Glazunova artist biography
Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov is the greatest artist of our time, whose work is widely known and loved not only in Russia, but also beyond its borders.
The scale of his creative intentions and the very time in which he lived allows us to talk about the artist’s special mission in Russian culture of the XX -XXI centuries. He devoted his whole life to the struggle for the historical memory and preservation of the cultural heritage of Russia. He had the gift of not only masterfully reflect in the pictures and analyze historical stories, but also to foresee the spirit of the coming time, and in this light the scale of his personality acquires truly biblical features.
He was a man of incredible, powerful, unbending will and spiritual power, who knew how to set himself tasks and achieve them. Such an incredible creative idea, innovation and the beauty of the embodiment of historical events into the visible image is imbued with his historical paintings. He was the first who, in Soviet times, discovered many pages of long time that has awakened love and interest in their own history and national culture of Russia in people.
The whole creative biography of Ilya Glazunov is closely connected with the knowledge of Russian classical literature. His illustrations are a kind of encyclopedia of Russian life, a poetic embodiment of the design of writers and poets, a deep individual reading of literary images that have become a classic of Russian art. In the field of graphic art of the portrait, Ilya Glazunov reached the high expressiveness of the drawing.
Based on the idea of the image, he often used different graphic techniques: the energetic stroke of the sauce, the air weightlessness of the pastel or the delicate lightness of the pattern. By means of graphics, the artist convey to the viewer the feelings, thoughts and experiences of the portrait, reveals his attitude and understanding of the image. A brilliant painter and a graph, which worked in many genres, Ilya Glazunov made a significant contribution to domestic scenography, created and implemented architectural projects.
His talent, amazing creative and compositional finds, virtuoso complex compositions, the special style of his works made the art of Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov so special and unique. Considering works of different years, each viewer understands how wide the range of his interests is, what a variety of manners of the work. The artist’s creative heritage is a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian art.
Ilya Glazunov is a classic and an innovator, and therefore he is always modern and always interesting. Moscow "Gallery of Ilya Glazunov" Russia, Moscow, st. Volkhonka, 13, postal index all rights are preserved.