Ekaterina Voronina
State Institute of Art Studies; The State Tretyakov Gallery, Russia
The painting of the Soviet artist S. Adlivankin (1897–1966) is scantily investigated. He studied in the Odessa Art School from 1912 till 1917 under the guidance of K. Kostandi, and under V. Tatlin in 1918. In the early 1920s S. Adlivankin was a Commissioner of the Samara Vkhutemas (Higher Art and Technical Studious), and worked with V. Mayakovsky. In the early twenties together with G. Ryazhsky, the artist founded the “NOZH” group (New Association of Painters) (1921–1924); in the late 1930s S. Adlivankin designed several pavilions for VDNKh (All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy). His late works are practically unknown.
The image of Moscow takes an important part in his art. The master enjoyed painting the region where he lived (the Maslovka district). Some of his portraits were depicted against the Petrovskii Park (The Girl with a red bow, 1930). His genre paintings and magazine illustrations are set against Moscow streets and boulevards. Adlivankin paints the Petrovskii Park of those times when a rivulet flew through it; a Moscow courtyard of the 1940s, before a house was erected (Maslovka’s court yard, 1940); the Dynamo stadium (Autumn. Dynamo. The West platform, 1940). Nowadays, the stadium is under serious reconstruction and the surrounding area has already been changed. In S. Adlivankin’s works the image of prewar Moscow remained. We shall present “old” photos of Moscow and modern views of the city depicted in the paintings of the artist.