Kolomna, Moscow region

Since January 30, as part of the Youth Creative Workshop project, the Fairytale Forest exhibition has been running at the Ozerov House Cultural Center, dedicated to the Year literature in Russia. The exhibition presents book illustrations for fairy tales by H. C. Andersen, member of the Moscow Union of Artists, Evgenia Lotsmanova.

About the author: Evgenia Lotsmanova was born in 1985 in Kolomna, graduated from Children's art school and chose the profession of illustrator. Drawing with early childhood was a favorite pastime - after all, Evgenia’s maternal relatives were icon painters in the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow province. In 2007, Evgenia graduated from Moscow State University print.

Now Evgenia Lotsmanova is not only an illustrator. She also writes children's poems and dreams of publishing a book, illustrating it with her drawings. The illustrator's profession accompanies and, to some extent, complements the artist's hobby - making designer toys: dolls and fairy-tale compositions from various materials (papier-mâché, paperclay, ceramic plastic, mohair).

The main part of the works at the exhibition are illustrations for the fairy tale The Magic Hill by H. C. Andersen. For the young artist Evgenia Lotsmanova, The Magic Hill is the second published book with her illustrations, which brought this fairy tale to life, and cannot but arouse admiration. Still, how much an artist means to a book!

The illustrations of this truly fabulous book are based on - graduate work artist, but significantly revised for this edition. Drawings in a rare technique today, which is considered to be a heavy masculine technique - lithography. Rich artistic language and vibrant expressive capabilities lithography techniques helped create a complex, fun and slightly mysterious world.

Evgeniya herself writes about the chosen technique: “Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying the colors and refining it in search of the best solution. And there is its own charm in the miraculous nature of the printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect... I draw some characters from the people closest to me, for example, my mother."

Illustrations... They, like a light cloud, envelop and immerse you in a fairy tale, creating an unusually magical atmosphere. Evgenia Lotsmanova created small world, inhabited by creatures so cute that the fairy tale The Magic Hill will become one of your favorites! It seems that the illustrations created with such warmth and love cannot fail to find a response in the hearts of viewers. The Fairytale Forest exhibition is a journey through the fairy tales of H.K. Andersen, which makes you want to read or reread the wonderful tales of the Danish writer.

Cultural center "Ozerov's House"

Moscow region, Kolomna, st. Krasnogvardeyskaya, 2

Directions:

From Moscow: from st. m. "Vykhino" by bus No. 460 to the stop. "Bank", from the Kazansky railway station by train to the Golutvin station, then by tram No. 3, buses No. 5, 10 or minibuses No. 68, 20 to the stop. "Square of 2 Revolutions"

In Kolomna from June 16 to July 22 in cultural center"Ozerov's House is the first to pass personal exhibition 27-year-old artist-illustrator, graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Moscow University of Printing Arts, Evgenia Lotsmanova. I apologize in advance for the poor quality photographs - the drawings hang under glass. I found quite a few illustrations on the Internet.

The exhibition presents illustrations to fairy tales by H.K. Andersen, A.N. Tolstoy, S. Pisakhov and C. Lewis. The artist herself can best tell about her work, so below I will give an interview that Evgenia gave to a correspondent of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

How did it happen that you devoted yourself to such a heavy masculine technique as lithography? Evgeniya Lotsmanova: Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying colors and refining it in search of the best solution. And there is its own charm in the miraculous nature of a printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect.

You called your exhibition a journey. Where will we go? Evgenia Lotsmanova: We will go on a journey through fairy tales created by writers different countries. They carry and bright National character, and the spirit of the time when they were created. Russian, European or oriental fairy tales require a different approach, different artistic references, be it Russian lubok and painted spinning wheels, Iranian miniatures or European painting of the 16th -19th centuries.

Your heroes are fabulous - you won’t meet such people in life. Where do they come to you from? From dreams, from childhood?.. Evgenia Lotsmanova: Yes, mainly from childhood impressions and some vague, but very dear associations... I draw some heroes from the closest people. For example, from my mother.

What books did you love and love to read? Evgenia Lotsmanova: I loved it very much as a child fairy tales and stories about animals. Later I read a lot of classics and adventure literature like The Three Musketeers. One of my favorite books now is “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov. I always enjoy reading memoirs, books written in exile, and memoirs of people who lived through the most difficult moments in our history. One of the last ones I read was the memoirs of the artist Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

When did you feel like an illustrator? Evgenia Lotsmanova: It all started with a wonderful picture drawn by my mother for the “City of Masters”. She did it so well that I wanted to draw just as well.

