Description of the painting by Philip Malyavina “Laughter”
This work is interesting for its unusual history. Its author is Philip Andreevich Malyavin, born in 1869. Since childhood, the boy loved to draw and sculpt clay figures, giving them away to friends. Since he grew up in a poor peasant family, his parents could not allow him to seriously engage in creative work. Neighbors repeatedly drew the attention of the father to the boy’s talent, saying that he certainly should go to study. My father usually answered: “There are no scientists from peasants.”
Growing up, Philip became interested in copying icons, while adding his vision to a copy. The boy wanted to go to study on Mount Athos, where the monks were located. Subsequently, he will manage to get to this place, where later the famous sculptor considered the talent of a young guy and invited him to St. Petersburg.
A little later, Malyavin entered the art school, and Repin became one of his mentors. Philip
When he presented the public a picture of “Laughter”, which became his graduation work at the Academy, strict viewers really laughed, but at the artist himself. The work was criticized as something disgusting and ineptly portrayed. However, in the future, this work will be sent to Paris for an exhibition of Russian artists, where they will assign it the title of the best picture of the exhibition, and then buy it for a private Italian collection.
Thus, the great Russian soul, depicted on the canvas in the face of laughing peasants, left the fatherland, finding recognition among the exquisite connoisseurs of art.
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