Publishing House Condé Nast Publications, Perceived as a joke of genius.

As far as I could see and understand, there are two parts of the opened arch in the form of a leaning man and women, from the mouths of which green Christmas tree toys are lowered on the suspension - droplets or light bulbs. Separated balusters are made as parts of a person. The above was visible fir with bright and brightenily luminous lights ...

  1. Christmas design was given for "Vogue" in 1946. The artist depicted an allegorical New Year's landscape with metaphoric details of the decor and architecture ...

It is quite natural that the artists could not circumvent the attention of such plots that were to be transferred to the canvas of their magic brushes. Where else can I find pictures for cheerful images, fabulous, colorful, fun and fantastic content, how not during the Christmas and New Year holidays?

  1. This is one of the old German engravings on which children and Santa Claus himself gathered at the Tree of Claus (it. Klausbaum). Engraving from the German book "50 Basen with pictures for children."

Of course, it is unlikely that there are pictures of the great masters of the past, when there were no traditions to celebrate these days and draw them in the paintings. After all, the first mention of the celebration of the Nativity of Christ in Russia appeared only at the very end of the 20th century. And celebrating the new year with Christmas tree and later.

  1. Picture of an unknown artist about a new year meeting in the peasant zeba before or in the first years after the October coup.

On December 15, 1699, Peter 1 issued a decree on the new summer, in connection with which, the new year began to celebrate on January 1. Due to the passion of Peter I, Europe, the celebration of the New Year began to hold a manner on the adopted there. Celebrations have become more fun and a bright event for the Russian people. Based on the Dutch traditions, people began to decorate their dwellings with coniferous branches that should have stayed before the Nativity of Christ. The celebration of the New Year has its main character - Santa Claus, a fairy-tale character, who also came to us from Europe in the second half of the XIX century under the name of Santa Claus. In Russian tradition, his granddaughter appeared Snow Maiden.

In this bright holiday

In this bright holiday -
Christmas holiday
We say each other
Nice words.

Quiet snow lies:
Outside the window winter
Miracle here happened
And he lights the heart.

Let your smiles
In this wonderful day
There are happiness to our
And the gift to all.

Pour the sounds of life
Happiness and good,
Reasoning thoughts
Christmas light.
- Khomyakov Alexey Stepanovich (1804-1860)

True, even before Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, the first guest who came to the new year was a snowy woman or a snowman, compiled from the skated balls of fresh snow, designated by the coal of the face, carrot instead of the nose, buckets or pans on the head, and brooms in the hands of branches ...

In the courtyard children are friends with him.
He loves frost and wind.
Will not go: where wants
And stands from morning to night.
He does not eat, does not drink, not sleeping,
And over him the snow flies ...
He's not used to live warm.
From - ha - yes? (Snowman)

(Alexandrenko Elena)

  1. "Snow Maiden" (literally, "girl from snow").

But the artist Sergey Sviridov decided to diversify the company of familiar snowmen or snowy women and painted the Snow Maiden in the image of a small sprout of a snowy grandmother in a typical appearance of the skated balls of fresh snow, laid out by coals of the face and buttons, carrot instead of the nose, a red bucket or pans on the head (yet , woman!) And the brooms in the hands of the branches ... and from under the buckets of the hats sticks out a whiteberry "lump of hair" from a chips or twigs of a broom ...

This snowy girl - the Snow Maiden stands in the yard beside the dressed trees and waiting for the real girl to appear in the window and smile, exclaiming: - "Happy New Year, dear girlfriend!"

Another guest we will have Santa Claus, which brought

  1. artist Valentin Gubarev In the picture "New Year". The artist, endowed with a bright personality and special, non-bank vision of the world - with a big humor draws its plots. One of which demonstrates the arrival of Santa Claus, sitting on children's sleds with bent legs. Santochosy pulls a long-skinned not thinning lady in a wasteful coat and a red hat. Probably teacher of the local school, which the pedsovet instructed to organize a new year meeting. The road pointing to her the funny red puppy, turning the head to her and advising the ringing lame where to move on. Santa rides in the Russian village with visible away the bell tower ...

