There is great charm and grace in the portrayal of the plump, fair-haired woman seated on a chest. The bold combinations of bright colours lend it a decorativeness not unlike that of popular prints of the time.Kustodiev was also attracted by the theme of gay village festivals and merrymaking, with their brightness, spontaneity and coarse folk humour: cf. Kustodiev worked enthusiastically on the image of the great leader of the Revolution: he painted several portraits of Lenin intended for mass reproduction.Kustodiev’s sudden death on 26 May 1927 was a great loss to Soviet art, but his bright, optimistic works live on, a source of great pleasure for millions. ‘He is a talented artist and a thoughtful and serious man with a deep love of art; he is making a careful study of nature . . He wrote, ‘Now my whole world is my room.’Kustodiev was one of the first artists to welcome the Revolution.
. He wrote, ‘I do not know if I have been successful in expressing what I wanted to in my works: love of life, happiness and cheerfulness, love of things Russian—this was the only “subject” of my paintings . Soldiers fire on the demonstrators, and Death reigns over all. In his painting, Kustodiev uses American folklore to criticize the United States’ involvement and for commentary on the Bolshevik leadership during the Russian Revolution. His sculptured portraits are also varied in form and characterisation. During his trip he painted one of his most lyrical paintings, Morning (1904, RUSSIANMUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG), which is suffused with light and air, and may be seen as a hymn to motherhood, to simple human joys. Find more prominent pieces of allegorical painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. The Small Town (1915, private collection, Moscow) and Easter Congratulations (1916, KustodievArtGallery, Astrakhan). These included the artist Bilibin (1901, RUSSIANMUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG), Moldovtsev (1901, KrasnodarRegionalArt Museum) and the engraver Mate (1902, RUSSIANMUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG). The radiant yellows, pinks and blues of the background land scape set off the reddish-brown tone of her dress and her flowery shawl, and everything mingles together in her bright, colourful bouquet.Another of Kustodiev’s characters, in The Beauty, cannot fail to attract the viewer. The picture is full of witty, pointed details.The inhabitants and life of provincial towns were the main subjects of Kustodiev’s genre-painting at this time. It was here that the boy’s first impressions were formed of the way of life of the provincial merchant class. Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian and Soviet painter and stage designer. Bolshevik is one of artworks by Boris Kustodiev. He was very fond of folk art—painted toys from Vyatka and popular prints—and studied folk tales, legends and superstitions. .’The artist’s life and work are inseparably linked with the Volga and the wide open countryside of the area, where Kustodiev spent his childhood and youth. Graduating from a theological seminary in 1896, Kustodiev went to St. Petersburg and entered the Academy of Arts. These paintings were very popular at exhibitions both in Russia and abroad.In 1909 Kustodiev was awarded the title of Academician of Art. His talent in this sphere was especially apparent in his work for Ostrovsky’s plays: It’s a Family Affair, A Stroke of Luck, Wolves and Sheep and The Storm. Together with his teacher, the young artist made portrait studies for the painting, and then executed the right-hand side of the final work. He did work for the satirical journals Bugbear and Infernal Post, drawing vicious caricatures of prominent tsarist officials such as Ignatiev, Pobedonostsev and Dubasov. His Portrait of a Priest and a Deacon (1907, GorkyArt Museum) and The Nun (1908, RUSSIANMUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG) are complex and vivid in their characterisation. Although the scene portrayed is commonplace and seemingly haphazard, much thought and care was put into the composition of the piece. The colourful scenes at bazaars along the Volga, the quiet provincial side-streets and the noisy quays made a lasting impression on the artist, and he drew on these impressions for his diploma work, Village Bazaar (not preserved). He first started work in the theatre in 1911, when he designed the sets for Alexander Ostrovsky's His talent in this sphere was especially apparent in his work for Ostrovsky's plays; (Kustodiev) The Bolshevik, painting by Boris Kustodiev About Khustodiev Russia in the 1920's cartooning (Kustodiev Russianpaintingsgallery.net) "poignant caricatures and theatrical art" (Kustodiev Russianpaintingsgallery.net) strives to portray everyday life (Kustodiev