Nikolay Mikhailovich Morozov was a painter and a graphic artist.
He was born on May 23, 1929 in the village of Krivorozhye. In 1950, he graduated from the Donetsk College of Architecture and Art, in 1955 the painter completed an art program at the Pacific Navy artistic workshop in Vladivostok.
Morozov came to the Arctic in the late 1950s after he had left his service in the Pacific Navy. From 1957 to 1959, he worked as an artist in Apatity, since 1959 — in Murmansk.
Morozov became an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995. He was also the laureate of the Murmansk Region Administration Prize for achievements in the field of professional skills.
Nikolay Morozov’s artworks are housed in the Murmansk Regional Art Museum, the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Directorate of Exhibitions of the Art Fund of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Nikolay Morozov is primarily known as a landscape painter. The artist challenged the popular stereotype about northern restraint and dim colors. He developed a type of watercolor painting on the Sami theme — usually it was a lake among the hills and a group of the Sami people in national costumes. Nikolay Morozov created a large cycle of paintings under a working title called “Sami Beauties”.
Apart from landscape painting, Nikolay Morozov was engaged in portraiture for many years — this side of his work was less known, but equally interesting. The artist depicted sailors and fishermen, doctors and geologists, Pomors and reindeer herders, builders and miners.
Morozov’s works are characterized by an expressive, dynamic manner of painting: bold colors, contrasts that were sharp at times, and the inner energy of the paintings. Over the years, the artist’s style underwent changes: the painter transferred from naturalistic sketches to complex images and generalized solutions.
Nikolay Mikhailovich Morozov provided a considerable input into the development of fine arts in the Murmansk region: he helped found the regional organization of the Union of Artists. A convinced northerner, he expressed his love for the region and its people in his paintings. His image of the region was the sea and hills, the earth and sky, rapids rivers and lakes, as well as people.
In the painting “Old Quays” Morozov depicted the quays of the Murmansk commercial port with the pier, ships and buildings on the coast.
He was born on May 23, 1929 in the village of Krivorozhye. In 1950, he graduated from the Donetsk College of Architecture and Art, in 1955 the painter completed an art program at the Pacific Navy artistic workshop in Vladivostok.
Morozov came to the Arctic in the late 1950s after he had left his service in the Pacific Navy. From 1957 to 1959, he worked as an artist in Apatity, since 1959 — in Murmansk.
Morozov became an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995. He was also the laureate of the Murmansk Region Administration Prize for achievements in the field of professional skills.
Nikolay Morozov’s artworks are housed in the Murmansk Regional Art Museum, the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Directorate of Exhibitions of the Art Fund of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Nikolay Morozov is primarily known as a landscape painter. The artist challenged the popular stereotype about northern restraint and dim colors. He developed a type of watercolor painting on the Sami theme — usually it was a lake among the hills and a group of the Sami people in national costumes. Nikolay Morozov created a large cycle of paintings under a working title called “Sami Beauties”.
Apart from landscape painting, Nikolay Morozov was engaged in portraiture for many years — this side of his work was less known, but equally interesting. The artist depicted sailors and fishermen, doctors and geologists, Pomors and reindeer herders, builders and miners.
Morozov’s works are characterized by an expressive, dynamic manner of painting: bold colors, contrasts that were sharp at times, and the inner energy of the paintings. Over the years, the artist’s style underwent changes: the painter transferred from naturalistic sketches to complex images and generalized solutions.
Nikolay Mikhailovich Morozov provided a considerable input into the development of fine arts in the Murmansk region: he helped found the regional organization of the Union of Artists. A convinced northerner, he expressed his love for the region and its people in his paintings. His image of the region was the sea and hills, the earth and sky, rapids rivers and lakes, as well as people.
In the painting “Old Quays” Morozov depicted the quays of the Murmansk commercial port with the pier, ships and buildings on the coast.
