Yevgeny Pavlovich Melnikov (1928 - 2010)
Yevgeny Pavlovich Melnikov
Yevgeny Pavlovich Melnikov (Russian: Евгений Павлович Мельников) was a Soviet artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter, teacher and poet who had a great influence on the development of the national school of modern painting in Uzbekistan.
Yevgeny Melnikov excelled in portrait painting, still life, landscape and animalistic compositions. His works were characterized by painterly temperament, energy of stroke and non-standard compositional solutions. In his works one can find both traditional elements of still life (fruits, flowers) and unusual objects (organ pipes, fish). The master also introduced into his compositions fragments from the works of his favorite French post-impressionists.
Melnikov's works are in museums and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden and many other countries.
| Date and place of birt: | 7 october 1928, Бузулук, USSR |
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| Date and place of death: | 26 october 2010, Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| Nationality: | Russia, Uzbekistan, USSR |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Animalist, Artist, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Genre: | Animalistic, Landscape painting, Portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Post-Impressionism, Socialist realism, Contemporary art |
