In the painting “Sea, Sun, Wind”, which is housed in the Volzhsky Art Gallery, artist Anatoly Yakushin depicted a hot sunny day on the seashore.
This work is not a landscape but its fragment magnified many times over. The view is partially blocked by a pattern of branches and dense dark green crowns. The bright daytime sun shines on the water surface. In the middle plane, a girl leans against a trunk and looks at the water, just as the viewer, who stands higher up on the slope.
To depict a hot summer day on the sea, Yakushin used a variety of colors, paints, and textures in order to unite the crowns, blue water, and dried earth, painted with free strokes, into the single landscape.
Anatoly Yakushin is known as a graphic and poster artist, painter, and teacher. He was born in Moscow in 1944. In 1962, he finished the Moscow Secondary Art School at the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, and in 1971, he graduated from the Institute. He studied in the poster workshop with graphic artists Nikolay Ponomaryov, Oleg Savostyuk, and Boris Uspensky.
Yakushin began his career as a poster artist, a master of applied printmaking. Then he worked in easel graphics and painting. Yakushin’s name is associated with the heyday of the easel graphics workshop of the Surikov Institute in the 1970s–1990s.
Easel painting and graphics are works that are inherently valuable and can be considered independent of the environment. Unlike monumental and decorative paintings, easel paintings are made on a portable and non-utilitarian base — canvas, cardboard, board, paper. The artist works at an easel and often separates their painting from the environment with a wooden frame or mat.
An easel graphic artwork is also independent: it is not connected with literary works, like book illustrations, has no practical purpose, and is not integrated into the street, like, for example, a poster. The main types of such graphic works are easel drawing and art print (estampe).
In 1995, Anatoly Yakushin was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and since 2012, he has become an associate member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Yakushin’s posters are housed in the Russian State Library, his autolithographs — in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
This work is not a landscape but its fragment magnified many times over. The view is partially blocked by a pattern of branches and dense dark green crowns. The bright daytime sun shines on the water surface. In the middle plane, a girl leans against a trunk and looks at the water, just as the viewer, who stands higher up on the slope.
To depict a hot summer day on the sea, Yakushin used a variety of colors, paints, and textures in order to unite the crowns, blue water, and dried earth, painted with free strokes, into the single landscape.
Anatoly Yakushin is known as a graphic and poster artist, painter, and teacher. He was born in Moscow in 1944. In 1962, he finished the Moscow Secondary Art School at the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, and in 1971, he graduated from the Institute. He studied in the poster workshop with graphic artists Nikolay Ponomaryov, Oleg Savostyuk, and Boris Uspensky.
Yakushin began his career as a poster artist, a master of applied printmaking. Then he worked in easel graphics and painting. Yakushin’s name is associated with the heyday of the easel graphics workshop of the Surikov Institute in the 1970s–1990s.
Easel painting and graphics are works that are inherently valuable and can be considered independent of the environment. Unlike monumental and decorative paintings, easel paintings are made on a portable and non-utilitarian base — canvas, cardboard, board, paper. The artist works at an easel and often separates their painting from the environment with a wooden frame or mat.
An easel graphic artwork is also independent: it is not connected with literary works, like book illustrations, has no practical purpose, and is not integrated into the street, like, for example, a poster. The main types of such graphic works are easel drawing and art print (estampe).
In 1995, Anatoly Yakushin was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and since 2012, he has become an associate member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Yakushin’s posters are housed in the Russian State Library, his autolithographs — in the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
