Evgenia
Grigorievna Reznikova

Russia • 1896−1991

Biography and information

Student of the outstanding Soviet and Russian masters of watercolors of Artur Vladimirovich Fonvizin, Eugene Reznikov, as a painter he worked in the genre of landscape, portrait, still life, Nude. Mostly she loved to paint with watercolors, but several of her works done in gouache, also in mixed media, using the lithographic technique and other graphic techniques.

Life, Eugene Reznikov – a true virtuoso. The floral arrangements are always juicy and emotional. At the core of each work – a bright spot of color, sometimes unexpected color combinations give the fantasy and freedom of artistic vision in her gift. It does not hold precise figure, but it is important for color – always triumphant in her still lifes.

Her extraordinary performances with nudity. Not an academic interpretation, and expression of internal state of the model reaches the artist in his many Nudes. Her Nude proud as a Greek goddess, and touching, like a breath of spring. Special, apparently adopted from Fonvizin, the watercolor technique "wax" according to the beauty of the many works that are perceived as rain through the glass. In the same technique written the whole cycle of works "Ballet".

Much fruitful work of the artist in batik. Exquisite decorative quality inherent in her works created for the textile industry. To interesting works in the works of Eugene Reznikov include a series of architectural landscapes in cities of the Russian Golden ring – Suzdal, Rostov the Great.

Painting and fabrics Eugene Reznikov exhibited in many national and international exhibitions. Today, works by this artist (especially of the 50's-early 60-ies of great interest to museums and private collections, as an example of the Soviet Russian school of painting.

(the author of the article: critic Tatiana Skorobogatova)