Russian village landscapes with their sleepy charm take central place among Sergey Petrovich Tkachyov’s creative works. His paintings portray ordinary rural people and their identities. The painter created an entire series of paintings in co-authorship with his brother Alexey. Art historians called this tandem phenomenal. Alexey Petrovich’s preference for monumental depictions and complicated themes is well complemented by the keen lyricism and lively plein air language of his brother.
These painters never relinquished independent works. For example, a painting titled Crops Mowed Down is made entirely by Sergey Petrovich, a master of landscape paintings. It is possible for the viewer to observe a peaceful scene of rural life after harvesting. A haystack and a young calf are depicted on foreground, and two men are discussing something in the background. Despite a part of the sky is already clouded, this rural landscape is still illuminated by rays of the afternoon sun.
The painting’s colors are primarily shades of blue and green. The painter did not seek to create an intriguing theme, but to convey the atmosphere of a Russian village’s everyday life. He fully succeeded in depicting the beauty of a Russian field with freshly mown haystacks and feeding grounds, as well as the charm of calm and measured rural labor.
Sergey Petrovich Tkachyov was born in 1922 in the village of Chugunovka, Bryansk Oblast. He appears to be the eldest child in family, as Alexey was born three years later. The brothers spent the first years of their lives in a village, which had an impact on all of their further paintings. Later, the family moved to Bezhitsa, where the future painters started to attend the Youth Club where they mastered the nuts and bolts of their future occupation.
Sergey Petrovich enrolled at the art school, but war prevented him from finishing his studies. He volunteered for the front line and got severely wounded. He would later express his impressions of these times in paintings dedicated to history and war. The painter only managed to resume studying in 1946. This time he enrolled at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, with A.A. Plastov, who worked a lot in the rural landscape genre, as his creative curator.
The collaboration with his brother began in 1925. The Tkachyovs made paintings that are part of the Gold Collection of Soviet paintings. The painters fully succeeded in depicting the dramatic life of a post-war period country. These paintings portray ordinary people participating in rural life or war scenes. The paintings of the Tkachyov brothers are consonant with that time’s literary trends, reflected in the rural prose of Vasily Shukshin, Fyodor Abramov, and Valentin Rasputin.
These painters never relinquished independent works. For example, a painting titled Crops Mowed Down is made entirely by Sergey Petrovich, a master of landscape paintings. It is possible for the viewer to observe a peaceful scene of rural life after harvesting. A haystack and a young calf are depicted on foreground, and two men are discussing something in the background. Despite a part of the sky is already clouded, this rural landscape is still illuminated by rays of the afternoon sun.
The painting’s colors are primarily shades of blue and green. The painter did not seek to create an intriguing theme, but to convey the atmosphere of a Russian village’s everyday life. He fully succeeded in depicting the beauty of a Russian field with freshly mown haystacks and feeding grounds, as well as the charm of calm and measured rural labor.
Sergey Petrovich Tkachyov was born in 1922 in the village of Chugunovka, Bryansk Oblast. He appears to be the eldest child in family, as Alexey was born three years later. The brothers spent the first years of their lives in a village, which had an impact on all of their further paintings. Later, the family moved to Bezhitsa, where the future painters started to attend the Youth Club where they mastered the nuts and bolts of their future occupation.
Sergey Petrovich enrolled at the art school, but war prevented him from finishing his studies. He volunteered for the front line and got severely wounded. He would later express his impressions of these times in paintings dedicated to history and war. The painter only managed to resume studying in 1946. This time he enrolled at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, with A.A. Plastov, who worked a lot in the rural landscape genre, as his creative curator.
The collaboration with his brother began in 1925. The Tkachyovs made paintings that are part of the Gold Collection of Soviet paintings. The painters fully succeeded in depicting the dramatic life of a post-war period country. These paintings portray ordinary people participating in rural life or war scenes. The paintings of the Tkachyov brothers are consonant with that time’s literary trends, reflected in the rural prose of Vasily Shukshin, Fyodor Abramov, and Valentin Rasputin.
Sergey Petrovich Tkachyov was an educator and a professor, and a State Prizes laureate. Beginning in 1976, he led the Artists' Union of the RSFSR and was a member of many creative boards and councils.
