Today in the exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of Arts (Prechistenka, 21) opens an exhibition of works of National Artist of the USSR Goryaeva Vitaly Nikolaevich (1910-1982), dedicated to the 100-th birthday

Today, 16 November, in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts (Prechistenka, 21) opens an exhibition of works of national artist of USSR, USSR State Prize winner Vitaly Nikolaevich Goryaeva (1910-1982), devoted to 100 anniversary of his birth. The exhibition includes illustrations by the master in the years 1930-1981.

VN grief - one of the greatest masters of domestic art. His talent was multi-faceted and is the author of illustrations for books by Russian and foreign writers, and drawings for satirical magazines, works of easel paintings and graphics.

artist was born in 1910 in the town of Kurgan. In 1929, on the advice of Vladimir Mayakovsky, looked a his drawings, done at the Higher Artistic-Technical Institute (VHUTEIN), then studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. His teachers were famous graphics D. Moore and B. Tabor . Since mid-1930 over half a century, actively participated in the artistic life of the country. During these years he began to cooperate with the magazine Krokodil. At the beginning of the war B. Goryayev worked at Windows of TASS, and then was the chief artist of the journal "Frontline humor." Awarded the Red Star and military medals.

In 1950 the main business of life Vitaly Nikolaevich was book illustration. He conceived and created a large series of illustrations for books genius of Russian literature of the nineteenth century: poems and plays of Alexander Pushkin, the Petersburg stories "and" Dead Souls "by Gogol," Crime and Punishment, "" Teen " and "The Idiot" Dostoevsky. The development of this ambitious plan took almost thirty years. During operation, Vitaly made tens of thousands of drawings, sketches, sketching from nature. He is perfectly able to give extremely sharp portrait of a literary hero, whether Chichikov or Prince Myshkin. Illustrations V. Goryaeva - is an arbitrary connection of imagination and emotional impressions.

virtuoso drawings for these works, as well as illustrations for the novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" M. Twain "Three Fat Men Olesha, poetry Children A. Barto and S. Marshak, J. Galsworthy's novels, T. Dreiser, William Faulkner, became a classic book illustrations. Vitaly Goryayev managed to find his reading of works by such diverse writers and make us see them through the eyes of an artist.

VN Goryayev as an artist, the book was awarded the highest awards in international competitions. His works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, in dozens of the leading museums of Russia and abroad.

exhibition will run until December 12, 2010.

Source: rah.ru