Biography of the artist Velazquez

Velazquez Diego menu, great Spanish painter. Velazquez was born on June 6 in the city of Seville in Spain, in the family of Portuguese Jews who adopted Christianity.

He studied in his hometown with painters Francisco de Herrera Senior and Francisco Pacheko -, in received the title of master. Before Velazquez, he worked in Seville. The contrasting lighting of the figures put forward to the foreground, the density of the letter, interest in the exact transmission of the characteristics of nature bring the painting of the Seville period of the artist Diego Velazquez with Caravagism.

In the year, Velazquez moved to Madrid and became a royal painter. Acquaintance with the royal meeting of paintings, meetings with Peter Paul Rubens, who visited Spain at the end - the beginning, and a trip to Italy end - began to improve his skill. The artist peered more distinctly into the world, broke with conventions inherent in the art of his time, was looking for ways to create paintings of a wide generalizing meaning.

The formation of Diego Velazquez as a portraitist had a huge impact in the royal court, who taught the artist to comprehend the depths of human character, hidden under the guise of court etiquette. The impassive-cold ceremonial ceremonial portraits of the royal persons of the infante of Baltasar Carlos,-, Prado, Madrid are distinguished by the restrained splendor of poses, clothes, horses, the grandeur of landscape backgrounds.

In the portraits of the courtiers, friends, students, Velazquez accumulated and synthesized his observations, selected the necessary visuals. In these canvases there are usually no accessories, gestures, movement. The neutral background, due to the subtle ratio of valers, has depth and airiness; The dark tones of the robes direct the viewer's attention to the flat faces. The wise impartiality and humanity of Velazquez was embodied in his portraits of royal jesters and dwarfs El Bobo from Koria, El Primo, the so -called Juan of Austrian, Sebastian Mora and others, all -, Prado, Madrid.

The thinly and accurately developed gamut of red and pink shades is an emotional key to understanding the strict-true image of Pope Innocent X, the Doria-Pamfili Gallery, Rome, the portrait of which Velazquez wrote during the second trip to Italy in the end-mid-years. In the last years of his life, Diego Velazquez wrote the two most famous paintings. The captivating beauty and the picturesque diversity of reality were embodied in the gray-mesmerizing color of the paintings with the brushes of the brush, pink, dark gray, brownish transparent strokes.

In the late works of Velazquez, the features of his creative method were most fully fulfilled: a deep comprehension of life in all the wealth and inconsistency of its manifestations, the integrity of its figurative-plastic embodiment, the unity of all elements of the artistic form. The painter Diego Velazquez wrote without preliminary sketches, directly on the canvas, organically combining the immediate impressions of nature with the strict thoughtfulness of the composition, reaching the impression, seemingly free improvisation and at the same time wide generalization.

The work of the artist Velazquez is the pinnacle of Spanish painting of the 17th century and one of the brightest phenomena of world art. Velazquez Diego, the Great Spanish painter.