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1987 In Fine Arts Of The Soviet Union
The year 1987 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts. Events * Exhibition of works by Piotr Belousov was opened in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad * Traditional Exhibition of works of Leningrad artists – the Great Patriotic war veterans was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists on the eve of Victory Day (9 May). * Exhibition of works by Boris Nikolaev was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. * Exhibition of works by Sergei Frolov was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. * Exhibition of works by Alexander Semionov (1922–1984) was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. * A Retrospective Exhibition named «The Exempt Man» dedicated to 70th Anniversary of Great October revolution of 1917 was opened in Russian museum in Leningrad. The participants were Nathan Altman, Vladimir Lebedev, Evsey Moiseenko, Andrei Mylnikov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Alexander Romanychev, Alexander Samokhvalov, Vit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов; 21 August 1894 – 20 August 1971) was a Soviet Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, art teacher and Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, and was regarded as one of the founders and brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and portrait painting. Biography Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov was born on 21 August 1894 in the town of Bezhetsk, located in the Tver Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1914, Samokhvalov enrolled in the Higher Art School of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He studied under Vasily Beliaev, Gugo Zaleman, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and Vasily Shukhayev; among his teachers, the most important was Petrov-Vodkin, with his dimensional system of paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Art
Events from the year 1923 in art. Events * March 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States show, ''Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso''. * May 8 – Göteborgs Konsthall opens as the art gallery for the Gothenburg Exhibition. * Publication of ''The Art Spirit'' by Robert Henri. * English industrialist and collector Samuel Courtauld acquires the first painting by Paul Cézanne to be purchased for a British collection, '' Still life with Plaster Cupid'' (c.1894). * Chaïm Soutine sells sixty of his paintings from a Paris showing to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes and begins his series of paintings of beef carcasses. * A joint exhibition with his mother, Suzanne Valadon, at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris brings the paintings of Maurice Utrillo to prominence. * East London Group forms as an amateur art club in the East End of London. * Freer Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. as the first Smithsonian museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Podlasky
Yuri may refer to: People and fictional characters Given name *Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc. *Yuri (Japanese name), also Yūri, feminine Japanese given names, including a list of people and fictional characters *Yu-ri (Korean name), Korean unisex given name, including a list of people and fictional characters Singers *Yuri (Japanese singer), vocalist of the band Move *Yuri (Korean singer), member of Girl Friends *Yuri (Mexican singer) *Kwon Yu-ri, member of Girls' Generation Footballers *Yuri (footballer, born 1982), full name Yuri de Souza Fonseca, Brazilian football forward *Yuri (footballer, born 1984), full name Yuri Adriano Santos, Brazilian footballer *Yuri (footballer, born 1986), full name Yuri Vera Cruz Erbas, Brazilian footballer *Yuri (footballer, born 1989), full name Yuri Naves Roberto, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Yuri (footballer, born 1990), full ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In Art
Events from the year 1903 in art. Events * June 3 – Laura Johnson marries Harold Knight. * Isadora Duncan develops free dance, a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. * With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon d'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism of the Paris Salon. * Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann found the Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna. * Frederic Dorr Steele produces his first illustrations for Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in the United States, for ''Collier's Weekly''. * Bernard Berenson publishes ''The Drawings of the Florentine Painters''. * Anna Muthesius publishes ''Das Eigenkleid der Frau''. Works * Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – ''Silver Favourites'' * Cassius Marcellus Coolidge – 16 paintings in ''Dogs Playing Poker'' series * Pompeo Coppini – Confederate Soldiers monument, Texas State Capitol * Evelyn De Morgan – ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Nissky
Georgy Grigoryevich Nissky (; 21 January 1903 – 18 June 1987) was a prominent Soviet painter and a founder of the severe style. In 2019, an exhibition of his work was held at the Institute of Russian Realist Art. Biography Nessky was born in the family of a station feldsher at a small Novobelitsa station not far from Gomel. He loved to draw since childhood, he studied at the fine arts studio, where he got thanks to the local painter Zorin. After graduating from the M. A. Vrubel Gomel Art Studio-School in 1921, he went to Moscow and entered preparatory courses at the Higher Art and Technical Workshops (VKHUTEMAS). After completing the courses, he moved to the painting department, where his teachers were Robert Falk and Aleksandr Drevin. In addition to studies, he paid a lot of attention to sports, in particular volleyball and acrobatics. Awards and honors * People's Painter of the RSFSR (1965) * Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1951) * Order of the Red Banner of Labour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 In Art
