Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Universe of the Artist

The film tells about the creative path of the artist K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. First part. Sunrise on the Volga. Summer, hills in the vicinity of Khvalynsk. Men lead the knots of horses through the hills. One of the streets of Khvalynsk (Saratov region). Apple trees in the garden. Artist's workshop. K.S. Petrov-Vodkin's paintings "Cafe", "Theater", "Portrait of a Wife", "Self-Portrait", "Bathing Horses", "Boys Playing". Family photographs of K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Newsreel footage: [1917], a soldier knocks down a two-headed eagle from the front of a house, people on the street, soldiers with bayonets waving their caps in formation, soldiers rushing on carts; [1922-29], men and women climb the steps into the hall, the coat of arms of the USSR is on the wall, visitors to the art exhibition. The second part of. Khvalynsk: an old house, an elderly woman is spinning in the garden. Hills around Khvalynsk. Sunset behind the hills. Cartoons of the 1910s on K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Photos of artists - members of the "World of Art". K. Petrov-Vodkin's paintings "Sleep", "Bather's Morning", "Girls on the Volga", "1917. Petrograd", "Death of the Commissar", "After the Battle", panel "Stepan Razin", still lifes. The third part. Sunset among the hills in the vicinity of Khvalynsk. A herd of cows grazing on the hills. Leningrad: the facade of the house where K. Petrov-Vodkin lived and worked in 1936-39. Easels in the art class. Portraits of A. Akhmatova, A. Bely brush K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Still lifes. Pictures painted by the artist in Samarkand in 1924. Portrait of the artist's wife, self-portrait. Photos of the workshop of K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Newsreel footage: 1930s, visitors to an art exhibition.

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1987