Soviet graphic artists Illustrations and drawings
Memory. 1983. Autolithography. V.S. Vilner. Soviet graphic artists Illustrations and drawings
Soviet graphic artists Illustrations and drawings
First of all, the Soviet graphics – a big era, which refers to the period from 1917 to 1991. Also, it includes post-revolutionary, pre-war, military (1941-1945), post-war, thaw (1960s), and stagnation (1980s) periods. Traditionally, the graphics itself realized itself in various forms – illustration, portraits, prints, ex-libris, emblems, drafts of banknotes, stamps, etc. In addition to engraving, traditional types of graphics continued to exist – pencil, charcoal, and pastel.
Numerous portraits of Lenin, the workers, determined to fulfill the plan, occupied prominent places on the pages of newspapers and magazines. But graphic art is diverse, from a newspaper drawing to a book illustration, made in classical techniques of pencil, coal; and subtle, refined color harmonies of watercolors, gouaches and pastels.
Meanwhile, in graphic art appeared a unique image, a personal beginning, caused by the desire for a comprehensive depth of analysis of spiritual processes in the life of modern man. The development of author’s techniques is evidence of the complication of the figurative system in the work of this or that artist.
V.S. Vilner. Blockade. 1982. Autolithography. Soviet graphic artists Illustrations and drawings
In the second half of the 1960s, graphics, like all Soviet art of the time, show an interest in the metaphorical multilayeredness of the image. The book illustration is successfully developing – through the efforts of artists of all generations.
Gradually, graphic artists show the increasing interest not just to illustrations, but also to the problems of the design of the book as a whole. Accordingly, appeared artists purposefully engaged in this complex, approaching the profession of designers, masters-designers and printers.
Soviet graphic artists Illustrations and drawings
A. Ananyin. Stocking Velvet antler. Linocut. 1975
A. Bakh. Sleeping baby. 1955. Dry needle
A. Ekster. A sketch of the costume for Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Gouache. Chamber Theater. Moscow. 1921
A. Ekster. A sketch of the costume for Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Gouache. Chamber Theater. Moscow. 1921
A. Gordeyev. Tashtagol Mine. Linocut. 1968
A.A. Kharshak. For what? 1943. Etching
A.D. Goncharov. Illustration for the poem of A. Blok ‘The Twelve’. Engraving on wood. 1924
A.S. Alymov (born 1942 Moscow). Examinations. From the ‘Students’ series. 1976. Etching
A.V. Khvostov-Khvostenko. A sketch of scenery for the Mystery Buff. Mayakovsky. Gouache. The heroic theater. Kharkov. 1921
Cover of art exhibition catalog ’15 years of the Red Army’. Color wood engraving. 1933. A.D. Goncharov
D.A. Dubinsky. Illustration for the story by AI. Kuprin ‘Duel’. 1959-1960. Tempera
Drawing by V. Vysotsky
E.Ya. Einman. Nurse Zhanna. 1955. Sepia
E.Ya. Einman. Portrait of the artist E. Okas. 1942
Elena Kuzmina. 10 years old. Our family. Linocut
EO Matsieyevski (born 1945 Moscow). Kratovskoe lake. From ‘Evening Moscow suburb’ series. 1975 Etching
Evgeniy Antonov. ‘To the partisans.’ Linocut. 1962
G. Gurbanov. Camels. Lithography. 1978
G.B. Yakulov. A sketch of scenery for the play ‘Princess Brambilla’. Water color, bronze. Chamber Theater. Moscow. 1920
I. Bruni. A New Year order. Pencil. 1981
I. Chermyanin. Prophet (Poet Mikhail Lermontov). Paper, cardboard. 1974
I.A. Shpinel. Red Army man. Engraving on a wood with a tint. 1924
IL Bruni (Moscow). In the ‘No Man’ ground. From the series ‘The infantry intelligence’. 1979-1980. Autolithograph
Illustration for the story of Gogol ‘Stroller’. Engraving on the wood. 1928
Illustration for the story of K.A. Fedin ‘The Old Man’. Engraving on the wood. 1930
