January 31, 1893 was born Plastov Arkady

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Plastov Arkady [19 (31) .1.1893, pp. Prisloniha now Ulyanovsk region - 12/5/1972, ibid], a Soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR (1962), full member AH the USSR (1947). He studied at the Stroganov Moscow Central School of Industrial Art (1912-1914) and the sculpture department of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1914-17) at the SM Volnukhin (also attended classes AE Arkhipov, A. M. Korin, A. Stepanova). He lived in his native village. In the 1920's - early 1930's. worked mainly on the political posters and illustrations for the works of Russian writers. Since 1935 P. wrote mainly genre paintings (as well as portraits), imbued with a profound knowledge and poetic perception of nature, modern life of the Russian countryside and its people. With great penetration P. praised noble work, and spiritual beauty of the Soviet peasant. Formed as an artist under the influence of the Wanderers and the masters of the Union of Russian Artists, PA in his work continued and developed the tradition of Russian genre painting plein air-end 19 - early 20 centuries. His work is characterized by simplicity of casual arrangement with the location of major figures are usually in the foreground and major brightness of warm colors. Works: "The collective-farm herd" ( "On the pasture", 1938, Sverdlovsk Art Gallery), "Fascist flying" (1942), "haymaking" and "Harvest" (both - 1945, USSR State Prize, 1946) - all three in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the portrait of a carpenter Ivan Lobanov (1947, ownership of the artist's family, pp. Prisloniha); cycle of paintings "People in the collective farms" [1951-65; Lenin Prize, 1966; including "Dinner tractor" (1951) and "Girl a bicycle "(1956, both in the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum)," Victor-herdsman "(1951) and" Collection of potatoes "(1956, both in the Russian Museum in Leningrad)," Spring "(1954) and" Mama "(1964 , both in the Tretyakov Gallery)], "Fire in the Field" (1968-1969, Ulyanovsk Regional art museum) and "Out of the Past" (1969, Tretyakov Gallery) - State Prize of the RSFSR. Ilya Repin (1972); illustrations to the stories of Chekhov (watercolor, pencil, ink, whitewash, 1920-27, Literary Museum, Moscow), to Lewis Carroll's poem "Frost, Red Nose" (published in 1949) , the story of Tolstoy's "Strider" (watercolor, gouache, 1952-54, Tretyakov Gallery). Awarded 2 orders of Lenin and medals.