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1930 - 2004
Mikhail Alexandrovich Rzhannikov (1930-2004) was an artist of naive primitivism. Fundamentals of painting technique mastered in the Lipetsk club of amateur artists.
His paintings are classics of Russian naive art. His first painting was painted on a sheet, "to have a carpet in the house." His "carpet" paintings (in a good way) represent scenes of hunting and fishing, gardening, and gathering. Also in his legacy are still lifes with huge bouquets, mountains of vegetables, fruits, berries - mainly everything that Mikhail Alexandrovich grew in his garden.
Rzhannikov began to write at the age of 50, to exhibit - since 1980-1981 with a regional exhibition. They say that old people can't hear, see well, and cook poorly. Here everything is bright, fresh and tasty. His paintings are filled with light, abundance, homeliness, while remaining as if taken out of real life, which, by the way, was not easy for Mikhail Alexandrovich.
Many works are devoted to the nature of his native land - the vegetation, the rivers of the Urals, and all written from memory.Interesting hunting scenes, written from memories or from stories he heard in his childhood.
They say naive means unprofessional, unlearned. If you don't have a higher art education, then you are a representative of naive art. What about our master Anatoly Osmolovsky? Or Jeff Koons, America's most expensive artist, who, according to Wikipedia, "attended school as a teenager at the Art Institute of Chicago and Maryland College of Art - and that's it. Are they really naive representatives of art, these stars of contemporaneous art? No, of course not. True naive art, like love, is simple-minded and unsophisticated. M.A. Rzhannikov's art is just that.
Participation in regional and national exhibitions:
Personal exhibitions: Lipetsk, 1987, 1990; Gallery "Dar", Moscow, 1992. Exhibitions: All-Union exhibition, Moscow, 1987;" Naifs sovietigues" (France), 1988; "Golden Dream", 1992; INSITA - 94; "Naive Art of Russia", Moscow, 1997; "Naive Art in the collection of K. Bohemskaya and A. Turchin", Ark Exhibition Hall, Moscow, 1998; "Erste Begegnung..." (Germany), 1999; "Russische Naieven... (Holland), 2000 ; "Paradise Apples", 2000; "Festnaiv-04"; "Art-Manezh" Fair, Moscow, 2004; "Outsider,s Art Fair", 2005. Collections: GRDNT; Museum of naive art, Moscow, 2004; "Tsaritsyno", Vladimir-Suzdal museum-reserve; Art Museum, Yekaterinburg; Museum in the village of Zolotonozhka, Ukraine. In 2015, in July-August, in honor of the 85th anniversary of the artist, the Lipetsk Museum of Folk and Decorative-Applied Art hosted an exhibition of paintings by Mikhail Rzhannikov, under the symbolic title "Land of Rzhannikov", there were photo documents about the life and work of the artist.
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He was born in the village of Sloboda in the Urals in a large family of a worker. At the age of 13, after the death of his brothers and sisters from starvation, he began working in a factory. In 1960, after graduating from technical school, he moved to Lipetsk, where he worked as an electrician at a pipe plant until his retirement. He never painted, until 1978, when he painted a landscape for a wall rug in oil on a primed sheet. After that he began to paint constantly, but by his own system: firstly he makes frames, to which nails canvas, then begins to work simultaneously on 5-7 paintings, which explains the need to save paint. Landscapes, hunting scenes and still lifes dominate among Rzhannikov's paintings. "I don't have a goal to make it beautiful, I try to paint an authentic tree, a house, a leaf," says the artist.
(Source: Virtual Museum of Russian Primitive)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Rzhannikov (1930-2004) was an artist of naive primitivism. Fundamentals of painting technique mastered in the Lipetsk club of amateur artists.
His paintings are classics of Russian naive art. His first painting was painted on a sheet, "to have a carpet in the house." His "carpet" paintings (in a good way) represent scenes of hunting and fishing, gardening, and gathering. Also in his legacy are still lifes with huge bouquets, mountains of vegetables, fruits, berries - mainly everything that Mikhail Alexandrovich grew in his garden.
Rzhannikov began to write at the age of 50, to exhibit - since 1980-1981 with a regional exhibition. They say that old people can't hear, see well, and cook poorly. Here everything is bright, fresh and tasty. His paintings are filled with light, abundance, homeliness, while remaining as if taken out of real life, which, by the way, was not easy for Mikhail Alexandrovich.
Many works are devoted to the nature of his native land - the vegetation, the rivers of the Urals, and all written from memory.Interesting hunting scenes, written from memories or from stories he heard in his childhood.
They say naive means unprofessional, unlearned. If you don't have a higher art education, then you are a representative of naive art. What about our master Anatoly Osmolovsky? Or Jeff Koons, America's most expensive artist, who, according to Wikipedia, "attended school as a teenager at the Art Institute of Chicago and Maryland College of Art - and that's it. Are they really naive representatives of art, these stars of contemporaneous art? No, of course not. True naive art, like love, is simple-minded and unsophisticated. M.A. Rzhannikov's art is just that.
Participation in regional and national exhibitions:
Personal exhibitions: Lipetsk, 1987, 1990; Gallery "Dar", Moscow, 1992. Exhibitions: All-Union exhibition, Moscow, 1987;" Naifs sovietigues" (France), 1988; "Golden Dream", 1992; INSITA - 94; "Naive Art of Russia", Moscow, 1997; "Naive Art in the collection of K. Bohemskaya and A. Turchin", Ark Exhibition Hall, Moscow, 1998; "Erste Begegnung..." (Germany), 1999; "Russische Naieven... (Holland), 2000 ; "Paradise Apples", 2000; "Festnaiv-04"; "Art-Manezh" Fair, Moscow, 2004; "Outsider,s Art Fair", 2005. Collections: GRDNT; Museum of naive art, Moscow, 2004; "Tsaritsyno", Vladimir-Suzdal museum-reserve; Art Museum, Yekaterinburg; Museum in the village of Zolotonozhka, Ukraine. In 2015, in July-August, in honor of the 85th anniversary of the artist, the Lipetsk Museum of Folk and Decorative-Applied Art hosted an exhibition of paintings by Mikhail Rzhannikov, under the symbolic title "Land of Rzhannikov", there were photo documents about the life and work of the artist.
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He was born in the village of Sloboda in the Urals in a large family of a worker. At the age of 13, after the death of his brothers and sisters from starvation, he began working in a factory. In 1960, after graduating from technical school, he moved to Lipetsk, where he worked as an electrician at a pipe plant until his retirement. He never painted, until 1978, when he painted a landscape for a wall rug in oil on a primed sheet. After that he began to paint constantly, but by his own system: firstly he makes frames, to which nails canvas, then begins to work simultaneously on 5-7 paintings, which explains the need to save paint. Landscapes, hunting scenes and still lifes dominate among Rzhannikov's paintings. "I don't have a goal to make it beautiful, I try to paint an authentic tree, a house, a leaf," says the artist.
(Source: Virtual Museum of Russian Primitive)
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