Russians still attract kids folk tales. Who in childhood was not told about the adventures of Kolobok or about the stubborn turnip! And then the fairy tales began. And if there were illustrations for them, then the book was re-read and considered many times. The artist colorfully designed folk tales Ivan Bilibin, which placed the plot drawing in a beautiful, ornamented frame.

Paintings are inimitable Viktor Vasnetsov Ivan Tsarevich and the gray wolf, Alyonushka, inspired by the Russian folk tale Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushkaquot ;, Kashchei the Immortalquot ;.

Among the artists who illustrated the plots of Russian folk tales, three artists can be especially distinguished, these are:

• Viktor Vasnetsov and his illustrations for the fairy tales Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf Horse Gorbunkquot ;, Three heroesquot ;.

• Ivan Bilibin who illustrated a lot of folk tales

  you also need to remember the artists Boris Zvorykin and Evgeny Rachev.

The literary life of any child begins with fairy tales. And first of all, what the baby looks at is in the illustration for fairy tales. The child does not know how to read letters, but he reads picture fairy tale. Therefore, it is very important which artist illustrates the fairy tale.

Famous domestic children's illustrators are: Ivan Bilibin (for example, he illustrated the fairy tale The Frog Princess), Viktor Vasnetsov (drawing for such wonderful tales as Konk the Hunchbacked Quote; and Fire Bird), Yuri Vasnetsov ( Teremokquot ;).

First of all, I want to remind you of such a person as Ivan Bilibin - he made a huge number of illustrations for both folk tales and Pushkin's tales.

Also engaged in the creation of illustrations specifically for fairy tales and Boris Zworykin.

Evgeny Rachv is also an illustrator of fairy tales.

A very famous artist Ivan Bilibin, his illustrations adorned collections of Russian folk tales. The illustrations were drawn for children, half of the text and half of the picture. So it was clearer for the little ones.

And this is one of the illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.

Artists who painted different characters of fairy tales in their paintings. Ivan Bilibin, for example, painted beautiful pictures. Viktor Vasnetsov also drew characters from fairy tales, for example from the fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horsequot ;.

Folk tales are one of the favorite genres of folklore. They reflect the life of the people, their traditions and rituals, usually they have an instructive and educational meaning.

Children love folk tales. After all, this type of creativity is very easy and accessible for their understanding.

Illustrators made a huge contribution to conveying the plot of the fairy tale to the reader. We present many heroes of fairy tales exactly as we saw in the pictures.

Notable illustrators include

Ivan Bilibin ( The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, The Frog Princessquot ;, Vasilisa the Beautiful),

Viktor Vasnetsov ( Humpbacked Horsequot ;, Firebirdquot ;, Ivan Tsarevich on a gray wolf)

Yuri Vasnetsov ( Three Bears, The Little Humpbacked Horse).

Evgenia Rachva (created many illustrations for Russian folk tales).

It is necessary to separate artists who painted pictures on fairy tales and artists who painted illustrations for printed editions of Russian fairy tales. Of the first, it is necessary to name, first of all, Viktor Vasnetsov, who in his work turned specifically to fairy tales - this is Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf and Heroesquot ;. Vasnetsov was also engaged in illustrations of books, for example The Little Humpbacked Horse Ershov, but this is not quite a folk tale.

Of the illustrators of fairy tales, of course, one should recall Ivan Bilibin, who made the most famous illustrations of Pushkin's fairy tales and many folk tales:

And of course, one cannot forget the genius of fairy tale illustration, my favorite artist of this genre, Evgeny Rachev, who illustrated the great sea of ​​folk tales:

Since childhood, I have kept wonderful books of Russian folk tales, the illustrations of which are probably more interesting than the fairy tales themselves. First of all, the luxurious paintings of the Vasnetsov brothers come to mind. I remember reproductions of paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolfquot ;, hanging on the wall of my great-grandmother's house and Knights at the Crossroadsquot ;, known as Three heroes

I still love to look at illustrations for Ivan Bilibin's fairy tales, and I am very proud that at home there is a rare edition of Bilibin's drawings - a large colorful album with sketches and ready-made illustrations.

Of the works of female artists, I really like the illustrations for the fairy tales of Elena Almazova and Inna Anfilofyeva and the magical, precise micro-details in the drawings of Elena Polenova (who, by the way, is the sister of the famous artist Vasily Polenov).

And the drawings for Boris Zworykin's fairy tales resemble illustrations for real historical events: the details of costumes, household items are very accurately conveyed ...

There are many artists-illustrators of fairy tales and epics. I only remembered my loved ones.

