Matorin artist biography

Matorin is one of the major Soviet schedules. We can say that Matorin was lucky in life. He fell into his hands to very experienced and gifted masters. His mentors in the school of the famous Russian book publisher I. Sytin, where he entered the study, was S. Gerasimov and I. a brilliant draftsman, Sergey Vasilievich Gerasimov instilled a sense of respect for the drawing, to form, revealed the depth and vitality of the Russian realistic school of drawing culture.

And the first -class engraver Ivan Nikolaevich Pavlov taught the young artist the painstaking art of engraving on wood and linoleum. He handed the young man his understanding of the bar, the skills of jewelry handling of the board. And not without reason, I. Pavlov, from the entire galaxy of his students, primarily distinguished Matorin, considering him the most talented and educated artist.

For fifty years of intense creative work, Matorin created so many graphic works that it is impossible to count them. And no matter what genre he worked in an easel or book schedule, Matorin always remained himself. He has his own manner of writing, his own voice. The section of its portrait book graphics is extensive. It can be seen with what light strokes lie on the sheet, forming a gamut of unique combinations.

There is nothing superfluous, everything is extremely concise, simply, but what a deep penetration into the image! His N. Shchors and V. Menzhinsky, M. Prishvin and N. Andreev, N. Rimsky-Korsakov and P. Tchaikovsky, A. Dargomyzhsky, F. Vasiliev is brilliantly executed portrait miniatures, in which the characters of people are transmitted with the accuracy of the similarity.

The artistic value of the work does not depend on the size or compositional complexity of the picture. Matorin is a great master of book design. Many of them are excellent graphic miniatures, deep in thought and high artistic skill. In these often tiny images, each stroke is meaningful, justified. Even in vignettes, all elements carry a semantic load, strict according to the drawing, and at the same time there is no dryness in them, they are very decorative and poetic.

Falileev was known for the works in which strong, bright color contrasts predominated for without reason he was called "Kuindzhi of Russian engravings." Vladimir Ivanovich Sokolov, an adherent of an intimate natural and architectural landscape - had a beneficial effect on the development of easel graphics. Matorin never blindly copied his teachers. Perceiving them all the best, he gained his vision of the world.

Matorin also speaks of the uniqueness of the artistic talent of Matorin, his easel engravings, watercolors and gouache. Who does not remember a series of thin in beauty, rare in expressiveness of engravings Matorin dedicated to Moscow! How skillfully the artist was able to choose such points from the many -sided landscape of the capital, such species that make it possible to generalize, as in his “Kremlin chimes” - a color linogravure soft in tonality.

In the engraving “Mausoleum of V. Lenin”, Matorin abandoned the frontal image- he sees the mausoleum as the organic part of the architectural ensemble of Red Square and the Kremlin. And what is noteworthy, to any city, the landscape of Matorin is filled with some unique charming environment, touching tenderness and grandeur. His engravings such as “New Moscow”, “May 1 near the walls of the Kremlin”, “The Square of the Revolution”, “On the Moscow River”, or the sheets dedicated to Leningrad, Gorky City, captivate with their lyricism and cordiality.

Matorin is true to himself, and in the city landscape always walks lyrical motifs, the necessary intonations. In wartime works, the artist chooses motives, plots in which he sings the courage and heroism of the Soviet man. Shortly before his death, M. Matorin worked a lot and fruitfully with young artists. He was a professor at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. his pets, he taught the high skill of the art of Estamp.

Those who went through the school of Mikhail Vladimirovich Matorin became mature masters, perfectly owned the technique of xylography, linogravra and other types of graphic art.

Matorin demanded that his students not only high professional skill, but also deep penetration into the essence of the phenomena depicted. Additional information: The interpanorama salon for its exposition will buy paintings and graphics of the artist Matorin Mikhail Vladimirovich. Photos of paintings can be sent to Artpanorama Mail.