Santa Claus's other vision offers us in a beautiful image Canadian self-taught stewart Sherwood, who really loves to draw everything that concerns Christmas holidays, without sparing bright red shades and humor, as in this picture without a name. But we ourselves can describe it, as it seems:

  1. Here it burst in a convenient position in white socks with a non-hairstyled white dust hair on his head and face, which continues in a long beard, on a chair with a retractable footrest, and carefully reads a list of gifts and addresses, what and where he will have to deliver everything to New year. According to recommendations in the book "Very good boys and girls" lying next to Teddy on the floor.

  1. And on this funny picture of the American popular artist of Norman Rockwell, painted by him in 1939, Santa Claus, sitting on a stepladder from the world map and also reads a list of "very good" children, and develops its own route for Christmas night. By the way, many collectors hunt for his paintings. And at Christie's auction in 2007, 2.5 million dollars were charged for their selection (the illustration was decorated with the cover of The Saturday Evening POST). (We will meet with this artist along the narration).

Now you can get acquainted with the images of Russian Snow Maiden, who climbed only in Russia in the paintings of Russian artists. And among them the first Snow Maiden in the same picture of V.M. Vasnetsova drawn to them back in 1899.

  1. Snow Maiden - Daughter of Spring and Frost - Favorite Fairy Character of Christmas Holidays, Although in the libretto, the Opera about Christmas and New Year does not say, and the tragic love story of Snow Maiden and Shepherd Lelia and her death from the rays Yarilo - Sun, for knowing love Being a man. Nevertheless, Vasnetsov drew his picture under the influence of the "Snow Maiden" fairy tale and the opera of Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1881), written, in turn, according to the eponymous play of Alexander Ostrovsky (1873).
    In the picture, as in the decorations of the opera - a fabulously beautiful night: a snowy forest, filled with moonlight, starry sky. Her fur coat, mittens, cap absorbed all shades of snow, forests, sky. Dazzling white snow, blue-green night, young Christmas trees in the foreground - everything in the painting is shown reliably with the extraordinary accuracy of the brush of a large master - the singer of Russian nature.

  1. Mikhail Vrubel presented his image of "Snow Maiden", (1890). The picture is written in the manner of postmingness. The prototype of the image of the Snow Maiden, his muses (like marine princesses and spring), was always his wife, the actress Nadezhda Ivanovna fell. Throughout the entire marriage life, she was a mystery to the artist with his attractive force characteristic.

In the appearance of the Snow Maiden, the artist showed snow-covered loose girl curls, sparkling major snowflakes on them, like precious decorations. In her, always liked her face, Tomny was captured, slightly surprisedly removed, look and still feel some kind of childishness in closed lips. Snow-covered fir branches discarded patterned shadows with a bluish tint. As a fabulous forest hostess, Snow Maiden-Kudesnitsa is not afraid of cold and frost and her children's, gentle bare brushes and I want to hide in the coupling or put on them mittens ...

But this picture, as well as the previous one only applies to Christmas or New Year, symbolizing their arrival and our custom to generalize them.

But we were distracted by the Council of New Year's celebrations and forgot to buy chips! We immediately go to Christmas tanks to have time to purchase this important and beautiful attribute of the New Year holiday. Here is one of those such paintings by Henry Maniser. And it's a pity to show her, for it is all the latitude and character of the Russian soul, long fur coats and Tulup men, shawls and winter fur caps, gomon and unrestrained fun on their faces.

  1. Henry Manizer "Christmas Torg". As written in a footnote under the picture - "Before Christmas, a day for three, in the markets, on the squares, the forest of the Christmas tree. And what kind of trees! This good in Russia how much you want. On theatrical square, there was a forest. "

And one more Christmas market, painted the provincial Russian artist Alexander Bukchi:

  1. Bucchi Alexander Alekseevich (1870 --1942) in 1906. In this bazaar, a more calm public, obviously, from rich families, chooses the village and other attributes to decorate their trees and at home. The goods are placed around separately so that the buyer can estimate the beauty of the tree, the reception they are already fortified on the crosses. Buy, drive home and immediately put on the place in advance in the room.

And now everything is on the "christmas bargain", drawn ten years later. B.M. Unfortunately, Kustodiev, unfortunately, was already chaped to the chair because of the increasing paralysis of the legs ...

Folk holidays and festivities were one of the favorite those artists. And Christmas, of course, occupied a special place in his work. The picture shows what happens somewhere in Russia on New Year's Day. Crowds of buyers, carts with horses charged in them, the beauties of trees that are romant to the sleigh. Sell \u200b\u200bChristmas trees for decorating at home, for fun children, for a festive mood, for not a light, but fascinating process of trees, than the whole family is doing, as shown in the next picture.

