Biography of Krasnoyarsk artists

The name of the artist Ivan Andreevich Ovchinnikov is well known in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The biography is the name of the artist Ivan Andreyevich Ovchinnikov - well known in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. During the years of creativity, hundreds of drawings, lithographs, etchings dedicated to people and nature of Siberia, have tried his strength in painting, and always his art, in whatever types and genres he was filled with desire to achieve in graphic sheets and picturesque fabrics of imagery, depth of disclosure of the topic.

In his youth, Ivan Ovchinnikov came with his parents to the city of Kansk of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and stayed here for many years. The craving for drawing led to study at the correspondence All -Union House of Folk Art named after At one time, People's University. Krupskaya played a significant role for many people who want to master the basics of art, but are not able to study in special educational institutions.

The system of classes at the university - consultations of prominent painters and graphs, strict, highly professional, but friendly analysis of students' works - helped many peripheral artists gain confidence, find their creative path. For four years, Ivan Ovchinnikov stubbornly and persistently mastered the basics of the artist’s hard work. He considers Peter Miturich as his university teacher.

The well -known schedule, the author of many popular easel works and book illustrations, Miturich for a long time was a teacher of the People’s University, generously sharing with his students knowledge and experience, giving them good parting words on a hard path into professional art. The years of classes at the People’s University forever determined the life path of Ovchinnikov, he begins to work in the graphics, searches, tries his strength in various techniques: drawing, lithography, and etching.

In Kansk, Ovchinnikov remained for many years. His creative path began here, his best works were created here. But all this did not start right away. I had to work as the head of the Iskruzhka and the artist on local television. For several years they were given to complex administrative work - he was the main artist of Kansk. But all these years there was a stubborn accumulation of material, skill grew and improved.

In the year, I. Ovchinnikov first participated in the regional and immediately in the zonal art exhibition "Siberia Socialist". These were modest drawings with a pencil, a felt -tip pen, ink, the reed pen “Rural teacher”, “Walk”, “Outskirts”, “City in the window”, but the sheets bribed warmth and sincereness. Since that time, Ivan Andreevich has become a member of almost all regional, all regional, many republican and all -Union exhibitions.

Kansk was proud of his master, I. Ovchinnikov, his meetings with the audience, were repeatedly held in the city. A huge role in the quick and serious growth of the artist’s professional skill was played by his many trips to the House of Creativity “Chelyuskinskaya” near Moscow. There, in the circle of colleagues, under the guidance of the leading graphs of the country of the national artist E.

Petrov-Kamchatsky, having the opportunity to work in various techniques, primarily in the rampty what was not in Kansk, since special equipment is needed for printed graphics, and for each technique, shevachnikov received a powerful creative charge. Serious success in graphic art is the result of long hard work, difficult searches, constant pursuit of perfection. The artist has achieved a lot - his sheets are emotional, made with a high cultural understanding of the basic principles of graphics.

The inquisitive mind of Ivan Andreevich and the hot desire to become a professional in the visual art forced the artist to turn to various graphic techniques. He usually does not set the task of solving any series only in lithography or only in etching. He is interested in looking for, experimenting. With the same pleasure, the artist works in unique techniques - pencil, colored pencil, ink, coal, tempera, mascara, pastel, and in printed graphics - etching, lithography.

Real fame for the artist was brought by the work of his series “Chan Cotton Combamant”, lithography, etching. Images of reinforced concrete structures filled the exhibition halls of the whole country. The names of the largest factories and construction projects were full of exhibitions, and often the main thing was lost behind the image of factory workshops or vertical cranes.

But the sheets of I. Ovchinnikov, devoted once to one of the largest cotton plant in Siberia, are not included in this parade of industrial plots. The artist did not see the machines, but primarily people who are alive, beautiful in work. In his sheets there are no “heroic labor exploits for the good of the Fatherland”, which was a common technique at exhibitions of those years.

Basically, women work at the textile plant, and the series sheets are filled with warmth, softness.The author admires the graceful movements of young flexible girls - partners, membranes among flying woven paintings - all this is decorative, beautiful in composition, dynamically, filled with lyrical sound. The author knows how to involve the viewer in an exciting rhythm, show the beauty of the very process of labor.

The sheets of this series were widely exhibited at many exhibitions, they are located in several museums of the region. He worked a lot, each new job is evidence of his outstanding talent, performance, desire to say his word in art.

Having done a lot for Kansk, leaving a noticeable mark there, in the year the artist moves to the city of Krasnoyarsk. One of the secrets in Ovchinnikov’s work is the life of hunters, fishermen, and for centuries the measured life of small taiga villages. The artist himself knows this world firsthand. From a young age he goes to the taiga, spends the night in hunting wintering, among his old friends there are many taigs.

The master creates sheets dedicated to the way of the way lost in the forests of villages throughout the work. In these works, performed in the drawing, then in lithography, the author seeks to capture the deep connection of the taiga people with nature, among which they live. A number of sheets are represented by genre portraits of hunters: “Hunter V. Kukharenko”, “Ivan Petrovich - Forester” and many other works depict laconic harsh people living in harmony with themselves, with their world.

