Alexander Ilyich Kopachev is a Russian painter, the author of striking portraiture, still life and history paintings. Despite this, landscape paintings have always been the linchpin of his creations. The subjects of his paintings are plain and simple, but are also filled with keen lyrism. The painter portrays fields, meadows, woodsides, villages and roads: everything that a man treats as his homeland’s image.
The painter was born on 11 September 1921 in Moscow. Alexander Ilyich was fond of painting since childhood, which is why he went onto further study to Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905 after finishing school. The war begun during Kopachev’s student years. The young painter already went to the front in June 1941. He finished an aerotechnical school in Serpukhov, fighting in the 863rd Fighter Wing after that.
Alexander Kopachev walked the hard paths of war from Moscow to Eastern Prussia. The impressions from the front were later reflected in the artist’s paintings. After coming back from war, he finished his studies and enrolled in the V.I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute in 1948.
After finishing his studies, the young painter moved to Novomoskovsk, where he started working at decoration workshop. During that time, the city already had its local artistic union that produced many acknowledged masters of their craft. The rest of Alexander Kopachev’s painting career is closely associated with the city of Novomoskovsk.
The painting called May morning is related to the favorite genre of the painter, which is landscape painting. It portrays sparse wood, illuminated by still dimmish sun rays. The trees just start to wake up after the cold winter, their crowns shrouded in a greenish blur of leaves starting to grow.
It is possible to see the plowed black rural field over the treeline in the background, ready to grow the new harvest. There also are blurry rural houses over the field. It’s interesting to observe the painter’s work on the atmosphere. The pastel blue sky with occasional white clouds can be seen behind the treetops. The land is full of falled leaves from the last year. The green grass, thirsty for the spring warmth, is shooting through this brownish coloring.
The artist declines to elaborate the details in favor of depicting the general mood of a painting by sweeping and somewhat blurry brushstrokes. Despite this, there is a volume in tree trunks, and it is possible to see the ridges of their bark. The painter depicts the lighting masterfully: the sun rays shoot through trees, creating intermittent shadows on a ground.
Alexander Kopachev’s personal exhibitions took place in 1996 in Novomoskovsk and in 2001 in Uzlovaya. The majority of this painter’s works is in the Uzlovsky Museum of Fine Arts and Local History.
The painter was born on 11 September 1921 in Moscow. Alexander Ilyich was fond of painting since childhood, which is why he went onto further study to Moscow Art School in Memory of 1905 after finishing school. The war begun during Kopachev’s student years. The young painter already went to the front in June 1941. He finished an aerotechnical school in Serpukhov, fighting in the 863rd Fighter Wing after that.
Alexander Kopachev walked the hard paths of war from Moscow to Eastern Prussia. The impressions from the front were later reflected in the artist’s paintings. After coming back from war, he finished his studies and enrolled in the V.I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute in 1948.
After finishing his studies, the young painter moved to Novomoskovsk, where he started working at decoration workshop. During that time, the city already had its local artistic union that produced many acknowledged masters of their craft. The rest of Alexander Kopachev’s painting career is closely associated with the city of Novomoskovsk.
The painting called May morning is related to the favorite genre of the painter, which is landscape painting. It portrays sparse wood, illuminated by still dimmish sun rays. The trees just start to wake up after the cold winter, their crowns shrouded in a greenish blur of leaves starting to grow.
It is possible to see the plowed black rural field over the treeline in the background, ready to grow the new harvest. There also are blurry rural houses over the field. It’s interesting to observe the painter’s work on the atmosphere. The pastel blue sky with occasional white clouds can be seen behind the treetops. The land is full of falled leaves from the last year. The green grass, thirsty for the spring warmth, is shooting through this brownish coloring.
The artist declines to elaborate the details in favor of depicting the general mood of a painting by sweeping and somewhat blurry brushstrokes. Despite this, there is a volume in tree trunks, and it is possible to see the ridges of their bark. The painter depicts the lighting masterfully: the sun rays shoot through trees, creating intermittent shadows on a ground.
Alexander Kopachev’s personal exhibitions took place in 1996 in Novomoskovsk and in 2001 in Uzlovaya. The majority of this painter’s works is in the Uzlovsky Museum of Fine Arts and Local History.
