Elena Khomutova
Target: introduce children to the work of the artist and illustrator Yu. A. Vasnetsova.
Tasks: teach to carefully examine illustrations, highlight the expressive characteristic means of the artist, expand and intensify dictionary: artist, illustrator, illustration. To develop in children the ability to expressively read familiar nursery rhymes and to cultivate an interest in book graphics.
Materials: laptop, projector, screen, presentation “Illustrations by Yu. Vasnetsova", gouache paints, paint brushes, cotton swabs, jars of water, 2 easels, shaded silhouettes of flowers, artist's cap, swan costume, A2 sheet with an image of a swan on the river, illustrations by Yu. Vasnetsova and E. Charushina, classical music by Saint-Sane "The Swan", Karel Gott music from the film "Three Nuts for Cinderella".
Preliminary work: conversation about book graphics “Why do we need pictures in books?”, looking at illustrations by E. I. Charushin, memorizing nursery rhymes: “Grandfather Hedgehog”, “The cat went to the market”, “Kitsonka-Murysonka”, “Ivanushka”, drawing fabulous flowers.
Progress of the lesson: children enter the hall and stand in a semicircle.
Q. Guys, what are your mood today? (Answers children: good, joyful, cheerful.)
B. Let's stand in a circle, hold hands and convey our good mood to each other.
All the children gathered in a circle.
I am your friend and you are my friend.
Let's hold hands tighter
And let's smile at each other.
Q. Guys, do you like to solve riddles? (Children's answers)
Listen carefully.
Not a bush, but with leaves,
Not a shirt, but sewn,
Not a person, but tells. (Book)
Children's answers.
V. Well done, you guessed correctly. We show a book with bright illustrations. Guys, do you like when people read books to you? And each of you has your own favorite? Who knows what the pictures in books are called? (Illustrations) Children's answers.
Yes, that's right, pictures in books are called illustrations. Children, why do you think we need illustrations in books? (Children's answers) Who draws them? (Children's answers)
V. That’s right, artists, but this profession is called illustrators. And now we will talk about one of them. Children sit in a semicircle.
Many years ago in our state there lived good wizard. And this wizard was an artist. His name was Yuri Vasnetsov.
You ask: "Why a wizard? Wizards only exist in fairy tales? "True and false, he certainly could not perform miracles, but he could draw everything he was talking about. told in fairy tales. Creation Vasnetsova known to adults and children. Everyone loves to look at books with his illustrations.
His works are filled fabulous power, emit kindness and joy. You saw Yuri Alekseevich’s drawings when you were very little, and your mother read “Bai-bayushki, bayu.” and showed you the picture.
Remember? A child reads the nursery rhyme "Bay-bayushki, bay". If you carefully look at Yuri's illustrations Vasnetsova, you can notice distinctive features in the artist’s drawing.
Yuri Alekseevich was born (slide 4-5) in the ancient Russian city of Vyatka, now this city is called Kirov (slide 6). This city is famous for these toys (slide 7).
Do you remember them? (Answers children: Dymkovo toy)
When he was little, like you, he loved to go to fun fairs where they sold various goods and these wonderful toys. (Slide 8) Little Yura stood for a long time and admired their patterns. And if you look closely at the drawings of Yuri Alekseevich and the Dymkovo toys, you will notice a lot in common.
We suggest comparing the horse from the nursery rhyme “Ivanushka” with the Dymkovo horse.
Thousands of different designs for fairy tales, nursery rhymes and jokes gave us good storyteller Yu. A. Vasnetsov. The most famous books designed by him are “Ladushki” and “Rainbow-Arc” (slide 10).
On the pages of these books we meet Vasnetsov's heroes(slide 11).
Q. Look who’s walking down the winter street? (Answers children: black, mustachioed cat) What is he carrying? (Answers children: carries a golden bun).
V. I probably bought it so that there would be enough for all my friends. Do you remember the nursery rhyme for this illustration? The child is reading.
The cat went to market,
The cat bought a pie
The cat went to the street,
The cat bought a bun.
