He was born in Kazan, November 26 (8 December) 1881 in the owner's family gilt-carpentry workshop. Studied at the Kazan Art School (1895-1900), and then in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (Repin's studio) and graduated in 1909. Was a member of the Association of the Wanderers. From 1909 he lived in Kazan, and taught at the local art school.

Emerged as the author of a dynamic sculpting beautiful, colorful paintings on the life of peoples of the Volga region (cabbage, 1909, the Scientific Research Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; Cheremis wedding, 1908, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pouring, 1911, the Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan, Kazan) . Separate impressionistic stroke in his canvasses enlarged, combined with large-scale modern rhythms, sometimes - with elements protoekspressionizma (Massacre, 1910's, ibid.) He painted portraits, feeling connects the island with the picturesque expression (Varya Adoratsky, 1914; father of the artist, 1918; both portrait - ibid.).

After receiving the offer to teach in New York, went to the USA (1923). He lived in New York, and since 1927 - in Taos (New Mexico items), which built a house on his own design studio, decorating his "neofolklornoy" thread. At the end of 1930 traveled to Mexico and Japan, visited o.Yava. In the later period of migration to the area of Los Angeles. Fruitfully worked in different genres, leaving a large series of vivid ethnographic sketches, which often translated into a lithograph. Had a sensational success as a fashionable portraitist. However, these elegant works as it existed on the margins of great art, introducing colorful sets salon compliments. More serious and dramatic images of people in the art (portraits DD Burliuk and his wife, 1923-1924, a collection of the heirs of the family Burliuks, Hampton, Basie, Long Island, USA).

Feshin died in Santa Monica (now a part of Los Angeles) on 5 October 1955. In 1981, at his home in Taos was founded Institute Feshin - with a museum and educational center.

Feshin strongly associated with regional art school in South-West and Taosskoy art colony. Of the thirty-two years, which Feshin lived in the United States, in Taos, he spent about seven, but it was one of the most fruitful and brilliant periods of his creative life in America. In Taos verve fully revealed in all areas - in painting, drawing, sculpture, woodcarving and architecture.

However, neither Russia nor the United States has no name Feshin particularly loud fame. The reason is simple: his work is not widely known. It so happened that both Russia and America, he mostly lived in the province, which partly caused the lack of attention to the creativity of the artist. Even more significant factor for the emigration of Soviet Russia was an artist in the United States in 1923, which determined the name of ignoring Feshin at home until Khrushchev's thaw late 1950's to mid 1960's, the second time the "discovery" of the artist. In the United States of Feshin highly prized among collectors, but as a supporter of the realistic tradition, he is not attracted the attention of major researchers, because the American art studies the entire twentieth century was mainly focused on the study of the avant-garde and modernism. However, be wrong to believe that the artist has remained completely unaddressed.
In order to realize the true meaning of the artist's work, you must submit it to the artistic heritage and its highest achievements in full. This is not so simple because the work, whose number is quite impressive, and some estimates of American art dealers can reach up to 2000 works, not simply divided between Russia and America, and dispersed to museums and private collections, many very important works of the artist is lost. In Russia, his works are in State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery, but mainly in the Art Museum of Kazan, Russian period, even though the artist's collection of the museum does not reflect the full extent. As from 1910 to 1914, while extremely rich, Feshin send works to exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Holland, and is particularly active in America. With exhibitions of works acquired and, accordingly, did not return. American collectors were buying works Feshin another way - by selecting them from photographs. In addition, a large number of works the artist took departure from Russia. Founded in America is not only in the collections of more than 30 museums, but also in numerous private collections.
Feshin - artist in many ways paradoxical. It is individual and unique, while his artistic language combines numerous stylistic direction. Clearly legible and academic grounding, and the realistic traditions of the Wanderers, and elements of impressionistic and expressionistic tendencies, but transformed into a single system, where the principal is an open connection of field experience with the conventional direction. This style of modern, transitional style of transition. In the XIX century artists sought to display the reality, the whole XX century will strive for its transformation and create a new reality for the sake of comprehension of how things work. Transitivity and expresses the duality of modern artistic language. For the artists of Art Nouveau necessary nature, but also to its conversion for the sake of identifying the main, and most importantly - it is beauty.

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