At an art exhibition red train train name Trotsky v1918 year he exhibited the painting "a gifted self-taught artist" Nikopolis Naumov. The artist started drawing from the age of eight. Starting to paint as a realist, he later realized that "realism is not a matter of the artist, to convey real and exactly is the case of a photograph, the artist needs to create life like, what he would like to see it in its artistic taste, according to his ideal of beauty".
In addition to portraits of Lenin and Trotsky, made them on special order, including portraits of his wife and child, were all "twisted beautiful fantasy of colors, in some cases Recalling the cubism". The exhibition presents paintings by N. Naumov: "To the sun" and "Seeing."
External painting of cars krasnopuscha was also almost all done Naumov own compositions, with the exception of a few cars that were painted by the artist decorator Basenowym instructions Naumova.
Artist Naumov also belonged to a series of "Friendly cartoons", presented at the exhibition krasnopuscha, "which vividly captured the most characteristic features of the prominent figures of the Far East".
In state archives of Khabarovsk Krai kept a collection of caricatures of Nectopolis Naumova, where you can see the "friendly cartoons" on the heroes of the Civil war M. S. Serysheva, p. P. Postysheva, A. K. Flegontova, partisan-poet George Otrepiev, etc. Your caricatures he addressed "to the memory of the bourgeoisie, Yes the yellow invaders, (a fellow naradaran for laughter, but not resource)".
The collection has three sections, the first of which is called "Intervention". The illustrations in this section refers to the Japanese invaders. Here's how the cartoonist has noticed the nature of Japanese diplomacy:
"Peace with you we wish
But...the mystery make:
Do not sign – shoot,
Sign and – shoot".
In this section you placed his pictures: "Holy intervention, save us," "migration of vultures", etc. the Second section is called "everything", this page presents cartoons: "Khabarovsk dealers", "Parisian regenerators" and "Grodekovsk "army".
In the article the gander "art of the far East region" Nikopolis Naumov presented as a tireless fighter for the truth of the Bolshevik and proletarian cause, who fought not only as a cartoonist, pencil, but as a soldier, with rifle in Delnevo-waste of the people's Army. With the establishment of Soviet power in the far East Nektopolis Naumov himself gives the case of public service, collaborating with the newspaper "Forward", "Pacific star", tirelessly and continuously worked there until his death.
In the obituary of the artist N. P. Naumov, published in the newspaper "Red banner" may 6, 1928, revealed him as one of the oldest employees of the Soviet press on the far Eastern edge.
