Abram Yefinivich Arkhipov
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Abram Yefinivich Arkhipov |
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Ryazan Gubernia, Russia |
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1862 |
| Death: |
1930 |
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Social Realism, Impressionism |
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Painter
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Biography
| Abram Yefimovich Arkhipov made his name in the history of Russian art of the turn of the century as a sensitive, poetic artist who devoted all his talent to themes from peasant life. He was born into a poor peasant family in a remote village in Ryazan Gubernia. As a boy he first showed an interest in drawing at his local school. His parents gave him every possible encouragement, and in 1876, having painstakingly gathered together the necessary means, they sent him to study at the School of Art, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow. Arkhipov started out as a genreartist. In 1883, after seven years at the School, Arkhipov decided to continue his education at the Academy of Arts. The academic system of teaching disappointed him, however. Despite the fact that his study Man Falling from the Saddle and various other drawings were hailed as masterpieces and donated to the Academy's permanent collection, Arkhipov left the Academy and returned to the Moscow School. In the 1890s Arkhipov painted mostly in the open air, portraying his heroes not in their small, stuffy studios and rooms but in the wideopen spaces of the Volga, in broad, sunlit squares, green meadows and roads. In his painting Women Labourers at the Iron Foundry (1896, TG), Arkhipov dealt with one of the nineteenth century's most poignant themes: the bitter fate of Russian women. The Washer-Women is an example of the artist's new searchings in the realm of colour. In contrast to his other works, the painting is also. to a certain extent, accusatory, a trait which brings it in line with the best traditions of critical realism of the second half of the nineteenth century. The early 1900s saw the creation of Arkhipov's Northern landscapes. They represent nature in all its splendour, with muted colours, distinctive wooden buildings, rickety cottages huddled together along river-banks, deserted wooded islands, and huge boulders by the seaside. At this time, too, Arkhipov painted an unusual series of portraits of peasant women and girls from (he Ryazan and Nizhny Novgorod regions. They are all dressed in bright national costume. with embroidered scarves and beads. Painted with broad, lively strokes, the paintings are marked by their decorativeness and buoyant colours, with rich reds and pinks predominating. He started teaching in 1894 in the Moscow School of Art, Sculpture and Architecture, and carried on there after the Revolution. In 1924 he joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, and in 1927 to mark his fortieth year as an artist he was among the first who were awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Republic. |
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