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Shebeko Kirill Ivanovich

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Studied at the Blagoveshchentsk Art-and- Pedagogic College (1936-1940) with P. S. Evstafyev. Veteran of the Second World War, was awarded three classes of the Order of Glory, two classes of the Order of the Patriotic War. Was discharged from the army as 2nd group invalid in 1943. Continued his professional training at the I. E. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1943-1950) with R. R. Frents. Lived in Vladivostok. Member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR (1951). Taught at the Vladivostok Art College (1950-1968), at the Far East State Academy of Fine Arts (from 1968 on), Professor. Took part in exhibitions from 1951 on. Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR (1966), Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR (1981), corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (1995), corresponding member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Science and Arts (1999). Was awarded the Gold medal of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (2000), numerous diplomas and commendations by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and of the RSFSR, the Artists’ Union of the USSR and the RSFSR. Honorary Citizen of Vladivostok (2001).

Kirill Shebeko, one of the discoverers of the northern theme in Russian realistic painting, is primarily a landscape-painter. His individual manner of painting, established in the 1960s, is characterized by a multicoloured decorativeness, coming from nature, complexity of the panoramic composition, linear and colour rhythms and the epic power of the sculptured figures.

“The North forced me after all, to paint in sparse and clear relations/...../ There each colour, each object speaks directly. Because of the ethereal cleanness of the crystal clear air distances are concealed and planes drift together. In order to reproduce this natural phenomenon, I began consciously to flatten the space. To combine the near and the far on one level, as if on a carpet, without dissolution of colour in the background, retaining a maximum of colour density of each spot.”


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Art from the USSR.