The artist Vladimir Sudavny was born in Yaroslavl in 1952. First, he received his technical education at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Yelets Pedagogical Institute and at the Voronezh Polytechnic Institute. At 35, the painter graduated from the department of easel painting and graphics at the Moscow Correspondence People’s University named after Krupskaya.
Sudavny taught physics, mathematics, drawing, drafting at schools, did a lot of design work, since 1987 he worked as a design engineer and industrial equipment designer.
The artist’s favorite genres are portrait and landscape. Especially often he depicts panoramas of Yelets — in his paintings the town looks like a fabulous place where time seems to have stood still. At the same time, residents of the Yeletsk region can easily recognize the streets and individual houses in his works.
The artist painted ‘A winter day’ in 1998. The Yelets town administration presented the work to Tikhon Khrennikov on his 85th anniversary as a sign of respect and as a reminder of his small homeland. The composer often came to his hometown and loved to repeat: ‘Everything that is in me, all my activity, my life in itself are from here, from Yelets’.
On the canvas Sudavny depicted a winter snowy town that is transfused with the sunlight. The abundance of white color created the feeling of a fresh frosty day. In the foreground is the Bystraya Sosna River, to which Khrennikov went with his older brothers for watching fistfights in his childhood, and for which he sang his songs. The banks of the river are one of the favorite places for walks of the townspeople — the artist emphasized this feature with the help of footprints in the snow and ski tracks along the riverside.
In the center of the composition you can see an ice-free ice hole — a place with the fastest current of the river. On the hill, the artist placed Yelets' symbol — the Ascension Cathedral with blue domes. To the right of it is the Vvedenskaya Church. Sudavny contrasted the roofs of temples with golden spires against the winter blue sky with rare clouds.
The Ascension Cathedral was built in 1889 on the site of a small cathedral church. The architect Konstantin Ton used elements specific for the Russian-Byzantine style: columns, chamomile-shaped architraves and other decorative elements. The construction of the Vvedenskaya Church dates back to the middle of the 18th century. To this day, the temples are the architectural dominant of the city landscape.
Sudavny taught physics, mathematics, drawing, drafting at schools, did a lot of design work, since 1987 he worked as a design engineer and industrial equipment designer.
The artist’s favorite genres are portrait and landscape. Especially often he depicts panoramas of Yelets — in his paintings the town looks like a fabulous place where time seems to have stood still. At the same time, residents of the Yeletsk region can easily recognize the streets and individual houses in his works.
The artist painted ‘A winter day’ in 1998. The Yelets town administration presented the work to Tikhon Khrennikov on his 85th anniversary as a sign of respect and as a reminder of his small homeland. The composer often came to his hometown and loved to repeat: ‘Everything that is in me, all my activity, my life in itself are from here, from Yelets’.
On the canvas Sudavny depicted a winter snowy town that is transfused with the sunlight. The abundance of white color created the feeling of a fresh frosty day. In the foreground is the Bystraya Sosna River, to which Khrennikov went with his older brothers for watching fistfights in his childhood, and for which he sang his songs. The banks of the river are one of the favorite places for walks of the townspeople — the artist emphasized this feature with the help of footprints in the snow and ski tracks along the riverside.
In the center of the composition you can see an ice-free ice hole — a place with the fastest current of the river. On the hill, the artist placed Yelets' symbol — the Ascension Cathedral with blue domes. To the right of it is the Vvedenskaya Church. Sudavny contrasted the roofs of temples with golden spires against the winter blue sky with rare clouds.
The Ascension Cathedral was built in 1889 on the site of a small cathedral church. The architect Konstantin Ton used elements specific for the Russian-Byzantine style: columns, chamomile-shaped architraves and other decorative elements. The construction of the Vvedenskaya Church dates back to the middle of the 18th century. To this day, the temples are the architectural dominant of the city landscape.
