And the Laction biography

His father worked as a blacksmith in a factory and on the railway, his mother was a laundress. In gg. His works, created during the years of study, "Sadovaya Street in winter", "Broof on onions", were awarded the prize at the exhibition of young artists of the North Caucasus. After graduating from school, Laktionov was going to continue education in Moscow, but a working experience was required for admission.

For some time he worked in Rostov-on-Don as a mason, a malarus, was a drawing. In the city in the capital, novice artists were represented by a famous painter, teacher Mikhail Nesterov, as well as a restaretor artist Igor Grabar. Having completed the creative task of Nesterov, Laction with friends received a letter of recommendation for entering the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Lizh's Architecture; Now the St.

Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculptures and Architecture named after Repin under the Russian Academy of Arts. Yudin in the Komsomol residents of Komsomol members. "He continued his studies in graduate school with Igor Grabar - during the Great Patriotic War he was together with the institute in evacuation in Uzbekistan, in Samarkand - he painted his most famous picture -" Letter from the Front "in the same year, the canvas was exhibited at the All -Union Art Exhibition.

For this work, the artist was awarded the Stalin Prize of the 1st degree the success of the canvas was due to the vitality of the plot and a realistic interpretation of images in combination with a picturesque transmission of the texture and bright colors of the sun. Subsequently, the reproductions of this picture were included in the textbooks of painting and school ackhelm.

Currently, the work of Alexander Laktionov is stored in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. From the Moscow State Contracting Pedagogical Institute, the Moscow State State University of Humanitarian University is now M. Alexander Laktionov - a master of academic drawing, worked in the genre of socialist realism. He mainly wrote portraits and genre scenes, but among his works there are also landscapes, still lifes and graphics.

The technique of screening was perfectly owned by obtaining deep colors by applying translucent colors on top of the main color. Art historians noted the skill of the painter in the transfer of sunlight. However, many critics reproached the artist for the absence of psychological expressiveness and depth, as well as in excessive details of images and objects, which, in their opinion, deprived the integrity of the general perception of the paintings of the painter.

The author of the thematic paintings “Defender of the Motherland”, “In the summer”, “In a new apartment”, “Haging”, “Pioneer truth” both - after the operation, “visiting grandchildren”, landscapes and still lifes “Uzkoye”, “The tops of the trees. Abramtsevo”, “February”, “Silence”, and others created the gallery of portraits of Soviet military and state figures, Representatives of the culture and science of scientists Alexander Bogomoltz, Ivan Bardin, Igor Kurchatov, architect Alexei Dushkin, surgeon Alexander Vishnevsky, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and others created a group portrait of the stage of the All-Russian Theater Society named after Yablochkina "wealthy old age" - in the x.

After the approval of Khrushchev’s work, the portrait was officially replicated. Alexander Laktionov wrote a portrait of a cosmonaut pilot Vladimir Komarov. For this work, as well as for portraits of heroes of socialist labor, F. Petrov and P. Repin, Alexander Laktionov, died on March 15 G. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery of the capital.

The only personal exhibition of the artist was organized only ten years after his death; Moscow, Academy of Arts of the USSR. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in Moscow, on the street. Tverskaya, the village in the family of Alexander and Olga Laktionovs were seven children. One of the daughters - Maria - became an artist, graduating from the Moscow State Institute.