Do you have it yourself?
Or demolish Borenka?
I'll bite myself
Yes, I’ll demolish Borenka too.
V. Guys, what a beauty! In winter it gets dark quickly - so the lantern lights up and illuminates the road. The light from the lantern comes fairy. And why fairy? (Children's answers.) Snowflake circles dance around the lantern. Illustrations by Yu. Vasnetsov is even told that, which is not written in the book. (Slide 12). The child is reading.
Grandfather Hedgehog,
Don't go to the shore:
The snow melted there
Floods the meadow
You'll get your feet wet
Red boots.
Q. Guys, the words in the nursery rhyme sound like a warning that Grandpa Hedgehog should not go to the bank, why? (Children's answers). But did he listen? Of course not! He went to the shore. But the artist Vasnetsov came up with what's his name help out: I drew Grandpa Hedgehog on a tree stump, in red boots, and a stick in his paws. What do you think he needs the wand for? (Children's answers). He uses it to measure the depth of the water. What else do we see in the illustration that is not mentioned in the nursery rhyme? (Suggested answers children: in the spring the sun warms, it becomes warm, different flowers appear, willows and buds bloom on the trees. Birds fly in and build nests).
Q. Who's that waving his paws over there on the right? Bunnies! They couldn’t stand it and also ran to the bank - they were surprised how much water was around!
V. How many interesting details Yu came up with. Vasnetsov for a nursery rhyme. He brought us joy with his imagination.
Slide 13. "Kitsonka-murysonka"
Kitty - Murysonka,
Where were you?
At the mill.
Kitty-murysonka,
What were you doing there?
I ground flour.
Little kitten,
What kind of flour did you bake with?
Gingerbread cookies.
Little kitten,
Who did you eat gingerbread with?
Don't eat alone! Don't eat alone!
A dramatization game based on a nursery rhyme.
Slide 14. (The mice dance in circles)
P/n Mice dance in a circle.
V. A long time ago, when there were no books and they still didn’t know how to write, in the village they loved to compose for fun something that does not exist in the world. Slide 15. Fables were sung, people danced to them, and children played in them. And so it became customary, from century to century, to invent fables and act them out on holidays. And the artist Yu. Vasnetsov drew them. And the faces turned out to be fables.
Slide 16 (A bear flies across the sky.)
Slide 17 (I caught a bear.)
Very often in the illustrations of Yu. Vasnetsov we see a fairy forest.
Slide 18-20 (Three Bears)
B. Found out fairy tale? (Children's answers) Notice how huge the tree trunks and the small figure of the girl were drawn by the artist. You look at this forest and it immediately becomes somehow scary! Guys, who do you think you might meet in such a forest? (Children's answers)
How amazing the artist Yu.A. Vasnetsov painted flowers, bushes, trees, animals. (Slides 21 -29). In each illustration they are depicted differently, but everywhere they are elegant, bright, decoratively decorated with dots and circles.
Dresses Vasnetsov their heroes dressed up. Wolves, bears, foxes, which good animals are prevented from living, the artist tried not to dress them up - they didn’t deserve beautiful clothes.
Didactic game "Find drawings by Yu. Vasnetsova". (Children are divided into two teams, look at the illustrations Vasnetsova and Charushin and choose drawings Vasnetsova). The guys explain why they chose this illustration and design the exhibition.
There's a knock on the door. The young artist enters (child).
Artist. Hello, I wanted to give you a painting, but I ran out of paints. Unfolds a sheet of A2 format and, together with the teacher, attaches it to the easel. (On the sheet is an image of a swan on a river). My swan is sad to swim along such shores.
V. Don’t be upset, our children will help you. Guys, do you want to try to become artists yourself? I suggest drawing magic flowers. But to do this, we first need to warm up our fingers.
Finger gymnastics.
Visiting the big toe
They came straight to the house
Index and middle
Nameless and last
Little finger himself
He knocked on the threshold.
Fingers together, friends -
They cannot live without each other.
Our fingers are masters
It's time for them to get to work.
