Evgenia Antipova facts for kids
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Evgenia Petrovna Antipova
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| Born | 19 October 1917 Toropets, Pskov Governorate, Russia
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| Died | 27 January 2009 (aged 91) |
| Education | Repin Institute of Arts |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Socialist realism, Leningrad School of Painting |
Evgenia Petrovna Antipova (Russian: Евге́ния Петро́вна Анти́пова; 19 October 1917 – 27 January 2009) was a talented Russian Soviet painter, watercolorist, and art teacher. She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists and is known as one of the important artists of the Leningrad School of Painting. She lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg for most of her life.
Her Life Story
Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was born on October 19, 1917, in a town called Toropets in Russia. Her father worked for the railway. In 1928, her family moved to Samara, a city on the Volga River. There, she started learning art in a studio led by Pavel Krasnov.
In 1935, Antipova moved to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). She studied at the Leningrad Secondary Art School from 1936 to 1939. Her teachers were famous artists like Leonid Ovsyannikov and Alexander Zaytsev.
In 1939, she joined the painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. She even showed her artwork at a big youth art exhibition in Moscow that same year.
When World War II started in 1941, Antipova was in West Ukraine. She managed to get back to Leningrad. She stayed in the city during the difficult blockade until February 1942. Then, she was moved to Novosibirsk, where she lived and worked until the war ended.
After the war, in 1945, Antipova returned to Leningrad. She finished her studies at the Repin Institute of Arts in 1950. Her final project was a painting called «Andrey Zhdanov visits the Palace of Young Pioneers in Leningrad».
Her Art and Style
From 1950 to 1956, Evgenia Antipova taught painting at the Tavricheskaya Art School in Leningrad. She started showing her art in exhibitions in 1950. In 1953, she became a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
Antipova created many different types of paintings. She painted scenes of everyday life (genre compositions), people (portraits), outdoor views (landscapes), and arrangements of objects (still life paintings). She used both oil paints and watercolors. Some of her favorite subjects included apple orchards in bloom, landscapes from Crimea, and still life paintings set both indoors and outdoors.
Some of her well-known paintings from the 1950s and early 1960s include «Practical exercises» (1953), «Still life» (1957), and «Apple tree» (1962). These works show her unique way of looking at the world. She liked to express her own feelings in her art, rather than just showing everything exactly as it was.
In the 1960s, Antipova also painted many portraits, like «A Girl from Pereslavl» and «Waitress» (both 1964). Later, her main focus became still life paintings and landscapes. Her style was often simple in drawing but very interested in showing color, light, and air.
Some of her famous works from this time are «A Window. Nasturtiums» (1968), «Tulips on a window» (1970), and «Still life in the garden. A Spring» (1974). In her still lifes, she often showed a table with flowers or a book placed in a garden corner. Her best still life paintings, like «A Midday» (1982) and «Still Life. Flowering willow, Calla lilies, Daffodils» (1984), show a peaceful world where people and nature are in harmony. This idea of harmony was a main theme in her art throughout her life.
Evgenia Antipova had several art shows in Leningrad and Saint Petersburg in 1967, 1988, 1999, and 2007. Some of these shows were with her husband, artist Victor Teterin. Her paintings were also shown and sold in France in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
She passed away on January 27, 2009, in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 91. Her beautiful paintings can be found in the State Russian Museum and in many other art museums and private collections around the world, including in Russia, France, Germany, the USA, and England.
See also
In Spanish: Yevguenia Antípova para niños
- A Midday (painting)
- Fine Art of Leningrad
- Leningrad School of Painting
- List of Russian artists
- List of 20th-century Russian painters
- List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
- Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
Exhibitions
Evgenia Antipova participated in many art exhibitions throughout her career. Some of the major group shows she was part of include:
- 1954: The Spring Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists in Leningrad.
- 1957: 1917–1957. Leningrad Artist's works of Art Exhibition in Leningrad.
- 1960: Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists in Leningrad.
- 1961: Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists in Leningrad.
- 1962: The Fall Exhibition of works by Leningrad artists in Leningrad.
- 1964: The Leningrad Fine Arts Exhibition in Leningrad.
- 1972: Across the Motherland Exhibition of Leningrad artists in Leningrad.
- 1975: Our Contemporary regional exhibition of Leningrad artists in Leningrad.
- 1976: The Fine Arts of Leningrad in Moscow.
- 1994: Etudes done from nature in creativity of the Leningrad School's artists in Saint Petersburg.
- 1995: Lyrical motives in the works of artists of the war generation in Saint Petersburg.
- 2013: Paintings of 1940–1980 by the Artists of the Leningrad School at the ARKA Gallery in Saint Petersburg.
