Petrov, Ivan Semenovich

[Marjana]

Petrov, Ivan Semenovich (1924-1990) a master of battle painting, the author of numerous dioramas in museums of Ukraine, perhaps, one of the few artists who devoted their lives to the historical canvases.
He was born Oct. 7, 1924. War of 1941-1945, direct party which happened to be Ivan Petrov in his youth, influenced all his future work. In 1948 - graduated from the Kharkiv Art College and enrolled at the Kiev State Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), which graduated in July 1954, a masterful historical battle-painting professor
KD Trokhimenko, a student NS Samokish. He worked in the historic and battle genre in painting and drawing. In 1983, artist-battle-Petrov, Ivan Semenovich was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine. Of all the historical paintings, created by Ivan Petrov, "Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Polish ambassadors" the earliest work dedicated to the history of the episode when, following the accession of Ukraine has started a war between Russia and Poland. Later, in the artist's paintings of battle-pieces were reflected acts of many people who influenced the course of world history, and Prince Vladimir, Count Munnich, Suvorov, Mikhail Kalinin, Frunze, and hundreds of those whose names are not immortalized, or is it included in the long marble lists .
John Smith was an amazing person, one that already has become history, a galaxy, which has played such a big role in the formation of Soviet art.

P.S. I'd add, is not surprising that after 18 years after the death of the artist in the National Union of Artists of information about it is impossible to obtain, the Crimean organization CX announced a family vendetta. Yet not one of the family. There is a real war for the housing problem, and interestingly, organization, created in order to protect the rights and interests of artists trying to throw from the apartment's oldest members, who, herself, and created a year since 1956, and in their flats for 50 years lived. That such intellectuals, and not to the art of them all.