Your exhibition is a whole Dreamland. What would you name this country? Evgenia Lotsmanova: I remember the words of Nika Georgievna Golts, one of my favorite illustrators, said at a meeting with us students. She said: you don’t need any imaginary countries, because all the most interesting and magical things happen nearby, you just need to see it.

They say that your ancestors were icon painters? What do you know about them and do you feel any kind of family continuity in yourself, in your art? Evgenia Lotsmanova: Unfortunately, I don’t know much. My maternal great-grandfather came from a village in Yegoryevsky district, where icon painting flourished. In his youth, his great-grandfather continued family traditions, but after the revolution he had to change his occupation. Probably, both icon painting and book illustration are forms of art that do not allow too much fuss, involving quite painstaking work that requires “deep immersion” and intense mental work.

Who are your favorite artists? Evgenia Lotsmanova: I love Flemish and Dutch painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer. I am happy to contact many masters European painting up to late XIX V. In Russian art I really love Korovin, Kustodiev, Vrubel, all the “World of Art” artists. I treat Benoit’s “ABC” and Bilibin’s books with spiritual trepidation. And of course, my great and endless joy are the masters of Soviet book graphics, whose pictures have been dearly loved since childhood: Konashevich, Yuri Vasnetsov, Mavrina, Ustinov, Eliseev, Golts and many, many others. And I especially want to say about the illustrations of my dear teacher Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov, which for me already at the institute became a real insight.

You write poetry, practice singing, make dolls... Evgenia Lotsmanova: I only manage to do a small part of what I want to do. But different hobbies, I feel, feed each other. Russian singing folk songs inspires pictures for Russian fairy tales, if you don’t have time to draw an image that suddenly appears, you can write a poem about it somewhere on the road, and creating dolls, working with volume, with different textures and materials makes it easier to sculpt the shape in a drawing.

They often say that children are indifferent to books and reading, and that soon the book will die. What would you answer to such skeptics? Evgenia Lotsmanova: With the help of computer technology it is possible to obtain information, but most likely it will be kaleidoscopic. The book is capable of carrying a holistic artistic image, which will cultivate the taste of a child, being a clear, cozy and tangible house for words and characters living and acting in it, like actors in a play played for one small spectator and for his closest people.

The first personal exhibition of Evgenia Lotsmanova, a talented illustrator who has not yet published a single book, is taking place in Kolomna.

Quietly and modestly, in the cultural center "House of Ozerov" the first personal exhibition of the 27-year-old illustrator, a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Moscow University of Printing Arts.

Adults and children, people who have a keen understanding of art, and those who don’t at all - everyone walked around Evgenia Lotsmanova’s exhibition with some kind of enlightenment. Looking at her illustrations for fairy tales by H.K. Andersen, A.N. Tolstoy, S. Pisakhov and C. Lewis, you forget the sad forecasts of experts about the dying of the Russian art of book illustration. After the opening of the exhibition, the artist answered questions from a RG correspondent.

How did it happen that you devoted yourself to such a heavy masculine technique as lithography?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Lithography allows you to experiment with the same sketch, varying colors and refining it in search of the best solution. And there is its own charm in the miraculous nature of a printed picture, which usually turns out a little differently than you expect.

You called your exhibition a journey. Where will we go?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: We will go on a journey through fairy tales created by writers from different countries. They carry both a bright national flavor and the spirit of the time when they were created. Russian, European or oriental fairy tales require a different approach, different artistic references, be it Russian lubok and painted spinning wheels, Iranian miniatures or European painting of the 16th -19th centuries.

Your heroes are fabulous - you won’t meet such people in life. Where do they come to you from? From dreams, from childhood?..

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Yes, mostly from childhood impressions and some vague, but very dear associations... I draw some heroes from the people closest to me. For example, from my mother.

Evgenia Lotsmanova: As a child, I loved fairy tales and stories about animals. Later I read a lot of classics and adventure literature like The Three Musketeers. One of my favorite books now is “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov. I always enjoy reading memoirs, books written in exile, and memoirs of people who lived through the most difficult moments in our history. One of the last ones I read was the memoirs of the artist Ostroumova-Lebedeva.

