Kukryniks Biography briefly

Bibliography Biography of Kukryniksi Pseudonym "Kukryniks" is compiled from the first syllables of the names of Kupriyanov and Krylov, as well as the first three letters of the name and the first letter of the name of Nikolai Sokolov.

The joint work of Kukryniks began in his student years in higher artistic and technical workshops. At this time, Sokolov, still living in Rybinsk, put the signature of NIX in his drawings. In the year, he joined Kupriyanov and Krylov, and in the wall newspaper they already worked the three of them, like Kukryniks, the Classes of Kukryniksa three artists worked by the method of collective creativity each also worked individually - on portraits and landscapes.

The greatest fame was brought to them by numerous masterfully executed caricatures and cartoons, as well as book illustrations created in a characteristic caricature style. In the group, there was a search for a new unified style that used the skill of each of the authors. The first to be the heroes of literary works. Later, when the Kukryniks became regular employees of the Pravda newspaper and the Crocodile magazine, they took up mainly by political caricature.

According to the memoirs of the artist of the magazine Crocodile, Hermann Ogorodnikov, from the middle of the X, a significant moment in the work was the military poster “we will mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy!. The Kukryniks went through the whole war: their leaflets accompanied Soviet soldiers all the military road to Berlin. They became the classics of the Soviet political caricature, which they understood as an instrument of struggle against the political enemy, and completely did not recognize other trends in art and in the caricature, which were fully manifested primarily in the new format of the “literary newspaper” department of the Club 12 chairs.

Their political caricatures, often published in the newspaper Pravda, belong to the best examples of this genre “ticks in ticks”, “I lost the ring ...”, “Under the eagle came in Rome,”, “Wall Strak”, “Lion Fraction”, a series of drawings “The arsonists of the war”, etc. Fritsev ”,“ Peoples warn ”and others. Kukryniks are also known as painters and masters of easel drawing. They made drawings with pastel - “I.

Stalin and V. Molotov ”,“ I. Stalin in the Kurike ”,“ Barricades on Presnya in the city of the team also worked separately - in the field of portrait and landscape. The work and exhibitions for the stages for the Kukryniks were grotesque topical carications on the topics of the internal and international life of the Transport series, - “Warfather’s arseners”, - campaigning, including anti -fascist, “mercilessly defeat and destroy the enemy!

An extensive collection of artwork belonging to Per Kukryniks is collected in a private collection of the Mamontov family. Since April 30, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve exhibited a posthumous exhibition dedicated to Victory Day “History through the eyes of Kukryniks. Military poster. Graphics ”Bibliography by A. Pistunov when writing this article used materials of such sites: ru.

Kukryniks: paintings by the artist.