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Natalia Aleksandrovna Gippius (Russian: Гиппиус, Наталья Александровна), 1905–1994, was a prominent Russian painter and graphic artist. == Biography == Natalia Aleksandrovna Gippius was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg in a family with long traditions in the arts. Her aunt was the famous poetess Zinaida Gippius, and her other aunt was also a painter, and studied with Ilya Repin. After attending a specialized art school in Perm (1924–1928), Natalia Gippius was admitted in the VKhuTeIn-Polygraphic Institute of Moscow in 1928, and studied under D. Moore, A. Deineka, N. Udaltsova, M. Rodionov and K. Istomin. At the VKhuTeIn she met her future husband, Konstantin Lekomtsev, a very talented portrait painter. After graduating in 1935, she did the typical road-show for a Soviet artist in the 1930s. She travelled around in the Soviet Union, depicting the construction of socialism in Mordovia, Kuban, Altai, and Saransk. She painted female tractor brigades, collective farms and army hospitals, often with a distinct inspiration from the 1920s Avant-garde. In 1937 she becomes a member of the Artists' Union in Moscow. Starting from the 1950s and through the 1970s, she focused on her beloved Moscow, and depicted the old Moscow, the Muscovites and the building of the New Moscow. She becomes then a member of the urban artists' group "Moscow through the Windows of a Bus", active in Moscow from 1965 to 1985. Her lively temperas with their almost festive perception of life act as a mirror of the times. The Moscow scenes are snapshots taken in an effort to capture a moment of the beauty of city life. Her spontaneous art reveals all that which a passer-by could miss, all that ordinary citizens are often too busy to notice. Gippius' works are genuinely original among her contemporaries, making her art all the more isolated and precious. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Natalia Gippius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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