He died May Miturich-Khlebnikov
ARTinvestment.RU   04 июля 2008

It was May-Mituricha Petrovich Khlebnikov - valid member of the Academy of Arts, the renowned graphics, illustrator of children's books. He always felt his mission - to be continuing the famous avant-garde dynasty

Not a May-Mituricha Petrovich Khlebnikov - valid member of the Academy of Arts, the renowned graphics, illustrator of children's books. He died on the 84 th year.

As an epigraph to his exhibitions in recent years (at the Academy of Arts, where he headed the department of graphics, in the Tretyakov Gallery - to 80-years anniversary) May P. showed handwritten reconstruction constructivist objects, which in 1920 did His father, Peter Miturich , on the verses of his uncle - budetlyanina poet Velimir Khlebnikov. Mother May Mituricha, Vera Klebnikov, was also a painter, studied in Paris, but has not made a loud career with a concentration in the family.

May Miturich, born in 1925, Velimir Khlebnikov - First Chairman of the world - could not remember, he died in 1922-m, but its artistic heritage has always revered as such. Since 1992, the company headed by Velimir Khlebnikov, and actually created a museum of the poet in Astrakhan, sacrificing there many family relics.

How do I say about myself is May P., «in such a family, I was just doomed to become an artist». He chose the book endeavors graphics, where his family could use a creative capital. It's no secret that in the Soviet era illustration was relatively free to experiment. Painter received ottepelnye 1960 - his illustrations to Marshak and Chukovsky. Later, there were illustrations of the «Maugli» and stories Vitali Bianchi to «Alice in Wonderland» Carroll and «Odyssey» Homer - all he illustrated about one hundred books. They were published in the Soviet bloc, in France and Finland, in 1978, it said Andersen Prize.

His Gospremiyu in the early 1980's he was painting for the Paleontological Museum in Moscow, together with the artist Victor Duvidovym.

Exotic flora and fauna have been a master of horses, he traveled a lot and deserved pride of Constantine Паустовского definition «vagrant in the best sense of the word». In addition, miturichevskim books on fairy jungle of Soviet children are quite able to learn what fovizm and expressionism.

In recent years, the artist was not necessary to mask their modernist fascination, and they are quite evident in his paintings. May Mituricha graphic style is often compared to Japanese calligraphy to the line of virtuosity and lightness of watercolor, but the artist himself argued that it is not so, and «yaponisty»: Japanese readily printing his books, including «Traditional Japanese tales», valued as once it «Europeanness».

May Miturich many years taught at the Polygraphic Institute, which once was a student himself. Creative heirs, and he remained in his family: his daughter has become a painter, Vera Klebnikov, as well as the granddaughter of Maria Sumnina

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