"Traditions of ancient times" came to life thanks to the brush of Viktor Vasnetsov. Bogatyrs and princesses went beyond book lines and illustrations. The artist grew up in the wilderness of the Ural forests on Russian fairy tales that sounded to the crackle of a torch. And already being in St. Petersburg, he did not forget his childhood memories and transferred those magical stories to the canvas. We examine fabulous canvases with Natalia Letnikova.
Alyonushka
A barefoot, simple-haired girl on the banks of a forest river. With inexpressible sadness, he looks into a deep pool. The sad picture was inspired by a fairy tale about sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka, and he painted an orphan from a peasant girl from the Akhtyrka estate, adding, as he himself admitted, the features of Verusha Mamontova, the daughter of a famous Moscow philanthropist. Nature echoes girlish sadness, intertwining with the poetry of folk tales.
Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf
Gloomy dark forest. And a gray wolf, quite expected for such a thicket. Only instead of an evil grin, the predator has human eyes, and on it are two riders. Cautious Ivanushka carefully holds Elena the Beautiful, submissive to fate. We recognize not only the plot of the Russian fairy tale, but also the image of the girl. The artist endowed the fairy-tale heroine with real features - Savva Mamontov's niece, Natalia.
V.M. Vasnetsov. Alyonushka. 1881
V.M. Vasnetsov. Ivan Tsarevich on a gray wolf. 1889
Bogatyrs
Viktor Vasnetsov. Bogatyrs. 1898
Vasnetsov devoted 20 years of his life to one of the most famous paintings in Russian painting. "Bogatyrs" became the artist's largest painting. The size of the canvas is almost 3 by 4.5 meters. Bogatyrs are a collective image. Ilya, for example, is a peasant Ivan Petrov, and a blacksmith from Abramtsevo, and a cab driver from the Crimean bridge. At the heart of the picture are the childish feelings of the author. “So it was before my eyes: hills, space, heroes. Wonderful dream of childhood.
Song of Joy and Sorrow
Viktor Vasnetsov. Sirin and Alkonost. A song of joy and sorrow. 1896
Alkonost and Sirin. Two half-birds with ghostly promises of a cloudless paradise in the future and with regrets about the lost paradise. Vasnetsov embellished sexless birds, giving mythical creatures beautiful female faces and rich crowns. Sirin's singing is so sad that the leaves of a century-old tree turned black, the delight of an alkonost can make you forget about everything ... if you linger on the picture.
Magic carpet
Viktor Vasnetsov. Magic carpet. 1880
Painting for the Railroad Administration. Not a train, not even a postal troika. Magic carpet. This is how Victor Vasnetsov responded to the request of Savva Mamontov to paint a picture for the industrialist's new project. The fabulous flying machine, a symbol of victory over space, puzzled the members of the board and inspired the artist himself. Mamontov bought the painting, and Vasnetsov discovered a new world for himself. In which there is no place for the ordinary.
Three princesses of the underworld
Viktor Vasnetsov. Three princesses of the underworld. 1884
Gold, copper and coal. Three riches that are hidden in the bowels of the earth. Three fabulous princesses are the embodiment of earthly blessings. Proud and haughty gold, curious copper and timid coal. Princesses are mistresses of mountain mines, accustomed to command people. There are two pictures with such a plot at once. On one of them in the corner - as petitioners, the figures of two men obsequiously looking into beautiful cold faces.
Koschei the Deathless
Viktor Vasnetsov. Koschei the Deathless. 1917–1926
Rich mansions with chocolate, red and gold hues. The luxury of brocade and rare woods is a worthy frame for heavy chests with treasures, and the main treasure that Koshchei is not given in his hands is a young beauty. The girl is interested in the sword, which, however, cannot defeat Koshchei. The image of the main fairy-tale villain Viktor Vasnetsov wrote for nine years. Chronologically, the picture was the last for the artist.
Vasnetsov Yuri Alekseevich (1900-1973)- graphic artist, painter, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1966). Studied at the Academy of Arts (1921-26) under A.E. Kareva, K.S. Petrova-Vodkina, N.A. Tyrsy.
Vasnetsov's work is inspired by the poetics of Russian folklore. The most famous were illustrations for Russian fairy tales, songs, riddles ("Three Bears" by L. N. Tolstoy, 1930; collection "The Miracle Ring", 1947; "Fables in the Faces", 1948; "Ladushki", 1964; arc", 1969, State Project of the USSR, 1971). He created separate color lithographs ("Teremok", 1943; "Zaikin's hut", 1948).
