Taisia Afonina

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Taisia Afonina
Таисия Афонина
Repin Institute of Arts
Known forPainting
Movementrealism

Taisia Kirillovna Afonina (

Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation),[2] and is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.[3]

Biography

Afonina was born on 13 May 1913 in the city Nikolaev, Kherson Governorate, of the Russian Empire (present-day Mykolaiv, Ukraine), in the family of master Shipyard "Navel" (after October Revolution Shipyard named Marty).

Still Life with Pussy-Willows (1964)

In 1931 Taisia Afonina graduated from nine-year school in city

Leningrad to obtain an art education. In 1932-1936 she engaged first in the evening classes for working youth, then in the preparatory classes at the Russian Academy of Arts
.

In 1936, after preparatory classes, Afonina was adopted at the first course of Painting Department of the

Victor Oreshnikov
, Pavel Naumov.

In 1941, after the beginning of

Ukrainian SSR
), and became known to the whole country.

In 1946, in the May edition of the newspaper of the Academy of Fine Arts "For the Socialist Realism", Taisa Afonina wrote: "I saw the pit where they were dumped, the remnants of their bloody clothes, the prison where they were tortured. I talked to their mothers and girlfriends. I wanted to tell, to write about all this, of all their short heroic life".[4]

In 1946, Afonina graduated from the

Repin Institute of Arts in Igor Grabar personal Art Studio of monumental painting. Her graduate work was a historical painting named "Girls of Donbas", dedicated to the memory and heroism members of the Anti-Fascist underground.[5]

After graduation Afonina continued to work in

Museum of Modern Art in Paris.[6]

Creativity

Her first participation in an art exhibition was in 1940. Since the beginning of 1950s, Antipova constantly involved in art exhibitions of Leningrad artists. She painted landscapes, still-lifes, portraits, and genre compositions. She worked in oil painting and watercolors and was most famous as a master of landscape and still-life painting. In 1946 Taisia Afonina was admitted to the

Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.[7]

In the first years after graduation Taisia Afonin attracted military subjects and pathos revival. Later she worked more in the genres of portrait and lyrical landscape. In the 1950s she visited

Still-life with Pussy-Willows,[15] Portrait of poet Olga Bergholz, Marinka,[16] Briar[17] (all 1964), Portrait of artist Margarita Ruban[18] (1971), Portrait A. Grebenuk,[19] Portrait of an entomologist S. Keleynikova[20] (both 1975), Portrait of a Korean woman Tamara[21] (1977), and Portrait of writer Nikolai Tikhonov[22]
(1980).

Taisia Kirillovna Afonina died on 19 April 1994 in Saint Petersburg at the age of 80. Her paintings reside in art museums and private collections in Russia,[23] Finland, USA, Germany, England, France,[24] and others.

See also

References

  1. ^ "ULAN Full Record Display: Afonina, Taisiya Kirillovna (Ukrainian painter, 1913-1994)". Union List of Artist Names (Getty Research). Retrieved 2022-12-17.
  2. ^ Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Vol.1. Moscow, Soviet artist, 1979. P.71.
  3. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 20, 21, 356, 387, 388, 390, 392-395, 398, 400, 404, 405.
  4. ^ "For the Socialist Realism". Leningrad, Newspaper of the Academy of Arts, 1946, May Edition.
  5. ^ Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. P.56.
  6. ^ "Ленинградский художник Афонина Таисия Кирилловна (artist Afonina Taisiya Kirillovna)". Socialist Realism. Kiev club of collectors.
  7. ^ Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. P.9.
  8. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of Painting. Essays on the History. St Petersburg, ARKA Gallery Publishing, 2019. P.264.
  9. ^ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1956 года. Каталог. Л., Ленинградский художник, 1958. С.6.
  10. ^ Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1958 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1959. С.6.
  11. ^ Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1960 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1961. С.8.
  12. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.324.
  13. ^ Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1960 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1963. С.7.
  14. ^ Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1961 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1964. С.8.
  15. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.64.
  16. Ленинград. Зональная выставка 1964 года. Каталог
    . Л, Художник РСФСР, 1965. C.8.
  17. ^ Каталог весенней выставки произведений ленинградских художников 1965 года. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1970. С.7.
  18. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of Painting. Essays on the History. St Petersburg, ARKA Gallery Publishing, 2019. P.261.
  19. Наш современник. Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1975 года. Каталог
    . Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980. C.11.
  20. ^ Портрет современника. Пятая выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1976 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983. С.6.
  21. ^ Autumn Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1978. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1983. P.5.
  22. ^ Зональная выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1980 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1983. C.9.
  23. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.
  24. ^ Peinture Russe. Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 24 Septembre 1991. p.43-44.

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