What's the use of a book, thought Alice.
- if there are no pictures or conversations in it?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Surprisingly, children's illustrations in Russia (USSR)
There is an exact year of birth - 1925. This year
a children's literature department was created in Leningradsky
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations were not published specifically for children.
Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have remained in our memory since childhood and are liked by our children?
Find out, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using stories from parents of current children and reviews of books on online bookstore websites.
Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev(1903-1993, Moscow) - children's writer, illustrator and animator. His kind funny pictures look like scenes from a cartoon. Suteev’s drawings turned many fairy tales into masterpieces.
For example, not all parents consider the works of Korney Chukovsky to be necessary classics, and most of them does not consider his works talented. But I want to hold Chukovsky’s fairy tales, illustrated by Vladimir Suteev, in my hands and read them to children.
Boris Aleksandrovich Dekhterev(1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) - folk artist, Soviet chart (it is believed that the “Dekhterev School” determined the development book graphics countries), illustrator. Worked primarily in technology pencil drawing and watercolors. Dekhterev’s good old illustrations are a whole era in the history of children’s illustration; many illustrators call Boris Alexandrovich their teacher.
Dekhterev illustrated children's fairy tales by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen. As well as works of other Russian writers and world classics, for example, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, William Shakespeare.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Ustinov(b. 1937, Moscow), his teacher was Dekhterev, and many modern illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.
Nikolai Ustinov - people's artist, illustrator. Fairy tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Illustrated almost three hundred works famous artist for publishing houses: “Children’s Literature”, “Malysh”, “Artist of the RSFSR”, publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. Worked in the magazine Murzilka.
Ustinov’s illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most beloved for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Little Fox Sister, The Frog Princess, Geese and Swans and many others.
Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973, Vyatka, Leningrad) - people's artist and illustrator. All kids like his pictures for folk songs, nursery rhymes and jokes (Ladushki, Rainbow-arc). He illustrated folk tales, tales of Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianki and other classics of Russian literature.
When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the pictures are clear and moderately bright. Using the name famous artist, V lately books are often published with unclear scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.
Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(b. 1920, Moscow) - Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about Buratino by A. N. Tolstoy and about the Emerald City by A. M. Volkov, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and other countries former USSR. Painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky’s illustrations that many recognize as classic among Volkov’s works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which several generations of children have known and loved him is undoubtedly his merit.
Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(b. 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the summer mascot Olympic Games 1980 in Moscow. Illustrator for the magazines “Crocodile”, “Funny Pictures”, “Murzilka”, drew for many years for the magazine “Around the World”.
Chizhikov illustrated the works of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov (Vitya Maleev at school and at home), Irina Tokmakova (Alya, Klyaksich and the letter “A”), Alexander Volkov (The Wizard emerald city), poems by Andrei Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books.
To be fair, it is worth noting that Chizhikov’s illustrations are quite specific and cartoonish. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations if there is an alternative. For example, many people prefer the books “The Wizard of the Emerald City” with illustrations by Leonid Vladimirsky.
Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov(1889-1942, St. Petersburg) - Russian artist, art critic, teacher. Illustrator of children's books: Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Volkov. Radlov drew with great pleasure for children. His most famous book- comics for kids “Stories in Pictures”. This is a book-album with funny stories about animals and birds. Years have passed, but the collection is still very popular. The stories in pictures were repeatedly republished not only in Russia, but also in other countries. On international competition children's book in America in 1938, the book received second prize.
Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev(1905-1965, Moscow) - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. The artist's works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Illustrated “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” by Nikolai Nosov, “Fables” by Ivan Krylov, and the magazine “Funny Pictures”. The book with his poems and pictures “Peak, pak, pok” is very loved by more than one generation of children and parents (Briff, the greedy bear, the foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty bunnies and others)
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin(1876-1942, Leningrad) - Russian artist, book illustrator and theater designer. Bilibin illustrated large number fairy tales, including Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. He developed his own style - “Bilibinsky” - a graphic representation taking into account the traditions of Old Russian and folk art, carefully drawn and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.
