Vladimir
Alexeyevich Denisov

Painter. He graduated from the faculty of law.faculty of Yuryev University (1911) and St. Petersburg. archaeologist. Institute (1914). Simultaneously. in 1906-07 he studied under A. Vasnetsov in Moscow, in 1907-08, in the studios of F. Rerberg and I. Tsionglinskogo in St. Petersburg. Lived and worked in Petrograd – Leningrad, 1929 in Kiev. Participant of exhibitions since 1915. In 1921-29 the Professor of Leningrad. Vhuteina in 1941-42 and 1945-46 – Kiev hood. in-TA. Picturesque landscapes and still lifes "of the Attic. Winter urban landscape" (1917), "the Wind" (1928), "Sea surf" (1937), "lilacs in a yellow pitcher" (1945), "On the Dnieper" (1947), "still life with violin" (1956), etc.

Painter, stage designer, art historian, teacher and public figure.

He lived and worked: 1904-1906, 1929-1970 – Kyiv, 1906 -1907 – Moscow, 1908 -1929 – Petersburg-Petrograd. Father Lada Vladimirovna Vig-Denisova – Ukrainian artist - graphics, set designer, painter, restorer and decorator.

9(21). 07.1887 in the village of Novaya Sloboda Schigrovskogo County, Shestopalova parish, Kursk province (now the Kursk region) – 14.09.1970, Kiev.

Study:

1905-1906 – Studio of Sergey Ivanovich Swietoslawski in Kiev

1906-1907 – Apollinaris Mikhailovich Vasnetsov in Moscow

1908-1912 – Jan Frantsevich Tsionglinskogo in St. Petersburg.

Also studied: 1905-1906 – at the law faculty of Kiev University of St. Vladimir, 1908-1910 – Petersburg, 1910-1911 – Yur'ev (Dorpat, now Tartu) University, 1911-1913 – in St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute. 1913 -1914 – continued art education by visiting the museums of Germany, France, Spain and working in the circle of local artists of the time.

At exhibitions participated since 1915.

In 1926-1929 he was a member of the Leningrad society "Circle of artists". Teacher Viktor Mikhailovich Orchakov, Alexei Fedorovich Pakhomov (Petrograd-Leningrad), Sergei A. Grigoryev (in Kiev).

TAUGHT:

drawing, painting, art history – 1919-1921 – at the VKhUTEMAS (Higher artistic and technical workshops), 1922-1923 – in VHUTEIN (Higher art and technical Institute, former school of Baron Stieglitz), 1923-1925 – the Academy of fine arts, 1926-1929 – on the Highest State courses of arts (Leningrad), 1944-1963 1929-1941 and in the Kiev state art Institute.

As art critic and art historian collaborated in the newspaper "Day" (1912-1918), 1919-1929 – magazine "Life art", "Theaters and circuses". At the same time, in 1925-1928 was the set designer at the Leningrad theatre "Proletarskiy actor" and the Opera Studio of the Leningrad Conservatory. During the revolution he took an active part in creating a new art "Freedom of art" and the work of the newly formed "Union of artists", where he collaborated with poets A. Blok, S. Yesenin, V. Makowski, Director of the armed Forces. Margalida, composer Sergei Prokofiev. The work of V. Denisova is a typical example of the development of the realistic trend of the domestic art of the second half of the 19th century and enriched by achievements of Western schools. Master of fine black and white spatial painting with high culture of color and a classically balanced composition, with a personality identified early in the reading world. In the 1920-ies his works are characterized by the presence of cubist ("the Attic",1917 "still life with Cup", 1918 – all the canvas, oil) and impressionistic ("Wind", 1928) trends. Worked in the genres of landscape (often with a plot) and still life and thematic painting. The main technique is oil, although often turned to watercolors and pastels.. His works are characterized by a warm color with a refined palette of colours and impeccable drawing. Preferred picture of a peaceful state of nature, the main theme is harmony of man and the world. The creative manner characteristic of interest to the tone gradation of color, the desire for texture and to identify shapes of objects.

MAJOR WORKS. THE TOPICAL COMPOSITION.