Ilya Glazunov. Portrait of Lang Thi Hien, participants of a meeting Uncle Ho grandchildren. From the ‘Vietnam’ series. Coal. 1967
K.A. Davletkildyev. Old Bashkir. Coal, white. 1928
M. Aleksich. Landscape. Etching. 1960
M.I. Kurzin. Collective farm shock worker Ahmad Rajab. Coal, gouache. 1936
M.K. Yuksine. My sister. 1979
M.K. Yuksine. Walk. 1979
M.N. Fyodorov. Destroy flies. Wash fruits and vegetables. 1977
Mikhail Matorin (1901-1976). The cover of the book Utopia by Thomas More. Linocut. 1935
N. Burtsev. Nikolay Bachinin. Friendly caricature from the book ‘Pegasus horseshoe’. 1973. Pencil on cardboard
N.P. Dmitrievsky. Portrait of P.A. Vyazemsky. Engraving on the wood. 1932
O.G. Yakutovich-Demina. Illustration to poem by A.S. Pushkin ‘Poltava’. 1978-1979
O.G. Yakutovich-Demina. Illustration to the tale by PP. Bazhov ‘Malachite casket’. 1978
OI Grechkin (Leningrad). Palace Square. From the ‘Leningrad’ series. 1978-1980. Etching
P.A. Shillingovsky. Rostral column. Woodcut. 1922
P.V. Lvov. Keningrad. Mikhailovskaya square. Lithography. 1936
Portrait of V.A. Antonov-Ovseyenko. Pencil. (signed – this drawing made by me in 1946 from original of 1924). Yu. Annenkov
S.V. Dragune. Geese. 1978
SN Garashchuk (born 1942 Irkutsk) Old Trees. 1976. Pencil on paper
Stillness. Fisher. From the series Village. 1978. Tomsk art museum
V. Belykh. Sketch of scenery ‘For the wedding’ (dir. V. Sadovnikov). 1984
V. Yu.Shaporin (Moscow). A. Belinsky. Fifth decade. Set Design. 1978
V.A. Shestakov. Sketch of scenery for the comedy by A.N. Ostrovsky ‘Profitable place’. Gouache. Theater of the Revolution. Moscow. 1923
V.M. Briskin. Witch with a stick. 1941
V.N. Chekrygin. Portrait of a boy. 1920
Veniamin Briskin. Witch. 1940. Ink, paper
VR Vasiliev. My daughter. 1970
VR Vasiliev. Sardaana. Sketch. From the cycle Yakut Old Masters. 1967
Yu. Shlenyaninov. Decoration for the play by NF Pogodin ‘My Friend’. Theater of Revolution. Moscow. 1932
Yu.P. Annenkov. Illustration for the poem of Blok ‘Twelve’. Ink. 1918
Yu.V. Basov. Before the meeting. From the series In the army. 1979
A.I. Konstantinovsky. Illustration for the novel by V. Hugo ‘Ninety-Three’. 1953. The charcoal drawing
Ionas Mikolo Kuzminskis. (born 1906). Portrait of a kolkhoz chairman ‘By Leninist path’ A.I. Slavenskas. 1971. Cut engraving
M.E. Kotlyarevskaya. The inhabitants of the civil war. Engraving on linoleum. 1930
The Okhten Bridge. Dry needle. 1931
V. Kh. Zauze. Chumaks. Etching. 1929
A. Munkhalov. Attack. Lithography (from the series ‘Civil war in Yakutia’)
A. Orlov. Equipment in the mountains. From the series’ Mountain Tajikistan. Etching. 1982
Amshey Markovich Nuremberg (1887-1979). Mayakovsky at work in Windows of ROSTa. 1962
Andrey Pakhomov. A boy with a book. 1979. A girl with a flute. 1977
AV Nedostupenko (Bryansk). October. From ‘Bryansk Earth’ series. 1981. Pastel on paper, tempera
LM Neofitov. Fishermen on the Lena. From a series of The Lena River. 1973
M. Murzin. Design for the final contata of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. 1985
M. Omorkulov. Special hydro-installer. Pencil. 1982
M.I. Pikov. Illustration for the works of A. Firenzuoli. Engraving on the wood. 1932
M.I. Polyakov. to the story of Gogol ‘Nevsky Prospekt’. Engraving on the wood. 1931
M.M. Mechev. Illustration for the Finnish folk epic ‘Kalevala’. 1955. Watercolor
O. Pinaeva. Illustration to the story of Maxim Gorky ‘The case with Evseyka’. Etching, aquatint. 1977
Portrait of Henri Barbusse. Ink, feather, 1933
S. P. Pavlinov (b. 1950) Sailors of Severomorsk. 1976. Paper, colored linocut
S. Pavlinov (b. 1950) Football submariners. 1976. Paper, colored linocut
S.A. Nalepanskaya-Bonchuk. Before White comes. Woodcut. 1927
S.M. Pozharsky. Illustration for the cover of the book by Charles Dickens ‘Posthumous Notes of the Pickwick Club’. Color wood engraving. 1935
VM Neustroev (born 1948 Moscow). Swing. From the ‘North’ series. 1976. Etching
