Zhemerikin, Vyacheslav Fedorovich

Born in Ulaanbaatar ( Mongolia ) on September 15, 1942.

He graduated from the Irkutsk Art College (1956-1961) and the I.E. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the USSR Academy of Arts in Leningrad (1966-1972). Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of People's Artist of the USSR E. Moiseenko, P. P. Belousov, A. A. Mylnikova, P. T. Fomina, B. S. Ugarova

From 1972 to 2005 he lived and worked in the city of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) . Since 1976 - Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, from 1983 to 1988 - member of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since 1972, he has been a regular participant in regional and zonal exhibitions (Bolshaya Volga, 1974, 1980, 1985, 1991, 1998, 2003), as well as republican (1975, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1994) and All-Russian ( Moscow, 1981, 1985, 1994, 2000) art exhibitions. Personal exhibitions were held in the city of Nizhny Novgorod in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002.

In 2012, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the artist, a personal exhibition of works by V. F. Zhemerikin was held at the Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum ^[1] .

In total, the artist wrote more than 800 works.

The artist’s works are in the State Historical Museum ("V.I. Ulyanov in Nizhny Novgorod. 1893" (1977)),

in the museum of the Institute of Russian Realistic Art ,

Museum of the Great Patriotic War,

Far Eastern Museum of Fine Arts,

Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts,

Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum (16 paintings),

Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts,

Krasnoyarsk Art Gallery,

Irkutsk Art Museum,

Taganrog Art Gallery,

Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum

and in other meetings in Russia and abroad.

He worked in all genres of fine art (historical painting, genre painting, portrait, landscape, still life), the author of the following paintings: “Lieutenant Schmidt” (1972, located in the Research Museum of the Academy of Arts , St. Petersburg); "The team of blacksmiths A. Ognev" (1974, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum); “In the forge shop” (1983), “Microdistrict” (1974, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation ).

The artist created his genre paintings about the Great Patriotic War and the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway . The Bamovskaya series of paintings was the most popular in Soviet art of the 1970s. Newspapers, magazines, and critics wrote about it, noting the originality of the author’s artistic language, temperament and emotionality of paintings, in which the artist choked on stories about BAM, with unique, sincere enthusiasm showed friendship and a single impulse of people who came from all over the vast country. The canvases conveyed people's confidence that, despite all the difficulties and harsh living conditions, they are doing a great and necessary job for their country.

In 1973, an exhibition committee headed by the chairman of the Union of Artists G.M. Korzhev visited Gorky. At the suggestion of Helium Korzhev, the "Bamovskaya" series of paintings, including paintings by Zhemerikin, was sent to the republican and all-union exhibitions.

1974-1976 work on a cycle of 13 paintings “We are at BAM” - “Nadya on duty” (1976, Institute of Russian Realistic Art (IRRI), Moscow), “Kotlopunkt”, “Girls from the Main”, “Letuchka”, etc. .;

Since 1975, the author has been painting on the Great Patriotic War - “Return” (1979, the Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum ), “Roads of War” (1975, the Department of Culture of the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region), “At the Native threshold” (1985 , Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum), "Combat" (1985, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation) and others.

Some paintings of the portrait and landscape genres of Zhemerikin are designed in the style of Soviet impressionism .

A characteristic feature of the artist was the writing of paintings of a rural genre, “combining simplicity, vitality and sincere love for his native land” (“Old Men” 1973, “Autumn Day” 1974, “Stepanida” 1979, “Summer” 1981 , “In the Village” 1982) “The artist perfectly conveyed the state of the urban environment depending on the weather, when the same motive changed before our eyes, following the best traditions of the French impressionists with their desire to capture the elusive light” (“Rainy Day”, 1973 g., "Third Mountain", 1973, etc.).

The artist’s portraits are distinguished by “integrity of images, laconicism of expressive means, precision of drawing, intelligence, high professional culture, characteristic of the artists of the Leningrad school, representatives of the“ severe style ”of Soviet realistic art” (Valya, 1972, Andryusha, 1977, "Portrait of V.P. Baturo" 1980, "Portrait of Professor M.V. Kolokoltsev" 1987, "Alena" 1994, "Innocent" 1999, etc.).

“The artist’s landscapes are free from any patterns and stereotypes. In them, the manner of Zhemerikin manifests itself most individually. The brush easily touches the canvas, designating with one precise dynamic brush stroke the tree trunk, the roof of the house. The corner of nature is seen as if by accident. But at the same time, everything is clearly built and compositionally finished. Here is the immediacy of the first impression, loyalty to the visual image and at the same time analyticity, subordination to the general plan, where the artist’s intuition goes hand in hand with professionalism. His paintings of nature are united by a characteristic landscape style, which can be recognized by the master. ”

• Vyacheslav Zhemerikin. Painting, graphics. I.V. Mironova. - Nizhny Novgorod. 2000 p. 12-29.
• Vyacheslav Zhemerikin 1942-2005. - Dec 2012, p. 5-9.
• Sergey Chuyanov. Russian century. - N. Novgorod, 2006
• Lenyashin V. A. "... From time to eternity." Russian impressionism. Painting from the collection of the Russian Museum. - St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 2000, p. 51.
• 1000 Russian artists. - White City, 2011, p. 869.
• Understand the painting at the Orsay Museum. Francoise Bayle Orsay Museum, 2011, p. 75.

• Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
• Institute of Russian Realistic Art
• Ulyanovsk Regional Art Museum
• Painting of socialist realism from the magazine "Spark". January 30, 2012
• Great Russia. Names - M., Law and order. 2002-2005
• Art history. Artists of the "severe style". Electronic resource