Kardovsky Dmitry Nikolaevich Biography

Kardovsky Dmitry Nikolaevich Talented artist and teacher, D. Kardovsky is most famous as an illustrator of works of Russian classical literature and the author of compositions on historical topics. Pupil P. Chistyakov and I. Repin at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, he initially learned the principles of a realistic artistic method, saw his task not to blindly copy nature, but to comprehend its laws and follow them.

For the development of the picturesque talent of Kardovsky, classes at that time by the Munich school A. Ashbe, which gradually evolved from classical academism to pleader painting, were of great importance.

Another source that markedly influenced the work of the Cardovsky was the activity of the Association of Art of Art with its rational intellectualism, which well expressed the main, fundamental line of St. Petersburg culture as opposed to the emotional-stitching Moscow. The most famous works of Kardovsky in the field of book illustration are drawings for the Kashtanka A.

Chekhov, Nevsky Avenue N. Gogol, a large cycle of illustrations, including color, for “grief from the mind” A. Griboedova, and if, illustrating the “Kashtanka” and “Woe from Wit”, Kardovsky shows the talent of the householder, a master of creating sharp and well -aimed types, then, turning to “Nevsky Prospekt”, he transforms his style towards more grace and graphic convention.

All this allows us to talk about the influence of the artist of the book graphics of the World of Art, which created the aesthetics of a new book, solved in the aggregate of all its constituent elements as a single organism, as a specific artistic work. Illustrations for Nevsky Prospekt were made by Kardovsky for the “circle of lovers of Russian elegant publications” and more likely the tastes of customers than the artist himself with his craving for objective specificity and certainty of the types.

This is the nature of the artist’s talent, which allowed him to organically prove himself in the field of theatrical and decoration art. This happened in Gogol, A. Ostrovsky, I. Turgenev for the Moscow Maly Theater. It is significant that his theatrical sketches on the thoroughness of the development of accessories, costumes and the situation are approaching independent, completely complete mise -en -scenes.

This applies equally to the images of the characters. For each, Kardovsky found his characteristic portrait type, expressive pose and gesture. Therefore, it is not surprising that the theatrical sketches created for the production of the “auditor” in G. In addition to the most successful drawings to the works of Chekhov and Gogol, Kardovsky also turned to the stories of L.

Krylov, he illustrated I. and N. Tolstoy, “Sot” by L. Leonov, the famous “Robinson Crusoe” D. Defin and other works of classical literature.