Events from the year 1911 in art. Events * February 2 – First issue of Franz Pfemfert's ''Die Aktion''. * May – Only exhibition by The London Secession group of photographers, at the Newman Gallery. * June 10 – Rembrandt House Museum opened in Amsterdam. * August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's ''Mona Lisa'' is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following day when painter Louis Béroud arrives to sketch it but the painting is not located until December 1913. Poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire and his friend Pablo Picasso are questioned over the theft. * Creation of Der Blaue Reiter Group (first exhibition opens December 18 in Munich). * Creation of the Puteaux Group. * Creation of the Camden Town Group. * Wassily Kandinsky publishes ''Über das Geistige in der Kunst, Insbesondere in der Malerei'' ("Concerning the Spiritual in Art, and Painting in Particular" or "The Art of Spiritual Harmony"), dated 1912. * Rayonism de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Shmidt
Alexander Vladimirovich Shmidt (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Шми́дт; August 15, 1911 – May 5, 1987) was a Russian-Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and Art teacher who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting. Biography Alexander Vladimirovich Shmidt was born August 15, 1911, in the town of Rechytsa, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Gomel region, Belarus). In the 1928, Alexander Shmidt entered at the first course of the painting department of the Leningrad's Vkhutemas (since 1932 known as Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture). There he studied under Alexander Savinov, Vasily Savinsky, Arcady Rylov, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1933, Alexander Shmidt graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as artist of easel painting.''Anniver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 In Art
Events from the year 1904 in art. Events * April ** Octavian Smigelschi is selected to paint the interior decoration of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu. ** George Frederic Watts (dies 1 July) opens the Watts Gallery in the English village of Compton, Guildford, for the display of his work. * November – The Potters (artists group) is formed by female artists in St. Louis, Missouri. * Start of Picasso's Rose Period. * Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert. * Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts. * British Impressionist painter Wilfrid de Glehn marries American portrait painter Jane Erin Emmet. * Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne and noted for its ''Skulpturensammlung'', is completed. Works Paintings * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '' The Finding of Moses'' * Paul Cézanne ** '' Mont Sainte-Victoire'' ( Philadelphia Museum of Art) ** ''La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Artist Of The USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. Nomenclature and significance The term is confusingly used to translate two Russian language titles: Народный артист СССР (fem. Народная артистка СССР), awarded in performing arts and Народный художник СССР, granted in some visual arts. Each Soviet Republic, as well as the Autonomous Republics (ASSRs), had a similar award held previously by virtually every receiver of the higher title of People's Artist of the USSR. As this title was granted by the government, honorees were afforded certain privileges and would often receive commissions from the Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union. Accordingly, artists and authors who expressed criticism of the Communist Party were seldom granted such recognition, if ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Oreshnikov
Victor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov (russian: Виктор Михайлович Орешников) (January 7 ( O.S. January 20), 1904, Perm – March 15, 1987, Leningrad) was a Soviet Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, active member of the Soviet Academy of Arts (1954–1987), Stalin Prize winner, rector of Repin Institute of Arts (1953–1978). Biography In 1927 he graduated from the Leningrad VHUTEIN in workshop of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1930-1987 he taught in the Repin Institute of Arts. PhD in Art History (1937). Doctor of Fine Arts (1948). Victor Oreshnikov was twice awarded the Stalin Prize (1948, 1950), Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Badge of Honour, and numerous medals. Solo exhibitions of the artist was held in Leningrad (1954, 1974, 1985) and Moscow (1975). Pupils * Irina Getmanskaya * Boris Korneev * Alexander Koroviakov * Elena Kostenko * Victor Otiev * Nikolai Pozdneev * Maria Rudnitskaya * Alexander Sokolov * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 In Art
Events from the year 1926 in art. Events * Marcel Duchamp's '' The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even'' is accidentally broken. * Marjorie Watson-Williams moves to Paris and adopts the name Paule Vézelay. Awards * Archibald Prize: W B McInnes – ''Silk and Lace'' Works * Max Beckmann – ''Quappi in Blue'' * H. Chalton Bradshaw with bronzes by Gilbert Ledward – Guards Memorial, London * Alexander Calder – '' Cirque Calder'' (wire sculpture) * Alexander Stirling Calder – ''Shakespeare Memorial'', Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Salvador Dalí – '' The Basket of Bread'' * Charles T. Diamond with relief by John Paulding – Astoria Victory Monument, Astoria, Oregon * Edwin Dickinson – '' The Cello Player'' * Max Ernst ** ''The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: A.B., P.E. and the Artist'' ** ''The Dove was Right'' * Alberto Giacometti – ''Spoon Woman'' * Dora Gordine – ''Chinese Head (Chia-Chu Chang: The Chinese Philosopher) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
