"Russia’s bright sorrow". Exhibition of works by Grigory Chainikov (1960-2008)

An exhibition of works by the Honored Worker of Arts of the Udmurt Republic, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Grigory Chainikov (1960-2008), dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the artist’s birth, opens in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts. The exhibition includes paintings created by the master in the last decades of his creative activity.

Grigory Leontievich Chainikov was born on November 28, 1960 in the village of Grakhovo in Udmurtia. After graduating from the Volosh secondary school in 1976, he entered the Udmurt State University at the art and graphic faculty. Soon he transferred to the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov, where he studied in the workshop of Professor V.G. Tsyplakov. In 1988 - 1991 he studied at the Creative Painting Workshops of the USSR Academy of Arts under the guidance of the Academicians of the Russian Academy of Arts brothers A.P. and S.P. Tkachev. He worked in the House of Art named after. IE Repin "Academic dacha", where most of his works were created.

The works of Grigory Chainikov are distinguished by high professional skill and are united by a single leitmotif - love for his country, outside of which, according to the author himself, he could not imagine himself or his work. The master captured the remote corners of Russia, its pristine nature and the traditional way of life of the Russian countryside. In the artist’s paintings you can see picturesque views of the Tver, Ryazan, Arkhangelsk regions, as well as the holy places on Solovki and Valaam.

The genre of portrait occupies a special place in the work of G. Chainikov. The bright, characteristic types on his canvases are distinguished by integrity, harmonious correspondence between external and internal content. The viewer sees not just a portrait, but a whole story about a person and his lived experience.

Throughout his short creative life, G. Chainikov remained faithful to the principles that guided his teachers - People’s Artists of the USSR A.P. and S.P. Tkachev: follow the realistic traditions of Russian art, reflect the truth of life and glorify the beauty of his native land. Grigory Chainikov saw life in its diversity, he knew how to rise from the ordinary to high generalization, from the natural perception of nature to its artistic comprehension.