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        <h1>Victor Borisov-Musatov (Виктор Эльпидифорович Борисов-Мусатов) (1870-1905)</h1>
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      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/Borisov_musatov_selfandsister.jpg" alt="Self-Portrait with Sister 1898" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Self-Portrait with Sister 1898</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Victor Borisov-Musatov was a Russian painter, prominent for his unique Post-Impressionistic style that mixed symbolism, pure decorative style and realism. Together with Mikhail Vrubel he is often referred as the creator of Russian Symbolism style.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/Borisov-Musatov_thePool1902.jpg" alt="The Pool 1902" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Pool 1902</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Victor Musatov was born in Saratov, Russia (he added the last name Borisov later). His father was a minor railway official who had been born as a serf. In his childhood he suffered a spinal injury, which made him humpbacked for the rest of his life. In 1884 he entered Saratov real school, where his talents as an artist were discovered by his teachers Fedor Vasiliev and Konovalov.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/Borisov_musatov_Agave1897.jpg" alt="Agave 1897" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Agave 1897</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">He was enrolled in the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture in 1890, transferring the next year to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint-Petersburg, where he was a pupil of Pavel Chistyakov. The damp climate of Saint-Petersburg was not good for Victor’s health and in 1893 he was forced to return to Moscow and re-enroll to the Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture. His earlier works like May flowers, 1894 were labeled decadent by the school administration, who sharply criticized him for making no distinction between the girls and the apple trees in his quest for a decorative effect. The same works however were praised by his peers, who considered him to be the leader of the new art movement.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/Borisov_musatov_MayFlowers.jpg" alt="May Flowers 1894" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">May Flowers 1894</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1895 Victor once again left Moscow School of painting, sculpturing and architecture and enrolled in Fernand Cormon’s school in Paris. He studied there for three years, returning in summer months to Saratov. He was fascinated by the art of his French contemporaries, and especially by the paintings of “the father of French Symbolism” Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and by the work of Berthe Morisot.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/Borisov_musatov_TwoDames.jpg" alt="Two Dames 1899" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Two Dames 1899</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1898 Borisov-Musatov returned to Russia and almost immediately fell into what it is called “fin de siècle nostalgia”. He complained about “the cruel, the truly iron age”, “dirt and boredom”, “devil’s bog”, and he had acute money problems that were somewhat alleviated only in the last years of his life when collectors started to buy his paintings. Musatov’s response was creating a half-illusory world of the 19th century nobility, their parks and country-seats. This world was partially based on the estate of princes Prozorvky-Galitzines Zubrilovka and partially just on Musatov’s imagination. Borisov-Musatov also abandoned oil-paintings for the mixed tempera and watercolor and pastel techniques that he found more suitable for the subtle visual effects he was trying to create.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/Borisov-Musatov_Springtime.jpg" alt="Spring 1898-1901" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Spring 1898-1901</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Borisov-Musatov was a member of the Union of Russian Artists and one of the founders and the leader of the Moscow Association of Artists, a progressive artistic organization that brought together Pavel Kuznetsov, Peter Utkin, Alexander Matveyev, Martiros Saryan, Nikolai Sapunov, and Sergei Sudeikin.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/Borisovmusatov_dafnisandcloe.jpg" alt="Daphnis and Chloe 1901" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Daphnis and Chloe 1901</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The most famous painting of that time is The Pool, 1902. The painting depicts two most important women in his life: his sister, Yelena Musatova and his bride (later wife), artist Yelena Alexandrova. The people are woven into the landscape of an old park with a pond. Another famous painting is The Phantoms. 1903 depicting ghosts on the steps of an old country manor. The painting was praised by the contemporary Symbolist poets Valery Bryusov and Andrey Bely.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/BorisovMusatov_Phantoms.jpg" alt="Phantoms 1903" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Phantoms 1903</span></p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1904 Borisov-Musatov had a very successful solo exhibition in a number of cities in Germany, and in the spring of 1905 he exhibited with Salon de la Société des Artistes Française and became a member of this society. The last finished painting of Borisov-Musatov was Requiem. Devoted to the memory of Nadezhda Staniukovich, a close friend of the artist, the painting may indicate Borisov-Musatov’s evolution towards the Neo-classical style. Borisov-Musatov died on October 26, O.S. 1905 of a heart attack and is buried on a bank of Oka River near Tarusa. On his tomb there is a sculpture of a sleeping boy by Musatov’s follower Alexander Matveyev.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/borisov/BorisovMusatov_Requiem.jpg" alt="Requiem 1905" width="auto"><br>
        <span class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Requiem 1905</span></p>
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