Fairy tales, epics, images ancient Rus' For many, they have long been inextricably linked with Bilibin’s illustrations.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich(1888-1963, Novocherkassk, Leningrad) - Russian artist, graphic artist, illustrator. I started illustrating children's books by accident. In 1918, his daughter was three years old. Konashevich drew pictures for her for each letter of the alphabet. One of my friends saw these drawings and liked them. This is how “The ABC in Pictures” was published - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
Since the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main work of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, and drew pictures in his favorite specific technique - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.
The main works of Vladimir Konashevich:
- illustration of fairy tales and songs different nations, some of which were illustrated several times;
- fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault;
- “The Old Man of the Year” by V. I. Dahl;
- works by Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak.
Last job The artist was illustrating all the fairy tales of A. S. Pushkin.
Anatoly Mikhailovich Savchenko(1924-2011, Novocherkassk, Moscow) - animator and illustrator of children's books. Anatoly Savchenko was the production designer for the cartoons “Kid and Carlson” and “Carlson is Back” and the author of illustrations for Astrid Lindgren’s books. The most famous cartoon works with his direct participation: Moidodyr, the adventures of Murzilka, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, Vovka in Far Far Away Kingdom, The Nutcracker, The Cluttering Fly, Kesha the parrot and others.
Children are familiar with Savchenko’s illustrations from the books: “Piggy Gets Offended” by Vladimir Orlov, “Little Brownie Kuzya” by Tatyana Alexandrova, “Fairy Tales for the Little Ones” by Gennady Tsyferov, “Little Baba Yaga” by Otfried Preussler, as well as books with works similar to cartoons.
Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev(b. 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 60s, for more than thirty years he has been designing children's books in collaboration with Eric Vladimirovich Bulatov(born 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for the fairy tales of Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, the poems of Valentin Berestov and the fairy tales of Gennady Tsyferov.
Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov(born 1934, Moscow) - People's Artist. Favorite technique is color etching. Author of illustrations for many works of Russian and foreign classics. His illustrations for fairy tales are most famous:
Jan Ekholm “Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and Others”;
- Selma Lagerlöf " Amazing trip Nilsa with wild geese»;
- Sergey Aksakov “ Scarlet flower»;
- works of Hans Christian Andersen.
Diodorov illustrated more than 300 books. His works were published in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature".
Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin(1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's animal writer. Most of the illustrations are done in the style of free watercolor drawings, with a little humor. Children like it, even toddlers. He is known for the illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: “About Tomka”, “Wolf and Others”, “Nikitka and His Friends” and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianchi. The most famous book with his illustrations is “Children in a Cage” by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.
Evgeniy Mikhailovich Rachev(1906-1997, Tomsk) - animal artist, graphic artist, illustrator. He illustrated mainly Russian folk tales, fables and tales of classics of Russian literature. He mainly illustrated works in which the main characters are animals: Russian fairy tales about animals, fables.
Ivan Maksimovich Semenov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - people's artist, graphic artist, caricaturist. Semyonov worked in newspapers " Komsomolskaya Pravda», « Pioneer truth", magazines "Smena", "Crocodile" and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine in the USSR for young children, “Funny Pictures,” was created.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov’s stories about Kolya and Mishka (Fantasers, Living Hat and others) and drawings “Bobik visiting Barbos.”
The names of some other famous contemporary Russian illustrators of children's books:
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(b. 1941, Moscow) - production designer for dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mother for a Baby Mammoth, Bazhov's tales and the illustrator of books of the same name.
- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of kind, beautiful illustrations for many children's books: Poems and songs of Mother Goose, poems by Boris Zakhoder, works by Sergei Mikhalkov, works by Daniil Kharms, stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, "Pippi Long stocking» Astrid Lindgren and others.
- Igor Egunov(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for the books: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Rudolf Raspe, “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, tales of Russian heroes.
- Evgeniy Antonenkov(born 1956, Moscow) - illustrator, favorite technique is watercolor, pen and paper, mixed media. The illustrations are modern, unusual, and stand out among others. Some look at them with indifference, others fall in love with the funny pictures at first sight.
The most famous illustrations: to fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne), “Russian children's fairy tales”, poems and fairy tales by Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Gianni Rodari, Yunna Moritz. “The Stupid Horse” by Vladimir Levin (English ancient folk ballads), illustrated by Antonenkov, is one of the most popular books of the outgoing 2011.
