“Artists” Garshin in brief
The narrative is alternated on behalf of two artists – Dedov and Ryabinin, contrasted with each other.
Grandfather, a young engineer, having received a small inheritance, leaves the service to devote himself entirely to painting.
He works hard, writes and writes landscapes and is perfectly happy if he manages to capture a spectacular play of light in the picture. Who and why he needs a landscape he painted, he does not ask himself such a question.
Comrade Dedova at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts Ryabinin, on the contrary, always tormented by the question, does anyone need his painting, and in general – art?
Grandfathers and Ryabinin often return together after classes at the academy. Their path lies past the pier, cluttered with parts of various metal structures and mechanisms, and Dedov often explains to the comrade their purpose. Once he draws Ryabinin’s attention to a huge cauldron with a seam diverging. The conversation is about how
Ryabinin asks Dedova to show him such a wood-grouse. Grandfathers agrees to bring him to the plant, leads to the boiler room, and Ryabinin himself climbs into a huge pot to see how the wood grouse works. He climbs out completely pale.
A few days later he decides to write wood grouse. The grandfather decides a friend does not approve – why multiply the ugly?
Ryabinin, meanwhile, is working feverishly. The closer the painting moves to the end, the more terrible the artist seems to be to what he created. The exhausted man, crouching in the corner of the cauldron, painfully acts on Ryabinin. Will
Finally, the picture of Ryabinin is on display and bought. By tradition, living among artists, Ryabinin should arrange a feast for his comrades. Everyone congratulates him with success. It seems that he has a bright future ahead of him. Soon – the end of the academy, he is an undisputed candidate for a gold medal, giving the right to four-year improvement abroad.
At night after the feast Ryabinin becomes ill. In delirium, it seems to him that he is again at the plant where he saw a wood grouse, that he himself is something like a wood-grouse and all his friends are beating at him with hammers, sticks, fists, so that he physically feels how a terrible blow hits his skull.
Ryabinin loses consciousness. Lying without a memory, it reveals the landlady. Grandfather takes Ryabinin to the hospital and visits him. Ryabinin is gradually recovering. The medal is lost – Ryabinin did not manage to submit a competitive work. Dedov received his medal and sincerely sympathizes with Ryabinin – as a landscape painter, he did not compete with him. On the question of Dedov, whether Ryabinin intends to participate in the contest for next year, Ryabinin responds negatively.
Grandfathers go abroad – to improve in painting. Ryabinin also throws painting and enters the seminary of the teacher’s school.
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