After the death of Vasnetsov, his exquisite pictorial stylizations in the spirit of the primitive became known ("Lady with a Mouse", "Still Life with a Hat and a Bottle", 1932-1934)
Word to the artist Vasnetsov Yu.A.
- “I am so grateful to Vyatka - my homeland, childhood - I saw beauty!” (Vasnetsov Yu.A.)
- “I remember spring in Vyatka. Streams flow, as stormy as waterfalls, and we, guys, let the boats go ... In the spring, a fun fair opened - Whistleblower. At the fair, elegant, fun. And what is there! Clay dishes, pots, krinki, jugs. Homespun tablecloths with all sorts of patterns ... I was very fond of Vyatka toys made of clay, wood, plaster horses, cockerels - everything is interesting in color. Carousels at the fair are all in beads, all in sparkles - geese, horses, carriages, and the accordion is sure to play ”(Yu.A. Vasnetsov)
- “Draw, write what you like. Look around more ... You can’t say everything terribly, draw it. When a lot of something is done, drawn, then naturalism arises. Let's say a flower. Take it, but recycle it - let it be a flower, but different. Chamomile is not a chamomile. I like forget-me-nots for their blueness, a yellow spot in the middle. Lilies of the valley ... When I smell them, it seems to me that I am a king ... ”(Vasnetsov Yu.V. From advice to young artists)
- (Vasnetsov Yu.A.)
- “In my drawings, I try to show a corner of the beautiful world of my native Russian fairy tale, which brings up in children a deep love for the people, for our Motherland and its generous nature” (Yu.A. Vasnetsov)
- When asked what was the most expensive gift he received, the artist replied: “Life. Life given to me"
Yuri Vasnetsov was born on April 4, 1900 in the ancient city of Vyatka, in the family of a priest. Both his grandfather and his father's brothers belonged to the clergy. Yu.A. Vasnetsov was distantly related to and. The large family of Father Alexy Vasnetsov lived in a two-story house at the cathedral, where the priest served. Yura was very fond of this temple - the cast-iron tiles of its floor, rough so that the foot would not slip, a huge bell, an oak staircase that led to the top of the bell tower ...
The artist absorbed his love for the flowery folk culture in his native old Vyatka: “I still live by what I saw and remembered in childhood.”
The entire Vyatka province was famous for handicrafts: furniture, chest, lace, toys. Yes, and mother Maria Nikolaevna herself was a noble lace embroiderer, well-known in the city. In the memory of little Yura, towels embroidered with roosters, and painted boxes, multi-colored clay and wooden horses, lambs in bright pants, lady dolls - "painted from the heart, from the soul" will remain in the memory of little Yura for the rest of his life.
As a boy, he himself painted the walls of his room, shutters and stoves in the houses of his neighbors with bright patterns, flowers, horses and fantastic animals and birds. He knew and loved Russian folk art, and this later helped him to draw his amazing illustrations for fairy tales. And the costumes that were worn in his native northern regions, and the festive attire of horses, and the wooden carvings on the windows and porches of the huts, and the painted spinning wheels and embroideries - everything that he saw from an early age was useful to him for fabulous drawings. As a child, he liked all kinds of manual labor. He sewed boots and bound books, loved to skate and fly a kite. Vasnetsov's favorite word was "interesting."
After the revolution, all the families of priests, including the Vasnetsov family (mother, father and six children), were literally evicted to the streets. “... Father no longer served in the cathedral, which was closed ... and he didn’t serve anywhere at all ... He would have to cheat, lay down his dignity, but then a meek firmness of spirit was revealed: he continued to walk in a cassock , with a pectoral cross and with long hair, ”Yuri Alekseevich recalled. The Vasnetsovs wandered around strange corners, and soon bought a small house. Then I had to sell it, they lived in a former bathhouse ...
Yuri went to seek his fortune in Petrograd in 1921. He dreamed of becoming an artist. Miraculously, he entered the painting department of the State Art Museum (later Vkhutemas); successfully completed his studies in 1926.
His teachers were the noisy metropolitan Petrograd itself with its European palaces and the Hermitage full of world treasures. They were followed by a long line of many and varied teachers who opened the world of painting to the young provincial. Among them were the academically well-trained Osip Braz, Alexander Savinov, the leaders of the Russian avant-garde - the “flower painter” Mikhail Matyushin, the suprematist Kazimir Malevich. And in the "formalist" works of the 1920s, the individual characteristics of Vasnetsov's pictorial language testified to the extraordinary talent of the novice artist.