  1. Boris Kustodiev. "Christmas bargaining", 1918. Krasnodar regional art museum. F.A. Kovlenko.

I remember the former excitement with the purchase of a tree in advance and temporary placement on the balcony. And also boxes of old toys, drawn from cabinets, chest of drawers, removed from the mezzanine. The emergence of new, especially German, distinguished beautiful color and weightlessness of the material ... Smells of old wool, toys, especially soft, absorbed and preserved them, traces of confetti or all sorts of powders and crunch of broken fragments under their feet, which will be sweep, but will not disappear until the end of New Year Holidays ...

Christmas
My calendar semi-fell
Punchova bloated;
on glasses of palm trees and opals
Frost sorceress brought.
Pirish resulted in a pattern,
The radiant arched by Arc,
and mandarins and boron
In the living room smells blue.
- Vladimir NabokovSeptember 23, 1921, Berlin

  1. Sergey Vasilyevich Leopsin - preparation for Christmas, (1896). There is still no Christmas tree and gifts in the picture, but the family gathered to make garlands and decorations for the house. This is not something to go to the store and at the Christmas Toy Bazaar to choose those that, in the shower or by order of kids, the fantasy of which sometimes exceed the possibilities and retail chains and parents. And this is often to blame for advertising. It seems like this:

On the advertising canvase, in this case, the pictures of the American artist Niki Bobem, it is proposed to see how it is better to put and decorate everything in the house on his cut in a series of bright and colorful paintings: "Beautiful winter fairy tale from Nicky Boehme."

  1. "Spectators", fascinated by the display of the interior already gathered and ready to sign a press release with recommendations for consumers and retail chains. Everything is delighted! Both penguins, and squirrel, and a cat with a dog, as well as a gazelle ... people have not yet gathered, and the younger brothers have already been pulled out and stronger early.

The Christmas tree is decorated and alone, if it does not work out or in front of the crown in a wounded white dress, as wearing this charming girl with sad, as it seems to me, face. Although sadness is and calm, temporary. And tomorrow, her face may be illuminated by a cheerful joyful smile, and in the eyes of Christmas-tree rainbow lights ...


  1. Alexey Mikhailovich Corin - Christmas Tree, 1910

But the sad decoration of the tree with two lonely women, possibly a mother with an uncomfortable or abandoned (diluted) daughter, which in the hands of the handkerchief, maybe she cries ...

  1. Yozhef Ripl Ronai. "Winter evening. Christmas decoration "1910. One of the women is preparing another candle, attaching it to the Christmas tree. Her Lybit is sad and thoughtful, for it is experiencing an even more sad state of the second woman sitting at the table and closed her face with his hands. This state is indicated by the term "FacePalm" (English Face - Person, Palm - Palm). This is a physical gesture - "face closed Hands ", which is a manifestation of disappointment, shame, despondency, irritation or embarrassment." This gesture is sometimes called "Hellezo" or "Chelidgelan") ...

    I first met with such terms ... So, this is her adult daughter, her child, for under the picture there is such an entry - the "child -face-demand" ... maybe. With the author do not argue.

And in the next picture of the same Hungarian artist again the same gloomy setting in the Christmas evening on which one, a more young woman writes something on an open secret. More elderly, perhaps mother, stands waiting in upset feelings and waits when the letter is completed. Both are dressed in a coat and hats and are going to get out of the house. The elderly lady seems to be a stick for a support with a pitch when walking ...

  1. Joseph Ripple Ron. Christmas. 1903.

On the bedside table in the clay pot on the background of the carpet, a modestly decorated small tree. On the sides, two unemployed candles under the barded lampshades ... Not all holidays are fun and careless.

Christmas romance ...
Your new year on dark blue
Waves of the Sea of \u200b\u200bthe Urban
Flowing in longing inexplicable
As if life will begin again,
As if there would be light and glory,
Good day and plenty of bread,
As if life swings to the right,
Swinging to the left.
(Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky (1961)

  1. Edward Munch "Christmas in Bordend", 1904.

The painting "Christmas in Bordend" of the famous and talented Norwegian artist Edward Minka in the style of expressionism was completed in 1904/05. And posted in the museum of Mulk in Oslo. The picture was created in difficult times for mug. As a result of various distillations, Munch suffered from anxious mental states, from which he tried to cope with alcohol and drugs. He had to be periodically treated in a psychiatric clinic.

