Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov (1878–1968) was a painter and graphic artist.
Life and career
He studied at
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Art School (1891–1896), then
(1897–1904) and for a year in
Paris (1905). His early paintings were exhibited by the
Mir Iskusstva group, and he was closely associated with the Russian
Symbolists
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. He helped to organize the
Crimson Rose exhibition (1904) and was a founder and leader of the
Blue Rose in 1907. He taught at the
Stroganov Institute
Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts (russian: Московская Государственная Художественно-Промышленная Академия им. С.Г. Строганова) informally named S ...
(1917–18; 1945-8) and at the
Moscow Institute of Fine Arts
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(1918–37). He headed the painting section of
Narkompros until 1921, but fell out of official favour with the advent of
Socialist Realism.
Kuznetsov's early paintings are typical of the Blue Rose group's poetic explorations of an interior, imaginative world through archetypal symbols. After 1910 he drew increasingly on folk culture, continuing to draw on the rich colours and harmonious rhythms of the Symbolists but simplifying his compositions to depict the everyday life of village communities of
Kirghizstan in
Central Asia.
Works
File:Kuznetsov GoluboyFontan.jpg, ''Blue Fountain'', 1905
File:Kuznetsov vstepi.jpg, ''Evening on the Steppe'', 1912
File:KuznetsovNatyurmortsGravyuroy.jpg, ''Still life with a Japanese Engraving'', 1912
File:Kuznetsov EasternMotive.jpg, ''Eastern Motive'', 1913-1914
File:KuznetsovSborPlodov.jpg, Harvesting of Fruits, 1913-1914
References
* Stupples, P., ''Pavel Kuznetsov: His Life and Art'', Cambridge, 1989
References
House Museum of Pavel V. Kuznetsovat the Artist's Studio Museum Network
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1878 births
1968 deaths
Painters from the Russian Empire
Soviet painters
Orientalist painters
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni
Academic staff of Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry