January 4
Tigran
Edmondovich Keosayan is a Russian-Armenian film director, actor and writer. He is a winner of International Film Festival Prize's including "TEFI", "Kinotavr" and "Window to Europe-2001". Keosayan is the son of
Armenian-Russian film director and composer Edmond Keosayan and actor Laura Gevorkyan. He
studied at the all-Soviet state Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Keosayan is the
director of many modern Russian films included "Kat'ka i Shiz"
(1992), "Bednaya Sasha" (1997), "Landysh Serebristyy"
(2005), "Zayats nad bezdnoy" (2006), the "12 stul'yev" musical (2003), a large number
of clips for Mikhail Shufutinsky, Igor Sarukhanov, Irina Allegrova. He is co-operated with
Fyodor Bondarchuk, Alexander Zbruev and others. Keosayan
is an anchorman of the daily (from Monday to Thursday) analytical talk show
"With Tigran Keosayan" on the major Russian private TV channel REN-TV.
Aristarkh
Lentulov
was a major Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation who also worked on set designs for
the theatre. Aristarkh Lentulov was born in the town of Nizhny
Lomov near Penza
into the family of a rural priest. He studied art in the Penza and Kiev art schools from 1897 to 1905, and then in the private studio of Dmitry Kardovsky in Saint Petersburg in 1906. He lived in Moscow from 1909, and he
was one of the founders of the avant-garde exhibiting association of artists,
the Jack of
Diamonds group. This group remained active until its dissolution in 1916. From
1910 to 1911 Lentulov studied at the Le Fauconnier studio and the La Palette Academy in
Paris. Whilst
there, he became acquainted with contemporary French painters such as Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay and after absorbing
fauvists' and cubists' principles, developed his own unique coulorful style of
painting. Later, after his return to Russia in 1912 he became a major
influence on what to become the Russian futurism and in particular Cubo-Futurism. Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both influenced by
him. From pre-revolutionary times, Lentulov was
actively involved in various theatrical projects, designing for plays in the Kamerny Theatre (The Merry
Wives of Windsor, 1916) and contributing sets for a production of Scriabin's Prometheus in the Bolshoi Theatre in 1919. In 1928 Lentulov
entered into the Society of Moscow artists, which included artists formerly associated
with the Jack of Diamonds group. He became chairman of the Society and also
started teaching at the Russian state art and technical school (VKhUTEMAS). Lentulov died in Moscow and is buried in the Vagankovo Cemetery.
Lentulov, Aristarkh Vasil’evich
ReplyDeleteBorn Jan. 4 (16), 1882, in Nizhnee Lomovo, in present-day Penza Oblast; died Apr. 15, 1943, in Moscow. Soviet painter.
Lentulov attended art schools in Penza and Kiev between 1897 and 1907 and the St. Petersburg studio of D. N. Kardovskii between 1908 and 1910. He worked in Paris at the studio of H. Le Fauconnier in 1911. One of the organizers of the Jack of Diamonds Association in 1910, Lentulov became a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia in 1926 and the Society of Moscow Artists in 1928. He was a professor at the Moscow Vkhutemas-Vkhutein (State Higher Arts and Technical Studios-Higher Art and Technical Institute) from 1919 and at the Moscow Art Institute from 1937 to 1943.
Between 1910 and 1920, Lentulov was influenced by cubism, futurism, and orphism. At the same time he sought to endow his paintings with a distinct national character, drawing upon the motifs of pre-Petrine architecture and upon the traditions of icon painting and the liubok, or inexpensive popular print (Vasilii Blazhennyi, 1913; Chimes, 1915; At Iversk Chapel, 1916—all in the Tret’iakov Gallery). Beginning in the early 1920’s, Lentulov’s painting reflected a spontaneous, realistic perception of the world. In the 1920’s and 1930’s he painted industrial landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. Permeated with a sense of the fullness of being, these works are closer to nature and to the real objects being depicted (Cracking at the Oil Refinery, 1931; Vegetables, 1933—both in the Tret’iakov Gallery). Lentulov also worked as a set designer for the staging of the play The Spanish Curate by F. Beaumont and J. Fletcher (1934, the Second Moscow Art Theater, Moscow).
January 4 is also Newton Day. It's an international day that is celebrated annualy commemorating the birth of famouse scientist Isaac Newyon.
ReplyDeleteThis day also was born Yevdokia Petrovna Rostopchina. She was one of the early Russian women poets
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