Children go to the tables and decorate the silhouettes of shaded flowers. Music by K. Gott from the film “Three Nuts for Cinderella” is played.
At the end, everyone looks at the flowers and finds something interesting in each work.
V. Well done, you completed the task!
Children glue flowers.
Artist. Now the swan is happy, and she wants to play with you.
Educator. One, two, three - we turn into flowers. (Children sit opposite each other along an impromptu river, depicting flowers and grass.
The classical music of Saint-Sane "The Swan" plays, a swan appears (child in a swan costume).
Children read, a child in a swan costume performs the appropriate movements.
Along the river (waves with hands) swan (walk around, gently bending your arms) floats (wave "wings").
Higher (stretch your arms, spread your fingers) berezhka (handles one on top of the other in front of the chest) carries a little head (hands to cheeks, head tilted to one side and the other).
Flapping his white wing (flapping "wings")
For flowers (put your hands together with your wrists, spread your fingers) shakes off the water (shake hands twice).
Lesson summary: Guys, which illustrator’s work did you become familiar with? (Children's answers). Why Yuri Vasnetsov can be called a good wizard? Did you like his illustrations?
What painting elements did you use to decorate the magical flowers?
Bibliography
1. Kapitsa O., Karnaukhova I., Kolpakova N., Prokofiev A., Chukovsky K. Oh, winter-winter. - M., Labyrinth Press, 2014.
2. Kudryashova A. Fables in faces. - M., OJSC. Moscow textbooks and cartography, 2009.
3. Kurochkina N. A. Children about book graphics. - St. Petersburg, Aksident, 1997.
4. Kurochkina N. A. Introducing book graphics. - St. Petersburg, Childhood-Press, 2001.
Vasnetsov Yuri Alekseevich (1900-1973)- graphic artist, painter, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1966). Studied at the Academy of Arts (1921-26) with A.E. Kareva, K.S. Petrova-Vodkina, N.A. Tyrsa.
Vasnetsov's work is inspired by the poetics of Russian folklore. The most famous are illustrations for Russian fairy tales, songs, riddles (“Three Bears” by L. N. Tolstoy, 1930; collection “Miracle Ring”, 1947; “Fables in Faces”, 1948; “Ladushki”, 1964; “Rainbow- arc", 1969, State Ave. USSR, 1971). He created individual color lithographs (“Teremok”, 1943; “Zaykina’s hut”, 1948).
After Vasnetsov’s death, his exquisite pictorial stylizations in the spirit of the primitive (“Lady with a Mouse”, “Still Life with a Hat and a Bottle”, 1932-1934) became known.
Word to the artist Vasnetsov Yu.A.
- “I am so grateful to Vyatka - my homeland, my childhood - I saw the beauty!” (Vasnetsov Yu.A.)
- “I remember spring in Vyatka. The streams are flowing, so stormy, like waterfalls, and we, guys, are launching boats... In the spring, a fun fair opened - Whistling. The fair is elegant and fun. And what not! Clay dishes, pots, jars, jugs. Homespun tablecloths with all sorts of patterns... I really loved Vyatka toys made of clay, wood, plaster horses, cockerels - everything was interesting in color. The carousels at the fair are all covered in beads, all in sparkles - geese, horses, strollers, and always an accordion plays" (Vasnetsov Yu.A.)
- “Draw, write what you love. Look around you more... You can’t explain everything terribly, or draw it out. When a lot of something has been done and drawn, then naturalism appears. Here, let's say, a flower. Take it, but rework it - let it be a flower, but different. Chamomile - and not chamomile. I like forget-me-nots for their blueness, with a yellow spot in the middle. Lilies of the valley... When I smell them, it seems to me that I am a king..." (Vasnetsov Yu.V. From advice to young artists)
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- “In my drawings I try to show a corner of the beautiful world of our native Russian fairy tale, which instills in children a deep love for the people, for our Motherland and its generous nature” (Vasnetsov Yu.A.)
