Biography Libya Shchipachev

The years of early childhood took place in Lefortovo barracks, and then in Sevastopol, where a five -year -old boy first saw the sea, which left an indelible impression in his soul. The fairy tale about the goldfish, as a symbol of good and happiness, became almost a reality when it saw a flock of fish through the transparent surface of the water, which then appeared gold.

These impressions did not give rest, became an everlasting dream of an artist, and many years later they to some extent determined the ways of developing his art. The time of stay in the south was short -lived, and after the end of the two elementary school classes, Livy returns to Moscow. His first drawings indicate an extraordinary talent. In the year, Livy enters the Moscow Secondary School just open.

The school had a beneficial effect on the development of Shchipachev’s talent. In May, he became a participant in the school exhibition, which took place in the exhibition hall of the Moscow partnership of artists. In the year, Libya was invited by the Moscow film studio "Soyuzetfilm" to the main role of the film "Timur and his team" based on the same story by Arkady Gaidar. The began the Great Patriotic War interrupted classes at school.

To complete the work in Timur's Oath, Libya had to leave first to Ulyanovsk, and then to Ufa and Stalinabad. Only at the end of the year he returns to Moscow and resumes his studies. A passionate desire to master professional skills does not leave him even in extracurricular time. Libya could be seen with a sketchbook in quiet lanes and courtyards of old Moscow. He is attracted by history and architectural monuments - witnesses of the life of an ancient city.

In the summer of the year, immediately after the liberation of Crimea from the Nazi invaders, a group of high school students to collect documentary material to compositions on the topic of the Great Patriotic War leaves there. Schipachev also took part in this trip. Wandering the ruins of his native Sevastopol, for the first time in his life he felt the sinister breath of war, presented the immense suffering of people and the heroism of Soviet soldiers.

In subsequent years, the already formed artist, who was able to create serious compositional canvases, Schipachev will repeatedly return to the topic of war. In the meantime, he makes drawings of the destroyed city, port, deserted streets, along which the patrol of soldiers and sailors, recent participants in the battles for the liberation of Sevastopol, walks around the clock.

Already at the end of his studies at the school, Shchipachev began to engage in a portrait, realizing that this would bring him closer to the difficult tasks of solving the images of the heroes of future paintings. In the year, he wrote a portrait of Alexandra Pavlovna Tretyakova - the founder of the gallery, who, in its artistic merits, is approaching the works of famous masters of Soviet portrait painting.

After the successful graduation in the year, Schipachev passes competitive exams and is credited to the Faculty of Painting of the Moscow Art Institute. Studying at the institute takes place in difficult conditions. Students of different courses are engaged in the lobby of the music studio. Tchaikovsky, where in the neighborhood, in the auditorium, rehearsals are going on in the morning, and in the evening - performances.

Each time, you have to take the drawings and the wounded canvases with you, it is impossible to conduct prolonged setting time. Livy stubbornly works on the kind of house, on vacation goes to ancient Russian cities Vladimir, Suzdal. Under Suzdal in the village of Tortino, there is a plan of the future picture connected by peasant labor in the post -war years. He is the compositional dominant of the canvas.

In all his appearance, a force should be felt that can overcome all the difficulties found on his path. Now life in peaceful fields depends on him and like him. ” The painting "The Master of the Earth" appeared at a student exhibition in the year and drew attention to the originality of the solution of the topic and the skill of execution. Shortly before the graduation, as a result of Shchipachev’s trips to the Rostov region and Kuban, a new canvas “son” was born, for which the author and year receives knowledge of the artist.

The period of Shchipachev’s work from the beginning of x to the beginning of the 10ths can be described as a time of deep thought over the historical fate of people, appeals to the inner world of a man who was emerged earlier in the portrait of A. The artist chooses a difficult path in art, he seeks to create works in which the fate of people in difficult tragic situations are revealed.

At the exhibitions, Shchipachev canvases appear as “partisan”, “heroic years of the revolution” and “in the Volokolamsk direction” The last work belongs to the military cycle. Her composition is built on one figure of a soldier, frozen in a dumb silence in front of an empty crib. A lively response in the periodic press was received by the painting by Shchipachev “The wife arrived”, shown at the 1st exhibition “Soviet Russia” in the year.

This work was published in the magazines "Spark", "Creativity", "Youth". Her idea is unheard: a meeting of the spouses after a long separation.The significance of what is happening is emphasized by the very compositional solution, built on expressive silhouettes of figures, clearly looming against the background of the sky with a low -down horizon. The images of the ancient land, which struck his imagination in childhood, attracted Shchipachev with an inexplicable force.

Friendship with archaeologists allowed him to enrich his knowledge. The Principality of the Tsemutarakan, which arose on the lands of the Bosporus kingdom, has become the subject of study. It was here, near the walls of Fanagoria, that a grandiose picture of the historical connection of times, the continuity of cultures, a sense of continuity of life, opened to the artist. The cycle of the works “Ancient land of Russia” arose, united by the theme of the past and real legendary Colchis, sung by Orpheus, in which the artist’s talent was revealed.

This cycle is the result of hard work includes about twenty canvases, from which it is possible to distinguish: “Morning”, “Cool shores of the Kuban”, “Red Sun”, “Taman Madonna”, “Tmutarakan” and others. In nature and ideological and aesthetic orientation, the work of the artist Libya Shchipachev continues the best traditions of Russian realistic art: a deep feeling in comprehension of nature, love of life and people.

Thoughts and feelings of boundless love for the Motherland and their people, his historical fates were reflected in the lines of the poem of prose “Ilya Muromets”, written by the artist himself: “My Russian land, supervised. How many generations you fed, you fed your children with joy and love, caressed and punished them. How many you have covered forever. And again you feed the generations, weaving with milk of the crystal rivers that run through the vowels of your earth's earth.

A cold wind sorting out my gray hair, and even one fallen picked up an Ivolga bird on the fly to weave it warm into his nest. Yes, and the tree cracked, once planted by me, tends to the ground, which is nourished. I was not tired of looking at your sky, winter, starry. I want to listen to the winds of complaints, I want to see the autumn, falling forest, and whisper with its rustle.

In the spring, surprise the liliac flower, suffocate the spicy smell of bird cherry. Run in a thunderstorm with a mowing rod and bury your head in a beveled porridge. And when my ashes are insensitive in my native land, let his last dust dust in the palm of the mighty Lemec suddenly linger, heated in the cobblestone in the sun, and then between the autumn stubble, ”the art of the artist Libya Stepanovich Shchipachev is a significant phenomenon in Soviet painting.

It sings the triumph of reason and light, the beauty of life, the warmth of human feeling.