ARTIST KSENIYA NIKOLAEVNA USPENSKAYA

Many people remember her paintings since high school when had to write essays on reproductions of paintings. One of them" Не took to fishing" printed in the textbook" Родной речи".

Kseniya Nikolaevna Uspenskaya - Russian artist.

Xenia was born after the revolution, in 1922, in Voronezh, in the family of Professor N. And. Assumption. The girl was very gifted, studied music and loved to draw, so he simultaneously attended art and music school. And when he grew up, graduated from art school.

self Portrait.

And later, when she faced the choice of what UNIVERSITY to go to study further - the choice fell on the Moscow Institute of applied and decorative art in the ceramics Department. Being a student of the master of social realism - Alexander Deineka, girl, like a sponge, absorbing the basics of skill of his teacher. And the main genre of his work since his student years, chose to portrait painting. Although it passed through landscapes and still lifes.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

After graduation, in 1949-м worked at the Metropolitan research Institute of building materials, and then, suddenly, came the decision to return home, to Voronezh, where he worked as a teacher at the Department of agricultural architecture of the local agricultural Institute. Parallel to painting, and in 1953 became a permanent participant of Russian art exhibitions.

" Не took рыбалку".

Most famous work is the assumption of Xenia — canvas" Не took to fishing" established in 1955, almost immediately it was bought by the State Tretyakov gallery. And over time, it became her trademark, and has acquired a paradigmatic value. During this year a budding talented artist was accepted as a member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

Since then it has created the assumption more than one hundred vivid paintings - portraits and genre sketches, landscapes and still lifes. Her intimate and lyrical work wonderfully in harmony with the work of her husband - painter Vasily Krivoruchko, who was famous for large canvases on historical subjects. Tandem spouses-художников creating their works organically coexisted under one roof.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

Often paintings of Kseniya Nikolaevna Uspenskaya was more famous than the artist herself, because she didn"t like unnecessary publicity and rarely gave interviews, even though she was engaged in public activity.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

Despite of old age, the artist almost until the end of his days worked in painting. And as-то admitted, noting its 90-летний anniversary that she regretted only one thing, that she had so much energy and time had to give up work at the Agricultural Institute, instead of doing work. However, students released from the walls of the University with gratitude remembered lectures of this amazing woman.

Portrait painting from Xenia assumption.

For many years the Xenia assumption ever successfully combine creativity with social and scientific-педагогической activities. He was assistant Professor at the Department of agricultural architecture of the Institute, was repeatedly elected Deputy of the regional Council of deputies of workers of his native city.

Genre painting Kseniya Uspenskaya.

I would Like to note that the working assumption is stored not only in the Voronezh Museum, which is more than 40 pieces, but in the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow, the galleries of London, new-Йорка, Washington, in private collections of Holland, Germany, Czech Republic.

Famous Russian artist - Kseniya Uspenskaya.

Female art is always distinguished by its deep comprehension of the surrounding world, spiritual fullness and romanticism.

SOURCE:https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/060719/43587/