- When asked what was the most expensive gift he received, the artist answered: “Life. Life given to me"
Yuri Vasnetsov was born on April 4, 1900 in the ancient city of Vyatka, in the family of a priest. Both his grandfather and his father’s brothers belonged to the clergy. Yu.A. Vasnetsov was distantly related to Victor and Apollinary Vasnetsov. The large family of Father Alexy Vasnetsov lived in a two-story house next to the cathedral, in which the priest served. Yura loved this temple very much - the cast-iron tiles of its floor, rough so that the foot would not slip, the huge bell, the oak staircase that led to the top of the bell tower...
The artist absorbed his love for colorful folk culture in his old native Vyatka: “I still live by what I saw and remembered in childhood.”
The entire Vyatka province was famous for its handicrafts: furniture, chests, lace, and toys. And Mother Maria Nikolaevna herself was a noble lacemaker and embroiderer, famous in the city. Little Yura will remember for the rest of his life the towels embroidered with roosters, painted boxes, multi-colored clay and wooden horses, lambs in bright pants, lady dolls - “painted from the heart, from the soul.”
As a boy, he himself painted the walls of his room, shutters and stoves in his neighbors' houses with bright patterns, flowers, horses and fantastic animals and birds. He knew and loved Russian folk art, and this later helped him draw his amazing illustrations for fairy tales. And the costumes that were worn in his native northern regions, and the festive dresses of horses, and wooden carvings on windows and porches of huts, and painted spinning wheels and embroidery - everything that he saw from an early age was useful to him for fairy-tale drawings. Even as a child, he enjoyed all kinds of manual labor. He sewed boots and bound books, loved to skate and fly kites. Vasnetsov’s favorite word was “interesting.”
After the revolution, all families of priests, including the Vasnetsov family (mother, father and six children), were literally evicted to the streets. “... My father no longer served in the cathedral, which was closed... and he didn’t serve anywhere at all... He would have cheated and resigned his rank, but it was then that his meek firmness of spirit was revealed: he continued to walk in a cassock, with a pectoral cross and long hair,” recalled Yuri Alekseevich. The Vasnetsovs wandered around strange corners and soon bought a small house. Then we had to sell it, we lived in a former bathhouse...
Yuri went to seek his fortune in Petrograd in 1921. He dreamed of becoming an artist. Miraculously, he entered the painting department of the State Art Academy of Art and Art (later Vkhutemas); successfully completed his studies in 1926.
His teachers were the bustling capital Petrograd itself with its European palaces and the Hermitage full of world treasures. They were followed by a long line of many and varied teachers who opened the world of painting to the young provincial. Among them were the academically trained Osip Braz, Alexander Savinov, the leaders of the Russian avant-garde - the “flower artist” Mikhail Matyushin, the Suprematist Kazimir Malevich. And in the “formalistic” works of the 1920s, the individual characteristics of Vasnetsov’s pictorial language testified to the extraordinary talent of the novice artist.
In search of income, the young artist began to collaborate with the department of children's and youth literature of the State Publishing House, where, under the artistic direction of V.V. Lebedeva happily found himself in the interpretation of themes and images of Russian folklore - fairy tales in which his natural craving for humor, grotesque and good irony was best satisfied.
In the 1930s He became famous for his illustrations for the books “Swamp”, “The Little Humpbacked Horse”, “Fifty Little Pigs” by K.I. Chukovsky, “Three Bears” by L.I. Tolstoy. At the same time, he made excellent - elegant and fascinating - lithographic prints for children, based on the same plot motifs.
The artist made amazing illustrations for Leo Tolstoy’s fairy tale “The Three Bears”. The big, scary, enchanted forest and the bear's hut are too big for a little lost girl. And the shadows in the house are also dark and eerie. But then the girl ran away from the bears, and the forest immediately brightened in the drawing. This is how the artist conveyed a major mood with paints. It’s interesting to watch how Vasnetsov dresses his heroes. Elegant and festive - the nurse mother-Goat, mother-Cat. He will definitely give them colorful skirts with frills and lace. And he will take pity on the bunny who was offended by the Fox and put on a warm jacket. The artist tried not to dress up the wolves, bears, and foxes that interfere with the lives of good animals: they did not deserve beautiful clothes.