In search of a job, the young artist began to collaborate with the department of children's and youth literature of the State Publishing House, where, under the artistic direction of V.V. Lebedev happily found himself in the interpretation of the themes and images of Russian folklore - fairy tales, in which his natural craving for humor, grotesque and good irony was best satisfied.
In the 1930s he was famous for illustrations for the books "Swamp", "Humpbacked Horse", "Fifty Pigs" by K.I. Chukovsky, "Three Bears" L.I. Tolstoy. At the same time, he made excellent - smart and exciting - lithographic prints for children, based on the same plot motifs.
The artist made amazing illustrations for Leo Tolstoy's fairy tale "Three Bears". A big, scary, like an enchanted forest, and a bear's hut are too big for a little lost girl. And the shadows in the house are also dark, creepy. But then the girl ran away from the bears, and the forest immediately brightened in the picture. So the artist conveyed the major mood with paints. It is interesting to watch how Vasnetsov dresses his heroes. Elegant and festive - the nurse mother-Goat, mother-Cat. He will definitely give them colored skirts in frills and lace. And he will regret the offended Fox Bunny, put on a warm jacket. Wolves, bears, foxes, which prevent good animals from living, the artist tried not to dress up: they did not deserve beautiful clothes.
So, continuing the search for his path, the artist entered the world of children's books. Purely formal searches gradually gave way to folk culture. The artist increasingly looked back at his "Vyatka" world.
A trip to the North in 1931 finally convinced him of the correctness of the chosen path. He turned to folk sources, already experienced in the intricacies of the modern pictorial language, which gave rise to the phenomenon that we can now call the phenomenon of painting by Yuri Vasnetsov. The still life with a large fish fully testifies to the new bright trends in the works of Vasnetsov.
On a small red tray, crossing it diagonally, lies a large fish sparkling with silver scales. The peculiar composition of the picture is akin to a heraldic sign and at the same time a folk rug on the wall of a peasant hut. With a dense viscous colorful mass, the artist achieves an amazing credibility and authenticity of the image. The external oppositions of the planes of red, ocher, black and silver-gray are tonally balanced and give the work a feeling of monumental painting.
So, book illustrations were only one side of his work. The main goal of Vasnetsov's life has always been painting, and he went to this goal with fanatical persistence: he worked independently, studied under the guidance of K.S. Malevich in Ginkhuk, studied in graduate school at the All-Russian Academy of Arts.
In 1932-34 he finally created several works ("Lady with a Mouse", "Still Life with a Hat and a Bottle", etc.), in which he proved himself to be a very great master who successfully combined the refined pictorial culture of his time with the tradition of folk "bazaar" art, which he appreciated and loved. But this later self-confidence coincided with the campaign against formalism that had begun at that time. Fearing ideological persecution (which had already touched his book graphics), Vasnetsov made painting a secret occupation and showed it only to close people. In his landscapes and still lifes, emphatically unpretentious in their motives and extremely sophisticated in terms of pictorial form, he achieved impressive results, reviving the traditions of Russian primitivism in a peculiar way. But these works were practically unknown to anyone.
During the war years, spent first in Molotov (Perm), then in Zagorsk (Sergiev Posad), where he was the chief artist of the Toy Institute, Vasnetsov performed poetic illustrations for S.Ya. Marshak (1943), and then to his own book "Cat's House" (1947). A new success brought him illustrations for the folklore collections "The Miraculous Ring" (1947) and "Fables in the Faces" (1948). Vasnetsov worked extraordinarily intensively, many times varying the themes and images dear to him. The well-known collections "Ladushki" (1964) and "Rainbow-arc" (1969) became a kind of result of his many years of activity.
Vasnetsov's bright, entertaining and witty drawings have found perhaps the most organic embodiment of Russian folklore, more than one generation of young readers have grown up on them, and he himself was recognized as a classic in the field of children's books during his lifetime. In a Russian folk tale, everything is unexpected, unknown, unbelievable. If it's scary, then it's trembling, if joy is a feast for the whole world. So the artist makes his drawings for the book "Rainbow-Arc" bright, festive - now the page is blue with a bright rooster, then red, and on it is a brown bear with a birch staff.
