Oka expanses. Silence Automatic translate

From May 22, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (104 Lenina St., main exhibition) will host an exhibition of one painting “F.S. Shurpin (1904 –1972). “Oka expanses. Silence". To the 120th anniversary of the artist’s birth.

Fyodor Savvovich Shurpin (1904–1972) is a famous Soviet artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State and Stalin Prize. His works are in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, in art museums and galleries in different cities of Russia.

The artist was born in 1904 into a peasant family in the village of Kiryakinka, Smolensk province. The talented young man began his creative life in 1922, when he came to Moscow to study on a Komsomol voucher. At first he studied at the workers’ faculty of arts, then at the painting faculty of VKHUTEMAS-VKHUTEIN, which he graduated in 1931. Participant of exhibitions since 1929, member of the Association of Revolutionary Artists of Russia since 1931. Already in the 1930s, his creative individuality manifested itself and a pictorial manner of painting developed, which is characterized by artistry and lightness, attention to the formal side of painting.

During these same years, the range of themes that became central to his work was determined: the peasant theme, revolutionary events and the theme of motherhood. In 1933, his first success came to him; his painting “Krasnoznamenka” was purchased by the State Tretyakov Gallery.

In the 1940s, the artist abandoned his search for color and form, and his painting style began to correspond to the style of socialist realism. During the Great Patriotic War, F. S. Shurpin went to the front, painted thematic paintings on military themes, and created several portraits: “Into the War” (1941), “Portrait of the Pilot Strukov” (1942), “Letter from the Front” (1942). His greatest fame was brought to him by the painting “The Morning of Our Motherland,” painted for the anniversary of J.S. Stalin, for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1949. During his life, the artist worked in different genres, painted thematic paintings, portraits, and still lifes.

A separate theme of F. S. Shurpin’s work is landscape painting, in which he acts as a master of panoramic landscape. He was born and raised in a village in the Smolensk region, in the Central Russian region, and from childhood he saw the wide Russian expanses, which, having become an artist, he masterfully embodied in his canvases. Even in a number of thematic paintings such as “After the Battle” (1941), “Renaissance” (1943–1945), especially “Morning of our Motherland” (1946–1948), in which he presented Stalin against the backdrop of the vast expanses of the Motherland stretching beyond the horizon, he showed the plot or the image of the hero against the backdrop of a panoramic landscape.

F. S. Shurpin began to turn to landscape painting especially often in the post-war period. Several landscapes were created by him on the banks of the Oka in the 1950s near Tarusa, one of them is “Oka expanses. Silence", written in 1958. Here the artist captured the beauty of the Oka expanses in the pre-sunset hour. Thanks to a well-chosen point of view, he was able to convey the depth of space. From the high bank of the river, on which horses graze, a majestic panorama of the river stretching into the distance opens up, with smooth bends of the banks, copses and arable lands. Clouds rise above them, illuminated by the setting sun, which gives the picture solemnity. The author paid great attention to the transfer of lighting: evening shadows soften the outlines, calm reigns all around, and only the reflections of the setting sun illuminate the clouds with bright spots, fall on the arable land, buildings in the distance, on the backs of grazing horses. The painting is painted with wide impasto masks; the painting is distinguished by color saturation and decorativeness, which gives the image increased emotionality and a romantic mood. The artist in the landscape shows the beauty and grandeur of Russian nature, through which his love for his native land was expressed in the landscape.