Today in the exhibition hall on the 1-st Tverskaya-Yamskaya 20 paintings exhibition opens Tatyana Marchenko

From 27 January to 7 February 2009 in the exhibition hall of the Moscow Union of Artists at the 1-st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 20 will be shown retrospective exhibition of paintings Tatyana Marchenko . Tatyana is one of the oldest artists of the Association, this year will mark the 90 anniversary. Her paintings and graphic works are almost all themes and genres that can reach the artist for a long and difficult human life.

Tatyana graduated from art school in 1905 and the memory of two-year courses a distinguished painter and teacher NP Krymov . Upon completion of training worked in Bashkortostan, has participated in major exhibitions. The war began: Tatyana worked draftsman-designer at a military factory, then - in the «windows TASS». Despite the difficulties persist in painting: in the evacuation went in the collective farm field work to write scenes and portraits, participated in the exhibition «Kuibyshev region in the days of World War II» in 1943, with which it «Portrait traktoristki Kazakova» was bought Kuibyshev Regional Art Museum.

most interest for the artist are portraits. Whether it represents a simple workers or cultural workers, Hero of Socialist Labor and the Civil War veterans, military or sport champions, the main thing - it is an internal human greatness. It creates an entire image contemporaries epic-monumental, yet lively and concrete. Her portraits are both common, that is invested in the notion of «the Soviet people»: a person, conscious of its role in the overall fate of the country, the significance of their work.

In 1950-60-s movement «severe style», renewed interest in industrial subjects, affected by Tatyana Marchenko and creativity: in this period, she draws a lot of shops factories «Serp & Molot», ZIL, «Dynamo ». In these works, you can see echoes of the industrial romantiku masters painting 1920-30-ies, A. Deineka or A. Samokhvalova : tense rhythms, acute angle, hardness and poetics of an industrial landscape, the daily work of a heroic man,« in the roar of controlling elements of fire and hot metal ».

Throughout his creative life, she enthusiastically offers something new - landscapes of Moscow and Central Asia, the Crimea, the Tien Shan with infinite variety of nature, life sketches border outpost, cheerful still lifes, storylines songs, portraits of children .

In different years, beginning with the 1939-th, Tatiana Marchenko, participated in more than 40 exhibitions, her paintings are in the State Historical Museum, the Museum of the Revolution, the Samara Art Museum, and many others, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. The exhibition will show work from 1952 till 2008, including the «Uzbekistan» sketches for the painting «Children in the field», «factory» sketches, still lifes, landscapes and portraits. The exhibition catalog of the artist published volume.

Source: moscow-painters . ru