VASILIEV (MON) Yuri

April 7, 1925 (Moscow) - October 29, 1990 (Moscow)

sculptor, painter, artist books, theater artist, restorer

was born April 7, 1925 in the family of an engineer and housewives. The family was still a brother, Boris, Yuri over 4 years, have had a great influence. Brother died in the war in 1944.

studied (with a break) at the Moscow Art College of memory 1905. In 1940-1942 at AN Chirkova, and in 1945-1947 - on the theater faculty at Shestakova. In 1942 entered the Irkutsk Military Aviation School, which graduated a year later with the rank of sergeant, and in 1943-1945 served in the 12 air regiment des Gardes aircraft mechanic, was slightly wounded.

In 1947 he entered the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (MIPIDI), after the closure of which in 1948 joined the Moscow Art Institute. Surikov at Faculty of Painting. In those years devoted much time to study the theory of art and technology of materials. He graduated from the institute in 1953; thesis "The Return of the camp" exhibited at the diploma course at the Academy of Fine Arts.

in 1954 adopted the Moscow Union of Artists. Worked in the poster group.

In 1954-1956 was a member of the commission based on the podium Hudfonda the USSR and chairman of the commission MOHFA of artistic material. In the work of this period was called Vassiliev neorealism, in these years have been some major plot pieces: "Don Quixote", "Leda", "Homunculus", "The Old Man and the Sea", "Man and a watermelon" and others.

In 1956 Vasiliev organized Russia's first exhibition of Japanese color prints in the halls of the Moscow Union.

In 1957 participated in the International Exhibition VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, where he met and became friendly with the Czech and Polish artists, with the Moscow poets and writers. I got carried away graphics - linocut and monotype, in this and subsequent years made a large series of linocuts.

in 1958 created the work "Andromeda Nebula", "Love is not quenched", "Dog's Dream" and others in the series "Tachisme", performed a series of portraits. In the same year made the first abstract sculptures in stone and wood from the future series "Ancient Gods»

in 1959 created the costumes and scenery for a comedy VA Dykhovichnyi and MR Sloboda "Nothing of the sort" in Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka. In the same year undertook a monumental work on the design of the hall number 6 ( "Hall of the Future") at VDNH in the pavilion of the RSFSR. Began work on dolls made of wood, a series (about 40 dolls) later called "Malvina».

In 1960, Vasilyev often went to the Pushkin Reserve - the village Mikhailovskoye, where friendships tied him with a wonderful writer and popularization SS Geychenko. In Michael's an artist has done a lot of restoration work, was a regular consultant to the reserve. In the same year - the first heart attack after sharp criticism of the party bureau. After recovery, Vasiliev made his first designs of wire, ran an extensive series of linocuts.

In 1960-1965 the main sources of income was the artist's book chart. Vasiliev has designed nearly 10 books: "Yesterday and Today" B. Slutsky (1961), "Verse" Mezhirova A. (1960); book - an annual magazine "Day of Poetry" (1962), "Pure for" A . Rudnitskogo (1963); "It was in Europe" Shotoly I. (1963); "I'm going on the ground" A. Chamberlain (1964), "Poems" J. Prévert (1964); " Colors struggle Mogara (1964), etc.

In 1962, artist Vladimir Vasilyev Bogatkin helped arrange an exhibition hall of Central House of Arts in linocut. The exhibition was a great success, but it worked only one day.

In these years a new period began in the painting - "Harmony" - the embodiment of the theoretical development of the artist's combination of colors. There were such works as "The Three Graces", "Demon", "Tamara", "George", "War of the Worlds," awakening ", and others.

In 1965-1971 Vasiliev designed the 7 performances. In 1965 met and became friends with the chief director of the Theater on Taganka YP Lyubimov, to perfect his theater performances of the Fallen and the Living "(1965)," Pugachev "(1966), was a member of Arts Council Theater. In 1965, designed the experimental performance "Trains disagree" at the Theater Mossovet, as well as "Fear and desperation of the Third Reich" by Brecht in the theater of Lenin Komsomol.

In 1967, he worked at the International Symposium of sculptors and stone in Gorzhitsy (Czechoslovakia). They created a composition of six sculptures "Love". Received the prize and an invitation to rest a month in Prague.