The difficult life of the artist left an indelible mark on his relationship with people. Usually gullible and gentle in character, already being married, he became unsociable. He did not exhibit anywhere as an artist, he did not perform anywhere, referring to the upbringing of two daughters, one of whom, the eldest, Elizaveta Yuryevna, would later become a famous artist.
Leaving home, relatives, even for a short time, was a tragedy for him. Any parting with the family was unbearable, and the day when they had to set off was a ruined day.
Before leaving the house, Yuri Alekseevich even let out a tear from chagrin and anguish, but he did not forget to put some gift or a cute trinket under the pillow for everyone. Even friends waved their hand at this homebody - a man for great art is gone!
Fairy tales remained a favorite reading of Yuri Alekseevich until old age. And my favorite pastimes are painting still lifes, landscapes with oil paints, illustrating fairy tales, and in the summer fishing on the river, always with a bait.
Only a few years after the death of the artist, his paintings were shown to the audience at an exhibition in the State Russian Museum (1979), and it became clear that Vasnetsov was not only an excellent book graphic artist, but also one of the outstanding Russian painters of the 20th century.
Vasnetsov Yury Alekseevich
"I really like to remember my childhood. When I write, I draw, I live by what I remember and saw in my childhood." Yuri Vasnetsov
Outstanding Russian artist: painter, graphic artist, stage designer, children's illustrator, master of color lithography. In 1921-1926. studied at the GSHM (VKhUTEMAS). He was a student of V.V. Lebedev and K.S. Malevich, like the first, he applied his gift of an ironic, inventive artist to the art of children's books. Like the second, he showed in his work a penchant for the avant-garde and experiment. Yu. Vasnetsov is distinguished by his unique and easily recognizable style, familiar to several generations from children's books: "The Little Humpbacked Horse", "Three Bears", "Ladushki", "Cat's House", "Rainbow-Arc", etc.
Like many book illustrators who made it to the pre-offset era, Vasnetsov was fluent in the technique of lithography. Thanks to this, not only books, original drawings and paintings, but also beautiful color lithographic prints remained after him.
Books with illustrations by the artist
Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov is rightfully considered the artist of the Russian fairy tale.
One of the main features of his artistic method is the inextricable organic connection with folk art. Moreover, Yu. Vasnetsov reworks the principles of folk art, bringing them closer to contemporary art. The images he created are marked by optimism, a life-affirming force that is characteristic of folk art.
Fantastic, fabulous landscapes are based on living impressions of real Russian nature. Birds and animals acting in fairy tales acquire special expressiveness from Yu. Vasnetsov precisely because the artist gives them movements and habits, vigilantly noticed in reality. A specific feature of the artistic method of Yu. Vasnetsov is a rare ability to create as if on behalf of his future viewer, the ability to relive a child's passion for a fairy tale and, as it were, to pass through the prism of children's perception of the traditions of folk art.
One of the artist's favorite compositional techniques is the repetition and roll call of motifs. At the same time, each Vasnetsov's book is a new version of figurative, compositional, coloristic solutions.
The emotional structure of Yu. Vasnetsov's drawings is organized by color, which plays a special role. It does not lose the decorative effect characteristic of folk art, but at the same time it becomes the bearer of the intense poetic feeling invested by the artist in the theme of a fairy tale.
The color of Vasnetsov's illustrations is like a color alphabet for a child. The color of the characters is defined, simple, it is easy to call it: a gray wolf, white geese, a red fox, etc. At the same time, Yu. Vasnetsov surprisingly accurately achieves the proportionality of real and fantastic colors, which contributes to the child’s correct perception of the image. In the book "Ladushki" the artist uses the color of the background boldly and inventively. Color becomes here, as it were, the environment in which the action takes place. Art historians conditionally called this technique the "principle of a magic lantern." Joyfully and festively illuminating funny scenes with yellow, red, blue or pink "light", the artist attracts the viewer's attention with the unexpectedness of the color background of the page, using the method of quickly changing impressions close to children. But each color spot of the illustration, "tuned" in accordance with the sound of the color background, lives its own life, being included in the overall composition.
Yuri Alekseevich illustrated and designed books by V. Bianchi, S. Marshak, K. Chukovsky, Russian folk tales, etc.
Books designed by Yu. A. Vasnetsov are easily recognizable. The illustrations in them are of paramount importance, the text obeys them. Yu. A. Vasnetsov draws up the book as a whole, while the strict constructiveness and logical completeness of all its elements do not hamper the creativity and inexhaustible imagination of the master.
