Preobrazhenskaya, Vera Ivanovna

Vera Preobrazhenskaya was born in Vladivostok in a family of geologists. From early childhood she was distinguished by outstanding abilities. I independently learned to read at the age of four, at six I read the “War and Peace” by L. N. Tolstoy. Start drawing at an early age. In school, she was fond of drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. After graduating from school in Moscow, she entered the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. . Preobrazhenskaya University was an outstanding student, an excellent student, in her abilities in mathematics and physics she was persuaded to go to the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the same Moscow State University. In parallel with her studies, she was engaged in the decoration of events, writing slogans and posters. She painted a lot of cartoons on her fellow students and teachers. In 1944, she was admitted to graduate school at the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Biological Faculty of Moscow State University. The head is professor world-famous scientist L. A. Zenkevich. In 1945, she decides to leave the university and after unsuccessful attempts to enter the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov and VGIK, where after successfully passing the exams, she is slaughtered for an interview when she answers “Ivan Grozny ”S. Ezenshtein, enters the art center of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions under the direction of People's Artist of the USSR K. F. Yuon, artists L. N. Khoroshkevich , M. T. Khazanov and in the studio at the club named after Serafimovich, where he studies with the artist G. Ryazhsky . Then she was admitted to the Moscow Committee of graphic artists. Since that time, Preobrazhenskaya began working as a graphic artist at Moscow publishing houses: from1949 to 1958 - at the graphic works of the Art Fund of the USSR; from 1950 to 1990 - in the publishing house "Uchpedgiz", subsequently "EDUCATION" , publishing house "Children's Encyclopedia". V. Preobrazhenskaya made a huge number of visual aids, illustrations for textbooks and other publications, in particular dust covers and illustrations for the multi-volume “Animal Life” (1968-1971). Since 1956, she participated in competitions for the best design and illustration of printed materials of the State Committee for Publications of the USSR and the RSFSR. She was awarded 20 diplomas of 1 and 2 degrees, a bronze medal of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR ^[1] .

In 1958, Preobrazhenskaya entered the continuing education studio at the Moscow City Graphics Committee under the leadership of Eli Belyutin . For half a century, Preobrazhenskaya was a member of the New Reality . She participated in all studio exhibitions, including the most famous: I exhibition of Russian abstract art - Taganskaya, 1962; an exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists , December 1962, famous for its scandalous visit to N. S. Khrushchev; exhibition of the studio “New reality. From the Manege to the Manege ”, 1991. Vera Preobrazhenskaya is an artist who has deeply mastered and passed through herself the whole arsenal of knowledge that the Beliutin school gave. She used color, shape, space, light, tone, point, line, plane as the primary elements of the whole system of codes that formed the basis of her artistic language ^[2] .

• 1959-1972 - "Book, Graphics, Poster." Reporting exhibitions of the City Committee of artists of books and graphics in Moscow. Central House of Arts.
• 1962, November - "Taganskaya" exhibition. Exhibition space on B. Communist street. Moscow.
• 1962, December - Exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists. CEH "Manege". Moscow.
• 1969, - Personal exhibition of graphics. Publishing House "Enlightenment". Moscow
• 1978, - Exhibition “50th Anniversary of the Enlightenment Publishing House. City Committee of Graphic Artists, M. Gruzinskaya, 28. Moscow
• 1986 - "From sketch to original." Personal exhibition. Publishing House Enlightenment. Moscow.
• February 1989, March, - "Selected Works of Moscow Artists 1958-1988." Berkeley Square Gallery. London, Great Britain
• 1989 - "Painting." New Reality. Studio Belutin. " State Picture Gallery named after Plastov. Kaliningrad
• 1990 - "Exhibition of paintings" New reality "Studio Belutin." Gallery of modern art. Warsaw
• December 1990 - New Reality. From the Manege to the Manege ”, Moscow. CEH "Manege".
• 1991 April, May - "E. Belyutin and his Studio." Institute Edith Blum Bard College. New York, USA
• 1992 January, March - "Eli Belyutin and the New Russian Vanguard, 1962-1991." Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Waltham Massachusetts. Boston, USA
• 1993 - "New reality" easel graphics. "State Art Gallery named after Plastov. Kaliningrad
• 1994, October - “Expression of color, dynamics of form”. Exhibition of paintings by the studio "New Reality". Gallery on Solyanka. Moscow.
• February 1995 - Thought and Feeling. Personal exhibition, painting, graphics. Exhibition Hall of the International Association of Artists on Gogolevsky Boulevard. Moscow.
• 1995, August - “New Reality”. Graphics. "Ust-Ilim Gallery of Fine Art. Ust-Ilim
• 1998 - The New Reality. State Museum of Fine Arts. Eagle
• 2002 - “At the Turn of the Millennium”, creative association of independent artists “New Reality”. MSTU named after Bauman. Moscow
• 2003 - "A gift to Russian museums. Creative Association" New Reality ". Fund of Culture of the Russian Federation. Moscow
• 2004 - "New Reality", a creative association of artists. State Art Gallery named after Plastov. Kaliningrad
• 2005 - "New Reality", a creative association of artists. State Museum of Fine Arts. Ulyanovsk
• 2005 - “Painting, graphics by members of the Studio of Independent Artists“ New Reality ”from the IOKhM collection”. Ivanovo Association of Art Museums. Ivanovo
• 2008 - "Man Earth Universe". Creative Association "E. Belutin Studio" New Reality. "Museum of Nature and Man. Khanty - Mansiysk
• 2009, August - “The Permanent Warden of Formalism”. V. I. Preobrazhenskaya, on the 90th anniversary of the author. Personal exhibition. Department of Culture of the Government of Moscow. Gallery on Solyanka. Moscow.
• 2011, June - August - “The Last Method”. Personal exhibition, together with the artist A. Makeev. Gallery "Room", theater "School of modern play". Moscow.
• 2012, December - “Same in the Manege” on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the defeat of the Manege Exhibition in 1962. The Big Manege is the Museum and Exhibition Association “MANEZH”. Moscow
• December 2012 - “New Reality - Breakthrough Technology”. Personal exhibition. Gallery Random, ArtResidence. Moscow.
• 2014 - "Beyond Objectivity in Russian Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century." Exhibition. Russian Museum and the Foundation for Russian Abstract Art . Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
• 2016, October - January - “New Reality Studio (1958-1991). Transformation of Consciousness”. Russian Abstract Art Foundation, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.
• 2017 March, April - Artists of the New Reality creative association “The Reality of the Inner Self” Marina Zaitseva, Vera Preobrazhenskaya, Alexander Kryukov, TNK ART Gallery, Moscow

Father - Ivan Alexandrovich Preobrazhensky, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor; mother - Julia Vasilyevna Preobrazhenskaya.

Husband - Leonid Ivanovich Grachev; children:

• Olga Leonidovna Gracheva, Anatoly Leonidovich Preobrazhensky.

• Tamara Ter-Ghevondyan
• Eli Belyutin
• Vladislav Zubarev
• Lucian Gribkov
• Anatoly Safokhin
• Russian Abstract Art Foundation

• Vera Preobrazhenskaya. The official website of the RAI
• Exhibition at the Russian Museum. Beyond Objectivity in Russian Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century
• Culture channel about the exhibition in the Russian Museum
• Vera Preobrazhenskaya. Pictures (inaccessible link)
• Exhibition in honor of the 30th anniversary of MOSH in the Manege. Fund of Russian abstract art. Official site.
• Retrospective exhibition "From the Manege to the Manege." Fund of Russian abstract art. Official site.
• Olga Uskova. In search of a new reality.