AV Shevchenko received his artistic education at the Stroganov Art School (1898-1907, with a break), Paris (1905-1906) at the Academy R. Julien, and then in the studio E. Carriera. In 1907-1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, along with AV Kuprin, R. Falk, D. Burliuk, was particularly close with Larionov.
After the revolution, actively worked in the Commissariat of Fine Arts, taught in 1-X State Free Art Workshops (GSHM), Higher Art, organized the Museum of Artistic Culture. In the first half of 1920, solving the problem of easel paintings, where everything is subordinated to strict compositional system, he was guided by the legacy of Paul Cézanne.
In the late 1920's - early 1930's the artist again appealed to the primitive, for art Pirosmani, was influenced by the neo-classical European trends, Picasso, Derain, de Chirico, and his work has developed a variant of Art Deco, has been very organic for his talents.
They. 1933
In the late 1930's - 1940's he began to interest the problem of lighting - day and night, reflections of sunlight on trees and people's faces. Instead of conventional pictorial plane in the pictures appeared spatial environment, this softened crisp contours and volumes, the figures in his paintings are not conventionally composed environment, but in particular - surrounded by nature.
An extremely important component of creativity AV Shevchenko was the schedule. He got better in terms of development of graphic techniques of education at the Stroganov Art School, and not by chance from all the many schools, where he studied, the artist most admired precisely Art Institute. At some stages of the schedule becoming a leading example of an early, impressionistic and symbolist period (1906-1910).
Significant phenomenon in the work of AV Shevchenko 1930 became his monotyping - a kind of graphic works, when the matrix of glass or metal applied to the image with oil paint, and then made a print on paper.
The proposed exhibition shows the evolution and the highest creative achievements of the wizard. The present exhibition includes more than one hundred and fifty paintings and drawings from the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin and several private collections.
http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/ca...hibitions2148/