Vasnetsov Yuri Biography

Children's and youth years Yuri were born on March 22 of the year. His father was a priest.

Also, this clan is significant in that it had many eminent painters and artists, also one of the distant relatives of Yuri - a folklorist who, during his life, was able to collect and publish more Russian folk songs. Therefore, it is not surprising that the biography of Yuri is associated with art, because such a cultural heritage of this family could not but affect the descendant.

It found its display in the artist’s creative heritage, which is a combination of folklore traditions, grotesque and genuine humor. Vasnetsov had a great desire to become a painter, because the guy eagerly mastered the profession, learning all skills, without which it is impossible to imagine the profession of a painter. When the years of study at the university were left behind, Yuri did not receive a diploma, since the entire course studied on painters was released without defending diplomas.

In the same year, Yuri was a teacher of fine art in one of the Leningrad schools. The man was admitted to the department engaged in a picturesque culture, whose leader was the eminent K. under his leadership, Yuri studied the properties that various picturesque textures, the plastic of cubism have. At this time, Yuri created a lot, creating the paintings that brought him fame, though this happened only after the death of the artist.

Vasnetsov’s activities in the children's schedule in the year V. Lebedev, who at that time was the art editor of the publishing house called “Detgiz” invited Vasnetsov to create illustrations for children's books. Yuri agreed, the first books to which Yuri created illustrations, were the “Swamp” and “Karabash” V. This happened in the years. Being young, Yuri began to illustrate children's books.

His illustrations are decorated with a large number of works for small readers. The most famous works are “confusion” and “stolen sun” K. Chukovsky and “Teremok” and “Koshkin House” S. In parallel with the creation of illustrations, Yuri was engaged in teaching. The man led the lessons at the Leningrad school of fine art, developed sketches of costumes and decorations for theaters of the Northern capital, was engaged in painting and painted postcards.

In the summer of the year, Yuri, along with a relative, who also worked as an artist, made a creative journey to the village of Soroka, which is located near the White Sea. Inspired by nature, Yuri creates a cycle of graphic and picturesque works called Karelia. The illustration of Yuri Vasnetsov during these years Vasnetsov receives a second wind and his work develops unusually.

He was able to achieve skill of such a level that he was compared with the best artists of his time. But Yuri was able not only to copy the foundations of classicism, but also brought to painting something new, given to him by nature. His paintings have an original unique character. The critics said that Yuri was able to preserve and increase the heritage of national picturesque culture, preserving its identity, introducing notes of modernism into it.

In years, Yuri was engaged in the creation of sketches of stage costumes and scenery for the Leningrad Theater. His ideas were decorated with a production, which was based on a Gorky play under the name "Meshchans." At the same time, he worked in an experimental Litograph workshop, which operated at the Losch. Vasnetsov’s work style for book graphics in the war and post -war period was formed under the influence of ideological circumstances.

After an active passion for socialist realism, Yuri began to create work in a style that was connected with Russian folk art. At least critics thought, despite the fact that there were many market samples in Vasnetsov’s paintings. While the Second World War began, Vasnetsov was part of the “combat pencil” - a team of poets and artists. At the end of the same year, the man was evacuated to Perm, and two years later he moved from Perm to the city of Zagorsk.

He worked as the main artist in the NIII. At this time, the artist created a cycle of landscapes of the city. At the end of the year he returned to the city on the Neva. The illustration of Yuri Vasnetsov from a year until the end of his days the artist lived in the house on the St. Petersburg Pesochny embankment. In the year, a cartoon called “Terem Teremok” was shot according to the drawings created by Yuri.

In the same year, the man became the owner of the USSR State Prize, which he was awarded for 2 collections of fairy tales, riddles and songs of Russia. They may be familiar.