Filonov Pavel

January 20, 1883 (Moscow) - December 3, 1941 (Leningrad)

painter and graphic artist.

As a child, was the corps de ballet dancer of Moscow theaters. In 1897, orphaned, he moved to St. Petersburg to her elder sister. In 1897-1901 attended the evening classes Drawing School Society for the Encouragement of Arts. In parallel, he studied at the painting-painting workshops, they graduated in 1901, then worked in auxiliary work. From 1903 to 1908 was engaged in a private studio academician LE Dmitrieva-Caucasian.

in 1905-1907 traveled down the Volga to the Caucasus, as well as in Jerusalem. In 1908 he continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts as an auditor. In 1910 certified. In the same year he became one of the organizers of the Union of Youth ", a member of three of its exhibitions. In 1911-1912 in six months traveling in Italy and France. In 1913 took part in the organization of futuristic theater in St. Petersburg "Luna Park", where together with Igor Shkolnik has designed one of the first futuristic productions - the tragedy Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Mayakovsky .

In 1914 he published jointly with other artists in the declaration, a manifesto "to make prints of" stamped "Intimate studio painters and draftsmen," the manifesto proclaimed the slogan "Made Decorative" in art. In 1914-1915 futuristic illustrated edition. Posted by "ideology and the principle of analytical art-designed." In 1915 he published his only poem "Propeven sprouted on the world", which he illustrated.

in 1916-1918 was at the front in Bessarabia. In 1919 participated in the First State Free Exhibition of works of art in Petrograd. In 1923 he exhibited his work at the Exhibition of paintings by artists of Petrograd all directions. After a short time worked with INKhuK in Petrograd, where he led the department a common ideology (1923). At the same time issued a "Declaration of world prosperity».

in 1925 founded a team of Masters of Analytical Art (MAI, School Filonova), which already in 1927 consisted of 40 members. Among them: T. Glebova, BI Gurevich, P. M. Kondratyev, AI whips, MP ; Tsibasov, A. Sasha, NG Lozovoy, EA Kibrik and others. In 1927, together with students to create costumes and scenery for the staging of Inspector General Gogol in the Press House in Leningrad. In 1929, led the design agitpesy King Gaykin I »in Vasilievskoe club Metal Worker.

In 1929-1931 the State Russian Museum has been prepared solo exhibition Filonov (not open). In 1931-1933 conducted by MAI illustrating Finnish epic "Kalevala" for the publishing house Academia. In 1932 took part in the exhibition "Artists of the RSFSR during 15 years in Leningrad, and a year later - in Moscow.

In 1941, he died of starvation in the besieged Leningrad, buried in the cemetery Seraphim.

first personal (memorial) Filonov exhibition held in 1967 in the Art Gallery of the Siberian Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, was followed by an extensive exhibition at the State Russian Museum in Leningrad in 1988. In 2006-2007, the State Russian Museum, and then in GMII im. Pushkin were retrospective exhibition "Pavel Filonov. Witness invisible ».

Filonov - one of the leading masters of Russian avant-garde. He was captured by the art of the Archaic, comprehended its poetic and plastic essence, trying to get to the very origins of art, and developed his own unique style. This Filonov overemphasized the need for mastery or "-designed" - a careful prescription of each part, each link (each micron image "), seeking the effect of live motion. Any phenomenon artist perceived in many dimensions, their impressions and observations he combined in one image in the picture or painting. Synthesis of archaic and modern analysts forms the basis filonovskogo style. On his outlook was greatly influenced by rigorous academic skills of the (Filonov highly valued by such masters as IK Aivazovsky and VV Vereshchagin, well owning technique of painting and drawing), the art of symbolism, especially the work MAVrubel, works by masters of the Northern Renaissance and neo-primitivism.

Filonova Life itself was like a legend: he lived as an ascetic, a committed and loyal to his ideas, his art, which in his opinion, is able to actively influence the people who never sold his paintings, hoping to transfer their State for the organization of the Museum of the analytical art.

Creativity Filonova represented in several museum collections, particularly in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin (mostly individual works). The largest collection of works by the master is in the State Russian Museum (more than 400 paintings and graphic works).