Gaponenko Taras Gurevich (1906-1993)

Winter. A cart with firewood

Oil on canvas.

Soviet painter, monumentalist, member of the USSR Union of Artists, winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree, corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the USSR.

Graduated from VHUTEIN (VHUTEMAS), member of OMAHRR, AHRR and RAPH. Since 1930, he has been a permanent participant in exhibitions held in the Soviet Union and abroad. Participated in the performance of monumental and decorative works on the painting of the club of the Proletariy plant in Moscow. In 1939, he took part in the creation of the monumental panel "Noble People of the Country of Soviets" for the Soviet pavilion at the International Exhibition in New York. All-Union fame and European fame to the artist were brought by the work "For Lunch to Mothers", which was a great success in Paris at the international art exhibition in 1937 and was awarded the Gold Medal.

IT.G. Gaponenko is a bright representative of the art of socialist realism. In the history of domestic painting, he remained an artist of a versatile thematic orientation. The author's paintings on historical and revolutionary themes and subjects dedicated to the Great Patriotic War are convincing and reliable in their artistic embodiment. They are remembered by an accurately found compositional construction, they are easy to write. Each work is based on a large preparatory work of the master in the study of actual and natural material. Many genre works of Gaponenko are dedicated to the life of a collective farm village. The artist's works open today to the modern viewer the image of an entire era. They bribe the author's poetic view of reality. On the canvases, people living a full inner life are seen as if by chance. At the same time, the author is always able to reveal and convey the depth of life phenomena. Behind the simplicity of the plot is picturesque persuasiveness, subtle psychology of images, the power of plastic incarnation and coloristic beauty. When you look at the works of the master, you understand: there are no un interesting subjects for the artist. Lyrical, bright notes sound in the works of the painter of the 1950s, setting the audience to immerse themselves in a unique atmosphere, where there is harmony and a sense of unity of man with the world around him. Despite the chamber size of many works, the author managed to convey the importance of the changes taking place, which are inseparable from the image of a contemporary, endowed primarily with such a spiritual quality as collectivism.

Like all Soviet painting, Gaponenko's works are characterized by optimism of worldview, a huge life-affirming force. These features have especially fully manifested themselves in the landscape works of the artist, which are characterized by clear spiritual purity, a sense of peace. The audience is bribed by the author's love for his native land and the true skill of painting. The Painter seems to hear the voice of nature and reveals unforgettable features, national motives in it. Gaponenko's works are very integral. That's exactly what distinguishes his art from his contemporaries.The artist's works are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Central Museum of the Russian Army, the Museum of Russian Art in Kiev and other museums of our country and abroad.

Art Square Gallery

Viktor Ivanovich Govorkov. Born in Russia, in Vladivostok in 1906. From 1926 to 1930 he studied at Vhuteine in Moscow, S. Gerasimov, D. moor and V. Favorsky. 1920-e years began to work in the field of book graphics.

Communal complex. Factory-kitchen. Façade, perspective, section. Underground “street” sections.

Project for a tourist resort on the Black Sea

G. Zoundblat

[Atelier Vesnin at Vhutein, Moscow, 1928-1929]

Nikolai Sokolov, proposal for a resort hotel in Matsetsa (1928-1929), course project