A book quot immediately appeared before my mind's eye; The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs Pushkin with illustrations by Boris Zvorykin is such a bright ornamental decorative effect, a sensitive Russian harmonious tradition. Few people know that Boris Zworykin, in addition to book illustration, was also engaged in icon painting and was a translator. He was born in Moscow, in the Russian Empire in 1897, and died in 1942 in Paris, where he emigrated in 1921.

His illustrations are not to be confused with others.

The sister of the famous painter Vasily Polenov, Elena Polenova, a watercolor artist, belongs to the same Russian tradition, she was born on November 27, 1850, in St. Petersburg, then women were not allowed to study at universities, but she studied with the best Russian artists: P.P.Chistyakov, I.N.Kramskoy and in Paris with Ch.Chaplain, her illustrations are less decorative, softer

Children's book illustrators. Who are the authors of the most favorite pictures

What's the use of a book, thought Alice.
- if there are no pictures or conversations in it?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Surprisingly, the children's illustration of Russia (USSR)
there is an exact year of birth - 1925. This year
a department of children's literature was created in the Leningrad
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations specially for children were not published.

Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have been remembered since childhood and our children like?
Learn, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using the stories of parents of current kids and book reviews on the websites of online bookstores.

Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev(1903-1993, Moscow) - children's writer, illustrator and animation director. His kind, funny pictures look like frames from a cartoon. Suteev's drawings have turned many fairy tales into masterpieces.
So, for example, not all parents consider the works of Korney Chukovsky to be a necessary classic, and most of them do not consider his works to be talented. But Chukovsky's fairy tales, illustrated by Vladimir Suteev, I want to hold in my hands and read to children.

Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev(1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) - People's Artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the Dekhterev School determined the development of the country's book graphics), illustrator. He worked mainly in the technique of pencil drawing and watercolor. The good old illustrations by Dekhterev are a whole era in the history of children's illustration, many illustrators call Boris Aleksandrovich their teacher.

Dekhterev illustrated children's fairy tales by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen. As well as works by other Russian writers and world classics, such as Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, William Shakespeare.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Ustinov(1937, Moscow), Dekhterev was his teacher, and many modern illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.

Nikolai Ustinov - People's Artist, illustrator. Fairy tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Almost three hundred works were illustrated by the famous artist for publishing houses: "Children's Literature", "Kid", "Artist of the RSFSR", publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. He worked in the Murzilka magazine.
Ustinov's illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most beloved for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Sister Chanterelle, Frog Princess, Geese Swans and many others.

Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973, Vyatka, Leningrad) - people's artist and illustrator. All kids like his pictures for folk songs, nursery rhymes and jokes (Ladushki, Rainbow-arc). He illustrated folk tales, tales of Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianchi and other classics of Russian literature.

When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the drawings are clear and moderately bright. Using the name of a famous artist, recently books are often published with fuzzy scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.

Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(born in 1920, Moscow) is a Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about A. N. Tolstoy's Pinocchio and A. M. Volkov's Emerald City, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. I painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky's illustrations that many recognize as classic for Volkov's works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which he has been known and loved by several generations of children is undoubtedly his merit.

Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(born in 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The illustrator of the magazine "Crocodile", "Funny Pictures", "Murzilka", for many years he drew for the magazine "Around the World".
Chizhikov illustrated the works of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov (Vitya Maleev at school and at home), Irina Tokmakova (Alya, Klyaksich and the letter "A"), Alexander Volkov (The Wizard of Oz), poems by Andrey Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .

In fairness, it should be noted that Chizhikov's illustrations are rather specific and cartoonish. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations, if there is an alternative. For example, the books "The Wizard of the Emerald City" are preferred by many with illustrations. Leonid Vladimirsky.

Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov(1889-1942, St. Petersburg) - Russian artist, art critic, teacher. Illustrator of children's books: Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Volkov. Radlov painted for kids with great pleasure. His most famous book is cartoons for kids "Stories in Pictures". This is a book-album with funny stories about animals and birds. Years have passed, but the collection is still very popular. Stories in pictures were repeatedly reprinted not only in Russia, but also in other countries. At the international children's book competition in America in 1938, the book won second prize.

Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev(1905-1965, Moscow) - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. The artist's works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Illustrated "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" by Nikolai Nosov, "Fables" by Ivan Krylov, "Funny Pictures" magazine. The book with his poems and pictures "Pik, Pak, Pok" is already very loved by any generation of children and parents (Briff, a greedy bear, foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty hares and others)

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin(1876-1942, Leningrad) - Russian artist, book illustrator and theater designer. Bilibin illustrated a large number of fairy tales, including those of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. He developed his own style - "Bilibino" - a graphic representation, taking into account the traditions of ancient Russian and folk art, a carefully traced and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.