A visit to the brother in Lübeck, under Christmas, caused him a state of "light melancholy" due to the impressionability of the situation, when the "workers" girls in just finished decorating the Christmas tree. He considered it ironic, sentimental and ugly. Prostitution was a favorite Mukka theme And later he will create a whole series of paintings, The Green Room.

But we are again distracted by the main task - it will be prepared for the meeting of the New Year, and toys are not all walked on numerous Christmas tree. Some of them lie on the table, which is shown in the picture of the modern artist T.V. Bussionsova.

  1. Bessonova Tamara Vladimirovna "New Year", 1955

From under the mask of the sad Pierreo, beautiful Christmas trees are visible, and between them, and masquerade colorful, all in artwork, mask, and more simple at the feet of Martyrs. And fuel to masks for masquerade and various large balls, which was surprised by a little parsley in the foreground ...

  1. Unknown artist introduced a "festive other gift of gifts for the girl" to Christmas, (1840) . "Table of Christmas Gifts for a Girl," Unknown Artist.

In the girl - dolls sitting at the table, on the background of a poorly decorated tree, see some items, perhaps gifts. There are yellow boots, a white blouse with a blue belt, garlands of pink paper flowers, a basket of apples and a vase ... Shoes, really for a girl, but it replaces her doll to this strange picture ... that he wanted to show the author. Ask not anyone, since it is not known to us.

And if the toys on the pictures presented are still small, then the shops are still open and the metro still works and it looks like the same as they painted their Natasha Villon: the escalators are overflowing, barely accommodate all buyers with cloths, bags, children with toys in their hands. Everyone is in a hurry home to have time to dress the Christmas tree and prepare goodies and outfits. Christmas began and the new year will come soon ... The picture of the New Year's subway is filled with noise, movement. Everything in excitation and humor is visible in each of the passengers descending into the metro on the escalator. The hat - the cap almost dropped on the face of the girl, and from under the cap - "airfield" only black mustlery are clearly identified. Two baults, like the ears of the hare emphasize the face of a woman in a black handkerchief, standing with her eyes closed and not afraid of falling because of the population density insisting ... A funny girl with a big teddy bear smiling with a dark-skinned young man with big skis.

Soon the escalator will be free from familiar people to us who disperse in different directions. And others will fill the wake-up staircase until you run out completely ...

  1. Artist Natasha Villon, "Pre-New Year Metro"

Sometimes a grandmother, who has more free time, while still at work or at school, begins to decorate the Christmas tree independent, looking at toys and remembering every one, as it is called and where it will have to hang ... It is possible that the grandmother suddenly begins to remember Christmas holidays Or a new year meeting in his younger years. And the toy in her hand is delayed until the kaleidoscope of episodes or concrete persons from the memories of the distant childhood or youth ... We will not interfere.

  1. Yegor Zaitsev "Christmas tree", 1996

I would like to hope that another grandmother, somewhere in Ukraine, has previously prepared everything from treats to the arrival of grandchildren and children. In any case, when looking at the tables placed in the kitchen and on the fact that they are instructed, the saliva themselves flow, and trying, your fingers are losing. It is known to me for sure that the Ukrainian buns, pampels, dumplings with anything - the most delicious. In the Makitra, the swirl poppy and cats, under the tumors - slices or a piece of salary, grilled piglets in sour cream with a crispy crust, and in banks various spreads. In general, we will not list everything, but judging by the picture, everything is provided and ready for the present to the table.

  1. Nadezhda Semiyan-Viktorova (Ukraine) - "At the grandmother before Christmas."

The Great Princess Olga Aleksandrovna Romanova, who became an artist in Soviet Russia. In his picture, she also prepared a New Year's treat and a festive table, covered under the deserted Christmas tree, ready to receive guests.

  1. Great Princess Olga Aleksandrovna Romanova (sister of Emperor Nicholas II) "New Year's treat." (1935).

In the imperial family of all children they trained painting, but only the great princess Olga (the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexander III) became a fairly famous artist.

It seems to me that the paints on the film are faded. They either came from time to time, or Prinjean had no opportunity to buy the best. After all, she was a devoid of Soviet times and was no longer a princess ...