Thus, continuing to search for his path, the artist entered the world of children's books. Purely formal searches gradually gave way to folk culture. The artist increasingly looked back into his “Vyatka” world.
A trip to the North in 1931 finally convinced him of the correctness of his chosen path. He turned to folk sources, already being experienced in the intricacies of modern pictorial language, which gave rise to the phenomenon that we can now call the phenomenon of Yuri Vasnetsov’s painting. The still life with a large fish fully demonstrates new bright trends in Vasnetsov’s works.
On a small red tray, crossing it diagonally, lies a large fish sparkling with silver scales. The unique composition of the painting is akin to a heraldic sign and at the same time a folk rug on the wall of a peasant hut. Using a dense, viscous mass of paint, the artist achieves amazing persuasiveness and authenticity of the image. The external contrasts of the planes of red, ocher, black and silver-gray are tonally balanced and give the work the feeling of a monumental painting.
So, book illustrations constituted only one side of his work. The main goal of Vasnetsov’s life was always painting, and he pursued this goal with fanatical tenacity: he worked independently, studied under the guidance of K.S. Malevich in Ginkhuk, studied in graduate school at the All-Russian Academy of Arts.
In 1932-34. he finally created several works (“Lady with a Mouse”, “Still Life with a Hat and a Bottle”, etc.), in which he showed himself to be a very important master who successfully combined the refined pictorial culture of his time with the tradition of folk “bazaar” art, which he appreciated and loved. But this late self-discovery coincided with the campaign against formalism that began then. Fearing ideological persecution (which had already affected his book graphics), Vasnetsov made painting a secret activity and showed it only to close people. In his landscapes and still lifes, emphatically unpretentious in their motives and extremely sophisticated in their pictorial form, he achieved impressive results, uniquely reviving the traditions of Russian primitivism. But these works were practically unknown to anyone.
During the war years, spent first in Molotov (Perm), then in Zagorsk (Sergiev Posad), where he was the chief artist of the Institute of Toys, Vasnetsov performed poetic illustrations for “English folk songs” by S.Ya. Marshak (1943), and then to his own book “Cat House” (1947). New success was brought to him by illustrations for the folklore collections “The Miracle Ring” (1947) and “Fables in Faces” (1948). Vasnetsov worked unusually intensively, varying the themes and images dear to him many times. The well-known collections “Ladushki” (1964) and “Rainbow-Arc” (1969) became a unique result of his many years of activity.
In Vasnetsov’s bright, entertaining and witty drawings, Russian folklore found perhaps the most organic embodiment; more than one generation of young readers grew up on them, and during his lifetime he himself was recognized as a classic in the field of children’s books. In a Russian folk tale, everything is unexpected, unknown, incredible. If you are scared, then you will tremble; if you are joyful, then it is a feast for the whole world. So the artist makes his drawings for the book “Rainbow-Arc” bright, festive - sometimes the page is blue with a bright rooster, sometimes it’s red, and on it is a brown bear with a birch staff.
The artist's difficult life left an indelible mark on his relationships with people. Usually trusting and gentle in character, already being married, he became unsociable. He never exhibited as an artist, never performed anywhere, citing the upbringing of two daughters, one of whom, the eldest, Elizaveta Yuryevna, would later become a famous artist.
Leaving home and family, even for a short time, was a tragedy for him. Any separation from the family was unbearable, and the day when they had to set off was a ruined day.
Before leaving the house, Yuri Alekseevich even shed a tear from grief and melancholy, but still did not forget to put some gift or cute trinket under everyone’s pillow. Even friends gave up on this homebody - a man for great art has disappeared!
Until his old age, Yuri Alekseevich’s favorite reading remained fairy tales. And my favorite pastimes are painting still lifes and landscapes with oil paints, illustrating fairy tales, and in the summer fishing on the river, always with a fishing rod.