Evgeniy Antonenkov collaborates with publishing houses in Germany, France, Belgium, the USA, Korea, Japan, and is a regular participant in prestigious international exhibitions, laureate of the competition White Crow"(Bologna, 2004), winner of the Book of the Year diploma (2008).
- Igor Yulievich Oleynikov(b. 1953, Moscow) - artist-animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleynikov is known for the films: “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Sherlock Holmes and I” and others. Worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleynikov collaborates with publishing houses in Canada, the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, and participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The artist’s most famous illustrations for books: “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” by John Tolkien, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Erich Raspe, “The Adventures of Despereaux the Mouse” by Kate DiCamillo, “ Peter Pan» James Barry. Latest books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Usachev.
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I took "Flint" with illustrations to my grandchildren Yerko , and brought it back. It seems that real art is done by children's illustrators, but "artists" are idiots for whom society has found something to do where they can do the least harm.
In Real Art, that is, children's illustration, a major event occurred. In the late 1980s, Gennady Spirin left for the USA and became Best of the Best there. He still lives in Princeton, with his family, without learning a word of English. It’s a blessing not to understand what they’re saying.
Well, at the end of the 1980s we had perestroika. And there was even football.
But the time has come for Ukraine - and now there is football there, and Number One. Vladislav Erko. That is, the king has changed.
Why didn't I part with Ogniv? Take a closer look:
(clickable)
This is basically the back of the cover. There are a dozen cats, dogs, horses, birds and fifty people in the picture, but take an interest in the houses. At the top in the right corner is a tower with a figured roof, with a vase on top. There is only one like it in the world, but this is not a repetition, but a development of that architectural concept.
I wouldn't be interested in Yerko. Here is a fragment of my drawing:
The façade ends with a “trumpeting triton” with two serpentine legs. There is a similar detail on Yerko's "Flint" under the word "Erko" - St. Michael slaying Satan.
Someone will say: what kind of artist is Yerko? This is the architect. No! He is an artist in the sense of art that existed before Mannerism. Those artists were interested in the world itself, and it was ignorant of “how” - but today’s Picasse is only interested in the shadow that they cast on this world.
This is page 5 of the book, a soldier is walking along the road. Like Bruegel? No, no. Neither Bruegel, nor de Momper, nor Leytens knew such rocks and branches. This is further. Yerko picked up where they left off. In fact, today Bruegel would have to be called a children's illustrator. But children have nothing to do with it. Just art.
And now let’s look at how figures of “true” art also “paint” Flint:
Joel Stewart
How I hated such drawings in my books as a child! I remember it very well.
Spirina soon 70.
Olga and Andrey Dugin Everything is also taught in Munich. I hope that nothing happened to them, and someday Dugin will still finish Hamlet.
In general, the celebrity workshop has aged noticeably. Robert Ingpen ...
(to "Tom Sawyer", obviously)
(to "Mowgli")
It is interesting to compare Ingpen's "Pinocchio" with Yerko. Ingpen is a realist, everything is found and copied, unlike Vladislav, who strives to discover something new in the world. Yerko is interesting to me, Ingpen is not. The illustrations for Tom Sawyer are too natural, I would say. Too heavy for Mark Twain's light tongue.
Nice drawing, but again the children have nothing to do with it.
The illustrator has aged Sandy Nightingale , Terry Pratchett’s interpretation of which is even immortalized in the stamp:
I will note that I never liked Pratchett’s illustrations because they were colorful. Here she is just a “children’s” artist, only Pratchett is not exactly a children’s reader.
Yvonne Gilbert has aged...
Ivonne Gilbert
If the last picture is the Princess and the Pea, It is an exceptionally brave princess. I definitely wouldn't sleep here because of the altitude.
What about the youth?
John Vernon Lord . Kill yourself if the book is not from the 1930s! But no, a thin fake - 2013. So what, do children appreciate this subtlety?
Illustrations Levy Pinfold definitely have a metaphysically dark undertone. His world is unfriendly:
(Clickable)
Actually, before Juan Wijngaard he is far away. Here's who to scare children:
To lighten the mood, I brought in a random picture about Viking gods from Devianart.
Rhineville
It would seem that there is a sea of children's artists, and it is impossible to embrace the immensity. But the vast majority of them are bright, colorful, and... empty. Not very informative. Let's take another Alice...