And now you can invite guests and begin to celebrate Christmas and the new year's offensive, which drew the artist A.F. Chernyshov.

  1. Scenes from the family life of Emperor Nikolai I.
    Christmas tree in Anichkov Palace.
    Artist Chernyshev A.F.

On the picture of a woman in elegant ballrooms, men in tremors and uniforms, children in sophisticated and trendy dresses and costumes. Trees in the hall are decorated, and on the ceiling - huge chandeliers. Everything is solemn and chinno, for the presence of royal species or members of his family is felt, and the emperor of Russia.


    Charles Green (?) "Christmas is only once a year," (1896). Charles Green, "Christmas Comes But Once A Year,"

Rich family. Christmas dinner (plays a picture of the picture). Guests are serviced by maid or stream (cook, cooking) in Cherec and the apron. It brings a dish with a smoking baked turkey to which guests are attracted. Although some are indifferent and occupied conversation. It is obviously the owner and monitors the order on the table and in service ...

This is all that I was able to learn about this picture, and the Internet shown repeatedly. Even the artist could not find any information, except for the name, but the picture meets the design of the description of the chosen theme.

  1. Viggo Yuhansen "Happy Christmas" (1891) Viggo Yuhansen. "Happy Christmas", 1891. Hirschsprung Museum.
    I did not resist the temptation to portray Christmas and Dane Viggo Yuhansen - a representative of the Spring Artists and Director of the Danish Academy of Arts.

Brightly shines in the darkened room. Dressed beautiful Christmas tree. Around her mother or senior sisters of children staged a dance, in which all participants, holding hands, dancing, water dance and sing in Danish ...



 So, New Year's and Christmas days came and continue. In the course of the celebrations there are new or remember all the shortcomings and care. As, for example, these two charming girls (and MB older is a gentle boy - the viewer will figure it out) decided to light the extra decorative fragrant candles under the Christmas tree on the roof of a beautiful medieval castle. Either install the checkbox on the tower ...

  1. Felix Ehrlich "Christmas", (1889). "Christmas" Felix Erlich (1866-1931) The German artist perfectly and finely painted this tender children's picture. What is a pleasant and beautiful face of the older girl (boy?), Gently - pink, white handles, all in a natural pose. Like the youngest, frozen from the impression and looks with attention to the sister. I also look and can't break away from these charming children ...

Karl Ulof Larsson considered some of his critics for his craving for the image of rural plots. (Carl Olof Larsson, 1853-1919). Swedish artist and author of frescoes, paintings by oil and watercolors, considered one of the most revered Swedish painters. Larsson's mother was a laundry, and his father is a simple worker.

  1. Carl Larsson has chosen a girl in a clearly rural outfit in typically folk style. This colorful blouse and brightly red apron on the black skirt are very suitable for the same color hat, famously put on the head of beauty -Ostrovka that it is impossible to love it. Not in vain, it was put on the chair, probably not for empty looking, but for the execution of poems or songs. Although it seems she attaches a candle to a tree branch. But the girl at the same time is shy and, blushing, lowered the head ...

In another picture of the same author, the parenchyok in the cap of Santa Claus and in funny Velic boots or adds toys, or reads the text, and one of the older maides or mom looks and hesitates the boy. And Karl Larsson exclaims in his picture:

Now It's Chirstmas Again! Now it's Christmas again!

Kids sleep early lie
On the day last December,
And wake up older than a year
On the first day of the calendar.
Year will begin silence,
Unfamiliar with past winters:
Noise for a fierce double
Barely catch.
But the guys calls out
Winter day Through the ice glass -
In refreshing stupus
From cozy heat.
Have a kind word we dybate
Years of old care
Starting in the morning early
New day and new year!

(Children will go to sleep early ... S. Marshak)

  1. Children early in the morning, not even dressed, they attached the door of the room, where there is a dressed Christmas tree, peeping, there is no bag with gifts under the Christmas tree ...

American artist Henry Mosler in the picture "Christmas Morning" (1916) portrayed the moment of anticipation of pleasure and exciting expectations from the possible receipt of familiar and long-awaited gifts from Santa Claus, who never forgets about them. He will not forget!

No wonder he guards the preliminary pre-New Year's dream of a girl in the picture of another American artist, admiring her and the serene expression of her face ...

