Pimenov, Yuri Ivanovich (1903-1977)

Yuri Pimenov always wanted to be an artist of our time, to embody today, keeping with the spirit and appearance of each of the running of the day the feeling of life. So he was very Soviet artist.

In 1924, a group of students of Higher Art, where he studied in the years 1920-25., Pimenov participated in the "First Discussion Exhibition of active revolutionary art" and a year later founded the Society of the participants (OST). "Football, boxing, factory architecture, cranes - all very latest, samonaisovershennoe - it was a passion of mine and many of my comrades" - recalled Pimenov.

But not only the subject, the whole structure of his art ostovtsy ostrosovremennym wanted to do. So seemed German Expressionism, with its sharp, sometimes grotesque visual language. Pimenov writes "Disabled War," with eyeless masks instead of faces (1926), ascetic skeletal athletes ("Running", 1928), and almost as exhausted working hard plotted against the locomotives and steel trusses in the poster on the title and concept picture "Give heavy industry! " (1927).

By the 1930s. This feigned severity of creativity disappears Pimenov. "I want to make a lyrical and elegant art" - he declares. Light, movable smear bright colors he writes female portraits ("Portrait of LA Yeremina", 1935), near Moscow, nature, shimmering fabrics and diversity of things in the restroom actress ("Actress", 1935). Rainbow surface of life fascinated him: the newly built bulk Okhotny, bobbed his head girl, her hand on the steering wheel open cars, carnations at the windshield - all in pink and blue shimmering impressionistic, delicate flavor ("New Moscow", 1937).

Then this is already widely known song artist defiantly repeat in the changing scenery and harsh flavor "Frontline road" (1944). Genre lyrical reportage, sentimental admiration of the holiday bustle of city life will remain until the end of life elements Pimenov.
Since the late 1950s. the main thing for him observation and poetizatsii - surrounding Moscow new quarters. He admires their very Unfinished and uninhabited, temporary, not yet arranged everyday life. Female employees are bathed in a pool of his brilliant paper ("Frantihi", 1958), teetering on the dirt thrown over the tubes young beauties ("First ladies of the new quarter," 1961), a ceremonious parade on the boardwalk of the road blurred newlyweds ("Wedding on a Tomorrow Street" , 1962). All this he enthusiastically watching and all while trying to poetisized, embellishes. Pimenov and known for its theatrical works: for Moscow's Maly Theatre where he designed the play "For those who are at sea!" B. Lavrenev (1946), for the Central Red Army Theater - "Step broad" Vinnikov NG (1949).