Justin Todd
What would I have learned from it when I was 10 years old? Why does the girl have pants that look like gears? But in my 60-year-old Justin Todd I am much more attracted, especially by drawing what is more decent for her:
Exactly the same works Lisbeth Zwerger beautiful with their purity and freshness of color...
But at 10 years old I wouldn’t even look at them.
He released an excellent series of books (“The Biggest Nasties of the Sea”) Kellie Strom . The man knows what is needed to the modern child. Nothing other than the “o” in the surname crossed out obliquely:
His drawings are really what you need. They are bright, informative, and at the same time simplified.
Fortunately, I am spared the need to mention a thousand more artists here. It is in children's illustration that everyone is terribly concerned about copyrights, and everyone (for example - Maggie Knee) with dire warnings I omitted. Let's move on to the joyful stuff. To those who draw so well that they don’t knock down their rights. Nobody can do that anyway.
These are two girly artists. Inga Moore :
You know, I've been looking for a long time big picture on the wall. The second Inga Moore is just that.
She achieved special heights in girlhood. IMHO, Angela Barrett :
And in order to round off the period, as Cyrano de Bergerac put it, j, I will turn to a new rising star - Bagram Ibatoulline , who studied, as you guess, in Moscow, but lives, as you understand, in Pennsylvania:
(Snow Queen, there was such a moment!)
And to the Bulgarian artist Jan (Jassen) Ghiuselev, widely known for his gothic "Alice".
But they say his best illustrations are for “The Queen of Spades”:
Mikhailof Fedor
The goal of the project: to find out which artists illustrated Russian folk tales.
Objectives: 1. Find out who illustrators are.
2.Find information about artists in the library. 2. Find illustrations for fairy tales in different collections.
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Project on fairy tales “Artists - Illustrators” Prepared by a student of class 3 “B” Mikhailov Fedor
The goal of the project: to find out which artists illustrated Russian folk tales. Objectives: 1. Find out who illustrators are. 2.Find information about artists in the library. 2. Find illustrations for fairy tales in different collections.
ILLUSTRATORS are artists who draw illustrations for books, helping to understand the content of the work, to better imagine the characters, their appearance, characters, actions, and the environment in which the characters live.
Artists - storytellers 1. Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942) 2. Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1881-1926) 3. Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov (1900-1973) 4. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Rachev (1906-1997)
Artist Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin Master of graphics, creator of a special type of illustrated book, “the first professional of the book” - as experts call him.
Ivan Tsarevich and the gray wolf. I. Ya. Bilibin
“Baba Yaga” to the fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful.” I. Ya. Bilibin
Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov All my life I have only strived, as an artist, to understand, unravel and express the Russian spirit. V. M. Vasnetsov
Ivan Tsarevich on gray wolf. V.M. Vasnetsov
V.M. Vasnetsov "Alyonushka"
Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov illustrated and designed Russian folk tales, songs, and nursery rhymes. He is rightly called the artist of Russian fairy tales. "Three Bears", "Teremok" and many others. Fantastic, fabulous landscapes are based on impressions of real Russian nature. The artist's birds and animals acquire habits that he noticed in reality.
"The Fox and the Hare" "Three Bears"
"Geese Swans" "Cat's House"
Evgeny Mikhailovich Rachev All animals and beasts - the heroes of Rachev’s drawings are “dressed” like people, in human clothes, thereby Rachev shows what kind of fairy tale plot And fairy-tale images hiding real life and real human relationships.
Masha and the Bear" "Cat, Rooster and Fox"
"Kolobok" "Wolf and Fox"
The end The fairy tale brings us joy, Those who know will understand, There is a lot of meaning in the fairy tale, And love walks close there. A fairy tale is a wonderful piggy bank, What you accumulate, you will take, And without a fairy tale in this life, you will certainly be lost.
Children's book illustrators. Who are the authors of the most favorite pictures?
What's the use of a book, thought Alice.
– if there are no pictures or conversations in it?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Surprisingly, children's illustrations in Russia (USSR)
There is an exact year of birth - 1925. This year
a children's literature department was created in Leningradsky
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations were not published specifically for children.
Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have remained in our memory since childhood and are liked by our children?