  1. Santa Claus, (1921). The work of the American artist and illustrator of Norman Rockwell.

Wise, good Santa Claus pokes the beard and carefully looks short to the expression of the face and listens to the breath of a sleeping girl, trying to solve her sleep and make her future. And on her beautiful and gentle face, a slight good smile is visible. Probably a dream from pleasant, what are the morning dreams, when you don't want to wake up at all ...

Another christmas morning in a large family.


  1. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller "Christmas Morning", (1844). Belvedere, Wien. Father, mother, grandmother, still family, perhaps a childless couple, - all busy family (I no longer counted) children of different, but close age, which are not quite dressed, but already active, cheerful and cheerful. This mood is transmitted by adults and delivers them joy and satisfaction in this bright festive Christmas morning.

On another picture of the same master, the fun Mizanszen is shown the arrival of the whole family with grandchildren to grandmother with Christmas greetings and gifts

  1. Norman Rockwell draws a rapid and noisy moment of the arrival of the family to a grandmother living separately. And the grandson shouts into the whole voice: we arrived, granny! Merry Christmas! We arrived on our new Plymouth! Merry Grandma ... WE CAME IN OUR NEW PLYMOUTH! (Painting is drawn in 1951)

I think there is a strange number of gifts, but we do not know the composition of the grandmother's family ...

And on the drying, several pictures of animalists depicting the moments of picking cats for the new year.

  1. The picture of the talented continuer of the Dynasty of Artists Neftekamsk - Alexander Mokhov, 2005.

The author of the picture tells about a curious red cat with white spots on the face, rocking the paw large ball, hanging on the Christmas tree "paws" inserted into the vase. The cat admires the color-changing color on it when the ball is rotated. On the table - the remnants of the meal with orange crusts, a burning candle in a glass and a fuer. Not far is a dark wine bottle.

  1. I. Demin "New Year's table" from the album "Soon New Year" 2013. Modern young artist. Born in 1988. Her picture of the driving cunning and serene dirty-gray-brown cat is difficult not to notice and not evaluate. Leaving on the festive table, he lies neatly folded on the plates, he lies in a serene pose, pushed his head with a paw, brazenly looks at the stunned mistress, waiting for the beat of her, but continues to suck wine from a glass, thinking: "And what will happen, then and will be!". Like, not the first time ... Matter on them at all ....

    Cute and funny kittens are very careless to turn a doll, harvested with her a wheel with a braid halfway on it ... and the Christmas tree is barely visible, since the plot is the scene - kittens.

    But already on the clock midnight, and this mean that the new year has already come and we should note this as it should be with a glass of champagne in the hand, which we helped to do at the last picture offered to your attention:


    1.  The work of the famous world of the artist - illustrator Inge Lyok. Inge Loof is an artist known in Finland, famous for cheerful aunt-ladies, and in Russian translation - landscaps of laughter. Pictures with their images have long settled on social networks. So in this picture, aunt, by gluing the mustache, celebrated the cake and a glass of champagne the onset of the new year ...

    What I wish you all to do it when a fiery (or "fried") rooster - a symbol of the future 2017, you will bend in ...


New Year and christmas holidays - One of the most popular topics in world art. Unique atmosphere of the winter fairy tale, waiting for a miracle, family comfort, recreated in painting to. XIX - beginning XX centuries., Returns us to the era of great changes, so similar to the beginning of the XXI century.



One of the favorite topics of the Russian artist Boris Kustodiyev were folk festivities during the winter holidays. It often depicts snow-covered villages and provincial cities, merchants and peasants on the streets, fairs and bolagans. Kustodiev created a nostalgic artistic world, penetrated by the sun, joy and festive mood. The plots of his paintings are always fabulous, it is the Russian province of the beginning of the twentieth century., And fabulous Russia without certain temporary and spatial coordinates.





Danish artist Viggo Yuhansen - Professor of Painting, Director of the Danish Academy of Arts - often wrote scenes from family life. One of the most magical works can be called the picture "Happy Christmas". The artist willingly resorted to light effects in paintings written in dark colors. And in this work, against the background of dark silhouettes of people and shadows in the corners of the room, a Christmas tree, sparkling festive lights, seems to be contrasting. This is the center of the composition, which is highlighted with the help and color, and light. The glare from the lights illuminate the awesome children's faces, which creates a magic atmosphere of a cozy family holiday.