Yu. Vasnetsov's picture books introduce the child to life through art (L. Tolstoy "Three Bears", P. Ershov "The Little Humpbacked Horse", S. Marshak "Teremok", etc.). The best works of the artist are illustrations for the collections "Ladushki" and "Rainbow-Arc".
Chukovsky K. I. Fairy tales/ K. I. Chukovsky. ; rice. Yu. Vasnetsov, A. Kanevsky, V. Konashevich, V. Suteev.-M.: Art, 1982.- 164, p. : col. ill.
Vasnetsov Yu. A. 10 books for children/ Yu. Vasnetsov. ; [ed. foreword L. Tokmakov; ed. V. I. Silver; comp. G. M. Vasnetsova; formal. D. M. Plaksin] .-L .: Artist of the RSFSR, 1984.- 173, p. : ill., tsv. ill.
Ladushki: poems, songs, nursery rhymes, fairy tales/ artist Y. Vasnetsov. .-M.: Samovar, pec. 2005.-76, p. : col. ill.; 23 cm - (Thirtieth tales)
Russian tales/ rice. Yu. A. Vasnetsova. .- [Ed. 3rd].-L .: Children's literature, 1980.- 84, p. : ill.: 1.20 82.3 (2Ros) -6Р15
Rainbow: Russian folk tales, songs, nursery rhymes/ [rice. Yu. Vasnetsova]. .-M.: Children's literature, 1989.- 166, p. : col. ill.
Bianchi V. Karabash.- M. - L.: GIZ, 1929.
Bianchi V. Swamp. - L .: Mol. Guard, 1931.
Ershov P. The Little Humpbacked Horse. - L .: Children's publishing house, 1935.
Tolstoy L. Three Bears. - L .: Children's publishing house, 1935.
Chukovsky K. Stolen sun. - M.: Detizdat, 1936.
Children's folk tales. - L .: Children's publishing house, 1936.
Marshak S. Teremok.- M.: Detizdat, 1941.
English folk tales.- M.: Detgiz, 1945.
Bianchi V. Fox and Mouse. - L .: Det. lit., 1964.
Okay. Russian folk tales, songs, nursery rhymes. - M.: Det. lit., 1964.
Rainbow arc. Russian folk songs, nursery rhymes, jokes. - M.: Det. lit., 1969.
Chiki-chiki-chikalochki. Russian folk songs and nursery rhymes. Collected and arr. N. Kolpakova. - L .: Det. lit., 1971.
Artist's work
The design of a children's book has always been and will always be the most serious test for illustrators because of the incorruptible honesty of little critics. And the highest appreciation of the artists' creativity is the recognition of their illustrations, which the memory will keep from childhood, when emotions and first impressions were not yet erased by life experience. April 4 marks the birthday of the artist, who made for the child an unforgettable meeting with the book - Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov. Read about the work of the "fabulous" artist in our article.
The first day of April sets a major tone for the entire month—April Fool's Day. On April 2, the world celebrates International Children's Book Day - a holiday without an age limit (after all, "we all come from childhood"), with an obligatory smile, warmth in the chest and a pile of childhood memories. And on April 4, the birthday of the artist is celebrated, who made the meeting with the book unforgettable for the child— Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973). The creator of the magical world of fairy-tale images, so close and understandable to a child (after all, his drawings of animals and birds look so much like toys), the artist was recognized as a classic in the field of children's books during his lifetime. Yuri Alekseevich, whose favorite reading until old age was fairy tales, he defined the main task of his work in this way: “In my drawings I try to show a corner of the beautiful world of my native Russian fairy tale, which brings up in children a deep love for the people, for our Motherland and its generous nature.”
Yu. A. Vasnetsov
"Fairytale" artist Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov was born on April 4, 1900 in Vyatka in the family of a priest, where his grandfather and brothers were also of the clergy. A family Yuri Alekseevich was in a distant relationship with the famous Russian painters Viktor and Apollinary Vasnetsov, and another relative, folklorist Alexander Vasnetsov, collected more than 350 folk songs of northern Russia. This fact says a lot about the atmosphere in the family, and about her "genetic" talent.