Fairy tales, epics, images of ancient Russia for many have long been inextricably linked with Bilibin's illustrations.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich(1888-1963, Novocherkassk, Leningrad) - Russian artist, graphic artist, illustrator. I started illustrating children's books by accident. In 1918, his daughter was three years old. Konashevich drew pictures for her for each letter of the alphabet. One of my friends saw these drawings, he liked them. So the “ABC in Pictures” was printed - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
From the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main business of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, painted pictures in a specific technique he liked - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.

The main works of Vladimir Konashevich:
- illustration of fairy tales and songs of different nations, some of which were illustrated several times;
- fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault;
- "The Old Man-Year-Old" by V. I. Dahl;
- works by Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak.
The last work of the artist was to illustrate all the fairy tales of A. S. Pushkin.

Anatoly Mikhailovich Savchenko(1924-2011, Novocherkassk, Moscow) - cartoonist and illustrator of children's books. Anatoly Savchenko was the production designer for the cartoons "Kid and Carlson" and "Carlson returned" and the author of illustrations for books by Astrid Lindgren. The most famous cartoon works with his direct participation: Moidodyr, the adventures of Murzilka, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, Vovka in Far Far Away, The Nutcracker, Fly-Tsokotuha, Kesha's parrot and others.
Children are familiar with Savchenko's illustrations from the books: "Piggy is offended" by Vladimir Orlov, "Kuzya Brownie" by Tatyana Alexandrova, "Tales for the smallest" by Gennady Tsyferov, "Little Baba Yaga" by Preysler Otfried, as well as books with works similar to cartoons.

Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev(born in 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 1960s, for more than thirty years he has been designing children's books in collaboration with Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov (born in 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for fairy tales by Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, poems by Valentin Berestov and fairy tales by Gennady Tsyferov.

Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov(born 1934, Moscow) - People's Artist. Favorite technique - color etching. Author of illustrations for many works of Russian and foreign classics. His most famous illustrations for fairy tales are:

- Jan Ekholm "Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and others";
- Selma Lagerlöf "Niels' amazing journey with wild geese";
- Sergey Aksakov "The Scarlet Flower";
- Hans Christian Andersen's works.

Diodorov has illustrated more than 300 books. His works have been published in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature".

Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin(1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's writer-animalist. Basically, the illustrations are executed in the manner of a free watercolor drawing, with a little humor. Kids love it, even toddlers. Known for illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: "About Tomka", "Volchishko and others", "Nikitka and his friends" and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianki. The most famous book with his illustrations is "Children in a Cage" by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.

Evgeny Mikhailovich Rachev(1906-1997, Tomsk) - animal painter, graphic artist, illustrator. He illustrated mainly Russian folk tales, fables and fairy tales of the classics of Russian literature. He mainly illustrated works in which the main characters are animals: Russian fairy tales about animals, fables.

Ivan Maksimovich Semyonov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - People's Artist, graphic artist, cartoonist. Semenov worked in the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda, Pionerskaya Pravda, the magazines Smena, Krokodil, and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine for young children in the USSR, “Funny Pictures”, was created.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov's stories about Kolya and Mishka (Dreamers, Living Hat and others) and drawings "Bobik visiting Barbos".

The names of some other famous contemporary Russian children's book illustrators:

- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(born in 1941, Moscow) is a production designer for dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mom for a mammoth, Bazhov's tales and illustrator of books of the same name.

- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of good beautiful illustrations for many children's books: Poems and songs of Mother Goose, poems by Boris Zakhoder, works by Sergei Mikhalkov, works by Daniil Kharms, stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren and others.

- Igor Yegunov (the author of the article did not find biographical information) - a contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for books: "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Rudolf Raspe, "The Little Humpbacked Horse" by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, fairy tales about Russian heroes

- Evgeny Antonenkov(born in 1956, Moscow) - illustrator, favorite technique is watercolor, pen and paper, mixed media. The illustrations are modern, unusual, stand out among others. Some look at them with indifference, others fall in love with funny pictures at first sight.
The most famous illustrations: for the fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne), "Russian Children's Tales", poems and fairy tales by Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Gianni Rodari, Yunna Moritz. Stupid Horse by Vladimir Levin (English old folk ballads), illustrated by Antonenkov, is one of the most popular books of the outgoing 2011.
Evgeny Antonenkov collaborates with publishing houses in Germany, France, Belgium, the USA, Korea, Japan, is a regular participant in prestigious international exhibitions, laureate of the White Crow competition (Bologna, 2004), holder of the Book of the Year diploma (2008).