Find out, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using stories from parents of current children and reviews of books on online bookstore websites.
Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev(1903-1993, Moscow) - children's writer, illustrator and animator. His kind, cheerful pictures look like stills from a cartoon. Suteev’s drawings turned many fairy tales into masterpieces.
For example, not all parents consider the works of Korney Chukovsky to be necessary classics, and most of them do not consider his works talented. But I want to hold Chukovsky’s fairy tales, illustrated by Vladimir Suteev, in my hands and read them to children.
Boris Aleksandrovich Dekhterev(1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) – people’s artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the “Dekhterev School” determined the development of book graphics in the country), illustrator. He worked primarily in pencil drawing and watercolor techniques. Dekhterev’s good old illustrations are a whole era in the history of children’s illustration; many illustrators call Boris Alexandrovich their teacher.
Dekhterev illustrated children's fairy tales by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen. As well as works of other Russian writers and world classics, for example, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, William Shakespeare.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Ustinov(b. 1937, Moscow), his teacher was Dekhterev, and many modern illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.
Nikolai Ustinov is a national artist and illustrator. Fairy tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Almost three hundred works were illustrated by the famous artist for publishing houses: “Children’s Literature”, “Malysh”, “Artist of the RSFSR”, publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. Worked in the magazine Murzilka.
Ustinov’s illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most beloved for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Little Fox Sister, The Frog Princess, Geese and Swans and many others.
Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973, Vyatka, Leningrad) - people's artist and illustrator. All kids like his pictures for folk songs, nursery rhymes and jokes (Ladushki, Rainbow-arc). He illustrated folk tales, tales of Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianki and other classics of Russian literature.
When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the pictures are clear and moderately bright. Using the name of a famous artist, books have recently often been published with unclear scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.
Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(born 1920, Moscow) is a Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about Buratino by A. N. Tolstoy and about the Emerald City by A. M. Volkov, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. Painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky’s illustrations that many recognize as classic among Volkov’s works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which several generations of children have known and loved him is undoubtedly his merit.
Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(born 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. Illustrator for the magazines “Crocodile”, “Funny Pictures”, “Murzilka”, drew for many years for the magazine “Around the World”.
Chizhikov illustrated the works of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov (Vitya Maleev at school and at home), Irina Tokmakova (Alya, Klyaksich and the letter “A”), Alexander Volkov (The Wizard of the Emerald City), poems by Andrei Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .
To be fair, it is worth noting that Chizhikov’s illustrations are quite specific and cartoonish. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations if there is an alternative. For example, many people prefer the books “The Wizard of Oz” with illustrations Leonid Vladimirsky.
Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov(1889-1942, St. Petersburg) - Russian artist, art historian, teacher. Illustrator of children's books: Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Volkov. Radlov drew with great pleasure for children. His most famous book is comics for kids “Stories in Pictures”. This is a book-album with funny stories about animals and birds. Years have passed, but the collection is still very popular. The stories in pictures were repeatedly republished not only in Russia, but also in other countries. At the international children's book competition in America in 1938, the book received second prize.
Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev(1905-1965, Moscow) - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. The artist’s works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Illustrated “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” by Nikolai Nosov, “Fables” by Ivan Krylov, and the magazine “Funny Pictures”. The book with his poems and pictures “Peak, pak, pok” is very loved by more than one generation of children and parents (Briff, the greedy bear, the foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty bunnies and others)
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin(1876-1942, Leningrad) - Russian artist, book illustrator and theater designer. Bilibin illustrated a large number of fairy tales, including those of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. He developed his own style - “Bilibinsky” - a graphic representation taking into account the traditions of ancient Russian and folk art, a carefully drawn and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.
For many, fairy tales, epics, and images of ancient Rus' have long been inextricably linked with Bilibin’s illustrations.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich(1888-1963, Novocherkassk, Leningrad) - Russian artist, graphic artist, illustrator. I started illustrating children's books by accident. In 1918, his daughter was three years old. Konashevich drew pictures for her for each letter of the alphabet. One of my friends saw these drawings and liked them. This is how “The ABC in Pictures” was published - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
Since the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main work of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, and drew pictures in his favorite specific technique - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.
