Ivanovich Shubin Fedot (17 (28) .05.1740 – 05.12.1805) – sculptor, son of a peasant, was born in Kuroostrovskoy parish. Against Kholmogory. In winter 1759 came, like his fellow countryman, Lomonosov in St. Petersburg. a wagon train of cod. At the request of University, noticed an unusual ability of youths to the sculpture on samples of his carving of bone, he enrolled in a stoker in the household and in 1761 by imperial order is defined in the Academy of Fine Arts, where he soon became the best of the students of Professor Gilles. During the passage of an academic course has been awarded two silver medals, maloyu in 1763 and more in 1765, and in 1766 graduated from this course with a gold medal and the following year sent for further improvements in its Paris, as a pensioner of the Academy . In Paris, Shubin attracted the attention of the French Academy, which sought before the Empress Catherine II through Falconet extension of his pensionerstva to enable him to visit Rome. In 1772, NA Demidov took with him a trip to Italy and commissioned him to his marble bust. Returning from there to St. Petersburg. He played by the will of Catherine II, her bust from life, which is considered the most similar of all (nahod. in Imperial. Hermitage) and after constantly, for 20 years, worked in marble for the highest court and for the book. GA Potemkin, in the person of whom he found himself a hot patron. In 1774, the Academy elected him to the Academy, but the intrigues of his comrades Shubin, specialty, and Gordian Shchedrin, a long time, all the while managing the Academy I. Betsky, prevented Shubin get a higher artistic rank, although he gained a reputation as a master, not unparalleled among Russian sculptors, and only in 1794, erected it in the Academy professors.
Pavel Petrovich Troubetzkoy (02/15/1866 – 02/12/1938), Russian sculptor-impressionist. He worked in private studios (1884) and in our own workshop (1885 – 1897) in Milan. In 1897 – 1906 lived in St. Petersburg and in Moscow (he taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture), from 1906 – in France, USA and Italy. In his works (mainly genre and portrait statues and portrait busts) Trubetskoy aspired to a life directly.
Polycleitus – one of the greatest Greek sculptor, native of Sicyon, the head of Peloponnesian sculpture school, student, or, more likely, a follower of argostsa Ageladas, a former teacher of Pheidias and Myron; lived in the V century BC Chr. Settling permanently in Argos, he continued to work in a spirit Ageladas, with it, in contrast to Phidias, created the ideal of divine majesty, sought to establish the type of external, human beauty. He depicted mainly figures of young athletes, of which the most famous for "Doriphor (spearman) and" Diadumen "(boy, put a bandage on his head). The first of these ancient statues called the canon, ie, logical and there is even a legend that it was carved GP to confirm the rules set forth in nedoshedshem to us his treatise on the proportions of the human body, named as the canon. Ancient writers (Lucian and Gaul) indicate that P. beauty body was caused by the harmony of its individual members, it is – a certain proportionality between the fingers themselves, all the fingers together to the pastern, the latter to the wrist, etc. copy of the first statues of the aforesaid ar heologi see Doriphor Naples Museum, as well as fragments of the torso of the Berlin museum and a bronze head of Naples.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 – 1828) – The famous French sculptor, spending his childhood in an artistic atmosphere of the school des eleves proteges, where his father was a porter, and 10 – 12 years, he began to practice leplenii. Soon he was to take students Aqd. painting and sculpture, and the age of 15 has already received an award the silver medal. In 1761, a sketch of the bas-relief: "Queen of Sheba", won big, Rome Prize, with the right of the seven-year stay in Italy at government expense. In Italy, played a model to study human musculature, attract the public attention and serve him etude for a statue of John the Baptist, and carved statues "La Vestale" and "Saint Bruno", the last piece, distinguished by natural simplicity and serenity of plastic, was a harbinger of the new direction in sculpture. Upon his return to Paris, Houdon, based on his works performed, was elected in 1769 in soprichislennye to acad. Painting and Sculpture, and in 1777, for a marble figure of morphine, was elevated to the rank of Academician. The first significant work of Houdon returned to France was a portrait bust of Diderot, attracted to the artist orders from the Duke of Saxe-Gotha and the Empress Catherine. For the first Houdon made several sculpted portraits of his family, for the Empress – her bust (1773), in addition, the Russian envoy at the French court, Bk. Golitsyn, commissioned the artist two tombstones for the princes of MD and AD Golitsyn (located at the Epiphany Monastery in Moscow).
