Alexander Semionov

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Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov
Born February 18, 1922
Torzhok, Soviet Russia
Died June 23, 1984
Leningrad, USSR
Nationality Russian
Field Painting
Training Tavricheskaya Art School
Movement Realism

Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Семе́нов; February 18, 1922, city of Torzhok, Soviet Russia - June 23, 1984, Leningrad, USSR) - a Soviet Russian painter living and working in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of Russian Federation,[1] regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting,[2] most famous for his cityscapes.

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[edit] Biography

Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov was born February 18, 1922 in ancient city Torzhok, Tver Province, Soviet Russia. In the mid 1930s the family of the future artist moved to Leningrad.

Having abilities to draw from the early age, Alexander Semionov enters Tavricheskaya Art School, where he studied of Alexander Gromov, Semion Bootler, Victor Oreshnikov, Vladimir Levitsky, and Mariam Aslamazian.

Old Ladoga. Towards a Spring. 1972

In year 1940, Alexander Semionov graduated from Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad. In 1940-1941 he worked as copyist in LenIzo Leningrad Art Centre. In State Russian museum he painted copies of works by Ivan Shishkin, Ilya Repin, Isaak Levitan, learning the art of these masters.[3]

In 1941, Alexander Semionov as a volunteer goes to the front, passing through all the trials of wartime from beginning to end. After Great Patriotic War, he returned to work in LenIzo as painter, gradually restoring and improving professional skills. He painted from the life in the such picturesque suburbs of Leningrad as Rozhdestvenno, Wyra, Daymische, where in late 1940 - early 1950s settled Leningrad artists Piotr Buchkin, Nikolai Timkov, Yuri Podlaski, George Tatarnikov, and others.

Since 1954, Alexander Semionov, begins to show his work at the exhibitions of Leningrad artists. These were the sketches brought back from trips to the Ural and Altai: "Altai Province. Shebalino District", "Altai. At the Seshinsky Pass"[4] (both 1954), "Blacksmith workshop"[5] (1956), "At the Chusovoy Plant", "Rolling workshop"[6] (both 1957), and others. In these sketches traced the taste and great abilities of the artist to plein air painting, his ability for composition, for quickly grasp and transferring the lighting on canvas.

In 1957, Alexander Semionov was admitted to the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. In the same year as one of the leading painters of the Leningrad Alexander Semionov participated in the Anniversary All-Union Art Exhibition in Moscow.[7]

Early successes suggest to Alexander Semionov the direction for further creative exploration, helped in selecting the main theme of creativity, the most corresponding to specific of his temperament and painterly talent. Since the late 1950s its become the urban landscape, a favorite theme - streets, bridges, and embankments of Leningrad. Semionov embodied it in countless sketches and paintings, and make a significant contribution to the contemporary iconography of Leningrad. Among his works shown at the exhibitions were "A Rainy day"[8] (1958), "After the Rain"[9] (1960), "Leningrad in the morning"[10] (1969), "The Moyka River", "Isaakievskaya Square", "Leningrad. Winter motive"[11] (all 1961), "Winter Park"[12] (1961), "On the Neva River"[13] (1964), "The Leningrad" and "A Field of Mars"[14] (both 1975), "Kirov Prospect"[15] (1965), "The Leningrad"[16] (1967), "Furmanov Street in Leningrad"[17] (1976), and others.

Liteiny Bridge. 1982

In 1950–1970 years in search of material for his paintings Alexander Semionov, in addition to trips to the Altai and the Urals, has repeatedly worked in the House the work of artists in Staraya Ladoga, visited ancient Russian city of Torzhok Rostov. There he painted the ancient corners of the Tver region, keeping the cherished images of childhood and youth of the artist.

To the middle of 1960 there is a characteristic style of painting of Alexander Semionov, his favorite themes and methods of their development. In cityscapes he aspire to transfer sensation of street, movement, to keep on a canvas the peeped scenes of a city life. The great attention he gives to light and shadow contrasts and plain air effects, to transfer volumes of urban spaces. Artist likes to paint Leningrad in rainy weather, masterly transferring game of color stains on wet asphalt.

Painting of Alexander Semionov distinguishes finesse plain air, bright saturated colors and accurate transfer of tonal relations. Generalized drawing with a brush along with the active use of palette knife made of various texture painting, and allow the artist to achieve unity of artistic conception and its realization on canvas.

In 1970-1980 Alexander Semionov regarded as one of the leader of Russian cityscape painting. A lot of works from nature, Alexander Semionov created a truthful image of a modern Leningrad, who united the familiar features and insightful personal view of the wizard. Some of his paintings now perceived as literary evidence of the recent era: brightly-colored flags and banners, bunting Nevsky ("Nevsky Prospekt in Holiday", 1970), the familiar streets, retaining its appearance in the paintings of the artist ("Malaya Sadovaya street", 1979).

In 1970s Alexander Semionov paintings were presented at the exhibitions of Soviet art in Japan, later in 1990s at the auctions and exhibitions of Russian art in France, Italy, UK, and US, where his art find its admirers.

Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov died on June 23, 1984 in Leningrad at the sixty-three year of life. In 1987, in the halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists held an exhibition of works by Alexander Semionov, shown later in the cities of Leningrad region. His painting reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia,[18] Japan,[19] in the US, England, France,[20] and throughout the world.[18][21]

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  1. ^ Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 2.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p. 330.
  2. ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.9, 21, 24, 44, 56, 89, 97, 153, 175, 199, 206, 209, 281, 329, 369, 389-400, 404, 405, 414-422, 445.
  3. ^ Dmitry Buchkin. Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov. Biography outline. - Alexander Semionov. Exhibition Catalogue. - Leningrad: Leningrad Artist's Union, 1987. - p. 3.
  4. ^ The Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1955. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Leningrad Union of artists, 1956. - p.16.
  5. ^ The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1956. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Leningrad artist, 1958. - p.22.
  6. ^ 1917 - 1957. Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1958. - p.29.
  7. ^ All-Union Art Exhibition of 1957 dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of October Revolution. Catalogue. - Moscow: Soviet artist, 1957. - p.71.
  8. ^ The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1958. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1959. - p.24.
  9. ^ Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1960. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1963. - p.16.
  10. ^ The Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1969. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1970. - p.16.
  11. ^ Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1961. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1964. - p.36.
  12. ^ The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1962. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1962. - p.24.
  13. ^ The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1965. - p.48.
  14. ^ Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1975. Catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980. - p.24.
  15. ^ Paintings of 1940-1990s from the Leningrad School. Exhibition catalogue. - Saint Petersburg: Nikolai Nekrasov Memorial Museum, 1996. - p.5.
  16. ^ The Fine Arts of Leningrad. Exhibition catalogue. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1976. - p.30.
  17. ^ The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists of 1978. Catalogue. -Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1983. - p.15.
  18. ^ a b Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.
  19. ^ Exhibition of modern Soviet Painting. 1976. Gekkoso Gallery. Catalogue. — Tokyo, 1976. - р.91,158.
  20. ^ * Painture Russe. Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 26 April 1991. - p.7,26.
  21. ^ Painture Russe. Catalogue. - Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 26 April 1991. - p.7,26.

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