- Igor Yulievich Oleinikov (born in 1953, Moscow) - animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleinikov is known for his films: The Secret of the Third Planet, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Sherlock Holmes and I, and others. He worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleinikov cooperates with publishing houses in Canada, USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The artist's most famous illustrations for books: "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" by John Tolkien, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Erich Raspe, "The Adventures of Despero Mouse" by Kate DiCamillo, "Peter Pan" by James Barry. Recent books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Usachev.
A m I didn’t really want to introduce you to illustrators, to remember our childhood with you and to recommend to young parents.

(text) Anna Agrova

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Have you ever been in a hut on chicken legs? Among many Russian painters who sought inspiration in folk history, culture and poetry, V. Vasnetsov occupies a special place. The artist admitted: “I have always been convinced that ... in a fairy tale, in a song, an epic, the whole whole image of the people, internal and external, with the past and present, and maybe the future, is reflected ...” (8, p. 476). In his painting "Guslars" - singers-narrators. In their epic songs, the images of their favorite heroes come to life, becoming a kind of chronicle of folk history.

The name of Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov is one of the most famous and beloved among the names of Russian artists of the 19th century (37). His creative heritage is interesting and multifaceted. He was called "a true hero of Russian painting." He was the first among painters to turn to epic fairy tales. “I lived only in Russia” - these words of the artist characterize the meaning and significance of his work. Paintings of the everyday genre and poetic canvases on the plots of Russian folk tales, legends, epics; illustrations for the works of Russian writers and sketches of theatrical scenery; portraiture and ornamental art; murals on historical subjects and architectural projects - such is the creative range of the artist.

But the main thing that the artist enriched Russian art is the works written on the basis of folk art. What paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov can be considered the most famous? Anyone will answer that these are the famous fairy-tale works of the master: "Heroes", which some will call "Three heroes", gentle, thoughtful "Alyonushka" and, perhaps, no less famous creation - "Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf". Why are these works so clearly imprinted in the memory of most people? Perhaps this is due to primordially Russian images or heartfelt fairy tale motifs that are passed on to new generations, already at the level of people's memory and have become in some ways even a reflection of the history of Ancient Russia.

"Heroes"(1881-98), which we admire, took about thirty years of the life of the master. It was for so long that he was looking for that single idea of ​​three images that personify the soul of the Russian people. Ilya Muromets is the strength of the people, Dobrynya Nikitich is his wisdom, Alyosha Popovich is the connection of the present and the past with the spiritual aspirations of the people.

Viktor Vasnetsov himself admitted that the fabulous Alyonushka (1881) is his favorite work, for the creation of which he traveled from Moscow to his native places. And to convey greater penetration to the image, he visited many concerts of classical music. Each twig, flower and blade of grass sing a laudatory song to Russian nature, sing of beauty, freshness and at the same time the sad thoughtfulness of the main character.

No less famous work - "Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf" (1889) reveals the author for us as a deep connoisseur of everything that is called "the soul of the Russian people." The fairy tale characters of the beauty and the prince tell about the time when people knew how to listen and hear nature.

The works of the great master of Russian painting became the world image of everything Russian and folk in the painting of the late 19th century.

Another great illustrator - Bilibin Ivan Yakovlevich(1876-1942). He expressed his impressions not only in images, but also in a number of articles (4, 5). Since 1899, creating design cycles for publishing fairy tales (Vasilisa the Beautiful, Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka, Finist the Clear Falcon, the Frog Princess, etc., including Pushkin's fairy tales about Tsar Saltan and the Golden Cockerel), he developed - in the technique of ink drawing, highlighted watercolor, - a special "Bilibino style" of book design, continuing the traditions of ancient Russian ornament (4).

In the summer of 1899, Bilibin left for the village of Yegny, Tver province, in order to see the dense forests, transparent rivers, wooden huts, hear fairy tales and songs, and began to illustrate Russian folk tales from Afanasyev's collection. For 4 years, Bilibin illustrated seven fairy tales: “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka”, “White Duck”, “The Frog Princess”, “Marya Morevna”, “The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray wolf”, “Feather of Finist Yasna-Falcon”, “Vasilisa the Beautiful”. Bilibin did not create individual illustrations, he strove for an ensemble: he drew a cover, illustrations, ornamental decorations, a font - he stylized everything like an old manuscript.