The author knows how to convey the calm dignity, the inner nobility of his characters, their community with nature and with each other, those many qualities that have already lost the inhabitants of megacities. An important place in Ovchinnikov’s sheets is occupied by the image of the subject world. The taiga, which has emanated for many kilometers with deaf paths, the banks of Siberian rivers, Ivan Andreevich appreciates and knows how to show the charm of simple and important things such as bread, water, simple dishes, fishing and hunting gear.

The thorough person himself, Ivan Andreevich knows the price of simple solid things made by the hands of folk masters. In each sheet with love, the artist draws unpretentious, but such necessary products of the taiga: horse harness, baskets, dry bunches of herbs, hung on the walls, sleighs, hunting skis, axes, rifles, boats. These things in sheets are as significant for the artist as people.

It is no accident that Ovchinnikov created several still lifes depicting hunting utensils. Moreover, the author created these still lifes in painting. There was such an experience, quite successful, in his work, when the schedule presented a large exhibition of paintings and pastels. There were shown his hunting still lifes. The artist admires a simple convenient form of ancient hunting boots and golden firewood gold.

All these seemingly not poetic things are written with such love that you understand - this world is filled with beauty and poetry for the author. For the artist, who has dedicated black and white graphics for many years, it is no longer difficult to fulfill each sheet at a high professional level so as to identify the main thing, fill the work with deep images, make it trembling, silver.

His black and white engravings and drawings are beautiful in composition, laconic, strict, but at the same time filled with amazing poetry. The desire to delve deeper into the life of people closely related to nature, to show this life not through the eyes of an enthusiastic citizen, but by these people and led I. Ovchinnikov to the Tofalar - one of the smallest peoples of Russia near a person lost in the south of the Irkutsk region.

Here is what the Tofalarsky local historian M. Pugachev writes: “For the first time, I met with I. Ovchinnikov summer in the year of the year in the village of Alygdger, when he came here, attracted by stories about an interesting and still mysterious country - Tofalary. This is a completely mountainous country with harsh natural conditions: a sharply -contact climate, complex mountainous relief, a variety of mountain plant zones.

One of the smallest nationalities of the USSR - Tofs lives here. ” Blue snow, ringing rivers, unusual taiga and kind gullible people who merged with the unique nature, living according to its laws, - so for the first time, Ivan Ovchinnikov discovered Tofalary for the first time. He opened, already having a considerable creative path behind him. Since that time, Ivan Andreevich has been spending several months in Tofalary every year.

Not just acquaintance, but a deep knowledge of the life of people living since ancient times with source crafts - hunting, fishing, reindeer husbandry; Long nights in pastures, in the taiga wilderness, the desire to tell about the amazing region and amazing people allowed the artist to find his topic for many years. His series “Country of Tofalaria” was started in the year, it concentrated all the best in I.'s work for artists who visited Tofalary, the most attractive - the unique landscape of this mountainous country, about which four times of the year are four different tofalarias.

But for Ivan Ovchinnikov, the magical beauty of this region is not an end in itself.In its sheets, nature sounds in full voice - this is the night sky, deer, taiga, mountain rivers, but this nature is indissoluble with man, and man with it, he lives in accordance with this world “conversation by the fire”, “the valley of the golden root”, “Topalarka around the fire”, “Maternity”, “In the upper reaches of the UDA River”, and many, many others.

This is the significance and value of the Tofalar series of Ivan Ovchinnikov. At first, the author performed sheets of the series in lithography, in etching, but later, as he often has, the artist turned to the drawing in a pencil, in a color pencil. The author does not idealize the life of a small people, pronounces many difficulties in the difficult life of reindeer herders and hunters, in a number of sheets, frank sadness sounds, for example, in the drawing “Old Pill.

Old deer. Old Raven. " But the sheets are filled with such a love for these people, lost in the Siberian outback and living according to the laws of humanity, love, mutual assistance that the world depicted by the artist fascinates and attracts to itself. It is no coincidence that almost every sheet is children, old people, young mothers, their happiness and sorrows “Evening Tofalaria”, “First Snow in the Sayan”, “However, the Rain will be”, “Where did my deer go?

A series of lithographs “Country of Tofalaria” brought the artist well -deserved glory, its sheets were exhibited at the most serious exhibitions, reproduced by the albums of magazines, and are stored in many museums. At the anniversary exhibition dedicated to the summer of the artist, in August the series “Country of Tofalaria” was exhibited in its full form, she introduced Ivan Ovchinnikov as a serious master with her pronounced personality.

The exhibition caused a great resonance. We must see a book of reviews, where are different people: brothers in the workshop - artists, people of different specialties, often far from art, found the most enthusiastic words about Ovchinnikov's graphics. Singing the beauty of Siberia, its people, Ivan Andreevich Ovchinnikov made a significant contribution to the development of art of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.