Viacheslav Pakulin v poiskakh stilia epokhi (Viacheslav Pakulin in search of the style of the period), 9785933327073
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2021. Sewn cl. The artist that is the focus of this Russian Museum exhibition catalogue came to St. Petersburg/Petrograd on the eve of the 1917 revolution. On and off for the next decade he trained with artists of different styles, major figures of Russian modernism such as Kazimir Malevich and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and studied set and costume design with the great theater director Meierkhold. Beginning at the tsarist-era Shtiglitz Central Institute of Technical Drawing and finishing his art education at one of the laboratories of the avant-garde GINKHUK (State Institute of Artistic Culture) Pakulin had the opportunity to acquaint himself with many theories, forms and styles. He settled on a style of his own, basically representational but innovative at the same time. His subjects are often ones sanctioned by Soviet government (e.g., steel production, shock workers in a factory, peasants in the field) but his style remained experimental and was condemned as "formalist." By the late 1940s he lost any chance to exhibit and died in 1951 obscure and indigent. Published here from the Russian Museum and private collections are paintings, drawings, designs for posters and book covers, and sketches for theater productions. His paintings done of Leningrad during the blockade are the opposite of melodramatic merely hinting at what the city was going through. 144 p., 32 cm, approx. 200 color and b/w illus., Rus. Item #4140
ISBN: 9785933327073
Price: $92.00