The main works of Vladimir Konashevich:
- illustration of fairy tales and songs of different peoples, some of which were illustrated several times;
- fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault;
- “The Old Man of the Year” by V. I. Dahl;
- works by Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak.
The artist’s last work was illustrating all the fairy tales of A. S. Pushkin.
Anatoly Mikhailovich Savchenko(1924-2011, Novocherkassk, Moscow) - animator and illustrator of children's books. Anatoly Savchenko was the production designer for the cartoons “Kid and Carlson” and “Carlson is Back” and the author of illustrations for Astrid Lindgren’s books. The most famous cartoon works with his direct participation: Moidodyr, the adventures of Murzilka, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom, The Nutcracker, Tsokotukha the Fly, Kesha the Parrot and others.
Children are familiar with Savchenko’s illustrations from the books: “Piggy Gets Offended” by Vladimir Orlov, “Little Brownie Kuzya” by Tatyana Alexandrova, “Fairy Tales for the Little Ones” by Gennady Tsyferov, “Little Baba Yaga” by Otfried Preussler, as well as books with works similar to cartoons.
Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev(b. 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 60s, for more than thirty years he has been engaged in the design of children's books in collaboration with Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov (born 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for the fairy tales of Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, the poems of Valentin Berestov and the fairy tales of Gennady Tsyferov.
Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov(born 1934, Moscow) - People's Artist. Favorite technique is color etching. Author of illustrations for many works of Russian and foreign classics. His illustrations for fairy tales are most famous:
- Jan Ekholm “Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and Others”;
- Selma Lagerlöf "Nils's Amazing Journey with the Wild Geese";
- Sergey Aksakov “The Scarlet Flower”;
- works of Hans Christian Andersen.
Diodorov illustrated more than 300 books. His works were published in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature".
Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin(1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's animal writer. Most of the illustrations are done in the style of free watercolor drawings, with a little humor. Children like it, even toddlers. He is known for the illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: “About Tomka”, “Wolf and Others”, “Nikitka and His Friends” and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianchi. The most famous book with his illustrations is “Children in a Cage” by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.
Evgeniy Mikhailovich Rachev(1906-1997, Tomsk) – animal artist, graphic artist, illustrator. He illustrated mainly Russian folk tales, fables and tales of classics of Russian literature. He mainly illustrated works in which the main characters are animals: Russian fairy tales about animals, fables.
Ivan Maksimovich Semenov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - people's artist, graphic artist, caricaturist. Semenov worked in the newspapers “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Pionerskaya Pravda”, magazines “Smena”, “Crocodile” and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine in the USSR for young children, “Funny Pictures,” was created.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov’s stories about Kolya and Mishka (Fantasers, Living Hat and others) and drawings “Bobik visiting Barbos.”
The names of some other famous contemporary Russian illustrators of children's books:
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(b. 1941, Moscow) – production designer of dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mother for a Baby Mammoth, Bazhov’s fairy tales and illustrator of books of the same name.
- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of kind, beautiful illustrations for many children's books: Poems and songs of Mother Goose, poems by Boris Zakhoder, works by Sergei Mikhalkov, works by Daniil Kharms, stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lindgren and others.
- Igor Egunov (the author of the article did not find biographical information) is a contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for books: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Rudolf Raspe, “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, tales of Russian heroes
- Evgeniy Antonenkov(born 1956, Moscow) - illustrator, favorite technique is watercolor, pen and paper, mixed media. The illustrations are modern, unusual, and stand out among others. Some look at them with indifference, others fall in love with the funny pictures at first sight.
The most famous illustrations: for fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne), “Russian children's fairy tales”, poems and fairy tales by Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Gianni Rodari, Yunna Moritz. “The Stupid Horse” by Vladimir Levin (English ancient folk ballads), illustrated by Antonenkov, is one of the most popular books of 2011.
Evgeniy Antonenkov collaborates with publishing houses in Germany, France, Belgium, the USA, Korea, Japan, is a regular participant in prestigious international exhibitions, laureate of the White Crow competition (Bologna, 2004), winner of the Book of the Year diploma (2008).