Even the Great Princess Olga Romanova - the youngest daughter Alexander III - wrote pictures dedicated to winter holidays. In the imperial family, all children studied painting, but only Olga did it professionally. In 1920, she had to emigrate first in Yugoslavia, then in Denmark. The painting "New Year's treat" was created in 1935, away from homeland, but it recreates the traditional Russian atmosphere of festive tea drinking with a cake, jam and samovar.





The family atmosphere of the holiday expectation is captured and in the picture of Sergey Leopsin "Preparing for Christmas". It does not see the Christmas tree and gifts on it, but in the center of the composition - grandfather and grandchildren who prepare garlands and decorations for the house.

Nativity It is one of the most beautiful and solemn Christian holidays. In the whole Christian world, including Russia, Christmas has always been noted with a special reverence. On this day, there are decorated Christmas trees everywhere, symbolizing the gospel tree, candles are burning, like those who burned in the Bethlehemsky Khlev. In many countries, in Christmas night, children go to the streets with singing of songs-carol. Christmas Eve is referred to as "Christmas Eve."
A Christmas Eve in the Christian world is considered exclusively a family dinner. On this day, the house reigns peace, love and consent.
The following paintings are presented in the selection dedicated to Christmas:

1. Georgio Vazari. Christmas.
Georgio Vazari (Giorgio Vasari; Nicknamed Aretino, July 30, 1511, Arezzo - June 27, 1574, Florence) - Architect and painter, author of the first history and theory of the arts, "The lives of the most famous painters, scales and architects."

2. Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich. Nativity. Canvas, oil
Historical and architectural and art museum "New Jerusalem", Istra, Moscow region
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757-1825) - Russian artist, Master of portrait.

3. Yakov de Beckker. Nativity.

Bakker (Backer), Jacob, Dutch painter (1608-1657), Rembrandt School, Portraitist.

4. Georgeon. Worship of Magi.
Georgho Barbarelli Yes Castelfranko, better known as Georgeon (Ial. Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, Giorgione; 1477 / 1478-1510) - Italian artist, representative of the Venice School of Painting; One of the greatest masters of high rebirth.

5. Rogir van der Wayden. Worship of Magi.

Rogir Van der Wayden (Notherl. Rogier Van Der Weyden, 1399/1400, Tournament - June 18, 1464, Brussels) - the Netherlands painter, along with Jan Eyk, is considered one of the founders and the most influential masters of the early Diderland painting. Wang der Waiden's work is focused on comprehending the individuality of the human person in all its depths.

6. Rembrandt, Harmene Van Rhine. Flight to Egypt.
Rembrandt Harmens Wang Rhine (Notherl. Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn [RɛMBRɑNT ɦɑrmə (n) SOːN VɑN Rɛin], 1606-1669) - Dutch artist, draftsman and engraver, Great Master of Lights, the largest representative of the Golden Age of Dutch painting. He managed to embody in his works the entire spectrum of human experiences with such an emotional saturation, which the visual art did not know before him. Rembrandt's work, extremely diverse by genre affiliation, open the audience a timeless spiritual world of human experiences and feelings.

7. Hugo van der Gus. Christmas.
Hugo Van der Gus (OK. HUGO VAN DER GOES) (OK. 1420-25, GENT - 1482, Audgem) - Flemish artist, whom Albrecht Dürerge considered the largest representative of the early Diderland painting, along with Jan Van Eyk and Rogrir Van der Wayden.

8. Sandro Botticelli. Mystical Christmas.

"Mystical Christmas" (ITAL. Natività Mistica) - one of the last paintings of the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli, created in the period noted in his work with a layer of optimism of the Quatrochet, the growth of religiosity and sharply tragic perception of the world.
The canvas was practically not known until he saw him at Villa Aldobrandini and did not acquire the Englishman. Botticelli was "renounced" with art critics with the beginning of the movement of Pre-Faelitis, it was then John Ryuskin gave his chille his current name. In 1878, a London National Gallery acquired a picture for 1500 pounds.

9. Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. Christmas with Saints Francis and Lavrentation.

Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio (1573-1610), an Italian artist, a reformer of European painting of the 17th century, one of the largest masters Baroque. One of the first applied the Maneru of the letter "Kyarostkuro" - a sharp oppression of light and shadow.

10. Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov. Nativity.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862-1942) - Russian and Soviet painter. Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1942). Winner of the Stalinist Premium First Degree (1941).