George Kovenchuk

"Graduated with an art school at the Institute to them. Repin, then drawing faculty of the Institute. He studied at the AF Pakhomov. Diploma (1960) - a series of posters - a genre in which the artist then worked successfully for many years.
    Dar and artistic activity Kovenchuka is a remarkable versatility and clever irony and remarkable inventiveness. He writes great pictures, makes objects, signs, even oyster shells.
    Grandson of the famous public figure and artistic Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin greatly contributed to the development of Russian avant-garde. Kovenchuk a daily felt within the advanced culture of the twentieth century.
    In the sixties he made numerous and really very funny posters for "Fighting Pencil", drew, wrote, in 1969-1972. was the chief designer of "Aurora".
    In 1971 he had his first solo exhibition, closed, however, the authorities in a few days "for the formalism. The sensation was the design and illustration of Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug ", published in 1975 as a separate book. Its fair to compare with theatrical staging, and Lilya Brik claimed that "under this book would sign Volodya! His satire estetizirovana, however, energetic, saturated to the same stringent and sonorous color spots, his manner distinctly modern, but that obviously is rooted in the deep layers of the classical tradition.
     Idea Kovenchuka place in Paris "Monument laundress" - a character famous paintings of Honore Daumier - the house of the great master on the waterfront Anjou completely original, bold and noble. The modern concept, a sense of history and understanding that created the classic art heroes - members of today's life and art of today - says Kovenchuke as a truly modern artist. His "invention" was and "fax-art" - images, where the possibilities of modern telecommunications is used as a variant of the new art technologies and unusual plastic devices.
    Work Kovenchuka - the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, the Museum City, in museums and collections of foreign countries ".
Michael Herman

artist Gaga Kovenchuk
 

Here is another ....

Eider
 

and more .................................

I like it, did not know this artist, thank you.

Also I hear, it seems, for the first time, pleasantly surprised. Thank you, you know, that show ... :)

Grandpa had "cool"!

Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin (1868-1917) was born in Helsingfors (Helsinki). In 1895 he defended his thesis for a doctorate in medicine in 1905-1917 served as assistant professor of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. In parallel with the service Kulbin participated actively in the artistic life of St. Petersburg. A talented artist and futurist, who had no formal art education, a staunch advocate of new art, who worked near the NN Evreinov, Vsevolod Meyerhold, AE Kruchenykh, Kandinsky and many other figures of avant-garde movement in the short period was one of the leaders of St. Petersburg avant-garde end of the 1900's - 1910-ies. In 1908 he created the group "Triangle" and opened the exhibition "Modern trends in art, a coalition of artists in different directions. A number of joint exhibitions, debates, speeches, held on the initiative of Kulbin contributed to the convergence of advanced artistic youth and largely determined the course of development of Russian avant-garde art.

 
Almanac "Sagittarius". Cover Kulbin works were exhibited in many exhibitions in Russia and abroad: "The Knave of Diamonds" (1912, Moscow, 1914, St. Petersburg), Autumn Salon (1913, Paris), the First German Autumn Salon (1913, Berlin), Independent Beauty (1914, Paris), the International Exhibition of Futurist (1914, Rome) and others of the artist's first solo exhibition was opened in St. Petersburg in 1912. The following took place in 1918 in the Art Bureau Dobychina after the death of the master.

he is known for ill. to Mayakovsky .... I remember them from childhood .... sorry no photo lithographs ... you probably also be remembered ....

Yes, interesting ...

If not mistaken last year in the museum was an exhibition Matyushina three generations of family Kovenchuk, and there is still exhibited a son - Alex.
Two of George Kovenchuka.

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George keeps a diary of travels .... represent "Japanese album"