Artist Sychkov Biography

Fedot Sychkov is an artist of the joy of a self -portrait, good afternoon dear readers! As a rule, my posts are devoted to famous artists. And today we will talk about a little -known artist whose history of life and creativity I am very interested in and hasten to share this with you. Tanya, Fedot Sychkov. Once his canvases were exhibited in Parisian salons and caused a storm of delight among admirers of painting.

Fedot Sychkov is a master of a village holiday, pink peasant women and laughing children. A member of the exhibitions at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, international exhibitions in Rome, the All-Russian Society of Russian Arts, the laureate of the 6th Awards named with Arkhip Kuindzhi, the owner of a silver medal at the international exhibition in St. Louis of the United States for the amazing sparkling works.

Thus began his career at the dawn of the troubled 20th century. Until now, no one can understand why any picture causes life -affirming joy, why, peering into the white -toothed smiles of the heroines, involuntarily begin to squint from the bright sun, feel the aroma of field grasses and the freshness of crispy snow. Everything is permeated with his simple life, some kind of incredible harmony.

Self -portrait, G. is in Mordovia an old Russian village of Kocheleevo, where the Moksha River flows, calm with a peaceful course. Fedot Vasilievich Sychkov in the year was born in this village. There were houses in the village, there was a postal station, 4 hidden plants, two oil tanks, there was a bazaar, and a fair was held on weekends. And here was an elementary school, where Fedota was accepted at the age of 8 years.

Teachers immediately noticed that the boy had outstanding painting abilities. One of the teachers, Peter Dumaev, wrote a letter to St. Petersburg to the court artist Mahay Zichi, with a request to take a talented nugget for training. But soon a disappointing answer came. A lot of money is needed for training. Fedot cannot be earned so much. After graduation, he works in an icon -painting workshop, writes frescoes in local churches.

But the main jobs are portraits of wealthy villagers from photographs. Then it was very few. And here is the very first big picture “Bookmark of the Arapovo station”. This was a happy ticket to the train to St. Petersburg to the drawing school of the imperial society to encourage artists and a ticket to the life of the future “artist of joy”. In the year, General I. Arapov, the famous industrialist and philanthropist, decided to build a railway through his estate in Mordovia.

And he decided to lay the first station next to his estate, not far from the village of Kocheleevo. The station was called Arapovo, after the revolution they renamed Kovylkino station in honor of the first commissar of the Ryazano-Ural Railway. The laying of the station was attended by high -ranking metropolitan guests. As it turned out, no one captured this event for descendants.

Arapov demanded to fix the oversight. A couple of days later, young Fedot Sychkov was brought to him, the glory of whose creative abilities was already walking throughout the district. The task was not simple - to write an event -based picture. He asked everyone who was present to pose to him. He painted important guests from photographs, and the missing plots - from teenage friends, showed the surroundings, where everything happened, and even portrayed his own portrait.

The customer himself, General Arapov, was so amazed at the picture that he immediately showed it to the director of the drawing school Evgeny Sobaneyev. He did not think and immediately enrolled the Kocheleevsky nugget to the courses. Cucumbers, G. Drawing school graduated from three years instead of six. I immediately entered the Academy of Arts. After the end of each course on the holidays, he always came to his native village.

He remained, devoted to his native Kocheleevo and his inner world was sharpened in the household genre in art. Fedot Vasilievich brightly carried through his whole life the household of ordinary people, villagers. The portrait of Lidia Nikolaevna Sychkova, the wife of the artist, G. Lidia Ankudinova, burst into his life suddenly and remained with him forever, sharing all his joys and sorrows, glory and failure.

They met in the year and the same year and got married. Lydia is the heroine of the portraits “Portrait in the Black”, “Women's Portrait”. In the capital, a captured wife with an umbrella caused firing talent to Fedot Sychkov exceptional delight. Colosseum, G. G. One of the most striking impressions of Fedot Sychkov was a trip abroad in the year. The couple of Sychkov’s money proceeded for the paintings goes to Europe, where they get acquainted with the masterpieces of world art in museums of France, Italy, Germany and Austria.

From abroad, the rags bring a whole series of his work, and continues to work actively. A difficult transition, G. for the painting “Trudny Transition” in the year Fedot Sychkov received an international incentive prize in Rome. We see two thin logs, which you need to go through without overturning the baskets into the water. There are no seriousnesss and fears of the heroes of the canvas, only crafty ridicule and bothering over each other.

Fedot Vasilievich said: "In life, there should be as much joy as possible, kindness of infinite to people."The portrait in Cherny, G. But then the revolution broke out, and Fedot Vasilievich at one moment lost everything that he had: the workshop was defeated, all his paintings disappeared. But it turned out to be worse that the work of the Kocheleevsky nugget stated to interest everyone.

The revolution leaves him with nothing. Sychkov collects his few belongings, and they returned to the village with his wife. Since no one needed paintings about the joys of the Kocheleevsky peasants, Sychkov was looking for orders for portraits of Lenin, other leaders of the revolution, and campaign posters. Skating on Shrovetide, G. However, time passed, and the artist caught the moment when it was necessary to pick up the hands again.

He began to create again, continued to write peasants. He walked around the village, made sketches of fellow villagers, made conversations with the villagers, inviting them to pose. Sychkov again found himself. Girls, G., looking at the paintings, it seems that Fedot created his plots at one point, they are so dynamic. But in order to fix this dynamics, the master had to spend a lot of energy.

But how to make the child freeze for a moment. What kind of tricks the artist did not take to force his heroes and heroines to pose at least a little. The last argument was money: adults for 5 rubles, children of 50 kopecks or sweets. In a flowering garden, G. Fedot Vasilyevich had an unusual model, who became the heroine of many of his paintings. Maybe because she radiated some extraordinary energy, and ignited the artist with this energy, forced him to echo with a special trepidation.

The name of this model Shurochka Pel, the daughter of the director of the Kocheleevsky school, originally from the Narovchatka noble family. At work. Friends, G. in the workshop of Fedot Vasilyevich stood a huge chest, which the artist himself called "magical." He is still standing in the museum. All the magic of the chest lies in its contents. All kinds of peasant outfits, dresses, sundresses, aprons, shawls are stored there.

Most of the outfits were sewn by the wife of Lydia Vasilyevna Sychkova herself. If you want to present inexhaustible vitality in the plot, a bright flavor should accompany happy smiles and good -natured squint. Grinka, G. In his native village he was accused of the fact that he is a artisan person, means a fist. All cattle were taken from him, a bird.

And he had to write to the Mordovian government, "for which there is such an attack on me ...". He was thinking of emigrating abroad, but he could not live without moksha, pink -haired women - fellow villagers, without charming peasant women and rolled -up on the whole village of childish laughter. Sychkov is an artist of one topic of Russian rural life, the joy of innocent and sincere.

From Moscow, he brought a letter from Kalinin. The message said that "that artists should not be united into collective farms, they have their own associations and partnerships." The collective farm bazaar, G. He continued to paint his wonderful paintings in which women were occupied by women, ruddy, smiling peasant women, perky, sincere.