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Video: What the artist, whom all Soviet schoolchildren knew from the picture in the textbook "Native Speech", painted: Post in memory of Ksenia Uspenskaya
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A few days ago, the news of the death of a famous Russian artist spread throughout the country. Ksenia Nikolaevna Uspenskaya - On April 13, at the 97th year of her life, her heart stopped beating. Another artist left, who created not only amazing paintings, but also the history of Russian art in the last century. Many people remember her paintings from school, when they happened to write essays on reproductions of paintings. One of them "Did not take fishing", printed in the textbook on "Rodnaya Rech".
Several pages from the biography
Ksenia was born after the revolution, in 1922 in Voronezh in the family of Professor N. A. Uspensky. The girl was very gifted, studied music and loved to draw, so she attended both art and music schools at the same time. And when she grew up, she graduated from the art school.
And later, when Ksenia was faced with a choice of which university to study further, the choice fell on the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts at the Faculty of Ceramics. Being a student of the master of socialist realism - Alexander Deineka, the girl, like a sponge, absorbed the foundations of her teacher's skill. And since her student years she chose portrait painting as the main genre of her work. Although she did not ignore landscapes and still lifes.
After graduating from university, in 1949, she worked at the Moscow Research Institute of Building Materials, and then suddenly the decision came to return home to Voronezh, where she got a job as a teacher at the Department of Agricultural Architecture of a local agricultural institute. In parallel, she was engaged in painting, and since 1953 she became a permanent participant in the All-Russian art exhibitions.
The most famous work of Ksenia Uspenskaya is the canvas "They Didn't Take Fishing", created in 1955, almost immediately was bought by the State Tretyakov Gallery. And over time, it became her calling card, and acquired a textbook meaning. It was in this year that the aspiring talented artist was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR.
Since then, Ouspenskaya has created more than one hundred bright canvases - genre portraits and sketches, landscapes and still lifes. Her chamber and lyrical works wonderfully harmonized with the work of her husband, the painter Vasily Krivoruchko, who became famous for his large-scale canvases on a historical theme. The tandem of spouses-artists, creating their works, organically coexisted under one roof.
Often, the paintings of Ksenia Nikolaevna Uspenskaya were better known than the artist herself, because she did not like excessive publicity and rarely gave interviews, although she herself was actively involved in social activities.
Despite her advanced age, the artist worked in painting almost to the end of her days. And somehow she admitted, celebrating her 90th anniversary, that she regrets only one thing, that she had to devote so much time and effort to work at the Agricultural Institute, instead of doing her favorite art. However, students graduated from the walls of the university with great gratitude recalled the lectures of this amazing woman.
Over the years, Ksenia Uspenskaya had the opportunity to successfully combine creativity with social, scientific and pedagogical activities. She was an associate professor of the Department of Agricultural Architecture of the Agricultural Institute, was repeatedly elected a deputy of the regional Council of Deputies of the working people of her native city.
I would also like to note that Ouspenskaya's works are kept not only in the Voronezh Museum, which is more than 40 works, but also in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, galleries in London, New York, Washington, in private collections in Holland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
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