Valentin Mordovin created Portrait of the First Chechen Woman-Pilot Lyalya Nasukhanova in 1964-1965. The picture was made by oil on canvas.
The artist painted the figure of a winged young woman. The woman-pilot is as if froze for a moment before the rapid movement. All the details of picture obey her gust. A trail of jet aeroplane is visible in the sky — the aircraft took off despite low thunderstorm clouds. Poplars behind woman actively resist the wind.
The heroine is depicted in backlight — it is so called lighting in painting and photography, when a light source is located behind the hero. The contour of figure is well legible in backlight — it is as if illuminated by a bright sun. Strong light reflexes are visible on the woman’s dress and face.
The portrait is similar in painting style to Austere style. This style was popular in Soviet painting 1960s — 1980s. Artists depicted people of the most difficult professions — miners, oil industry workers, pitmen. In paintings workers were presented with work-worn arms, often with exhausted faces. Many researchers oppose Austere style to socialist realism. Socialist realism embellished reality and austere style artists began to emphasize the truth of life without embellishment. They heroised workers’ will, their hard daily work.
Lyalya Nasukhanova is the first Chechen woman-pilot and woman-paratrooper. She had given 23 years of life to aviation. Poets often dedicated poems to her. For example, national poetess of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Raisa Akhmatova wrote her following lines: ‘Since Lyalya was called to the stars by nature, The path showed the eagle’s soaring to the heights, She went. The hard way had been passed — Such was her breed! ’. Also, poet Adiz Kusaev dedicated poetry to her and poet Ivan Mintyak created poem Earthly Sky.
Mordovin Valentin was a famous portrait and landscape painter. In the Soviet period, he was considered the leading the North Caucasus painter. The master was writing portraits of famous figures of science, industry and culture. The series Rural Communist, People of the North, Workers of the Caucasus belonged to his brush.
The canvas arrived at National Museum of the Chechen Republic in August 2015. The museum received a donation of it from Manyak Nikolai Ivanovich — the President Vsestileva of Federation of Taekwon-Do Russia.
The artist painted the figure of a winged young woman. The woman-pilot is as if froze for a moment before the rapid movement. All the details of picture obey her gust. A trail of jet aeroplane is visible in the sky — the aircraft took off despite low thunderstorm clouds. Poplars behind woman actively resist the wind.
The heroine is depicted in backlight — it is so called lighting in painting and photography, when a light source is located behind the hero. The contour of figure is well legible in backlight — it is as if illuminated by a bright sun. Strong light reflexes are visible on the woman’s dress and face.
The portrait is similar in painting style to Austere style. This style was popular in Soviet painting 1960s — 1980s. Artists depicted people of the most difficult professions — miners, oil industry workers, pitmen. In paintings workers were presented with work-worn arms, often with exhausted faces. Many researchers oppose Austere style to socialist realism. Socialist realism embellished reality and austere style artists began to emphasize the truth of life without embellishment. They heroised workers’ will, their hard daily work.
Lyalya Nasukhanova is the first Chechen woman-pilot and woman-paratrooper. She had given 23 years of life to aviation. Poets often dedicated poems to her. For example, national poetess of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Raisa Akhmatova wrote her following lines: ‘Since Lyalya was called to the stars by nature, The path showed the eagle’s soaring to the heights, She went. The hard way had been passed — Such was her breed! ’. Also, poet Adiz Kusaev dedicated poetry to her and poet Ivan Mintyak created poem Earthly Sky.
Mordovin Valentin was a famous portrait and landscape painter. In the Soviet period, he was considered the leading the North Caucasus painter. The master was writing portraits of famous figures of science, industry and culture. The series Rural Communist, People of the North, Workers of the Caucasus belonged to his brush.
The canvas arrived at National Museum of the Chechen Republic in August 2015. The museum received a donation of it from Manyak Nikolai Ivanovich — the President Vsestileva of Federation of Taekwon-Do Russia.
