Vladimir Serov (1910-1968)

Born 8 (21) in July 1910 in the village of Emmaus (now Tver region ) . In 1931 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Arts ( VE workshop Savinskoye ) . In 1932-1933 he attended graduate school at the All LIZhSA Academy of Arts Isaak Brodsky . He taught at the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1933-1942 ) . During the Great Patriotic War and the blockade remained in the besieged Leningrad. As chairman of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists ( headed by the Union in the years 1941-1948 ) participated in the association " Fighting Pencil ", then in the postwar reconstruction of the artistic life of the Leningrad Union.

Copyright paintings on historical and revolutionary themes , portraits, landscapes and still lifes . In the paintings Serov VA , dedicated to the events of the October Revolution and the first years of Soviet power interpretiriruyutsya historical events in the spirit of the official historiography 1940-1960 period. Serov was also engaged in book illustration , invariably choosing works of national classics " of the first row ." He owns the illustration to the poem Nekrasov "Who Lives Well " ( a black pencil , sauce , gouache, 1948-1949) to Leo Tolstoy " War and Peace" (mainly temperature , 1951-1953) , to the books of Alexander Pushkin , Gorky , etc. In 1957-1962 gg. Serov created a very interesting series of color illustrations to the " Lay ."

Serov is also the author of a number of political posters " to master the technique , be at the forefront of the builders of socialism " (1934 ), " replace ! " (1941 ), " Protecting the city of Lenin " (1941 ), " We defended Leningrad. We will restore it! "( Chromolithograph , 1944).

In his creative and social activity was pronounced representative of the official state ideology , an apologist of socialist realism in its most dogmatic understanding [ source not specified 795 days ] . As president of the USSR Academy of Arts , played an improper role [ where? ] Negatively evaluating the work of many artists "severe style" . [ Source not specified 795 days ]

Full Member ( 1954) , President of the USSR Academy of Arts since 1962. First Secretary of the Union of Artists of Russia ( 1960-1968 ) . Member of the CPSU ( b) since 1942. CRK CPSU member since 1961. Supreme Council of the RSFSR in 1958 .

Valentin Serov died yanvarya1968 19 years . Buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery . In 1980, the artist's home in the village . Emmaus Tver Region is open Memorial Art House Museum Vladimir Serov . In Moscow on the house ( Taras Shevchenko Embankment , 3 ), which lived in VA Serov, a memorial plaque.

major works
• " Siberian partisans" (1934 , Museum of them . Brodsky , Berdyansk)
• " On Yudenitch " (1934 , the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow ) .
• " Arrival of Lenin in Petrograd in 1917 " 1937
• " Chapaev Head " (1938 , Central Museum of the Armed sil.Eksponirovalos the exhibition "20 years of the Red Army" )
• " Battle of the Ice " (1942 , RM)
• " Last cartridge" (1942 , Museum of the defense of Leningrad )
• " Baltic Troopers " (1942 , Central Museum, Navy , St. Petersburg)
• " Entry of Alexander Nevsky in Pskov" (1945 , RM)
• " V. Lenin proclaims Soviet power " (1947 , PRC version - 1962 , TG)
• " Walkers Lenin " (1950 , GTG.Variant - Central Lenin Museum , Moscow , now in GIM )
• " Winter is taken! " (1954 , TG)
• " Waiting signal ( Before the storm ) " (1957 , TG)
• " Decree of the world " (1957 , TG)
• " Decree on Land " (1957 , TG)
• " Work " (1960 )
• A series of 10 color illustrations to " Lay ", 1957-1962 ( tempera on paper ) originals in the Rostov Art Museum ; il.opublikovany in 1963 with the transfer of VA Zhukovsky , later never republished .
• " Steelworker " , 1966