POSTER ARTISTS:   SURYANINOV RUBEN VASIL'YEVICH

PRINT YEAR:            1969

SUBJECT:         INDUSTRY

LANGUAGE:       RUSSIAN

PRINT RUN:             90.000

PUBLISHED BY:      IZOBRAZITELNOYE ISKUSSTVO, MOSCOW

SIZE:                  IN: 23 x 35 = CM: 58 x 88

CONDITION:       ROLLED

Suryaninov Ruben Vasilyevich (1930 - ) - The famous Russian painter, graphic artist, poster artist and illustrator. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1961). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR (1966). Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Known primarily as the author of numerous posters on the theme of domestic and foreign policy, mothers, children and sports.

1930 born in Moscow, the son of a famous poster artist Suryaninova V.V. (1903 - 1991). 1956 graduated from the Art Academy of the Latvian SSR, studied with P. Lyubomudrova. Just right after graduation, began to study the socio-political and health education posters. Worked in the publishing house "Izogiz", "Fine Arts", "Soviet Artist", "Poster Map". Collaborated with publishers "Health Education" and "DOSAAF" (late 1950s-1970s).

1957-1958: Worked on film posters in the "Reklama Film". More than thirty years R. Suryaninov worked in "Agitplakat" USSR Union. 1969-1980: Collaborated with the studio of visual agitation in Agriculture of the RSFSR. In the 1990s, illustrated children's books and textbooks in publishing, "Drofa", "Malysh", "Prosveshenie», «XXI Vek".

The posters of Suryaninov found his distinctive style and manner, they can be seen striving for the utmost brevity, the desire to clearly express the main idea. Many of these posters are widely known, many times reprinted, exhibited in many Russian and international exhibitions. A poster on the World Congress of Women, became his emblem.

Since the early '60s with his friend and fellow artist Konstantin Ivanov made numerous creative trips to Lake Baikal, the Murmansk region, the Northern Dvina, Pechёru, Chuiski. The main theme in the schedule of the artist - people and nature of the Russian North; locals, fishermen, hunters, lumberjacks and carpenters. In his writings conveys pristine and endless vastness of northern nature, the uniqueness of the architectural monuments, the strength and power of human characters. In these small works masterfully displayed everlasting nature of the North, the absence in its vanity, purity, restraint, when every detail points to the mysterious and majestic phenomenon ("On the Kola Peninsula" in 1970, "White Sea. Tide" 1972 "Vyatka land" in 1975 "Black Village" 1975 "Locals" 1979 "barns" in 1979, "The Last Way" 1979 "Milkmaid" 1979 "Hayfield" 1980)

Since 1956, the permanent display their works in Moscow, national and international exhibitions. Suryaninov participated in group exhibitions with K. Ivanov and Mikhail Heifetz (1962, 1966, 1977). Since 1967 held solo exhibitions in Moscow. He was deputy chairman of the poster of the USSR Union, a member of the bureau of the section of the poster MOSH RSFSR. Was awarded many diplomas and prizes, including a Gold Medal at the International Competition of health education posters in Bologna, Italy.

His posters are stored in the Russian State Library, in the Rybinsk State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, Kozmodemyansk cultural-historical museum, in the funds of the Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, in the collections of many regional museums, private collections in Russia and abroad.