The artist Yuri Pervov painted a portrait of Tikhon Khrennikov taken from the life in 2002. He portrayed the composer against a ceremonial red background, in a black suit, in which the musician performed on stage in recent years.
A specific feature of Pervov’s paintings is a keen “officer” view of the world. For the portrait of Khrennikov, the artist chose a neutral background in order to focus on the composer’s figure — on his slightly stooped pose, wrinkles on his forehead and a lively, expressive look. The musician liked everything in the portrait, except for one detail — the position of the hands.
Pervov is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the International Federation of Artists, laureate of the Second All-Russian Festival of Folk Art and a retired colonel. As a child, he wanted to become a musician, so he attended music school and played in the orchestra. When the time came to choose a profession, he chose to be an officer in the Soviet Army and went to study at the Leningrad Air Defense Artillery College. There Pervov continued to study art: he played the accordion and visited all the museums of the Northern Capital.
After graduating from the military school, the future painter served in the cultural and educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense at the Plesetsk cosmodrome, in the House of Officers of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Moscow Region, as well as in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces.
Painting has always been Pervov’s work of love, and he received his second education at the People’s University of Arts, at the faculty of painting and drawing. Acquaintance with the famous Greek painters Yevgeny Danilevsky, Veniamin Sibirskiy and Nikolay Solomin helped him start a career in art.
Pervov created a portrait gallery of the ‘era in the faces’ and captured on canvas many Russian cultural and artistic figures. Among them are People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Mikhail Nozhkin, People’s Artist of Russia Gleb Nikolsky, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Yevgeny Shapin, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Danilevsky. The painter’s favorite genres are ‘civil’ portrait and still life.
Art critics noted that both still lifes and portraits of Pervov are characterized by an extraordinary spiritual organicity — one wants to slow down at his works, look at the details more carefully and warm own soul.
A specific feature of Pervov’s paintings is a keen “officer” view of the world. For the portrait of Khrennikov, the artist chose a neutral background in order to focus on the composer’s figure — on his slightly stooped pose, wrinkles on his forehead and a lively, expressive look. The musician liked everything in the portrait, except for one detail — the position of the hands.
Pervov is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the International Federation of Artists, laureate of the Second All-Russian Festival of Folk Art and a retired colonel. As a child, he wanted to become a musician, so he attended music school and played in the orchestra. When the time came to choose a profession, he chose to be an officer in the Soviet Army and went to study at the Leningrad Air Defense Artillery College. There Pervov continued to study art: he played the accordion and visited all the museums of the Northern Capital.
After graduating from the military school, the future painter served in the cultural and educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense at the Plesetsk cosmodrome, in the House of Officers of the Strategic Missile Forces in the Moscow Region, as well as in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces.
Painting has always been Pervov’s work of love, and he received his second education at the People’s University of Arts, at the faculty of painting and drawing. Acquaintance with the famous Greek painters Yevgeny Danilevsky, Veniamin Sibirskiy and Nikolay Solomin helped him start a career in art.
Pervov created a portrait gallery of the ‘era in the faces’ and captured on canvas many Russian cultural and artistic figures. Among them are People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Mikhail Nozhkin, People’s Artist of Russia Gleb Nikolsky, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Yevgeny Shapin, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Danilevsky. The painter’s favorite genres are ‘civil’ portrait and still life.
Art critics noted that both still lifes and portraits of Pervov are characterized by an extraordinary spiritual organicity — one wants to slow down at his works, look at the details more carefully and warm own soul.