In the late 1960's - early 1970's, Vasiliev performed many paintings, drawings, sculptures and stone (limestone and marble) and wood, theatrical works. In particular, in 1969 at the Maly Theater worked on the play "old wives' tales" C. Goldoni. In 1971 were produced interesting scenery and costumes for the play "Barbarians" Gorky (not held).

In the same years in the publishing houses of Tokyo (Japan), were published in book design Vasiliev: "Possessed" (1968), "Poor People" and "White Nights" (both - 1970) F. ; Dostoyevsky, "The Captain's Daughter", "Eugene Onegin", "Queen of Spades" (all - 1970) Alexander Pushkin, "Secret Man", "Jan" (both -1971) AP Platonov.

in 1971 undertook the first visit to the Museum-Estate Polenovo, where the acquaintance with the writer and director of the museum FD Polenov, with which the artist subsequently tied warm friendships. In Polenovo Vasiliev carried out restoration work at the museum.

in 1972 held its first trip to Japan, to Yokohama, at the invitation of the Mayor. Impressed by a visit the artist created a large number of paintings, in particular the "Fuji-san", "White Roses Yokohama", "Bay of Ishigaki and others.

Summer 1973 at the invitation of SS Geychenko artist held in Petrovsky, doing restoration. After this trip were written three paintings entitled "Novels Petrovsky. In the same year in Japan, two books came out in the design of Vassiliev: "Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and" About Love "Frolova.

In early 1974 suffered a severe stroke, a lot of time spent in hospital and sanatorium. But this year was a lot of graphics - watercolors, drawings. At the end of the year completed two large sculptures: "Big Family" (marble) and "Forest King" (the tree).

7 and 8 April 1975 (two days) to the 50 th anniversary Vasilieva his family home as a gift arranged an exhibition in his apartment. This exhibition was the only: if life Vasilyev did not have any personal or even a group exhibition of paintings in Russia. In the same year the artist has finished a large canvas "pollution" ( "Polyuschin"), and also created a huge number of small works under the general title "cyclotrons". In Japan, published a book "Russian Classics": Pushkin (Eugene Onegin "and" The Captain's Daughter "), Nikolai Gogol (" Auditor "," The Overcoat "), and I . Turgenev ( "First Love" and "Rudin »).

early spring of 1976 the artist at the invitation of his friend Hiroshi Kimura again visited Japan (Yokohama). There he created the sculpture "Inner Strength" (Iranian onyx). Upon returning from Japan, the artist for four years with his family lived in the House-Tower Richter. This original house is in a dense forest on the edge of the cliff above the Oka. Under the impression of a quiet life on the Oka River in 1977 created paintings "Contemplation", a series of sculptures made of limestone and a series of small watercolors.

third trip to Japan took place in 1978. Yokohama Japanese friends staged a solo exhibition Vasilyev paintings, drawings and sculptures at the city museum. In Yokohama, you can create two bronze sculptures, one of them, "Model" (or "lying on its side"), is a sculptor Inoue-san, another - "Tenderness" (or "Elixir of Love") - is in the seaside Park City of Yokohama.

In 1979, Vasilyev made a trip to France to attend an international symposium on sculpture in the town of Woodrow (Normandy). Established in Woodrow sculpture "Harmony" (limestone, 200 x 150 x 250) set in the town square near the railway station. This year in France was declared the Year of Sculpture. In Paris and other cities were international exhibitions. Vasiliev, too, was represented by two works: "The Mysterious whisper" (Amur velvet) and "friendly family" (apple, painted a dark color). After a month of work at a symposium held in Paris. Upon returning to Moscow in the autumn has written a great job "new birth" and four paintings from the series "Money": "Tragedy", "Comedy", "Drama", "Danae».

the spring of 1980 managed to write the big picture "Sadness". More in this year Vasiliev wrote nothing, stunned by the death of Vladimir Vysotsky, from which he withdrew after his death mask. In winter, created the sculpture "Life" (mahogany, 225 x 50 x 40).

