Shovkunenko Alexey Alekseevich (1884-1974)
Shovkunenko Alexey Alekseevich
Alexey Alekseevich Shovkunenko artist, teacher, professor, People’s Artist of the USSR, full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
Category Archive: Soviet People
Anatoly Galaktionovich Petritsky Ukrainian and Soviet painter
Anatoly Galaktionovich Petritsky is a master of the Ukrainian avant-garde.
Anatoly Galaktionovich Petritsky (1895-1964) Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, theater artist and teacher. Graduated from the Kiev Art School (1918). Studied at the Moscow VKHUTEMAS (1922-1924) with the avant-garde artists A.D. Drevin and N.A. Udaltsova. As a theater artist (since 1914) he was influenced by stylistic tendencies and constructivism. Author of easel paintings, including a series of portraits of Ukrainian writers, as well as posters and illustrations. Twice laureate of the Stalin Prize of the USSR in 1949 and 1951, People’s Artist of the USSR (1944). Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1947).
Boris Prorokov Soviet graphic artist
Boris Prorokov
Soviet graphic artist; cartoonist, satire master, poster artist, sculptor. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1954). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1961) and two Stalin Prizes of the third degree (1950, 1952). Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1955). People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1963). People’s Artist of the USSR (1971).
Soviet prodigy Pasha Konoplev
Pasha Konoplev in his youth
Soviet prodigy, Pasha Konoplev: entered Moscow State University at the age of 15 with a diagnosis of schizophrenia
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- At the age of 6, Pasha Konoplev ‘s IQ was 142, while US President Reagan’s was 109, and the chess player Kasparov was 190.
- At the age of 8 he solved the problem of the illumination of the planet Pluto.
- When Pasha was 10 years old, his scientific article was published in the journal of the Academy of Sciences.
- He himself mastered musical notation, wrote music and played the piano.
- I knew several languages, which I learned on my own.
- At 15 I entered the Moscow State University.
- At 18 he became a deputy of the District Council, and entered graduate school.
- Was the first developer in the USSR of programs and games for computers.
Mikhail Nesterov is an outstanding itinerant artist
Self-portrait 1915
Mikhail Nesterov is an outstanding itinerant artist and master of the “soul of the people”
Mikhail Nesterov is an outstanding Russian itinerant painter, landscape painter and icon painter, a famous Soviet portrait painter.
Nesterov Mikhail created his own movement in painting “poeticized realism” and remained faithful to it, despite the revolution, the collapse of the country and the change of regime. During the period of itinerant movement, the painter’s work is filled with Orthodox mysticism. His paintings reflect the “special path” of God’s chosenness, a quiet charm with the beauties of Russian nature and the human soul.
Kazimir Malevich iconic artist and founder of Suprematism
Self-portrait 1910
Biography of Kazimir Malevich
His father and mother were of Polish descent. They had 14 children, but only nine of the artist’s siblings survived to adulthood. Casimir, who was the eldest child, often traveled with his father in the service. For all his life, he remembered the beauty of Ukrainian nature and the hard life of the peasants.
Artists-victims of Stalinist repression
Malevich. Reapers
Artists-victims of Stalinist repression
History is an inexact, evaluative science: embellishment and dramatization of events in it is a common thing. But many scary stories about Stalinist repression are an exception. There was no targeted campaign to destroy “ideological enemies” (as in the case of writers) against artists – more often there were “local excesses”. But some famous painters were repressed, although the authorities tried to pass off their cases as criminal ones.