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Eighteenth-century French painter Robert Hubert is not fully appreciated so far, although during his lifetime this the artist was a recognized genius and, one might even say, turned out to be a minion of fate. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and sculptures, close to the court, knew with his great people time, say, even decorated the castle in Ferney for Voltaire, bothered that Jacques Delille portrayed him in his famous the poem “Imagination” …
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However, the greatest luck (or revelation) of Robert Hubert were, of course, his amazing paintings that enjoyed unprecedented success in France and beyond. Them with pleasure Russian connoisseurs of painting, say, noblemen Shuvalov bought Stroganov, Yusupov – to decorate their palaces, Catherine II herself acquires several paintings for Tsarskoye Selo, and Emperor Paul orders four fashionable French painters at once decorative panels, which later decorated Gatchinsky palace.
Today, paintings by Robert Hubert can be seen in almost all the largest museums in Europe, Russia, USA, Canada, Austria. His fabulous paintings adorn the Louvre, the Hermitage, famous palaces and estates of Russia. But it’s not even the popularity of the paintings of this mystical artist, but in what is in them (as Hubert wrote more five hundred canvases) he depicted, multifaceted and refined truthfully, some unknown fantastic world that Encyclopedic philosopher and best art critic of the time Denis Didro called the world of majestic ruins.
Idyll on the ruins of majestic ruins
I would like to note that at the end of the last century a film studio The Hermitage Bridge planned to make a series of documentaries, dedicated to the best masters of European painting. Unfortunately on only one film appeared, but what’s interesting, its director Alexander Sokurov chooses for his documentary project for some reason, far from the most outstanding world painter, but mystical French artist Robert Hubert (see film “Robert. Happy Life” below). Is it accidental? ..
Robert Hubert was never a mystic. Critics called canvases artist during his lifetime and is still called no other than pictures of an imaginary world invented by him. However how esotericists say, man cannot imagine anything and come up with something that would no longer exist somewhere or sometime. It turns out that the French painter managed to look into some a parallel world where these magnificent ruins really exist, as traces left by some unprecedented in its grandeur culture, the wreckage of which unfolds an amazing idyll bright and such an attractive life.
The paintings of Robert Hubert can be admired forever, they They awaken Pushkin’s light sadness, remove anxiety from the soul, and excitement, treat the heart of pride and bitterness of loss. But the most important thing – awaken in us the memory of something light and beautiful that we once survived and lost, but constantly striving to return into this sweet tale. How Robert Huber succeeded is not clear, but one can only guess where he drew all these magnificent images of divine happiness we lost …
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