- Igor Yulievich Oleynikov (b. 1953, Moscow) – artist-animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleynikov is known for the films: “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Sherlock Holmes and I” and others. Worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleynikov collaborates with publishing houses in Canada, the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, and participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The artist’s most famous illustrations for books: “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” by John Tolkien, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Erich Raspe, “The Adventures of Despereaux the Mouse” by Kate DiCamillo, “Peter Pan” by James Barrie. Latest books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Usachev.
A m I didn’t really want to introduce you to illustrators, remember our childhood and recommend them to young parents.
(text) Anna Agrova
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In my opinion, there is no better illustrator of fairy tales than V. M. Vasnetsov, except maybe I. Bilibin. The next page is about him.
Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1848-1926) - one of the first Russian artists who pushed the boundaries of conventional genres and showed fairy world, illuminated by the poetic fantasy of the people. Vasnetsov was one of the first Russian artists to turn to recreating images folk tales and epics in painting. His fate developed as if he was destined in advance to be the singer of a Russian fairy tale. He spent his childhood in the harsh, picturesque Vyatka region. The talkative cook, who tells children fairy tales and stories of wandering people who have seen a lot in their lifetime, according to the artist himself, “made me fall in love with the past and present of my people for the rest of my life, and largely determined my path.” Already at the beginning of his work, he created a number of illustrations for “The Little Humpbacked Horse” and “The Firebird”. In addition to fairy tales, he has works dedicated to heroic images epic "The Knight at the Crossroads", "Three Heroes". Famous painting“Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf” was written based on the plot of one of the most famous and widespread fairy tales, reproduced in popular prints of the 18th century.
"Princess Nesmeyana"
In the royal chambers, in the princely palaces, in the high tower, Princess Nesmeyana adorned herself. What a life she had, what freedom, what luxury! There is a lot of everything, everything the soul wants; but she never smiled, never laughed, as if her heart was not happy about anything.
There are merchants, boyars, foreign guests, storytellers, musicians, dancers, jesters and buffoons. They sing, clown around, laugh, strum the harp to their heart's content. And at the foot of the high tower there are ordinary people, also crowding, laughing, shouting. And all this buffoonery is for the princess, the only royal daughter. She sits sadly on a carved white throne by the window. “There is a lot of everything, there is everything that the soul wants; but she never smiled, never laughed, as if her heart was not happy about anything.” And, to be honest, what is there to be happy about if no one ever has a heart-to-heart talk with her, no one with a pure heart will approach her?! Everyone around is just making noise, aiming for suitors, trying to present themselves in the best light, but no one cares about the princess herself. That is why she is not laughing, until the one and only one, the long-awaited one, comes, who will give her a smile instead of buffoonery, warmth instead of indifference. And he will come, for sure, because that’s what the fairy tale says.
"Koschei the Immortal and the Beloved Beauty"
As soon as he managed to leave the yard, Koschey entered the yard: “Ah! - speaks. - It smells like Russian braid; I know you had Ivan Tsarevich.” - “What are you, Koschey the Immortal! Where can I see Ivan Tsarevich? He remained in dense forests, in sticky mud, and is still eaten by animals!” They began to have dinner; at dinner, the Beloved Beauty asks: “Tell me, Koschey the Immortal: where is your death?” - “What do you need, stupid woman? My death is tied up in a broom.”
Early in the morning Koschey leaves for the war. Ivan Tsarevich came to the Beloved Beauty, took that broom and brightly gilded it with pure gold. As soon as the prince had time to leave, Koschey entered the courtyard: “Ah! - speaks. - It smells like Russian braid; I know you had Ivan Tsarevich.” - “What are you, Koschey the Immortal! You flew around Rus' yourself, picked up the Russian spirit - you smell of the Russian spirit. Where can I see Ivan Tsarevich? He remained in dense forests, in sticky mud, and is still eaten by animals!” It's time for dinner; Beloved Beauty herself sat down on a chair, and sat him on a bench; he looked under the threshold - there was a gilded broom. “What is this?” - “Ah, Koschey the Immortal! You see for yourself how much I honor you; If you are dear to me, so is your death.” - “Stupid woman! Then I was joking, my death is sealed up in the oak meadow.”
"The Frog Princess"
Look at the reproduction of V. Vasnetsov’s painting “Feast” (p. 19 of the textbook).
If possible, it would be interesting to compare this picture with the illustration made for this episode of the fairy tale by I. Bilibin.