"In the first flight with the new harvest," 1937; "the Peasant uprising in the village in 1905", 1939-1940; "the yard of the farmer in Talgar", 1942; "And then the traces of war", 1945; "Evening. The return from the vineyards", 1952; "Sasha and our Friends", 1968 – all oil on canvas. LANDSCAPE: "Winter in Talgar", 1942, oil on cardboard; "Vladimir hill",1946; "On the Dnieper near Kaniv", 1947; "street in Gurzuf", 1950; "Evening glow", 1953; "oleanders in Bloom", 1958; "Ruins of the Genoese fortress in Feodosia", 1963; "the gums near Ostra", 1966; "Priblijayutsya twilight", 1967; "the Look",1970 – all oil on canvas. Still life: "still life with books", 1915; "still life with Cup", 1918; "Roses in a blue vase", 1946; "the Bouquet on the window", 1953; "still life with violin", 1959; "the Window. In the artist's Studio", 1964; "Books", 1969 – all oil on canvas.

MUSEUMS:

Kyiv – the national art Museum, Kiev,

Kiev Museum of Russian art;

Saint Petersburg – the State Russian Museum.

EXHIBITIONS:

PERSONAL: 1969 – Kiev - Kiev Museum of Russian art;

1971 – Kiev state art Institute;

1989 - national art Museum, Kiev

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RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN EXHIBITIONS: Petrograd – 1915 – Exhibition of contemporary painting, 1916 - 2nd exhibition of modern paintings; 1923 – Exhibition of paintings by Petrograd artists of all directions; Leningrad, 1927 - Art exhibition of the Association "Circle"; 1928 - 2nd exhibition of the society "Circle of artists"; 1928-1929 – Modern Leningrad art groupings; 1929 – the Exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the society "Circle of artists"; 1930 – Kiev – Exhibition of the Leningrad Association "Circle of artists"; 1937-1938 – Kiev - Kharkov – Moscow – Odessa – exhibition of works of artists of the USSR "Blooming Radyans'ka Ukraine"; 1939 – Kiev – Onna exhibition robt hudozhniku.; 1943 – Alma-ATA, Kazakhstan – Republican art exhibition "the Great Patriotic war", 1945 – Kiev – 8-a Ukrainian judoist exhibition; 1948 – 9-a Ukrainian judoist exhibition; 1953 Other regional hudaina exhibition Kislogo tovaristva hudojniku; 1957 – Yulana hudaina exhibition "40 rokiv Zhovtnya Great"; 1967 - Yulana hudaina exhibition, prisvyacheno 50-rccu Great Zhovtnya ; 1970 – Respublikanska hudaina exhibition, prisvyacheno 100-rcco from day narodzhennya V. I. Lenina; 1988 -1989 – Leningrad – Exhibition of Soviet art 1920-1930-ies.

WORKS:

Denisov, V. A. War and the lubok. Folk picture. – PG., 1916; the New type of art school Life art, 1922, № 4,pp. 5-6; Museum and modernity // the Life of art, 1922, no. 8, pp. 6 -7; the painting of the Hermitage // Life-arts, 1925, no. 48, p. 6 -7; the Art of the masses // Theatres and circuses, 1929, No. 35, pp. 3-5; Discussion about Ahre // Life of art, 1926, No. 38, pp. 6-7; Evolution of artistic consciousness over the past decade // the Life of art, 1927, no. 4, pp. 2-3; Sketch exhibition of students of Fine arts, 1941, no. 5, pp. 17-19.

LITERATURE:

Ukrainian Soviet artists. Reference. K., 1972, p. 562; Dictionary of artists of Ukraine, K., 1973, the Artists of the USSR. Bibliographical dictionary, V. 3, Moscow, 1976, p. 334; Art of Ukraine, Kiev, 1997, p. 200; Solovyev V. D. Russian artists XVIII – XX centuries, Kyiv, 1996, pp. 8, 110, 627; Herman M. Y. Art. 1920-1930. The state Russian Museum. The album Moscow – new York, 1988, p. 256; Shikhirev O. the history of society "Circle of artists" // Soviet art history. Vol. 1, Moscow, 1982, pp. 297-326; Boris Pianida paintings of the singer of the sea // Evening Kiev 9.06.1969; Potekaev O. First impression. Notes on the exhibition // Culture and жизнь15.06. 1969.