The Feodor Chaliapin Estate Museum on Novinsky Boulevard presents a book titled “Theatre and Everything Else…” by a well-known graphic artist, painter and theater designer Re-Mi (Nikolay Vasilyevich Remizov). The artist signed his works in quite a simple way, writing two notes — Re and Mi.
The book “Theater and Everything Else…” includes Re-Mi’s caricatures of famous singers, actors and figures of theater, for example, singer Nadezhda Vasilyevna Plevitskaya, Nikita Balieff — founder of the Letuchaya Mysh Theater, opera singer Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov, the great Russian bass Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, director of the Imperial Theaters Vladimir Arkadyevich Telyakovsky, stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold and others.
Remizov studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He quickly became a leading cartoonist in the Satirikon and the Novyi Satirikon magazines and grew famous for his vivid caricatures of leading people in culture and art in that era. Over a hundred caricatures and cartoon portraits by Nikolay Remizov have been published in the Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Saint Petersburg Gazette), as well as several dozens more in the illustrated supplements to the newspaper. The drawings’ enormous size rendered them particularly expressive, turning them into the focal point of the page and creating more room for creative endeavors. Remizov became the co-owner of the Noviy Satyricon together with Arkady Averchenko and the artist Alexey Radakov.
In 1917, Remizov illustrated Korney Chukovsky’s fairy-tale “The Crocodile” and for the first time presented the author as one of its characters. In 1918, the artist emigrated to France and took a job at an atelier of artistic advertising named Lubok. At the same time, he collaborated with Nikita Balieff’s Letuchaya Mysh Theater. Remizov’s works received critical acclaim from Mark Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso.
In 1922, Nikolay Remizov moved to the United States. For many years he worked as a stage painter for the Adolph Bolm and Ruth Page Ballet Company. He took commissions for murals and various design projects (covers, posters, advertising posters). In 1939, Remizov started working as a production designer in Hollywood and was involved in the making of over thirty movies.
The book “Theater and Everything Else…” includes Re-Mi’s caricatures of famous singers, actors and figures of theater, for example, singer Nadezhda Vasilyevna Plevitskaya, Nikita Balieff — founder of the Letuchaya Mysh Theater, opera singer Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov, the great Russian bass Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, director of the Imperial Theaters Vladimir Arkadyevich Telyakovsky, stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold and others.
Remizov studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He quickly became a leading cartoonist in the Satirikon and the Novyi Satirikon magazines and grew famous for his vivid caricatures of leading people in culture and art in that era. Over a hundred caricatures and cartoon portraits by Nikolay Remizov have been published in the Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Saint Petersburg Gazette), as well as several dozens more in the illustrated supplements to the newspaper. The drawings’ enormous size rendered them particularly expressive, turning them into the focal point of the page and creating more room for creative endeavors. Remizov became the co-owner of the Noviy Satyricon together with Arkady Averchenko and the artist Alexey Radakov.
In 1917, Remizov illustrated Korney Chukovsky’s fairy-tale “The Crocodile” and for the first time presented the author as one of its characters. In 1918, the artist emigrated to France and took a job at an atelier of artistic advertising named Lubok. At the same time, he collaborated with Nikita Balieff’s Letuchaya Mysh Theater. Remizov’s works received critical acclaim from Mark Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso.
In 1922, Nikolay Remizov moved to the United States. For many years he worked as a stage painter for the Adolph Bolm and Ruth Page Ballet Company. He took commissions for murals and various design projects (covers, posters, advertising posters). In 1939, Remizov started working as a production designer in Hollywood and was involved in the making of over thirty movies.
