Alexey Konstantinov Biography

Alexey Konstantinov. We offer to read the text about Alexei Semenovich Konstantinov, who was prepared by Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Gunddyreva, Deputy Director for Basic Activities and Development of the Museum Alexei Semenovich Konstantinov “Alexei Semenovich Konstantinov was born in the village of Kuryya Kytmanovsky district, Altai Territory. Painter, monumentalist. He studied: at the Sverdlovsk Art College with F.

Shmelev, S. Kiprin, I. Kolodin, at the Moscow State Art Institute. Surikova at the department of monumental painting at P. Mochalsky, V. Tsyplakov, A. Member of the Great Patriotic War. Since the year, he lived and worked in the city of Nizhny Tagil. The author of numerous monumental works in Nizhny Tagil and the Sverdlovsk region. He worked in the field of the thematic picture.

Participant in exhibitions from city, regional; Zonal “Socialist Urals” -, personal exhibitions - in X, Nizhny Tagil, Yekaterinburg. The works are stored in the collection of the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, private collections. Konstantinov A. And the sons go into battle. Cardboard, oil. NTMII, of course, the academic system of teaching art put Alexei Konstantinov a high bar of professional skill, endowed the skills necessary for the artist of the monumentalist: techniques for converting form and generalization, conventions, symbolism of color and coloristic solution as a whole, by the organization of flat decorative decisions, but most importantly - characteristic, almost pathetic, but ...

with different ones tonal sound, a solution to the images of the heroes of his works. This note of universality, the elation of being will live in all his works - easel and monumental. From the memoirs of Lydia Pavlovna Konstantinova, the artist’s wife: “...

I remember, I read letters, I watch paintings, meet with whom I worked ... I solve the secrets of his paintings, I am not convinced that I understood everything, but something, very deep and innermost, opened to me. It was opened that although he was an ordinary person, he went to shops for food, sometimes prepared lunch, loved to talk with friends, but it was an external life. And in parallel, next to this ordinary life or over it there was another inner, transcendental, creative life in which there was another world, other interlocutors, other images, often not visible to ordinary people.

He, like most gifted people, had the ability to penetrate the subtle worlds and often did not want to return to this earthly rude world for a long time. And it was a real life that he tried to express in painting ... ". My homeland. The Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts is the only professional team that was engaged in the preservation and study of the work of the Tagil artist A. During his life, Alexei Konstantinov practically did not participate in exhibitions, the works were not indicated in catalogs, easel work was not known to the audience and researchers.

After the death of the artist, employees of the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts began work on the study, systematization and popularization of A.'s work, compiled the first reliable catalog, the works were systematized according to the periods, restored, shown at exhibitions in the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts and in the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. Working on the promotion of the artist’s work, the museum presented information about A.

in - gg. The constancy of the search. From the series "Artists of Nizhny Tagil." In it, researchers and eyewitnesses - art historians, artists, philosophers, culturologists - each from their point of view analyzed the history of the emergence, life and the post -and spaces of the art of the Tagil artist, tried to understand the motives and images of his works, and in fact - its features to listen to the world and figuratively tell him.

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