Framed illustrations by Bilibin floral ornament very accurately reflect the content of the tale. We can see the details of the heroes’ costumes, the expressions on the faces of the surprised boyars, and even the pattern on the kokoshniks of the daughters-in-law. Vasnetsov in his picture does not dwell on the details, but perfectly conveys the movement of Vasilisa, the passion of the musicians, who seem to be stamping their feet to the beat dance song. We can guess that the music to which Vasilisa dances is cheerful and mischievous. When you look at this picture you feel the character of a fairy tale.
- Why do people call Vasilisa the Wise? What qualities do the people glorify in the image of Vasilisa?
Painting by V. Vasnetsov creates generalized image beautiful princess: next to her are the guslars, people. I. Bilibin’s illustration specifically depicts an episode of the feast: in the center is Vasilisa the Wise, at the wave of whose hand miracles occur; There are people around, amazed by what is happening. Possible here different types works:
1. Describe verbally what you see in each of the paintings (characters, setting, appearance surrounding people, their mood, prevailing colors).
2. Compare the image of Vasilisa the Wise by Vasnetsov and Bilibin. Is this what you imagine main character fairy tales?
"Magic carpet"
The imagination of the people created a fairy tale about a flying carpet. You see two paintings by Vasnetsov with this name - early and late. In the first of them, a proud young man looks from a flying carpet at the expanses of Russian land spreading below. Discreet northern nature served as the artist's background for the painting. Rivers and lakes sparkle, the forest stands like a dark wall, and huge birds accompany the carpet. The Firebird caught by the hero burns with a bright fire in a cage. This painting tells about the wisdom, strength, and dexterity of the people. The second picture is lighter and more colorful. The bright rays of the sunset, cutting through the veil of clouds, became a successful background to the picture. Nature through the clouds is seen as bright, lush greenery, perhaps because the heroes descended closer to it. And the girl and the boy in sparkling clothes embroidered with gold do not seem like strangers on the canvas. Their young faces are beautiful, they gently leaned towards each other, personifying fidelity and love.
Alyonushka, Snegurochka, Elena the Beautiful - these fictional images and portraits of women close to Vasnetsov “in spirit” - Elena Prakhova, Vera and Elizaveta Grigorievna Mamontov, portraits of his wife, daughter, niece from different sides highlight what is called Russian female soul, which becomes for Vasnetsov the personification of the Motherland, Russia.
Alkonost. In Byzantine and Russian medieval legends, a wonderful bird, a resident of Iria - the Slavic paradise. Her face is feminine, her body is birdlike, her voice is sweet, like love itself. Hearing Alkonost’s singing can forget everything in the world with delight, but there is no evil from her, unlike Sirin.
Alkonost lays eggs at the edge of the sea, but does not hatch them, but immerses them in the depths of the sea. At this time there is no wind for seven days. According to ancient Greek myth, Alkyone, the wife of Keik, upon learning of the death of her husband, threw herself into the sea and was turned into a bird, named after her name alcyone (kingfisher).
She is depicted in popular prints as a half-woman, half-bird with large multi-colored feathers and a girl’s head, overshadowed by a crown and a halo, in which a short inscription is sometimes placed. In addition to wings, Alkonos has hands in which she holds flowers of paradise or a package with an explanatory inscription. She lives in the tree of paradise, on the island of Buyan, together with the bird Sirin, and has a sweet voice, like love itself. When she sings, she doesn’t feel herself. He who hears her wonderful singing will forget everything in the world. With her songs she consoles and elevates future joy. This is the bird of joy.
But Sirin, the dark bird, dark force, messenger of the ruler of the underworld. From head to waist Sirin is a woman of incomparable beauty, and from the waist she is a bird. Whoever listens to her voice forgets about everything in the world and dies, and there is no strength to force him not to listen to Sirin’s voice, and death for him at this moment is true bliss. Dahl explained in the famous dictionary this way: “... mythical and church birds owls, or eagle owls, scarecrows; there are popular prints depicting birds of paradise with women's faces and breasts"(V. Dal" Dictionary living Great Russian language"). In Russian spiritual poems, the Sirin, descending from heaven to earth, enchants people with her singing. In Western European legends, the Sirin is the embodiment of an unfortunate soul. This is the bird of sadness.
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