For all seven books, Bilibin draws the same cover, on which he has Russian fairy-tale characters: three heroes, the bird Sirin, the Serpent Gorynych, the hut of Baba Yaga. All page illustrations are surrounded by ornamental frames, like rustic ones.

Bilibin. Red rider window with carved platbands. They are not only decorative, but also have content that continues the main illustration. In the fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful”, the illustration with the Red Horseman (sun) is surrounded by flowers, and the Black Horseman (night) is surrounded by mythical birds with human heads. The illustration with Baba Yaga's hut is surrounded by a frame with grebes (and what else can be next to Baba Yaga?). But the most important thing for Bilibin was the atmosphere of Russian antiquity, epic, fairy tales. From genuine ornaments, details, he created a semi-real, semi-fantastic world.

The peasant needed a horse to grow bread, just like the sun itself. The images of the sun and the horse in folk art merge into one. In the poetic representations of the people, the rider on horseback freed spring from winter captivity, unlocked the sun, opened the way for spring waters, after which spring came into its own. This motif in folklore was embodied in the image of Egor the Brave.

Baba Yaga is a fairy tale character living in a dense forest. “On the stove, on the ninth brick, lies a Baba Yaga, a bone leg, her nose has grown into the ceiling, snot hangs over the threshold, her tits are wrapped on a hook, she sharpens her teeth” (2); “Baba Yaga gave them a drink, fed them, took them to the bath”, “Baba Yaga, a bone leg, rides in a mortar, rests with a pestle, sweeps the trail with a broom.” V. Dal writes that Yaga is “a kind of witch or an evil spirit under the guise of V. Bilibin Baba-Yaga.

Ornamental lines clearly limit the colors, set the volume and perspective in the plane of the sheet. Filling black and white graphic drawing with watercolors only emphasizes the given lines. To frame the drawings by I.Ya. Bilibin generously uses ornament (33).

In our 21st century, the century of narrow specialization, the figure Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich is a unique phenomenon. A great artist, archaeologist and explorer, Nicholas Roerich is world renowned as a painter and scientist. Less familiar to us is his literary legacy. For example, few people know that Nikolai Konstantinovich also wrote ... fairy tales. With beautiful allegorical images, with the alluring beauty of mysterious worlds. The heroes of his fairy tales are carriers of lofty feelings and thoughts that have eternal human value (39). They dispose to deep meditation, tune in to high feelings, aspire to spiritual perfection.

S.K. Makovsky about N.K. Roerich: “... There are artists who recognize in man the secret of lonely spirituality. They look intently into the faces of people, and each human face is a world separate from the world of all. And there are others: they are attracted by the secret of the soul of the blind, close, common for entire eras and Nicholas Roerich. Gallery of paintings by the artist - Zmievna, 1906 peoples, penetrating the whole element of life , in which an individual person drowns, like a weak stream in the dark depths of an underground lake” (30, pp. 33-35).

The faces of the people on Roerich's canvases are almost invisible. They are the faceless ghosts of centuries. Like trees and beasts, like quiet stones of dead villages, like monsters of antiquity, they are merged with the elements of life in the mists of the past. They are without a name. And they don't think, they don't feel lonely. They do not exist separately and as if they never existed: as if before, long ago, in a clear life, they lived by a common thought and a common feeling, together with the trees and stones and monsters of antiquity.

The artist, whom you involuntarily want to compare with Roerich, - M.A. Vrubel. I'm not talking about similarities. Roerich does not resemble Vrubel either by the nature of the painting or by the suggestions of his ideas. And yet, at a certain depth of mystical comprehension, they are brothers. Temperaments are different, forms and themes of creativity are different; the spirit of incarnations is one. Vrubel's demons and Roerich's angels were born in the same moral depths. From the same twilight of unconsciousness their beauty arose. But Vrubel's demonism is active. It is more frank, brighter, more magical. Prouder.

“In the picture “Pan”, the Greek god turns into a Russian goblin. Old, wrinkled, with bottomless blue eyes, knobby, like twigs, fingers, he seems to emerge from a mossy stump.

The characteristic Russian landscape acquires a fantastic magical coloring - boundless wet meadows, a winding rivulet, thin birch trees, frozen in the silence of twilight descending to the ground, illuminated by the crimson of the horned month (64).

The swan princess is a character in Russian folk tales. In one of them, in the retelling of A.N. Afanasyev tells about the transformation of twelve birds - swans into beautiful girls, in another - about the appearance of a wonderful Swan-bird on the shore of the blue sea (2).

