Gymnasts of the USSR

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The artist is Zhilinsky

The creative aspirations of the artist were most manifested in the genre of the portrait and its varieties of portrait-hearth. One of the features of the art of Zhilinsky is that it reveals in the particular not momentary, and most importantly, stable, determining personality of a person. Zhilinsky gravitates to the images of clear, collected, intellectual, relying in the creation of them on the art of old masters, primarily the early Italian Renaissance and Old Russian painting. Open circulation to this heritage in the creation of modern images is perceived as a program. “In art, I love the accuracy of expression, the completeness of the form, in my understanding …” The works of Zhilinsky are beautiful by the decorativeness of pure color tones, the melody of lines, plastic silhouettes, and the harmonion of the composition. The technique of his letter is not quite common. The artist often writes a tempor to Levkas, which gives increased coloristic sonicity to works. “SCS gymnasts” – in essence, a group portrait of famous Soviet athletes who won the team and in the individual standings first places at the Olympiads, the world championships and European. Among them – in the back of Polina Grigoryevna Astakhova (genus. 1956), three -time Olympic and two -time world champion, Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin (genus. 1932, "Iron Shahlin", as it was called by athletes and spectators for sports courage and will to win), three -time Olympic and two -time world champion, Yuri Evlampyevich Titov (clan. 1935), Olympic champion and absolute world champion, later the President of the International Federation of Gymnastics. There is a kind of individual setting of thoughts, will, feelings. This can be seen in faces, significantly in the expressiveness of gestures. The clarity and clarity of the composition, the severity of angles, the purity of color, like the characters, are psychological in their own way. (AND. D.). Russian portrait. XX century: St. Petersburg, 2001. With. 297.

Among the depicted: Astakhova Polina Grigoryevna (three -time Olympic and two -time world champion) and Shakhlin Boris Anfiyanovich (three -time Olympic and two -time world champion). Russian portrait. XX century: St. Petersburg, 2001. With. 297.

Dmitry Zhilinsky’s “Gymnasts” is a picture of a portrait, where a kind of individual setting of thought, will, feelings occur. This can be seen in faces, significantly in the expressiveness of gestures. The clarity and clarity of the composition, the severity of angles, the purity of color are psychological. Among the depicted are genuine sports heroes. Among them: in the back of Polina Astakhova, a three -time Olympic and two -time world champion; Boris Shakhlin, Iron Shahlin, as athletes and spectators called him for courage and will to win, three -time Olympic and two -time world champion; Yuri Titov, Olympic champion and absolute world champion, later the President of the International Gymnastics Federation. The work is characterized by an increased interest in the expression of the individuality of everyone, which is fully consistent with the spirit of the time of the mid-1960s.

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