Exhibition of paintings by Leila Khasyanova Automatic translate

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of works by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, candidate of historical sciences and professor Leila Samiulovna Khasyanova. The exhibition will occupy the entire suite of academic halls on Prechistenka and will introduce the capital’s audience to several dozen paintings.

In the history of Russian art there were generations who for a long time retained the status of “young artists”, but L. S. Khasyanova immediately became a mature master - she had the happy destiny of combining creative potential and the opportunity to realize it. The author has brilliant academic training behind her: she graduated from the Moscow Secondary Art School, and then from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov, where she studied in the portrait workshop of the People’s Artist of the USSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts I. S. Glazunov. Hence the confident mastery of drawing, knowledge of anatomy and proportions, understanding of form and plasticity, accuracy of rendering textures with a share of stylistic interpretation and the desire to capture “high truths”.

According to art critics, the area of ​​the artist’s creative aspirations is “specialized”: she is primarily a portrait painter. The uniqueness of her characters and appearance attracted attention since her student years, when she worked on creative trips on a series of portraits of BAM builders. Leila Samiulovna acts as a subtle psychologist who knows how to reveal a person’s inner world in a moment frozen on the canvas. The artist’s artistic style is characterized by the lapidary flatness of the background, which clearly and boldly models the figure, and linear, refined outlines. The image of a model in the picture space is often supported by a few details, which make it possible to add eloquent details that most fully reflect the essence of the person being portrayed.

Throughout the author’s creative biography, an interest in colorful nature can be traced. The external exoticism of national costumes and ethnic appearance, from portraits of loved ones to representatives of the diplomatic corps and the establishment, turns out to be a visible manifestation of the richest polyphony of the “planet of people.” L. S. Khasyanova palpably enjoys conveying the festival colorfulness of Panamanian and Ethiopian dresses, Indian sari, Russian sundress. However, the artistic meaning of such images is not at all limited to their decorative and educational components. By creating a portrait suite of different faces, the master demonstrates the tangible value of each human personality.

Female images deserve special attention, including portraits of Yulia Bruzhaite, Anastasia Volochkova, Galina Gritsenko, Natalia Bestemyanova, Tatyana Moskalkova and others. Each of them has “its own truth,” despite the fact that it seems that the painter endows all his heroines with a common feature, a special intonation of enchantment and a charm that is always far from prosaic. The author is also attracted to people of complex fate and extraordinary characters. True documents of the era can be called portraits of test pilots, metallurgists and meteorologists, work on which was carried out from the 1980s to the 2000s, as well as images of Apti Alaudinov and Gleb Matveychuk. Leila Samiulovna has devoted the last decades to creating images of outstanding religious and government figures included in the “Leaders of the Nation” series, and paintings dedicated to the history of the Tatar people.

An important place in the exhibition belongs to still lifes - classically verified compositions in which the master experiments with the architectonics of space, color with its unexpected manifestations of fresh, bright colors. Many of them were influenced by their passion for Japanese culture. The artist felt the first impulses of understanding the attractiveness of Japan for herself back in her student years, when I. S. Glazunov introduced students to different cultures. The immediate development of the topic, according to the author, was created from the impressions received at the ikebana exhibition of the Sogetsu school, held in Moscow in 1990. Succumbing to the charm of the art of flower arranging, she painted about a dozen paintings, endowing each with an exemplary individuality.

The works presented in the academic halls indicate that L. S. Khasyanova is moving along the once chosen path, but at the same time continues to search for new opportunities in the boundless comprehension of nature. She sees her goal as continuing the traditions revived by her teacher, seeing in them the future of national culture.

The text was compiled based on an article by Nina Getashvili by the Information Department (press service) of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Leila Samiulovna Khasyanova was born in 1963 in Moscow. In 1987 she graduated from the portrait workshop of the Moscow State Art Institute. V.I. Surikov, then an assistantship-internship. From 1987 to 1994 she worked at the TCZhM Painting Art Factory. She taught for several years at the Moscow Chemical Pedagogical Institute. S. G. Stroganov, from 1992 to 2013 - at the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ilya Glazunov, where she was the head of the portrait workshop, head of the department of academic and anatomical drawing, dean of the faculty of painting, vice-rector for scientific work. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists and the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Author of more than 350 works of art, including: a series of portraits of BAM builders, metallurgists, meteorologists, test pilots, “Women of Russia,” cycles on Japan, India, and Arab countries. She has participated in 50 art exhibitions, 16 of which were solo. In 2023, she became a laureate of the Khusain Faizkhanov Prize in the “Culture” category. Simultaneously with creative and pedagogical activities, he conducts scientific work.