Sell: A.M.Kischenko, People's Artist of Belarus

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Kishchenko Alexander M. 13.05.1933 - 1997.

Category 4A
* People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1991)
* Honored Artist of the BSSR

"Tapestry of the century" - Kishchenko unique piece, made of wool (handmade) entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the most
large tapestry in the world, recognized as a national treasure.

Kishchenko - one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century in Belarus. Whose works are included in the national treasury of art, became the property of the national culture. Part is at the Art Museum of Belarus and Russia, including the Tretyakov Gallery, as well as in private collections in the family Mitterand, Clinton, composer Sviridov. Kishchenko multifaceted artistic talent manifested itself not only in painting, but also in poetry, prose, and most clearly in the monumental art: mosaic, a large-scale tapestry. These tapestries - a monument masherovskoy era. His paintings are woven into the hall the UN (New York), in a building of the Presidential Administration of Belarus, the Belarusian State Music Theater and Belarusian Opera and Ballet. Borisov decorative arts named after Kishchenko.

Belarusian painter, master tapestry, teacher, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1991), Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1980). Kishchenko - creator of the Belarusian school of monumental tapestry. Born in the village of White Well Voronezh region. (Russia). He graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts (1960). Creative activity began in Lvov, Kiev, and from 1963 he lived and worked in Minsk. In the 1963-1970 years. Teacher Belarusian Theatre and Art Institute. Participated in art exhibitions since 1961, worked in the monumental and easel painting, tapestry. Works of the artist has the fundamental ideals and professional skills, a keen sense of modernity and high plastic culture. Work in monumental art: painting "Relay" generations "(1973, with M. Sawicki) in the sanatorium" Belarus "in Mishor Crimean region., Mosaic composition on the facade of the hotel" Tourist "(1973)," October "on office building at the Jubilee Square. (1975), 4 panels ("City of the Warrior", "City of Science", "City of Culture", "City-builder") at the ends of the housing district East (1978, all in Minsk). played a major role in reviving the art of tapestry in Belarus. metaphorically symbolism, interesting color and composition solution emit tapestries "Man knows the Light" (1970, with A. Beltyukova, G. Gorbunov) in the lobby of "The Tourist," " Angelina "(1971)," Morning. Awakening "(1972)," The Legend of Belarusian partisans "(1972, with Beltyukova)," Music "(1975) in the hall of the Minsk College of Music," the USSR. Stages of struggle and victory "(1979, with Savitsky, BSSR State Prize, 1980) for a conference room in the building of the Central Committee of the PBC, the tapestry-curtain for the State Theatre of Musical Comedy," Fatherland "(both 1980)," My mother edge "to Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Boguchar Voronezh region. (1981, with Beltyukova), tapestry, curtains and tapestries for six foyer (" Belarus "," Music "," Space "," Revolution "," Belarus "" Pesnjary "," Skorina ") of the State Opera and Ballet Byelorussian SSR (1978-1985 gg.)" Pesnyary Belarus "and" Hymn of Liberation "for Belarusian theater. Kolas in Vitebsk (1984-1985 gg.). "Tapestry of the century" - Kishchenko unique piece, made of wool (handmade). "Tapestry of the century" was first presented to the public in 1996 for this work the artist was awarded the State Prize of Belarus. The unique fabric made in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest tapestry in the world, recognized as a national treasure. On a panel measuring 19x14 meters author portrayed the most famous personalities of the past and the present, and the events of the universe: Noah's Ark, Christ and Antichrist, the Kremlin, the Pope, Churchill, Gorbachev, Stalin, Hemingway, Castro (represented more than 80 portraits). In one corner of the tapestry depicted by your own portrait and the face of the Belarusian president. The main idea of ​​the artist was not concentrated in the portraits of politicians, and in the central plot of the tapestry - Copyright interpret conflict of Christ and Antichrist. Work on the creation of the "Tapestry of the Century" lasted five years. Product put up for public display only a few times. Interesting image-plastic solutions are inherent works "Girl with sunflower" (1968), "Chairman. 1943" (1970), "The Young Communists of the 1970s.", "Fire of the Fathers" (both 1972), " Gobelenschitsy "(1975)," Youth "(1976)," The Anthem feat "(1977)," Sunday "(1979)," Flood of Life "(1980)," My Contemporaries " (1981), a portrait of art critic J. Kramarenko (1972), the artist Z. Litvinova and N. Marchenko (1976), son of (1978), People's Artist of the USSR Yelena Obraztsova (1982) and etc.

1) "Apples", 1960, 50x70, oil on cardboard, 75 t.rub
2) "The Girl", 1980, 50 * 80, X, m, 90 thousand rubles