In 1981, the theater "Traditional" (Tokyo) created the design of the play Chekhov The Seagull, noted in the Japanese press.

the spring of 1982 he graduated a long time now conceived "in space" (or "Among the Worlds"), and in the fall - now "The Prayer". In late October, had a heart attack, long treated in hospital and sanatorium.

In summer 1983 he settled in the summer community "Soviet Artist" in the village of Sands near Kolomna. During the summer, made the sculpture "Youth" (marble) and "Amazon" (limestone). At the end of the year written penultimate great work "Requiem».

In 1984 at the invitation of A. Efros, while the chief director Taganka Theater, designed the play, Gorky's The Lower Depths. This work was noticed and appreciated by the Moscow press. In the same year, finished the sculpture "Dreams" (marble) and "Leda" (limestone).

By 1985, include painting "Hamlet" - the last major painting - and the sculpture "Requiem" (limestone), "Wave" (striped rhodonite-orlets), "Night" (black basalt.

in 1986-1987 without a break moved to the Sands. In the work of Vassiliev it were sculptured years: "Paganini" (white marble), "Music" (white marble), "Two" (rhodonite-orlets striped), "The Mystery of autumn" (limestone), "Idyll" (white marble), "The Dream "(rhodonite-orlets yellow striped)," Song "(white marble)," Monument to the ancestors "(gray-blue marble).

in 1988-1989 created the illustrations for the tales of Leo Tolstoy (the book was published in Tokyo in 1988), sculptures of white marble "Bear", "Youth", "Dream".

In 1990, the artist's health deteriorated sharply. Recent work Vasileva-little statues "At rest" (marble) and two drawings: "Eye" (blue felt-tip pen) and "Self" (blue felt-tip pen).

died Oct. 29 in a Moscow hospital.

Exhibitions

1948   Exhibition training graduate student in the USSR Academy of Arts

1950   Reports show students in Vladimir

1953   Exhibition of diploma works in the USSR Academy of Arts. Exhibition of young artists in the Central House of Arts

1954   The first exhibition of young artists

1955   The second exhibition of young artists

1956   The third exhibition of young artists

1957   The fourth exhibition of young artists   All-Union Exhibition dedicated to the 40 anniversary of the October   The exhibition of Moscow artists in Manege "Soviet Russia»   Exhibition of young artists for the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (awarded the diploma)   International exhibition "The world - the world" (Leipzig, East Germany)   Fifth Annual Youth Exhibition in Moscow

1959   International exhibition "Planet" (Brno, Czechoslovakia), vystavkagraficheskih works YV Vasiliev in Czechoslovakia (gallery Dum umeni, Brno)   The exhibition "Soviet Russia" in the Manege

1960   The exhibition "15 years of victory over Germany»   Third Exhibition of Print   International Exhibition for Peace "in Moscow   The exhibition "Soviet Art" in the U.S. and Canada

1961   The exhibition of Moscow artists, dedicated to the XXII Congress of the CPSU   Exhibition "For peace and disarmament" in the USSR Academy of Arts

1962   One-day exhibition "Drawings Yuri Vasilyevich Vasilyev" in the small hall of Central House of Arts   The exhibition "30 years MOSKh»

1965   One-day exhibition at the Central House of Writers

1966   The exhibition "25 years since the defeat of the Germans at Moscow." Manege

1967   Exhibition at the international symposium of sculpture on a stone (Gorzhitsy, Czechoslovakia)   The exhibition "Soviet sport" in the Sports Palace

1978   Personal exhibition in Yokohama (Japan)

1979   Exhibition in Paris, "Year of Sculpture. Participation in an international sculpture symposium in Woodrow (France)

1980   International exhibition "Sculpture in the open air" in Yokohama (Japan)

1981   The exhibition of costumes and stage designs for the play "Seagull" Chekhov in the theater "Traditional" in Tokyo (Japan)

1984-1987   Reporting a two-day exhibition of artists living in a dacha cooperative "Soviet Artist" in the village of Sand

1988   Exhibition in the House of Artists "50 years of sand", dedicated to works of three generations of artists who lived in a dacha cooperative "Soviet Artist" in the village of Sands near Kolomna

1991   Exhibition "Other Art" Moscow. 1956-76 "(The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)   All-Union Exhibition in Manege "Soviet Russia»