Крестьянская тема была ведущей в творчестве художника. Образ одинокого слепого, кормящего ребенка, проникнут настроением грусти и состраданием к бедным. Старика и дитя, олицетворяющих безысходность и надежду, объединяет общая судьба, любовь, забота друг о друге.
Максимов Василий МаксимовичЖивописец.
Учился в Императорской Академии художеств (1863-1866) у А.Т. Маркова. Академик живописи (с 1878). Член Артели художников П.А. Крестоносцева (1864-1865), член Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок (с 1872). Участник выставок: в Академии художеств (1860-е), Товариществе передвижных художественных выставок (1871-1901, 1904-1912); Всемирной в Париже (1878); Всероссийской в Москве (1882) и др.
Vasily Maximov was one of the leading Wanderers. He completely dedicated his work to the depiction of peasant life. The son of a peasant, he never lost his connection to the village, and this gives his work a particular authenticity. Blind Master is permeated with sorrow and sympathy for the poor. At the same time, the artist lovingly conveys the details of patriarchal peasant life.
Maximov, Vasily Maximovich 1844, Lopino (St Petersburg Province) å 1911, St PetersburgPainter,portraitist,genreartist.Workedaticon-paint¬ing studios of Vasily Peshekhonov and K. A. Yary¬gin in St Petersburg (1855–1863). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1862–1866), graduated with a title of third-class artist. Member of an Artel of Artists created by Pyotr Krestonostsev by the example of Ivan Kramskoi Artel (1864–1865). Aca¬demician (from 1870). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1871). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1878), World Exhibition in Paris (1878), All-Russian Exhibition in Moscow (1882).
