Portraits

The artist is Zhilinsky About spiritual and earthly, the merger of man with nature, different generations – a picture that captured one of the artist teachers at the Surikov Institute – Nikolai Mikhailovich Chernyshev and his wife Antonin Alexandrovna. “Both of them love Russia, its customs, nature, art”. Zhilinsky writes with special care of portraits…

The artist is shamanov In post -war Soviet times, the family was called to public service with a “big picture”. In the late 1959-early 1960s, the artists of the “harsh style” and the currents close to it intended to break through the wall of the official-oriented viewer-state, and reach the person. Thematically their work corresponded…

The artist is Vatenin In one of the works of Valery Vatenin – “Portrait of Svetlana” – his little daughter carelessly cuts out pictures from the catalog of daddy work. Throughout the 1960-1980s, the children’s topic resolutely leaves ideological control and returns to the bosom of the family and personal space. This coincides with the…

The artist is Ivanov Victor Ivanov – Soviet and Russian painter and teacher, academician, People’s Artist of the USSR and laureate of a number of state prizes. The source of inspiration for Viktor Ivanov has always been his historical homeland – Ryazan land. “The meaning of my work,” says Viktor Ivanovich, “not in defending the…

The artist is Nesterov The “Russian Parisian” was called the artist Elizabeth Kruglikova, who worked and taught in Paris for about twenty years. Nesterov was delighted with her elegant and at the same time difficult art of engravings, the brightness of her talent and the portrait of meeting after a meeting in Moscow in May…

The artist is silver Konovalov Fedor Ilyich (1909–?) – steel of the Leningrad Kirov Plant, advanced manufacturer (“Stakhanovets”). The portrait of Konovalov is not the only case of the artist’s appeal to what was called “production theme”, but within a typical author always revealed the individuality of his models. For the happiness of the people….

The artist is Pavlovsky Fedorov Pavel Apollonovich – senior driver of the October Railway, who worked during the blockade of Leningrad on the road of life, the only narrow rut formed on Lake Ladoga, on which then there were slowly delivered products to the city. Fedorov was the foreman of the first train sent after…

The artist is Zverev The image of twice Hero of the Soviet Union Major Ivan Pavlov on the portrait of Seraphim Zverev is restrained, without bravura notes. He is imbued with inner confidence and nobility. The working atmosphere in the office of the intelligent Major of aviation only enhances the feeling of reliability and professionalism….

The artist is Bubnov Bubnov worked with constant success in various genres: historical, domestic, portrait. In the late 1940s, he created a series of portraits of political figures of the Soviet state, including several portraits of Stalin. In the portrait of 1949, Bubnov builds a monumental and, at the same time, an informal image of…

The artist is Oreshnikov Back in the 1930s, the ideological and creative task of creating the images of the “brilliant creators” of the socialism of Lenin and Stalin and their closest associates was officially set. Respecting these requirements, totalitarian art has turned into one of the main instruments of the regime to create a leader…