Alexander Vassilievitch Kouprin
(1880 - 1960) |
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Still lifes, landscapes, portraits Art Work
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Alexander Vassilievitch Kouprin |
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Male |
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| Nationality: |
Russ |
| Birth: |
1880 |
| Death: |
1960 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
Still lifes, landscapes, portraits |
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Watercolor, graphite, oil |
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| Style: |
Realism |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
| Alexander Vassilievitch Kouprin was an honored Arts Worker of RSFSR (1956), Member of the Academy of Art of USSR (1954). Studied at the Studio of L.E. Dmitriev-Kavkazskiy in St.Petersburg (1902 - 04), at the Studio of K.F. Iouon and O. Dudin in Moscow (1904 - 05), at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under N.A. Kasatkina, A.E. Arkhipov, L.O. Pasternak, K.A. Korovin (1906 - 10). One of the founders of the «Knave of Diamonds» group (1910), a member of the Painters of Moscow (1925), the Exist (1926), the Society of Moscow Artists (1928-32). Taught at the State Free Art Workshops in Moscow (1918-20), at the State Art Workshops in Nizhniy Novgorod and Sormovo (1920-22), at the Higher State Art Technical Institute in Moscow (1922-30), at the Moscow Textiles Institute (1931-39, since 1924 - a Professor), the Moscow Higher Design School (1946-39, Chief of Painting Department). He created still-lifes, landscapes. During his early period, painted generally architectural landscapes. He created subject paintings (for example, «Sokolniki. Fire-Tower» 1919); later on he painted on an open air and, as a result, reproduced architectural motifs from on industrial and Crimean landscapes. Influenced by Cezanne (1910), early Cubism, he created surface of paintings using deformed objects, which depended on rhythm of the whole and the same time on their architectonic essence («Pink, violet and black flowers on the pink background», 1926). He used back colour; made tangible everything including background (sky is background in landscape). Colour was decorative, but not local, relief. The same colour could be used for different plane: earth and sky. |
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