Sadko (Wealthy Guest) is the hero of the epics of the Novgorod cycle. Sadko was at first a poor harpist who amused the Novgorod merchants and boyars by playing the harp on the shores of Lake Ilmen. With his game, he received the location of the tsar of the Water. The king demanded that the hero marry his daughter, who was to be chosen. In gratitude for the salvation, Sadko built churches in honor of the Most Holy Theotokos and Nikola Mozhaisky in Novgorod.

Fairy tales were illustrated by many wonderful artists: Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina, Elena Dmitrievna Polenova, Gleb Georgievich Bedarev, each of their works is an amazing image that immerses us in a mysterious magical world.

One of the means of reflecting reality is oral folk art. Each nation has its own original spiritual person, arising from the instinctive-spiritual originality of the perception of the surrounding world. "The spiritual originality of the people is manifested in the language, songs, poetry, prayer, fairy tales."

The fairy tale, as the most valuable form of folk art, combines mythical, adventure, and everyday narration.

The oldest type of fairy tales that have come down to us - fairy tales about animals. Generalizing the typical characters in the images of animals, people deduced morality from the fairy tale, a moral example for future generations. This species includes fairy tales “The Wolf and the Fox”, “The Cat and the Fox”, “The Cat, the Rooster and the Fox”, “The Wolf and the Seven Kids”, as well as mixed genres of fairy tales, where, along with intelligent animals, people also participate. The best example of such interaction is the fairy tale "Turnip" (by the way, pay attention to how often a wolf and a fox take part in such fairy tales as carriers of a pronounced character).

Tales about animals remind us of the connection between the primitive family and animals, the descendants of which people considered themselves to be. “A person who has preserved spiritual purity and kindness to everything in nature speaks its language, which is why so often in a fairy tale animals help the hero, give various objects to search for the truth, even fall in love with animals - and through the highest feeling of love, the animal turns into a beautiful person.”

Household fairy tales (anecdotal and novelistic).

The most recent genre of folklore fairy tales. The anecdotal tale developed from animal tales. What distinguishes it from the joke itself is a detailed narrative (not for one or two paragraphs) and a more stable storyline. Not so well-known tales about stupid wives, village fools and greedy priests and merchants can serve as an example. (slide 4)

The novelistic fairy tale is distinguished by the fact that a human hero acts in it, fighting not with evil forces, fate, but most often with the injustice of the social system in the person of its individual representatives (for example, the Tale of the Priest and his Worker Balda, already mentioned today). The novelistic fairy tale as a genre has its own written sources from about the 17th century, and in subsequent centuries, as a rule, the author's (P. Ershov, A. Pushkin, V. Odoevsky, P. Bazhov, N. Leskov).

Through a fairy tale, the surrounding world was comprehended: the luminaries, the Milky Way, the stars, the seasons become close and understandable. Remember the appeal of the heroes to the Sun, Month Mesyatsovich, Wind Vetrovich, to the River - kissel banks.

Fairy tales - p perhaps the most interesting and exciting genre of fairy tales. Such a fairy tale can be distinguished by many signs:

The hero of these tales is brave, handsome and courageous (however, this is where his characteristics end, he is needed only to reveal the storyline).

Animals act as helpers, and not the main characters of the tale (a gray wolf, a faithful heroic horse, suddenly speaking in a human voice).

Fairy tales are collectively created and collectively preserved by the people oral artistic epic narratives in prose, which use the methods of an implausible depiction of reality, fantastic fiction, the various and traditional forms of which, not being repeated in any other genre of folklore, have developed over the centuries, in a close connection with the whole way of life of the people, and were in the original connection with mythology.

The images of the animal world often personify human vices, weaknesses and shortcomings in fairy tales. Often a person is compared with a beast: “evil like a wolf”, “cunning like a fox”, “stomping like a bear”, “faithful like a dog”.

In Russian folk tales, animals have their own character and habits. The fox has a number of nicknames: Kuma-fox, fox-sister, fox-Patrikeevna, Lizaveta Ivanovna etc. Wolf - Wolf gray tail, Wolf teeth click.

Based on the studied literature and Russian folk tales, we have identified the main characteristics of animals:

Bear- good-natured, simpleton, strong, clumsy, gourmet, slow-witted, gullible bumpkin, smart.

Wolf- angry, greedy, stupid, rustic, gullible, strong.

Rooster- brave, handsome, belligerent.

Hare cowardly, weak, cunning, boastful, harmless.

Fox- cunning, forged, greedy, pretender, deceiver, thief, smart, beautiful, fashionista.

Hedgehog- smart, careful, resourceful.

Owl- wise.

mouse- Hardworking, kind.

