Well-known Soviet artist, Odessa, and, according to contemporaries, handsome man - a man and a very charming man, Leonid Evseyevich Muchnik (1896 - 1966 years) also reflected the funeral, GM Vakulenchuka, but captures the moment of transporting the body of a sailor standing on the roads of the battleship on the quay at the port. The painting was created in 1947 - 1957, respectively. Postcard printed in 1958 by publishing house "Soviet Artist, Moscow.
Subject uprising on the battleship Potemkin was an artist, LE Muchnik's not new: it has already appealed to her, established in 1934 canvas "supply of provisions to the" Potemkin ". Postcard produced factory art print publisher "Mistetstvo in Kharkiv in 1937.
The same theme was inspired by another eminent artist, AF White, who wrote in these years, now titled "The Battleship Potemkin in Odessa in June 1905, even in two versions. The second option is a more detailed title: "The population of Odessa provides command Battleship Potemkin food»
(photo3), and a note on a postcard: "Historical and revolutionary series. Both versions of cards issued by publishing house "Izogiz" in the 30's.
Reliability plot is confirmed by memories of many contemporaries, witnesses and participants in the events, including - Roots I. Chukovsky, as a true journalist kept pace everywhere.
Black Sea fell on the artist's canvases, painted Odessa, not only as a tragic scene, the revolutionary events. Sea, emitting a special light and heat, to create unique atmosphere of the Black Sea cities.
Wonderful colorist, one of the best artists in Odessa, Paul Gavrilovic Volokidin (1877 - 1936 years), I did not noisy glory, many efforts to teach painting. However, his paintings stand out among the works of other artists of the South Russian school unique color scheme, creating a sense of peace.
At the All-Ukrainian exhibition "X years of October" in 1927 exhibited a very successful work Volokidina P. "On the Waterfront»
(Photo4), got on a card issued in the same year, Kharkov Publishers Ukrayinsky robitnik.
Sea visibly or invisibly present in the paintings of artists who painted Southern Palmira. Very interesting few postcards 30's with views of Odessa, Moscow printed "Geokartpromom" commissioned by the Kharkov kontragentstva "Druk". Three of them on the beaches of Odessa Arcadia
(photo5) and Luzanovka
(photo 6) and the remnants of the towers quarantine in the Alexander Park (named after T. Shevchenko)
(photo 7) , is a signature artist Anatoly Vladimirovich Martynov, who was born in Kharkov in 1872 and who studied in St. Petersburg School of Arts and the Academy of Arts A. Makovsky. The other four Odessa postcards of the same time the artist's signature is not, but all guessed the same Martynov. The famous pond with swans in the old Hadzhibeevskom park
(photo 8) ruthlessly destroyed during World War II, Arcadia beach with boats and two traditional types of beautiful buildings in Odessa: City Theatre
(photo 9) , and the old stock exchange with a monument to Alexander Pushkin
(Photo10) - that's subjects of these paintings.
Odessa on the painting in 1925 the famous Russian artist, a member of the Union of Artists since 1923, Sergei Mikhailovich Luppova (1893 - 1977) glowing flags, women with red kerchiefs, pioneer ties - Soviet-style May Day demonstration numerous passes under the bridge Stroganov
(photo 11) Stone Odessa bridges with openwork railing has spanned the nineteenth century through the many deep ravines and longest, usually go to the sea. This master, who was born under the Vyatka uchivshemusya at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Vasnetsov, K. Korovin and A. Arkhipov, and lived in Moscow, were characterized by bright, cheerful, happy paintings.
In my collection there are three cards with a reproduction of this painting edition of the Museum of Revolution of the USSR (Moscow), 1929, differing only in labeling. One card is marked, on the other - different nickels Soviet brand.
A striking and elegant look to our city on the cards issued by the Kharkov "Reigning Vidavnitstvom" Mistetstvo "in 1935 on ten works of national artist of USSR, a member of the USSR Academy of Arts, Aleksei Alekseevich Shovkunenko (1884 - 1974) - apprentice Cyriacus Kostandi in Odessa School of Drawing, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
AA Shovkunenko famous as the author of the excellent, psychologically subtle watercolor portraits of famous and just liked the wizard of ordinary people, colorful, happy, full of light scenery. Attracted the artist and the industrial landscape, demanding exceptional precision images.
At Odessa watercolors A. Shovkunenko shows the city of 30-ies. The abundance of cars, trams on the crowded streets - Name the 10 th anniversary of the Red Army (the Transfiguration)
(foto12), Lenin (Richelieu)
(foto13) and Rosa Luxemburg (Bunin
) (foto14) with the Odessa architectural landmarks, the port with ships, seen through the bars near the palace, MS Vorontsov
(Photo15); beautiful beach "Arcadia" with resting
(Photo16) - all this creates a unique flavor Odessa , guess your love of the venerable author of the town in which lived many years.
Special attention was awarded the seaside boulevard called in those days the boulevard named after Feldman. The artist captures the traditional parts of the boulevard: The City Council (the old Stock Exchange
) (foto17), monument, AS Pushkin
(foto18), Potemkin Stairs
(foto19). Moreover, Odessa giant staircase was named on the card: "Name the Battleship Potemkin, although the official name of" Potemkin "she was only in 1955. Related Events at the rebellious battleship with a ladder imagination of the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein, the genius who invented and snyavshego tragic episode shooting troops on the stairs, the civilian population, which entered the annals of world cinema.
Turned his attention to A. Shovkunenko and Theatre Square with the first houses Lenin Street (Richelieu), form the most famous local theater
(foto20), built in the finest European traditions, beautiful sculptures in the its lobby
(photo 21) . Not only a beautiful architectural city center has inspired artists, but also coastal margin, where the combined farm in the traditional fishermen were caught in those times for the Black Sea mackerel. In the foreground, the painting "Fishing collective farm" Odessa artist, a student of Odessa's Drawing School, Vladimir Gavrilovic Krihatskogo (1877 - 1942 gg)
(photo 22) shows the Soviet collective farm - fishermen, who, like the heroes of the famous song N. Theological, known and respected "... and Moldavanka and Siltings ...." Painting exhibited at the jubilee exhibition of Ukrainian artists in 1938, a postcard was published by the Kharkov publishing house Mistetstvo "in 1939.
The image of beauty - Odessa 30-ies, produced many fine artists, preserved in memory of people because of cards, issued by huge by today's standards, the number of copies.
Anatoly Drozdovsky Eva Krasnov.
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