A E Tulkin Biography

Well, what are you. He studied with Feshin himself in Kazan. Alive now! The Moscow art critic A. Indeed, the name of the original Ufa painter Alexander Erastovich Tulkin is widely known in art circles in the entire vast Ural region. But for the Moscow viewer, it still remains little -known, although in the year he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the BASSR.

In the year, he is the laureate of the Republican Prize. Salavat Yulaev. But today, even in Ufa, especially among young artists, the name and work of A. Tulkin is gradually being forgotten. The only reason for this is: the absence of museum halls in Ufa, where the works of the master himself, the work of his students, and in general - the entire centuries -old history of the development of Bashkir visual arts should be represented.

The ways of the formation and development of the Ufa school of painting for the twentieth century is a noticeable, serious artistic process in which the role of A. Tulkin and artists K. Devletkildev, A. Lezhnev, B. Laletin, P. Lebedev, M. Elgashtina was huge. Tulkin was both a wonderful painter and a talented teacher. Artists studied from him, who later became known not only in the republic, but also abroad - B.

Domonikov, A. Panteleev, M. Nazarov, A. Lutfullin, F. Kashcheev, G. Imasheva, P. Salmasov, the first post -war generation of Ufa painters. In constant communication and contact with the personality, creativity, the master developed, grew up, affirming their positions in art, such talents as A. Burzyantsev, A. A little later, the ranks of the strong Ufa painters were replenished by N.

Pakhomov, M. Kuznetsov, S. Lebedev, V. Kuznetsov, N. once in his autobiographic records A. Tulkin made this record: “He lived all his life:“ All his life lived. In the ravine, Arkareka thought about Titian. ” Thus, he expressively expressed not only the essence of his biography, but also the nature of his work - the work of the artist living and working in the outback of the Russian province.

But the scale of value in art for himself A. Tulkin designated a high - Titian! But still, it is in Ufa, in the Art Museum. Nesterova, most of the works of A. He was a master of mainly landscape painting and still life. In his canvases, exquisitely thin and complex in color, texture, the features of the Russian picturesque culture of the beginning of the 20th century are recognized.

This is especially true for that part of his work, where it is a purely coloristic search - “picturesque painting”, as Alexander Erastovich himself said after his teacher N. Feshin. A. Tulkin's work became a noticeable phenomenon in Ufa from his first participation in the exhibition of G. here, in this city, he was born in G. in his old part, on the picturesque outskirts, spreading along the steep banks of Belaya, on the little Volnova Street, he lived most of his life in a small wooden house, which, as well as the garden and adjacent coastal streets, served him as a creative workshop.

And the paths that are running here from all over the city were probably once trodden by its students. Fate was pleased to dispose of so that the whole long life of the artist is 91 years old! Tyulkin was a magnificent storyteller: “I remember the appearance of the old Ufa with its historical former Smolensk Cathedral, with the traditions of the streets of Posadskaya, Usolskaya.

I was fascinated by the picturesque banks of the Belaya River with tarry fishing shuttles, with a romantic and eerie Cherkalikhin ravine, with a reckless settlement of the bishop, with her Tatar fractures. Tatar women with monists in braids take colorful mattresses, quilted raspberry-red blankets, bright homespun roses to the green yard. No dust is groaned, wash the linen by the river, beat with rollers quickly, beautifully ...

sunset. They beat women. Huge dogs rush. The men dance to harmonica. A thousand devils! Why, it’s just Spain! .. The canvases were packed on the gross booths of the booths depicting red lions against the backdrop of green palm trees, and when the wind fluttered these ragged canvases, it seemed to me that the lions on them were alive. In the folk circus, we, the boys, made our way through the gap made in the restroom.

When, after the smelly nausea of ​​the corridor, I fell into the auditorium, it was blinded by the splendor of large lamp kerosene chandeliers. The heart sank when the juggles flew over them. I especially liked the atmosphere of the circus: it smelled of pine boards, raw sawdust and cheap powder. The smell of the stable was mixed with all this. I remember how pictures with the views of Crimea were sold in the Blokhin pussy store.

Narrow, in frames to hang in rooms, pieces. Pluted, with blue heaven. At the sight of them, I freezed with delight. And copied them. I made copies from Shishkin’s paintings by order of local merchants in order to work out a little on brushes and paints. ” These are just some fragments of Alexander Tulkin's memoirs about his childhood.But even in them, but to an even greater extent, a significant feature is present in the picturesque canvases, which, perhaps, was one of the most serious sources of the formation of his poetic view of the world: the penetrating, acute sensation of the unique coloring of the provincial urban life with its landing life in combination with the exalted and solemn beauty of the surrounding nature.

The texture of its canvases is uneven, mobile, created by a wide energetic smear, but much calmer than that of Feshin. And the coloristic gamut is characterized by restraint and subtlety. This is also from Feshin. The teacher said: “I adhere to a limited palette. The purpose of skill is not in unconscious clutter with material, but in its reasonable savings. It is necessary to remember this especially beginners: for, the fewer colors, the more food to the mind is in work.

” During the period of Soviet art, Alexander Tulkin entered the young. He was about thirty years old, when in the city he was the first of the artists in love in love, deeply talentedly created the picturesque images of Ufa - an old city in the Urals. They showed their own vision of the author of the best traditions in Russian landscape painting. Wandering with a sketchic in the Ufa ravines along Belaya, Tulkin watched a lot and thought over the local life, recalling and experiencing images from the read works of Russian literary classics: A.

Chekhov, F. Sollogub, F. once saw how the hot sun grabbed a piece of red torn blankets in the arch of the open gate and turned it In purple, and clay cliffs - in old gold. Gold and purple, who conquered him in the painting of a great Italian master. This coloristic chord of Purpura with gold sunk into my soul for life. ” It is important that the artist himself was born and raised in these parts.

Everything here is experienced and sunk into the soul since childhood. He never left here. It was fascinated and absorbed in the life of this outskirts completely and so that we will not see other motives and images in its painting in the years until the beginning of the 10ths. Of course, Alexander Tulkin’s creative interests in those distant years and subsequent periods were not limited, of course, thoughts only about the old Ufa and the secrets of her “ravine life”.

His activity was multifaceted. Together with a small group of artists who united in the Ufa society of painting lovers, and then to the Ufa branch of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, he gives a lot of effort and time to the organization of artistic life in Ufa.