Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov (1878–1968) was a painter and graphic artist.

Life and career

He studied at

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at Bogolyubov Art School (1891–1896), then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904) and for a year in

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(1905). His early paintings were exhibited by the Mir Iskusstva group, and he was closely associated with the Russian Symbolists. He helped to organize the Crimson Rose exhibition (1904) and was a founder and leader of the Blue Rose in 1907. He taught at the Stroganov Institute (1917–18; 1945-8) and at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts (1918–37). He headed the painting section of Narkompros until 1921, but fell out of official favour with the advent of Socialist Realism. He was one of the members of the art association ‘ The Four Arts’, which existed in Moscow and Leningrad in 1924-1931. Kuznetsov's early paintings are typical of the Blue Rose group's poetic explorations of an interior, imaginative world through archetypal symbols. After 1910 he drew increasingly on folk culture, continuing to draw on the rich colours and harmonious rhythms of the Symbolists but simplifying his compositions to depict the everyday life of village communities of Kirghizstan in

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Works

File:Kuznetsov GoluboyFontan.jpg, ''Blue Fountain'', 1905 File:Kuznetsov vstepi.jpg, ''Evening on the Steppe'', 1912 File:KuznetsovNatyurmortsGravyuroy.jpg, ''Still life with a Japanese Engraving'', 1912 File:Kuznetsov EasternMotive.jpg, ''Eastern Motive'', 1913-1914 File:KuznetsovSborPlodov.jpg, Harvesting of Fruits, 1913-1914

References

* Stupples, P., ''Pavel Kuznetsov: His Life and Art'', Cambridge, 1989

References

House Museum of Pavel V. Kuznetsov
at the Artist's Studio Museum Network {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuznetsov, Pavel 1878 births 1968 deaths Painters from the Russian Empire Soviet painters Russian Orientalist painters Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni Academic staff of Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry Mir iskusstva artists