Spring Day (painting)
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Spring Day is a painting by the well-known Russian artist Nikolai Matveevich PozdneevNikolai Pozdneev
Nikolai Matveevich Pozdneev - Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and still life paintings.-Biography:Pozdneev Nikolai...
(1930–1978), in which artist convincingly conveyed the moods in Soviet society of the late 1950s - early 1960s.
Painting «Spring Day» has become one of the first original genre compositions Nicholi Pozdneev. She developed the theme for the first time raised three years earlier in his graduate painting «From the School» (1956, now reside in collection of the Pskov Painting Gallery). The first version of painting shown in 1960 on the principal Art Show in Leningrad and in Moscow the author does not fully satisfied. Pozdneev repainted the picture, making it a more extended vertically. A group of children has shifted from the center to the upper left corner. The bold decision proved justified: composition of the painting acquired aspiration, which is consistent with the general concept of the work. Were reinforced color accents, the lighter has become the whole palette of the picture. As a result, in the work began to fully feel the air of spring and hope, in tune with the mood of the era turn of the decades.
In 1960–1980 years «Spring Day» resided in the collection of the artist's family. In 1994 after a long pause she was featured at the «Painting of 1940-1990s. The Leningrad School» Art Show in the Exhibition Halls of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg was established on August 2, 1932, as creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, was called "Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists". Since 1959 was called as Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation...
. In 1995-1996 «Spring Day» was exhibited in Saint Petersburg in the Nekrasov Memorial Museum at the exhibitions «The Lyrical motive in painting of artists of the WWII generation», and «Painting of 1940-1990s. The Leningrad School». The painting was reproduced on the official poster and cover of exhibition catalog. In 2007 the «Spring Day» was reproduced and described among 350 art works by Leningrad artists in the book «Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School», published in Russian and English.
See also
- Artist Nikolai Pozdneev (1930—1978)Nikolai PozdneevNikolai Matveevich Pozdneev - Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his genre and still life paintings.-Biography:Pozdneev Nikolai...
- Leningrad School of PaintingLeningrad School of PaintingThe Leningrad School of Painting - a group of Soviet painters, established in Leningrad in 1930–1950 years around reformed Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and unified by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists .- History :...
