Rashid
Askarovich Gusmanov

Painter, graphic artist.

On August 4, 1937 was born in Kazan.

1952-1956 years — studied at the Kazan art school.

1958 – graduated from Cheboksary art school.

1958-1965 years — lived and worked in the city of Yoshkar-Ola.

1965-1966 — lived and worked in Kuibyshev.

1976 — member of the artists Union of the USSR.

Lives and works in Kazan.

(R. 04.08.1937, Kazan), painter, Member of artists Union since 1976.

From 1952 he studied at the Kazan art school. In 1956 he transferred to the Cheboksary art school, from which he graduated in 1958.

Lived in Yoshkar-Ola (since 1958), Kuibyshev (1965), Kazan (1966).

In 1970-80-ies made a lot of trips to the USSR (from the Volga to the Far East) as part of the creative groups of artists.

In 1996-97, gg lived and worked in San Francisco (USA).

Gusmanov is one of the leading artists of the Republic of Tatarstan. His work features a wide genre and thematic range, lyrical, urban and industrial landscapes, compositions on the heroic and Patriotic themes, still lifes. A virtuoso of various techniques in the transmission of complex color hues of light and air, the different States of nature.

The theme often reveals the artist in the cycles of works, many of which he worked for several years:

"On the Volga" (1960-ies),

"Elabuga" (1970),

"The Bulgars (1971-74 gg),

"KamAZ" (1973-74),

"Kazan" (1974),

"Brest fortress-hero" (1975),

"To the memory of Musa Jalil" (1975-76 G. G.),

"To the memory of Gabdullah Tukay" (1975-76 G. G.),

"Cities-heroes of the black sea" (1977),

The "Komi land" (1978).

Gusmanov – participant of all-Union and all-Russian exhibitions (1970-80-ies), zone exhibitions "Great Volga" (1969, 1974, 1980, 1991), international exhibitions and exhibitions of Soviet art abroad (1970-90-ies). Personal exhibitions of the artist took place in 1968, 1975, 1993 in Kazan, 1973, 1978, 1982, Moscow, 1997, in San Francisco.

Works Gusmanova are stored in the Mari Republican Museum of local lore (Yoshkar-Ola), the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, State Museum of arts izobrazitelnykh in the Republic of Tatarstan, Literary-memorial Museum named after A. M. Gorky (Kazan), in the Museum complex of G. Tukay in S. N. Kyrlay, the Bolgar historical and architectural reserve. Picture cholerae Almetyevsk, as well as in private collections in USA, Japan. Austria, Greece and other countries.

Lit.:

Products-cat B. S. Chervonnaya Artists of the Mari ASSR. Yoshkar-Ola. 1978.

Chervonnaya S. M. Artists Sovetskoi Of Tartary. Kazan, 1984.

Valeeva D. Art of Tatarstan (the twentieth century). Kazan, 1999.