To illustrate Russian folk tales, different artists used their own compositional solutions, artistic means and expressive techniques to convey the fabulousness of what is happening.

Let's get acquainted with Ivan Bilibin's illustrations for Russian folk tales

Illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov for Russian folk tales

Artists illustrators

Children's book illustrators. Who are the authors of the most favorite pictures

What's the use of a book, thought Alice.
- if there are no pictures or conversations in it?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Surprisingly, the children's illustration of Russia (USSR)
there is an exact year of birth - 1925. This year
a department of children's literature was created in the Leningrad
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations specially for children were not published.

Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have been remembered since childhood and our children like?
Learn, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using the stories of parents of current kids and book reviews on the websites of online bookstores.

Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev(1903-1993, Moscow) - children's writer, illustrator and animation director. His kind, funny pictures look like frames from a cartoon. Suteev's drawings have turned many fairy tales into masterpieces.
So, for example, not all parents consider the works of Korney Chukovsky to be a necessary classic, and most of them do not consider his works to be talented. But Chukovsky's fairy tales, illustrated by Vladimir Suteev, I want to hold in my hands and read to children.

Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev (1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) - People's Artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the Dekhterev School determined the development of the country's book graphics), illustrator. He worked mainly in the technique of pencil drawing and watercolor. The good old illustrations by Dekhterev are a whole era in the history of children's illustration, many illustrators call Boris Aleksandrovich their teacher.

Dekhterev illustrated children's fairy tales by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen. As well as works by other Russian writers and world classics, such as Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, William Shakespeare.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Ustinov(1937, Moscow), Dekhterev was his teacher, and many modern illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.

Nikolai Ustinov - People's Artist, illustrator. Fairy tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Almost three hundred works were illustrated by the famous artist for publishing houses: "Children's Literature", "Kid", "Artist of the RSFSR", publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. He worked in the Murzilka magazine.
Ustinov's illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most beloved for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Sister Chanterelle, Frog Princess, Geese Swans and many others.

Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973, Vyatka, Leningrad) - people's artist and illustrator. All kids like his pictures for folk songs, nursery rhymes and jokes (Ladushki, Rainbow-arc). He illustrated folk tales, tales of Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianchi and other classics of Russian literature.

When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the drawings are clear and moderately bright. Using the name of a famous artist, recently books are often published with fuzzy scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.

Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(born in 1920, Moscow) is a Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about A. N. Tolstoy's Pinocchio and A. M. Volkov's Emerald City, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. I painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky's illustrations that many recognize as classic for Volkov's works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which he has been known and loved by several generations of children is undoubtedly his merit.

Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(born in 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The illustrator of the magazine "Crocodile", "Funny Pictures", "Murzilka", for many years he drew for the magazine "Around the World".
Chizhikov illustrated the works of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov (Vitya Maleev at school and at home), Irina Tokmakova (Alya, Klyaksich and the letter "A"), Alexander Volkov (The Wizard of Oz), poems by Andrey Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .

In fairness, it should be noted that Chizhikov's illustrations are rather specific and cartoonish. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations, if there is an alternative. For example, the books "The Wizard of the Emerald City" are preferred by many with illustrations by Leonid Vladimirsky.

Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov(1889-1942, St. Petersburg) - Russian artist, art critic, teacher. Illustrator of children's books: Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Volkov. Radlov painted for kids with great pleasure. His most famous book is cartoons for kids "Stories in Pictures". This is a book-album with funny stories about animals and birds. Years have passed, but the collection is still very popular. Stories in pictures were repeatedly reprinted not only in Russia, but also in other countries. At the international children's book competition in America in 1938, the book won second prize.

Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev (1905-1965, Moscow) - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. The artist's works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Illustrated "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" by Nikolai Nosov, "Fables" by Ivan Krylov, "Funny Pictures" magazine. The book with his poems and pictures "Pik, Pak, Pok" is already very loved by any generation of children and parents (Briff, a greedy bear, foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty hares and others)

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942, Leningrad) - Russian artist, book illustrator and theater designer. Bilibin illustrated a large number of fairy tales, including those of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. He developed his own style - "Bilibino" - a graphic representation, taking into account the traditions of ancient Russian and folk art, a carefully traced and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.

Fairy tales, epics, images of ancient Russia for many have long been inextricably linked with Bilibin's illustrations.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich(1888-1963, Novocherkassk, Leningrad) - Russian artist, graphic artist, illustrator. I started illustrating children's books by accident. In 1918, his daughter was three years old. Konashevich drew pictures for her for each letter of the alphabet. One of my friends saw these drawings, he liked them. So the “ABC in Pictures” was printed - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
From the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main business of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, painted pictures in a specific technique he liked - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.