Miron – from Elevfery, on the border of Attica and Boeotia. Sculptor era preceding directly the full flowering of Greek art (the end of VI – beg. V in.). Ancient characterize him as the greatest realist and connoisseur of anatomy, who could not however, give people life and expression. He depicted the gods, the heroes and animals, with a special love reproduce difficult, fleeting poses. The most famous of his work: "Discobolus", an athlete who intends to put the disc – a statue, still extant in several copies, of which the best in the palazzo Massimi in Rome. Along with this statue of the ancient writers refer to the praise of his sculpture Mapsiya grouped with Athens. About this group we get the concept and several late recurrence. From the images of animals, by M., the other more famous "Cow", which were written in praise of dozens of epigrams. For the most minor exceptions, the works of M. were bronze.
Lysenko, Mikhail G. (16 (29) .10.1906 – 05/08/1972), American sculptor and folk artist of the USSR (1963), full member AH the USSR (1970).
Member of the CPSU from 1948. He studied at the Kharkiv Art Institute (1926 – 1931). Taught at Kiev Art Institute (from 1944 and Professor from 1947).
Works: Group at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers "Hill of Fame" in Lvov (bronze, 1947), a monument NA Shchorsa in Kiev (et al, bronze, 1949 – 1954), a monument to Lenin in Zaporizhzhya (together with NM Suhodolovym, bronze, 1964), Pam. VP Zatonsky in Khmelnytsky (granite, 1969), a portrait of PP Vershigory (plexiglas, 1971).
He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of Labor Red Banner and medals.
Lit.: Nimenko A., MG Lysenko, Kiiv, 1958.
Pigalle, Jean Baptiste (01/26/1714 – 21/08/1785), French sculptor. He studied (since 1722) by Robert Le Lorrain and J. B. Lemoine. Visited Italy (1736-39). Working in a style transition from Rococo to Classicism, performed a number of statues and groups of mythological and allegorical themes ("Mercury, knotted sandal", "Boy with a cage, marble, 1749, Louvre, Paris). Features gifts Pigalle, combining civilian pathos with propensity to acute, sometimes naturalistic veracity, most clearly manifested in the gravestones and monuments (tomb of Marshal Maurice of Saxony, marble, 1753-76, Church of St. Thomas, Strasbourg), the statue of Voltaire, presented "heroic nude "(1776, marble, Bk Franz. Inst, Paris), acute on characteristics portraits (busts collector TE Defrisha and his Negro servant Fields, terracotta, ca. 1760, Museum of Fine Art in, Orleans) . Among the pupils Pigalle – Jean A. Houdon and FI Shubin.
Lebedev Sarah Dmitrevna (1892 – 1967). Born 1892, died 1967. Sculptor. Member of the Society of Russian artists.
Valya Kotik (Valentin) (11/02/1930 – 17/02/1944), a young party partisan movement in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, the pioneer, the Hero of the Soviet Union (27.6. 1958, posthumously).
Born into a peasant family. From 1937 he lived in Shepetivka, attended high school.
After occupying the town the German troops joined an illegal organization, was connected, then in August 1943 as a partisan IA Muzaleva, participated in the hostilities; twice wounded. He died in battle.
Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1 st degree and a medal.
Name of Cat named ships, schools, Pioneer squads. In Shepetivka in 1960 erected a monument to the pioneers of Kitten Ukraine (sculptors L. Skiba, P. Fleet, I. Samotes).
Lit.: Kitten, AN, He was a pioneer. Mother's story, Moscow, 1958; Nadzhafrov GD, Bold not die, M., 1968.
Avgustinchich Antoon (1900), Croatian sculptor. Disciple IV Meštrović. The expressive, heroic spirit of the monuments (monument of the Soviet Army in the skeleton-Batin, 1945 – 1947; Monument of Peace at UN Headquarters in New York, 1952 – 1955), portraits, statues and torsos.