Only a few years after the artist’s death, his paintings were shown to viewers at an exhibition at the State Russian Museum (1979), and it became clear that Vasnetsov was not only an excellent book graphic artist, but also one of the outstanding Russian painters of the 20th century.
“I really like to remember my childhood. When I write, draw, I live everything that I remember and saw in childhood.” Yuri Vasnetsov
Outstanding Russian artist: painter, graphic artist, set designer, children's illustrator, master of color lithography. In 1921-1926. Studied at GSHM (VKHUTEMAS). He was a student of V.V. Lebedev and K.S. Malevich, like the first, he applied his gift of an ironic, inventive artist to the art of children's books. Like the second, he showed a penchant for the avant-garde and experimentation in his work. Y. Vasnetsov is distinguished by his unique and easily recognizable style, familiar to several generations from children’s books: “The Little Humpbacked Horse,” “The Three Bears,” “Ladushki,” “Cat’s House,” “Rainbow-Arc,” etc.
Like many book illustrators from the pre-offset era, Vasnetsov was fluent in the lithography technique. Thanks to this, he left behind not only books, original drawings and paintings, but also beautiful color lithographic prints.
Books with illustrations by the artist
Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973) - Russian Soviet artist; painter, graphic artist, theater artist, illustrator. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1971).
Biography
Born on March 22 (April 4), 1900 in the family of a priest in Vyatka (now Kirov region). His father served in the Vyatka Cathedral. A distant relative of the artists A. M. Vasnetsov and V. M. Vasnetsov and the folklorist A. M. Vasnetsov. From his youth and throughout his life, he was friends with the artist Evgeniy Charushin, who was born in Vyatka and later lived in St. Petersburg.
In 1919 he graduated from the Second Level Unified School (formerly the Vyatka First Men's Gymnasium).
In 1921 he moved to Petrograd. He entered the painting department of VKHUTEIN, then PGSKHUM, where he studied for five years with teachers A.E. Karev and A.I. Savinov. Vasnetsov wanted to be a painter and sought to acquire all the skills necessary to work in painting. From the experience of his teachers, Vasnetsov did not adopt anything that would influence him as a painter, with the exception of the influence of M.V. Matyushin, with whom he did not directly study, but was familiar with him through his friends, artists N.I. Kostrov, V.I. . Kurdova, O. P. Vaulin. Through them, he gained an understanding of Matyushin’s theory and became acquainted with the “organic” trend in Russian art, which was closest to his natural talent.
In 1926, the course in which the artist studied at the VKHUTEIN was graduated without defending a diploma. In 1926-1927 Vasnetsov taught fine arts for some time at Leningrad school No. 33.
In 1926-1927 together with the artist V.I. Kurdov, he continued his studies in painting at the State Institute of Artistic Arts under K.S. Malevich. He was accepted into the Department of Painting Culture, headed by Malevich. He studied the plasticity of cubism, the properties of various pictorial textures, and created “material selections” - “counter-reliefs”. The artist spoke about the time of his work at GINKHUK like this: “All the time the eye is developing, form, construction. I liked to achieve materiality, texture of objects, color. See the color! Vasnetsov’s work and training with K. S. Malevich at GINKHUK lasted about two years; During this time, the artist studied the meaning of pictorial textures, the role of contrast in the construction of form, and the laws of plastic space.
Paintings made by Vasnetsov during this period: counter-relief “Still Life with a Chessboard” (1926-1927), “Cubist Composition” (1926-1928), “Composition with a Trumpet” (1926-1928), “Still Life. In Malevich's workshop" (1927-1928), "Composition with a violin" (1929), etc.
In 1928, the art editor of the Detgiz publishing house V.V. Lebedev invited Vasnetsov to work on a children's book. The first books illustrated by Vasnetsov were “Karabash” (1929) and “Swamp” by V. V. Bianchi (1930).