Illustration for P.P. Ershov’s fairy tale “The Little Humpbacked Horse” Y. Vasnetsov
The Vyatka province earned fame for itself, first of all, with its handicrafts: toy, lace, furniture and chest. Maria Nikolaevna, the artist's mother, was a well-known embroiderer and lacemaker in Vyatka. Such a cultural family heritage, folk, as the artist himself said, "bazaar", cultural environment became fertile ground for the development of his talent. And the talent was truly multifaceted (the vector of activity Jura was defined by the word "interesting!"): the boy sewed boots, bound books, painted the walls of his room, the shutters and stoves of his neighbors with intricate patterns and fantastic animals characteristic of folk art. Already at that time, the source of his inspiration was folk art and folklore traditions. Later, the honored artist admitted:
“I still live by what I saw and remembered as a child.”
Illustration for the fairy tale "Three Bears" Y. Vasnetsov
To the delight of many generations of children, the love of drawing took over: young Yuri Vasnetsov decided to become a professional artist. Logic suggested what to do next: in 1921 Yuri Alekseevich came to Petrograd and entered the faculty of painting of the State Art Museum, which he successfully graduated in 1926. It was a time when society generated new revolutionary ideas, and Petrograd became an incubator of revolutionary artistic ideas. Among the Petrograd teachers of the young Vasnetsov were: the Russian "sezanist" Osip Braz, the Russian "impressionist" A. Karev, Alexander Savinov, the leaders of the Russian avant-garde - Mikhail Matyushin and the suprematist Kazimir Malevich. The question of what has been achieved Y. Vasnetsov in painting, remained open for a long time. The individual features of the master’s pictorial language (the artist sought to revive the traditions of Russian primitivism) in his “formalist” works of the 1920s testify to his outstanding talent as a painter.
"Lady with a Mouse" Y. Vasnetsov
The campaign against formalism that began at that time, Yuri Alekseevich quite rightly he took it as a warning (ideological persecution had already touched his book graphics) and transferred painting into the category of a hobby, which he trusted only to his relatives and close friends-artists. His works (mainly landscapes and still lifes) were practically unknown to anyone, and only after the death of the artist received worthy recognition at a solo exhibition at the State Russian Museum in 1979.
Book graphics became a worthy alternative to painting. The young artist began to successfully cooperate with the department of children's and youth literature of the State Publishing House under the leadership of V.V. Lebedev. The success of Yuri Alekseevich was in his personal qualities, in his rich imagination, the direct result of which was the creative interpretation of the theme of images of Russian folklore - fairy tales. Already in the 1930s, Yu. Vasnetsov became a famous and recognizable illustrator of children's fairy tales by V. Bianchi ("Swamp"), P. Ershov ("Humpbacked Horse"), K. Chukovsky ("Confusion", "Fifty Little Pigs"), LN Tolstoy ("Three Bears") and the author of funny lithographic prints for children on the same fairy-tale themes. A trip to the North in 1931 confirmed the correctness of the chosen path. Appeal to folk origins, the successful combination of refined painting with the traditions of folk art gave rise to the phenomenon of Yu. Vasnetsov's "fabulous" painting, when illustrations become of paramount importance, subordinating the text to themselves.
Illustrations Y. Vasnetsova
In illustrations Y.Vasnetsova color plays a major role, and this is a find that still has no equal. Color becomes the first alphabet - “color”, which the child easily and joyfully masters: the wolf is gray, the fox is red, the goose is white. And to create the emotional mood of the drawings and enhance the perception of images, the artist uses the background color. This artistic technique, when color becomes the medium of the action, is called the "magic lantern principle." Constantly focusing on his "Vyatka" world, the artist gave his fairy-tale characters a special expressiveness, dressing them in the costumes of his northern region: the good mother goat and mother cat in elegant colored skirts with lace, offended Bunny "warmed" with a warm jacket. And, helping the kids to correctly place accents, he left the evil wolf, fox and bear without clothes.
Illustration for the fairy tale "Three Bears" Y. Vasnetsov
Book graphics, although the most beloved, was only one facet of his work. During the war years, first in Molotov, and then in Zagorsk, Yu.A.Vasnetsov was the chief artist of the Institute of Toys, taught at the Leningrad School of Fine Arts, created costumes and scenery for performances based on plays by A. Gorky for Leningrad theaters. In 1971, the animated film "Terem-Teremok" was created based on drawings Yu. A. Vasnetsova. The artist's work was highly appreciated, he was awarded the titles: Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1966) and laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1971).
But the highest reward of the artist remains the grateful memory of his descendants.
