In the state Tretyakov gallery on Krymsky Val opened the exhibition of the Leningrad graphic artist Valentin Ivanovich Kurdov (1905-1989)

TG, may 27 @August 23. 2015
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, halls 21-22

the Tretyakov gallery presents the art of the famous Leningrad artist-графика Valentin Ivanovich Kurdov (1905-1989). In the collection of the Museum of easel graphic series, posters and drawings of wartime, book illustrations and books with illustrations by the author. Almost all of them went in expositio@

the Son of a country doctor, originally from the Urals, Valentin Kurds received his primary art education in Yekaterinburg. From 1923 to 1926 he graduated from the painting Department of the Leningrad Vkhutein, was engaged in ginhuke K. C. Malevich@

the Kurds primarily known as a book artist, primarily — child-юношеской. Since 1927 he worked at Vladimir Lebedev heading art edition of the children's Department of the state publishing house, who in 1933-м became part of the Leningrad branch Dethese@

Thanks Cordova appeared books-картинки "Cavalry" and "Horse Budennogo", illustrations for fairy tales by Kipling, lithographs for the novel "Life of Intergene-старшего" Yukagir writer T. Oblaka, unusually expressive significance of the white plane of the sheet; detailed pen drawings to the knight W. Scott's novel "Ivanhoe"; colorful watercolors and pen drawings to the "Forest newspaper" children's writer-натуралиста V. V. Bianchi, which revealed the full extent of surveillance Valentine Cordova, hunter, traveler and of a connoisseur prirody@

prominent among those who were devoted to the artist's work, is the war stories. Teenage impressions of the events of the Revolution of 1917-го and Civil war will merge with the experience of service in the artillery regiment in 1928-1929, fixed in the mind and translated into shaped rows of leaves on the revolutionary-военную tematico@

the Great Patriotic war found Cordova in Leningrad. From the first months of the siege in the besieged city have come out posters of "Fighting pencil", and the Kurds took the hottest part in their release, inspiring Leningrada@

with over 30 propaganda sheets, most carried out in collaboration with other artists. About half of them on display at the exhibition together with the works of wartime, it is created on materials of stay Cordova as a partisan and on the Volkhov front, — watercolor images of ashes and a series of lithographs "On the roads of war" (1943-1945).

Revolution and Civil war were artistically conceived Cordovan later, in the 1960s and 70s-е years. A series of "Red and white" (1969) is marked with a light grotesquely, and the leaves from album "Songs of revolution" (1971-1977) inherent childlike interpretation sobytiy@

Presented at the exhibition the legacy of the artist, showing the key moments in the history of our country of the past twentieth century, gives us the creative image of Valentin Ivanovich Kurdov — thin lyrics, one of the most prominent artists of the Leningrad school grafiki@

Source: tretyakovgallery.ru