Fedor
Vasilyevich Antonov

Painter, Nar. hood. Of the RSFSR (1975). Graduated from Moscow. The vkhutein (1929). Participated in exhibitions since 1928. In 1927-32 member of the OST. Taught in ISKCON. the textile Institute, Professor. Theme of the painting "day off" (1931), "New life" (1932), "Love" (1933), "Wedding in a working class family" (1938), "Construction on the Volga river" (1951), "collective competition" (1964), portraits, etc.

The artist was born in Tambov; in 1922 thirst for art led him to Moscow. "...He studied first in VKhUTEMAS, and later, all vhutemasovtsev, graduated from the vkhutein. I then visited with pleasure the performances of Mayakovsky, Yesenin met, visited Gilyarovskogo knew Nesterov, Kuprin, Petrov-Vodkin, Konchalovsky, worked with Meyerhold, was friends with the Deineka..." — recalled the artist. He worked first at painting faculty, then the textile Department at S. V. Gerasimov and D. A. shcherbinovsky. Already in 1927, two years before the end Vhuteina, Antonov receives the Grand Prix at the International competition of textile workers in Italy — sketches necktie fabric. In the same year joins the OST (Society of easel painters), and in 1932 the Moscow Union of artists. At the same time works Antonova fall for the first time in the collection of the Russian Museum ("New life") and the Tretyakov gallery ("Portrait in red", "Love").

In the words of Fyodor Antonov, by the mid-1930-ies "a powerful notion of realism turned into an external method of academic painting. But the truth of art is true art, not academic". Although the most talented resisted the new requirements, to fully confront them, they could not. At that time Antonov writes, "a wedding in a working-class family", "Leisure youth collective"... However, the old tendency to Antonov an infinity image of the day finds a way out and plays quite fruitful for creativity role. The favorite technique becomes a watercolor with her soulful and poetic expressive possibilities. In the difficult time, the landscape was Antonov one of the few genuine ways of creative expression.