* TITLE: "Summer evening"
* ARTISTS: Zakharov Fedor Zakharovich
* SIZE: 110x121 cm/'43.30х47.63 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: good condition, you can see all edges, corners and the back side of the painting on the photos
About the artist: People's Artist of Ukraine, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after T.G. Shevchenko, holder of the orders of the Red Banner of Labor and the Badge of Honor.
Born in with. Alexandrovskoye of the Smolensk region in 1919. The artist graduated from the Moscow Art and Industrial College. M.I. Kalinin, and in 1950 the Moscow State Art Institute. V.I. Surikova, faculty of painting. His teachers were famous Russian artists A.V. Lentulov, G.G. Riga, V.V. Favorsky, I.I. Chekmazov, who taught him not only professional skills, but also instilled a love for the beautiful, for the great Russian national heritage.
At the end of the institute Zakharov was a teacher at the Simferopol Art College. N.S. Samokish, since 1953 a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, a participant in Republican, and since 1954, All-Union exhibitions.
The main theme of the artist's work was the Crimean landscape. Zakharov gained fame as one of the most famous singers of the Crimean nature. The mountains, orchards and vineyards stretching at their feet, the busy working life of the port workers of Yalta, the cherished corners associated with the stay of Pushkin, Gorky, Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Mitskevich.
His theme is the life of nature. He distinguishes the main components of its elements - form, color and light, and finds plastic expression for them. He reveals and conveys their relationship, recognizes and shows the action of the forces of nature - rains and winds, snowfalls, sunrise and sunset, and the change of seasons. In landscapes, he is not limited to depicting specific details, but seeks to expand the scope of first impressions and more accurately convey the state of nature with a generalized image.
As well as landscapes, Zakharov’s still lifes are distinguished by high professionalism, a subtle compositional solution, and color saturation. In still lifes, he strove to reflect not only the beauty of the world around him and to solve complex pictorial problems characteristic of the master of Russian painting.
People's Artist of the USSR since 1978. Many of the artist's works are in museums in Simferopol, Kharkov, Odessa, Omsk. His works have visited Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Japan, France.
In 1987, for a series of landscapes and still lifes "My native Ukraine," Zakharov was awarded the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T.G. Shevchenko.
In 1994, Zakharov died.