Exhibition of one painting "Boris Yakovlev (1890-1972)" Anemones "1945" Automatic translate

The exhibition of one painting "Boris Yakovlev (1890-1972)" Anemones "1945" will start working at the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (104 Lenina st., Main exposition) from October 28

Boris Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1890-1972) - a well-known Soviet artist, master of the landscape genre, one of the organizers of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1922), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1962).

B. Yakovlev was born in Moscow. On the maternal side, the mother is associated with the merchant environment. The artist’s father was a specialist pharmacist who owned a small factory. Prosperity and prosperity allowed parents to give a good education to their children. This is how the four sons in the family connected their lives with art: they became restorers, artists and architects.

In 1917 B. Yakovlev graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University, a year later the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the workshop of A. Vasnetsov and A. Stepanov, also studied with S. Malyutin and A. Arkhipov. In the 1920s – 1930s. He traveled a lot around the country: Samarkand, Baku, Maykop, Crimea, Georgia, Ural, Dagestan, Karelia, etc. Exhibited at all major exhibitions of the country. Since 1958 - Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. In 1956-1963. taught at VGIK. In recent years, the artist lived and worked in a dacha near Zvenigorod.

B. Yakovlev entered the history of Russian art as the founder of the Soviet industrial landscape, praising the romance of socialist construction. Vivid examples of his paintings are the famous canvas "Transport is getting better" (1923) and his work from the country’s new buildings. Also B. Yakovlev created a number of expressive works about Moscow (views of Red Square), in his mature years he worked a lot and fruitfully on lyrical rural landscapes.

The artist’s creative method is marked by individual originality. Based on the best achievements of the national realistic school, passed on to the master A. Vasnetsov, at the same time it is distinguished by a free, expressive manner of painting. Triumphant life-affirming force, the absence of dry documentary, the lyricism of the seen image, a new, fresh look at seemingly familiar things - all this distinguishes B. Yakovlev’s paintings, making them truly artistic and truly memorable.

The funds of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts contain two works by the artist: a landscape sketch and a still life with a bouquet of flowers.

Anemones (1945) is a spectacular work of the master, built on the contrast of a dark background, a table and white flowers in a transparent glass vase. In the dynamism of the compositional solution chosen by the master and the energetic sculpting of the form, one can feel the optimistic perception of the artist’s life, as well as his desire to convey movement and show the change of states. This is also felt in the principles of writing: a sweeping, pasty smear using a palette knife forms the texture of a painted surface. But a skillfully found balance between broad communication and attention to basic details allows the artist to create works in which there is an amazing freshness of perception and makes, even in everyday objects, feel joy and fullness of existence. B. Yakovlev’s ability to penetrate into the very essence of things gives a special charm to the exhibited still life.Anemones, or in other words anemone, are flowers whose petals are very sensitive to the slightest gusts of wind, which the artist shows by introducing into the composition several petals and plant leaves that have fallen on the surface of the table. B. Yakovlev’s painting is exquisite in its coloristic solution: white-pink, juicy green, deep blue, noble brown and purple shades enhance the sonority of the image and its emotional uplift.noble brown and purple shades enhance the sonority of the image and its emotional uplift.noble brown and purple shades enhance the sonority of the image and its emotional uplift.

The work entered the museum collection in 1946 from the State Purchasing Commission.

The presented work is exhibited for the 130th anniversary of the artist’s birth and for the 75th anniversary of the creation of the work itself.

The exhibition will run until November 22.