The main works of Vladimir Konashevich:
- illustration of fairy tales and songs of different nations, some of which were illustrated several times;
- fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault;
- "The Old Man-Year-Old" by V. I. Dahl;
- works by Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak.
The last work of the artist was to illustrate all the fairy tales of A. S. Pushkin.

Anatoly Mikhailovich Savchenko (1924-2011, Novocherkassk, Moscow) - cartoonist and illustrator of children's books. Anatoly Savchenko was the production designer for the cartoons "Kid and Carlson" and "Carlson returned" and the author of illustrations for books by Astrid Lindgren. The most famous cartoon works with his direct participation: Moidodyr, the adventures of Murzilka, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, Vovka in Far Far Away, The Nutcracker, Fly-Tsokotuha, Kesha's parrot and others.
Children are familiar with Savchenko's illustrations from books: "Piggy is offended" by Vladimir Orlov, "Kuzya Brownie" by Tatyana Aleksandrova, "Tales for the smallest" by Gennady Tsyferov, "Little Baba Yaga" Preusler Otfried, as well as books with works similar to cartoons.

Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev (born in 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 60s, for more than thirty years he has been designing children's books in collaboration with Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov(Born in 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for fairy tales by Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, poems by Valentin Berestov and fairy tales by Gennady Tsyferov.

Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov(born 1934, Moscow) - People's Artist. Favorite technique - color etching. Author of illustrations for many works of Russian and foreign classics. His most famous illustrations for fairy tales are:

Jan Ekholm "Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and others";
- Selma Lagerlöf "Niels' amazing journey with wild geese";
- Sergey Aksakov "The Scarlet Flower";
- Hans Christian Andersen's works.

Diodorov has illustrated more than 300 books. His works have been published in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature".

Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's writer-animalist. Basically, the illustrations are executed in the manner of a free watercolor drawing, with a little humor. Kids love it, even toddlers. Known for illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: "About Tomka", "Volchishko and others", "Nikitka and his friends" and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianki. The most famous book with his illustrations is "Children in a Cage" by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.

Evgeny Mikhailovich Rachev(1906-1997, Tomsk) - animal painter, graphic artist, illustrator. He illustrated mainly Russian folk tales, fables and fairy tales of the classics of Russian literature. He mainly illustrated works in which the main characters are animals: Russian fairy tales about animals, fables.

Ivan Maksimovich Semyonov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - People's Artist, graphic artist, cartoonist. Semenov worked in the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda, Pionerskaya Pravda, the magazines Smena, Krokodil, and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine for young children in the USSR, “Funny Pictures”, was created.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov's stories about Kolya and Mishka (Dreamers, Living Hat and others) and drawings "Bobik visiting Barbos".

The names of some other famous contemporary Russian children's book illustrators:

- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(born in 1941, Moscow) is a production designer for dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mom for a mammoth, Bazhov's tales and illustrator of books of the same name.

- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of good beautiful illustrations for many children's books: Poems and songs of Mother Goose, poems by Boris Zakhoder, works by Sergei Mikhalkov, works by Daniil Kharms, stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren and others.

- Igor Egunov(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - a contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for books: "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Rudolf Raspe, "The Little Humpbacked Horse" by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, fairy tales about Russian heroes.

- Evgeny Antonenkov(born in 1956, Moscow) - illustrator, favorite technique is watercolor, pen and paper, mixed media. The illustrations are modern, unusual, stand out among others. Some look at them with indifference, others fall in love with funny pictures at first sight.
The most famous illustrations: for the fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne), "Russian Children's Tales", poems and fairy tales by Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Gianni Rodari, Yunna Moritz. Stupid Horse by Vladimir Levin (English old folk ballads), illustrated by Antonenkov, is one of the most popular books of the outgoing 2011.
Evgeny Antonenkov collaborates with publishing houses in Germany, France, Belgium, the USA, Korea, Japan, is a regular participant in prestigious international exhibitions, laureate of the White Crow competition (Bologna, 2004), holder of the Book of the Year diploma (2008).

- Igor Yulievich Oleinikov(born in 1953, Moscow) – animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleinikov is known for his films: The Secret of the Third Planet, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Sherlock Holmes and I, and others. He worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleinikov cooperates with publishing houses in Canada, USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The artist's most famous illustrations for books: "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" by John Tolkien, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Erich Raspe, "The Adventures of Despero Mouse" by Kate DiCamillo, "Peter Pan" by James Barry. Recent books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Usachev.

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