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Pavel Kuznetsov
Pavel kuznetsov, Self-portrait, 1906
Born17 November 1878
Saratov, Russian Empire
Died21 February 1968
Moscow, Soviet Union
EducationBogolyubov Art School, Saratov (1891-6); Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904); Paris (1905)
Known forPainter, graphic artist
MovementOrientalist

Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov (1878–1968) was a painter and graphic artist.

Life and career

He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School (1891–1896), then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904) and for a year in Paris (1905). His early paintings were exhibited by the Mir Iskusstva group, and he was closely associated with the Russian Symbolists. He helped to organize the Crimson Rose exhibition (1904) and was a founder and leader of the Blue Rose in 1907. He taught at the Stroganov Institute (1917–18; 1945-8) and at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1918–37). He headed the painting section of Narkompros until 1921, but fell out of official favour with the advent of Socialist Realism. He was one of the members of the art association ‘The Four Arts’, which existed in Moscow and Leningrad in 1924-1931.

Kuznetsov's early paintings are typical of the Blue Rose group's poetic explorations of an interior, imaginative world through archetypal symbols. After 1910 he drew increasingly on folk culture, continuing to draw on the rich colours and harmonious rhythms of the Symbolists but simplifying his compositions to depict the everyday life of village communities of Kirghizstan in Central Asia.

Works

  • Blue Fountain, 1905 Blue Fountain, 1905
  • Evening on the Steppe, 1912 Evening on the Steppe, 1912
  • Still life with a Japanese Engraving, 1912 Still life with a Japanese Engraving, 1912
  • Eastern Motive, 1913-1914 Eastern Motive, 1913-1914
  • Harvesting of Fruits, 1913-1914 Harvesting of Fruits, 1913-1914

References

  • Stupples, P., Pavel Kuznetsov: His Life and Art, Cambridge, 1989

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