Many books for children designed by Vasnetsov were repeatedly published in mass editions: “Confusion” (1934) and “The Stolen Sun” (1958) by K. I. Chukovsky, “The Three Bears” by L. N. Tolstoy (1935), “Teremok” (1941) ) and “Cat House” (1947) by S. Ya. Marshak, “English folk songs” translated by S. Ya. Marshak (1945), “Cat, Rooster and Fox. Russian fairy tale" (1947) and many others. Illustrated “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by P. P. Ershov, books for children by D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak, A. A. Prokofiev and other publications. Vasnetsov's children's books have become classics of Soviet book art.
In the summer of 1931, together with his Vyatka relative, artist N.I. Kostrov, he made a creative trip to the White Sea in the village of Soroka. Created a series of paintings and graphic works “Karelia”.
In 1932 he became a member of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Soviet Artists.
In 1934 he married the artist Galina Mikhailovna Pinaeva, and in 1937 and 1939 his two daughters Elizaveta and Natalya were born.
In 1932, he entered graduate school at the painting department of the All-Russian Academy of Arts, where he studied for three years. In the thirties, Vasnetsov's painting achieved high skill and acquired an original, unique character, not similar to the work of artists close to him. His painting of this time is compared with the works of V. M. Ermolaeva and P. I. Sokolov in terms of the strength and quality of painting, in the organic element of color: “Vasnetsov preserved and increased the achievements of the original national pictorial culture.”
Biography
Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov (1900-1973) - Russian artist, illustrator, graphic artist and painter. Born into the family of a priest, there were many famous painters and artists in the family - Appolinary Vasnetsov, who mainly depicts historical subjects in his canvases, Viktor Vasnetsov - who has not seen his famous “Bogatyrs”! — also, among distant relatives was Alexander Vasnetsov, a folklorist who collected and published more than 350 songs of the Russian people, mainly from northern Russia. Such a cultural family heritage could not but affect the descendant and was reflected in his further work, where folklore traditions, humor and the grotesque merged together.
From his youth, Yuri Vasnetsov connected his life with illustrating children's books. In 1928, he began collaborating with the magnificent publishing house "Detgiz", which later reorganized into the no less famous "Children's Literature". He designed a large number of children's books - “Swamp”, “Cat House” and “Teremok”, “Stolen Sun” and “Confusion” and many others. In parallel with illustration, he taught fine arts at a Leningrad school, drew postcards, designed costumes and scenery for Leningrad theaters, and painted. In 1971, based on his drawings, the animated film “Terem-Teremok” was shot.
When I was a child, my mother read all the books and fairy tales to me. And the nanny too. The fairy tale entered me...
The publishing house gives me the text. I take the one I like. And sometimes there is no fairy tale in it. It happens that it is only four or even two lines, and you can’t make a fairy tale out of them. And I’m looking for a fairy tale... I always remember who the book will be for.
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Conversations
“Neskuchny Garden”, 01.2008
Extremely generalized, condensed images were instantly recognized and accepted as family - by both children and adults. It was clear that these were our heroes, Russians from toe to toe. But not epic ones, but living somewhere nearby. Looking at us from under a bush the way the sad top looks from “The Tale of Tales” - sensitively and intently.
“Young Artist”, No. 12.1979
Rarely does anyone manage to carry childhood impressions throughout their lives the way Vasnetsov did. The artist has not lost his direct perception of nature over the years; vividly recalled folk holidays. “As if in reality I remember everything!.. I remember everything so, apparently, I looked at it for a reason - I penetrated into everything, and for a reason. But I regret that not everything remained in my memory, I didn’t look at everything carefully. I should have looked more... A lot of things were uniquely beautiful!” - these words show the wisdom of the old master, the openness of his soul to the beauty of life. Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov was a happy man, because he rejoiced in his childhood and brought this joy into his works; his joy and happiness became the property of other people - adults and children.
Events
17.03.2014
As part of the Children's Book Days, the exhibition “Artists of Pre-War DETGIZ” opens at the Library of Book Graphics in St. Petersburg on March 20 at 19.00. The exhibition presents illustrations, sketches, prints, lithographs, covers, and books by the masters of book graphics of the pre-war period.