Filipp Andreevich Malyavin was a Russian painter and draftsman.
20 Facts About Filipp Malyavin
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Filipp Malyavin was born in the large village of Kazanka, into a poor peasant family with many children.
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Filipp Malyavin was disappointed to learn that they only made copies of Russian icons.
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In March 1892, Filipp Malyavin arrived in St Petersburg and, with Beklemishev's help, was enrolled in the Academy of Arts.
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Filipp Malyavin's options included such great artists as Vladimir Makovsky and Arkhip Kuindzhi.
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However, Filipp Malyavin applied for, and was accepted into, the studio of Russian realist Ilya Repin, who among others, taught Igor Grabar, Konstantin Somov, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, and Boris Kustodiev.
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Filipp Malyavin began to perfect his style of portraiture, creating another series of paintings depicting his fellow-artists from Repin's studio.
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Filipp Malyavin's fame spread quickly, and it was not long before society grandees such as Baroness Wolf and Mme.
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Filipp Malyavin's work was too different, too bright, and it had no plot - it did not fit the contemporary art scene at the time.
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Filipp Malyavin's work was suddenly in demand, with the Luxembourg Museum in Paris buying Three Women.
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On returning to Russia, Filipp Malyavin married Natalia Novaak-Sarich, the daughter of a rich industrialist from Odessa and a private student at the Higher Art School.
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Filipp Malyavin's work began appearing in the salons of the World of Art group, and the Union of Russian Artists.
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Filipp Malyavin reached his peak between 1905 and 1907, during Russia's revolutionary crisis.
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Between 1908 and 1910, Filipp Malyavin did not display any work, and the official art critics began attacking him more and more frequently.
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Filipp Malyavin traveled to Paris, and on his return, painted a large family portrait, which he exhibited in January 1911, at the salon of the Union of Russian Artists.
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The painting was a failure, and between 1911 and 1915, Filipp Malyavin exhibited only the works of the earlier period.
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In 1918, Filipp Malyavin moved with his family to Ryazan, where he participated in the Ryazan Commissariat for Education's propaganda of art and taught.
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Filipp Malyavin painted a portrait of Anatoly Lunacharsky, and his works were displayed in Moscow exhibitions.
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In fall of 1922, Filipp Malyavin traveled abroad with his family yet again, to organize a traveling exhibition of his works.
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Filipp Malyavin is noted for changing the portrayal of peasants in Russian painting and for his brilliant use of color.