Krylov Porfiry (Porphiry) Nikitich (member of Kukryniksy)
Graphic artist, painter
August 22, 1902 (Tula, Russia) — May 15, 1990 (Moscow, Russia)
Krylov Porfiry is russian and soviet painter and graphic. Member of a unique art trio Kukryniksy (together with Mikhail Kupriyanov and Nickolay Sokolov) – a significant event of Socrealism.
Krylov Porfiry - An acting
member of Academy of Arts of USSR (1947). People’s artist of USSR (1958).
Winner of Lenin Prize (1965), Member of
the Bureau of Academy of Arts of the USSR. Hero of Socialist Labour(1972).
Krylov’s chamber landscapes and still-life follow the traditions of “Russian impressionism” which originate from the art of Isaak Levitan and Konstantin Korovin.
Pictures of Krylov are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery
(Moscow), State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Porfiry Krylov’s Museum in Tula and in Ufizzi Gallery in Florence.
Krylov’s chamber landscapes and still-life follow the traditions of “Russian impressionism” which originate from the art of Isaak Levitan and Konstantin Korovin.
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Porfiry Nikitich Krylov was born in 1902 to a family of factory’s workers. When Porfiry was 11 years old, his mother, two brothers and her sister, they died from the disease. He finished primary school; for some years he worked in the tool workshop at the ammunition factory. At the same time he studied in the art studio at the factory under the guidance of G. M. Shegal.
He attended the Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow (1921–1928), studied under A. A. Osmerkin, A. V. Shevchenko, and P. P. Konchalovsky.
He attended the Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS) in Moscow (1921–1928), studied under A. A. Osmerkin, A. V. Shevchenko, and P. P. Konchalovsky.
Since 1924 he was a member of the famous creative group "KUKRYNIKSY" together with M. Kupriyanov and M. Sokolov, with whom he created several thousand caricatures, hundreds of posters. Their pseudonym “Kukryniksy” is made up of the first syllables of their names. Three artists worked by collective creativity (each also worked individually – on portraits and landscapes). The greatest popularity brought them numerous masterfully executed caricatures and cartoons, as well as book illustrations created in the typical style of caricature.
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KUKRYNIKSY
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Korin P.D. Portrait of Kukryniksy, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 1958
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They worked for the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda (“Komsomol Truth”), Literaturnaya Gazeta (“Literary Newspaper”), Pravda (“Truth”), Krokodil (“Crocodile”), Smekhach (“Laugher”), Smena (“Shift”), in the years of the Great Patriotic War – in Okna TASS “Windows of TASS (the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union). During the Great Patriotic War, the Kukryniksy triumvirate fought the enemy with their own weapons of trenchant political caricature and posters.
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We will ruthlessly defeat and destroy the enemy !
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In 1945-1948 they produced their large painting ‘The End’ in which they depicted the supposed last hours of Hitler’s clique.
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Kukryniksy, The End of Hitler, 1948, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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Kukryniksy, Nazis leaving Novgorod, 1944-1946, the State Russian Museum
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KUKRYNIKSY, the trio of graphic artists (KUpriyanov, KRYlov, NIkolai Sokolov) created paintings and illustrations to many works by M. de Cervantes, Saltykov-Shchedrin, A. Chekhov, M. Gorky, MI. Ilf and E. Petrov and M. A. Sholokhov.
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Kukryniksy, 1949-1952, “Don Quixote and Sancho Panza” by M. de Cervantes, Gallery, Pensa, Russia |
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Kukryniksy, 1945-46, “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
Porfiry Krylov also was involved in easel painting and graphic art (individually).
Porfiry Krylov was created and a lot of
independent work, having intimate in nature. Porfiry wrote a lot in the
open air.
He painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes. Krylov worked in Yasnaya Polyana, Polenovo in Tula province, at the Academy dacha in Tver province, in Abramtsevo, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus. Krylov's landscapes are a Prime example of the artist's deep sense of nature.
He visited Italy, Bulgaria and France.
He painted landscapes, portraits, still lifes. Krylov worked in Yasnaya Polyana, Polenovo in Tula province, at the Academy dacha in Tver province, in Abramtsevo, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus. Krylov's landscapes are a Prime example of the artist's deep sense of nature.
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Krylov Porfiry, Summer in Polenovo, 1952, Private Collection |
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Krylov Porfiry, Paris, Notre Dame, 1960, Museum of Porphiriy Krylov, Tula, Russia
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Krylov’s chamber landscapes and still-lives follow the traditions of “Russian impressionism” which originate from the art of Isaac Levitan and Konstantin Korovin.
In Art Museum named after P. Krylov in Tula you'll
find the soul of the artist, his bright and poetic vision of the world, the
ability to find beauty sometimes even the most ordinary things.
Information about the Art Museum named after P. Krylov
You will be charmed landscapes of Russian nature and exotic distant lands, of wonderful children's portraits, floral still-lifes with their unique and enduring beauty.
Information about the Art Museum named after P. Krylov
You will be charmed landscapes of Russian nature and exotic distant lands, of wonderful children's portraits, floral still-lifes with their unique and enduring beauty.
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Krylov Porfiry, Roses and blue plums, 1962, Museum of Porphiriy Krylov, Tula, Russia
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Krylov Porfiry, On the balcony, Wife Elena Krylova, Gurzuf, 1954, Museum of Porphiriy Krylov, Tula, Russia
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The P. N. Krylov's works are kept in
the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Art Museum named after P. Krylov in Tula, in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Porfiry Krylov is
- People's Artist of the USSR since 1951,
- Member of the Academy of Arts in the USSR since 1947,
- Winner of the Lenin Prize in 1965,
- Six times he was awarded with the State Prize of the USSR,
- Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic named after Ilya Repin.
Gold medals of World’s Fair in Paris (1937) and World’s
Fair in Brussels (1958)
Personnel expositions of Kukryniksy:
1932; 1981; 2008; 2018 - Moscow,
1974 - Marseille,
1975 - Sophie,
1978 – Tokyo,
2011 - Museum of Ethnology, Vienna,
2011 - Art Institute of Chicago
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Krylov Porfiry, Breakfast on the terrace, 1934, Museum of Porphiriy Krylov, Tula, Russia
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Krylov Porfiry, Summer, 1980, Museum of Porphiriy Krylov, Tula, Russia
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STAMPS with Kylov's paintings
