Porfiry
Mikhailovich Mikhailov

Thesis in the CVC - making Lenin's room. He studied at the faculty of painting, awarded the title of artist of monumental painting.

Artist muralist. Born March 8, 1903. Kalmyks in the village of Voronezh region. Died 13 Dec 1969

Father Porfiry Mikhailovich Mikhail Ivanovich is a hard worker, his skill of the Sawyer earned it to feed an enormous family, eleven children, of which porphyry was the third. In 1909. Michael Ivanovich with his family moved from the Voronezh region in the Altai Krai on earnings in Kamen na Obi.

Elementary school teacher, where he studied under porphyry, he was deeply interested in art of painting and drawing immediately noted gifted boy and, realizing his great love for drawing helped him to develop his extraordinary abilities.

In 1921. His father died of Porphyria and a boy 18 years to lay the entire burden of caring for their siblings and sick mother. Elder brother married and left the Stone, and the elder sister was married and lived in another city.

Porphyry all day since sunrise was fishing sitting on the banks of the wide Obi. And this he did to feed ten people of the family. When brothers and sisters have grown up and started to make yourself at the insistence of the teacher in 1924 porphyry Mikhailovich went to in Omsk art and industry College, from which he graduated in 1926 From Omsk at the insistence of his teachers he went to Leningrad in the Academy of fine Arts, which was adopted in 1926. After graduating in 1930 the Academy he for years taught painting at Penza art College.

In 1932. he and his family moved to Moscow and began working as a monumentalist artist. At first it was hard to get a job and to earn a living to provide for his family, wife and two children, began teaching in 1933.in the Studio at the builders ' club to them. Dzerzhinsky, where students were mostly metro builders: carpenters, plasterers, foremen, draftsmen, technicians, architects. Under the influence of the brilliant teaching, a gifted teacher and sensitive human relationship to his disciples, the working environment has increased the artists, architects, teachers in Universities and secondary schools. Of them: Karpov N. And – artist, Lukashin, A. D., Sokolova A. D. ,ENEA artists and teachers in secondary schools, Makeev S. T.-the artist, Michael E. With the artist teacher in secondary schools, Golenkov A. S. - artist, Polukhin N.. artist ENEA, Sosenko I. V. - artist lecturer at MAI, and many others. All remember with gratitude his teacher - Porphyria Mikhailovich sent his disciples on a broad an interesting path in life.

One of the students /Polukhin N../ says: “ I came to the porphyry Mikhailovich 16 years as a plasterer on this good man I am proud to call my teacher, who enriched me with their palette, instilled a love of art. Art helps me to live more fully and to see the world.

In 1935 porphyry M. entered the Moscow Institute. Surikov in the Department of professional development, the head of which was Professor of Cormorano. In 1940 He finished the Department of professional development, completing a thesis on the theme “Nude” oil painting.

In time of war, being nevoennaya health, porphyry Shmarov participated in logging for the front near Dmitrov, the construction of fortifications etc.

And 1945 to 1947. Porfiry Mikhailovich worked as a supervisor in the education Department of the Bauman district of Moscow. Teaching drawing in the school set at the proper height, All the forces and resources he has brought culture to the people, introducing aesthetic education into the secondary basis.

In the monumental painting porphyry M. showed himself a brilliant colourist and a knowledge of the pattern. His work is characterized by depth of thought, melody and emotion.

Porfiry M. was strictly fundamental in his work. He gave great preference to the traditions of the Russian school. Loved V. A. Serov, K. Korovin, Vrubel, considering the last genius, Studied the works of Michel Angelo, Oropeza. Porfiry M. always and everywhere was extremely modest, did not consider himself a finished artist, was always a student of life. He left us a number of monumental works, including the following:

1.G. Lugansk paintings in home appliances / materials mining district. Portraits of the famous of the miners.

2.G. Dniprodzerzhyns'k - Moscow coal basin. The house of culture. The ceiling of the lobby /co-author/.

3.G. Moscow - copper smelter. The house of culture, the lobby ceiling.

4.Moscow – Kievskaya metro station radial . Panels of the end wall, on the theme of “Reunification of Ukraine with Russia “medallions audience: mothers, miners, sugar-beet growers, the cotton harvest, science, innovators.

5.G.Moscow –Mongolian Embassy. Design.

6.G.Moscow - House of culture of plant “ Sharikopodshipnik”, the ceiling of the lobby.

7.The holiday house of the Council of Ministers /morozivka/ near Moscow.

8.etc. All of his best easel paintings and drawings just количестве120 instances porphyry Mikhailovich gave the Museum in Kamen na Obi, where he spent his childhood and teenage years. “Maybe they // will serve as a school for teenagers in the far North,” he said, remembering how in his childhood he eagerly studied the reproduction of paintings by the masters in art books. In one of his letters he writes: “this material I would like to bring benefit to residents of the city of Stone. “ /From the letter to the Museum dated August 27, 1962. / The following is a list of archival drawings, sketches, format sketches, sketches transferred to the Museum of the city of Kamen on the Ob in Altai Krai. 1, for-a color sketch of the end wall 2,3,4,5,6-Sketches the side panels of the hall of Kievskaya metro station radial: Miners, sugar-beet growers, the cotton harvest ,science motherhood. 7,8,9,10-Variants of the same sketches : Science, innovators, miners, cotton. 11-for-sketch of painting of the Assembly hall of the Barnaul agricultural Institute on the theme:” Peace and friendship of peoples”. 12-for –sketch of painting of the theater hall of House of culture works in Minsk on the theme: "Communist labor". 13 - Sketches of paintings of the house of culture. 14-In the Moscow coal basin the theme of "glory to the heroes of labor.” 15-Sketch of the center of the lobby of the Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin. 16,17,18-the sketches of posters for the squares of Moscow in the October holidays. 19-worker's Head-the fragment to the design of the “Palace of Soviets “. 20-sketch for the painting “motherhood “. 21,22-Sketches of the painting ”Exchange of best practices combine coal in the mine" 23,24,25,26-Drawings for paintings 27,28,29-Sketches for paintings 30 -for sketches of murals sanatorium of the Council of Ministers at Moscow. 31-detail of a mural, sketch. 32,33-Landscapes, studies. 34,35,36-drawings from nature, etc. in addition to the above gave the Museum a portrait of Lenin done in mosaic which was on display in Moscow in 1960. At the exhibition “Soviet Russia".

(Source: I. P. Mikhailov)