The modest scale of the Soviet genius artist PN Ionov

[Черномашенцев Владимир]

Ionov Nikiforovich Peter was born in 1911 in the village Voronchihi Sychevskii district of Smolensk province. He studied art briefly, learning the wisdom samoucheboy.
It can be attributed to the generation of socialist realists, if not mastery, looking at which you forget about the conventional classification. It works a lot of heat and light, as if he learned from the best impressionists.
See "Landscape in the village." This is what it is radically different from the academics of the Soviet era. Yes. He painted large canvases with Lenin, hero of Socialist Labor and noble collective farmers. But, remove the Soviet ranks and insignia that will? Russian peasants and their children, who constitute the bulk of his work. Knowledgeable people tell him that in the countryside, he painted all his fellow villagers, not once, using them as sitters for the sketches. He left a large number of sketches, each of which shows excellent craftsmanship. Master portrait artist characters - ions carefully prepared for the establishment of large canvases, often honing their ideas on paper. Some sketches are so good that can be displayed as finished paintings.
Ionov I received numerous diplomas degree at exhibitions. Throughout his life he wasted no time in knocking out titles, even when he created after the war Smolensky Union of Artists and was its chairman from 1958 to 1964. He was elected a board member of Union of Artists of the RSFSR, was a deputy I All-Union Congress of Artists and the founding congress of artists I RSFSR and other conventions. Great prestige and great humility - and no titles, not counting the title of Honored Artist of Russia, received shortly before his death. Perhaps he no longer had the strength to resist the award.
I very uneven breathing to Peter Nikiforovich since seen his paintings. Before his death he freely transferred their work in various museums, making them inaccessible to visitors. They are gathering dust in storerooms at the risk of rot in our museum system. Unfortunately, I was able to buy just some sketches that were his heirs.
Now I show his work, which are in the gallery of Smolensk Humanitarian University. Description of work I used to "the ceiling" and in fact may be quite different.