Art chronograph. Exhibition of one painting Automatic translate

The exhibition will begin work on July 12 at the address: Kaluga, ul. Lenin, 104 (main exhibition)

This year marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of one of the oldest artists in the Kaluga Region, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, one of the organizers of the Kaluga branch of the Union of Artists, Vladimir Petrovich Lyubimov (1907 - 1993). Vladimir Petrovich was born in Kaluga on August 24, 1907 in the family of a priest. He spent his childhood and school years in Pskov, then returned to Kaluga. He studied at art studios with famous Kaluga artists A. V. Fadeev and V. N. Lewandowski. A talented young man in 1927 entered the Higher Art Institute in Leningrad (now the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. E. Repin), where he studied under A. A. Rylov and K. S. Petrov-Vodkin. But, unfortunately, as the son of a former priest, he was expelled from the institute, and returned to Kaluga in 1929. Despite such a dramatic turn in fate, the young artist did not leave art, and continued to improve his skills under the guidance of V.N. Lewandovsky, a former graduate of the Academy of Arts.

V.P. Lyubimov worked in different genres and techniques, created works of various subjects, but the portrait became the main genre in his work. The artist was attracted by the image of a contemporary, so he created so many portraits. The general public is best known for the portrait of K. E. Tsiolkovsky, made by the artist from full-scale sketches. It was he who first turned to the embodiment of the image of K. E. Tsiolkovsky in art. Another important topic in the work of V.P. Lyubimov is Pushkin’s, related to the image of the outstanding Russian poet and his stay in the Polotnyany factory. At the same time, V.P. Lyubimov was a talented and soulful landscape painter who captured images of Central Russian nature in his works.

V.P. Lyubimov participated in the Great Patriotic War. In 1955 - 1964 he lived and worked in the suburbs, and in 1964 he returned to Kaluga. Since 1927, his works were exhibited at regional, zonal, all-Union, republican art exhibitions. In 1970, a personal exhibition of the artist was held in Kaluga. The hero of the essay by the writer I. Shedvigovsky "Create beauty yourself."

The collection of the Pushkin Museum contains more than twenty paintings and graphic works by V.P. Lyubimov, including one of the best early works - the portrait "The Old Man", painted by him in 1938 in Kaluga. It depicts, apparently, one of the artist’s acquaintances, in which he saw a typical representative of the older generation of his time, who had seen and experienced a lot, but retained firmness of mind. The old man is depicted in the floor of an unbuttoned old coat with an astrakhan collar, in a pie-hat, against the background of a wooden wall, which gives the whole portrait the character of everyday life. Posing for the artist, the old man lost in thought: the gaze of his watery, sore eyes, fixed in space, turned inward. In the portrait, the artist managed to show the individual originality and emotional state of the personality of the model, and at the same time, convey in all his appearance the characteristic features of the era. The portrait was painted in a restrained brownish-gray palette; it is distinguished by its integrity and harmony of color.

The portrait of “The Old Man” was exhibited at the exhibition of works by artists of the periphery in Moscow in 1939 and was noted for artistic criticism and awarded the prize. In April 1941, the art museum acquired this work. This early portrait in the work of V.P. Lyubimov confirms the opinion of M.M. Dneprovsky, an art critic, a former director of the Kaluga Art Museum, that "V. P. Lyubimov in the 1930s held the position of one of the leading artists of Kaluga. ”