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Street Singer

Helii Korzhev

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Basic information
ID
Ж-4046
Author
Helii Korzhev
Name
Street Singer
Date of creation
1962
Country
the USSR
Culture
Contemporary times
Technique
oil painting
Material
canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
200 x 150
Additionally
Type
painting
Genre
genre art
Provenance
Received from the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of Ukraine, 1966
Information about author
Author
Helii Korzhev
Artist's lifetime
1925–2012
Country
the USSR, russia
Biography
Helii Korzhev (7 July 1925, Moscow – 27 August 2012, Moscow) was a Soviet painter and teacher, academic of the USSR Academy of Arts, People's Artist of the USSR, and a representative of the "Severe Style". He was born into the family of the architect Mykhailo Korzhev. He studied at the Middle Moscow Art School, founded on the initiative of I. Grabar. He continued his studies at the Moscow Surikov Art Institute (1944–1950) in the studio of S. Herasimov. He taught at the Moscow Higher School of Art and Industry, named after S. Strohanov. Close-ups, expressive composition, restrained colours, and reflection of dramatic moments of life characterise the artist's works. In the 1990s, H. Korzhev turned to the figurative and plastic experience of surrealism in a series of highly social works and biblical themes.
Object description
The painting "Street Singer" or "Blind Singer" (1962) belongs to a series of images of "superfluous people", people of social fringes, created based on the impressions of the artist's trips abroad. The means of making a dramatic artistic image are close-ups, expressiveness, laconicism of plastic expression and restrained grey-white-carmine colouring, characteristic of the "Severe Style". The mental and social hopelessness is visualised by the "compressed" inner space of the picture, limited by the wall and the outer border of the picture plane. The shiny glasses of the dark eyeglasses emphasise the separation of the street singer from society and the world.
Inscriptions
In the lower right corner: "Korzhev / 1962".
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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