Nestovtsev biography

All artists of the Nestovtsev Yuri Mikhailovich - Yuri Mikhailovich Nestovtov - outstanding Soviet painter and graphics. Born on August 15 in Tiflis now - Tbilisi in the family of an architect. He began to draw early, in his youth, he was engaged in art studios. From the years, he studied at the picturesque department of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad with I.

Brodsky; Having completed his studies, he taught there. In the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered for the front, where he participated in battles and worked as an artist. After demobilization, he resumed teaching at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Repin in Leningrad. Since the year of Yu. Nestintsev - professor at the Department of Painting and Composition, the head of the creative workshop.

In the year, Yu. Nestingsev was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR, in M ​​- he was elected a full member of the Academy of Arts. The artist’s exhibition activity is active and diverse. The painting and graphics of Yuri Nestjintsev are recognized as a significant phenomenon of Soviet fine art. His works about the Great Patriotic War, portraits of contemporaries, landscapes of a native country, canvases and graphic sheets made on the material of foreign travels are known.

All these works are united by a deep sense of modernity, which received a consistent artistic embodiment in the work of the master. The characteristic and typical manifestations of modern life, creating the image of the era are the true content of the art of Yuri Nestingsev. In his creative consciousness, a contemporary is primarily a national and folk character. It is precisely such a full -blooded sense of nationality that is endowed with the image of Vasily Terkin from the same name by A.

Twardowski’s poem, who became the character of the famous painting “Rest after the fight” by the topic of war and the courage of the Russian man, the Soviet warrior who went through all the trials and the victorious, are also devoted to “native land”, “The soldiers are ...”, “Baltic”, as well as tramples and heroics A series of etchings “Stories about Leningraders” works of war are characterized by general qualities - the thoughtfulness of clear compositions, the desire to monument a figurative solution, the accuracy of emotional coloring.

The same features are developed in paintings on the struggle for the world - “Youth of the World” and “Solidarity” internally related to the works of the military cycle.

In the art of Yuri Nestjintsev, an important place is occupied by a portrait genre represented by picturesque and graphic works. They testify to the author as a master of psychological analysis. Pictureship, high culture of the drawing are especially distinguished: “Metrostroevtsy”, “Portrait of M. Tikhomirova”, “Portrait of the artist V. Gorodetsky”, “Portrait of art critic E.

Litovchenko”, “Portrait of academician D. Likhachev” These and other portraits of different years are perceived as a whole and expressive story about the fate and affairs of contemporaries. A sense of time, history, era lives in its own way in the landscapes of Yu. The herd by the river, "Suzdal. Karpov bridge ”,; "Rome, landscape with lilies." The inherent lyrical, chamber principle is manifested in the special thoroughness of the pattern, the sophistication of color relationships, the lightness of a picturesque smear.

Yuri Nestingsev cannot be represented outside the topic of our time. For the master, working on its embodiment means consistently and inspired to assert the phenomena and images of Soviet reality in art. In the tireless solution of this important task, Yuri Mikhailovich Nestanovs was his duty of the artist and citizen.