When did you feel like an illustrator?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: It all started with a wonderful picture drawn by my mother for the “City of Masters”. She did it so well that I wanted to draw just as well.

Your exhibition is a whole fairyland. What would you name this country?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: I remember the words of Nika Georgievna Golts, one of my favorite illustrators, said at a meeting with us students. She said: you don’t need any imaginary countries, because all the most interesting and magical things happen nearby, you just need to see it.

They say that your ancestors were icon painters? What do you know about them and do you feel any kind of family continuity in yourself, in your art?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Unfortunately, I don't know much. My maternal great-grandfather came from a village in Yegoryevsky district, where icon painting flourished. In his youth, his great-grandfather continued the family traditions, but after the revolution he had to change his occupation. Probably, both icon painting and book illustration are forms of art that do not allow too much fuss, involving quite painstaking work that requires “deep immersion” and intense mental work.

Who are your favorite artists?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: I love Flemish and Dutch painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer. I am happy to turn to many masters of European painting until the end of the 19th century. In Russian art I really love Korovin, Kustodiev, Vrubel, all the “World of Art” artists. I treat Benoit’s “ABC” and Bilibin’s books with spiritual trepidation. And of course, my great and endless joy are the masters of Soviet book graphics, whose pictures have been dearly loved since childhood: Konashevich, Yuri Vasnetsov, Mavrina, Ustinov, Eliseev, Golts and many, many others. And I especially want to say about the illustrations of my dear teacher Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov, which for me already at the institute became a real insight.

You write poetry, practice singing, make dolls...

Evgenia Lotsmanova: I only manage to do a small part of what I want to do. But different hobbies, I feel, feed each other. Singing Russian folk songs inspires pictures for Russian fairy tales; if you don’t have time to draw an image that suddenly appears, you can write a poem about it somewhere on the road, and creating dolls, working with volume, with different textures and materials makes it easier to sculpt the shape in a drawing.

They often say that children are indifferent to books and reading, and that soon the book will die. What would you answer to such skeptics?

Evgenia Lotsmanova: With the help of computer technology, information can be obtained, but most likely it will be kaleidoscopic. A book is capable of carrying a holistic artistic image that will educate a child’s taste, being a clear, cozy and tangible house for words and characters living and acting in it, like actors in a play played for one small spectator and for his closest people.

Please read some of your summer poems for children.

Evgenia Lotsmanova: Summer? Then this: “Happy mooing, / The chattering of grasshoppers, / The fragrant meeting / of the pre-dark dawn, / The honey-fragrant / earthy fragrance, / You sleep today, honey, / and burn again tomorrow!”

The exhibition of Evgenia Lotsmanova is open until July 22, 2012 at the cultural center "Ozerov's House" (Moscow region, Kolomna, Krasnogvardeyskaya str., 2).

According to tradition, on Cultural Worker’s Day, awards are presented in the Kremlinpeople who have dedicated their creativity to the younger generations, as well as those who, despite their own young years, have already said their significant word in art.

Some of the laureates are already recognized masters, others are barely over thirty. But their achievements in the field visual arts and music are undeniable. Those who receive awards on this day make a huge contribution to the formation in society moral values and moral guidelines.

Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova – winner of the Presidential Prize Russian Federation for young cultural workers 2015.The prize was awarded for his contribution to the development of the Russian art of illustration.

Evgenia Lotsmanova is an illustrator. Her work is distinguished by its amazing attractiveness, kind and bright attitude towards the characters, and attentive attitude to the text.The illustrations are made using the technique of color lithography using heavy lithographic stone, which requires a lot of patience and physical strength.

E. Lotsmanova is a worthy successor to the traditions of Russian book illustration, the legacy of T. Mavrina, Y. Vasnetsov, E. Rachev, B. Diodorov. But the young artist has a unique style of her own.

“Unfortunately, now many talented young illustrators are leaving the profession due to life and financial difficulties. And this award, I am sure, will be able to show that the illustrator profession is honorable, significant and truly supported by the state. high level“, the laureate emphasized.

Elena Andreevna Cheburashkina is a laureate of the President of the Russian Federation Prize for young cultural figures in 2015. The prize was awarded for his contribution to the development of domestic design and art education.

For the first time, among those awarded this prize is not a writer or a musician, but a representative of the applied profession - a designer. Elena Cheburashkina graduate and teacherDepartment of "Artistic Design of Furniture" MGHPU named after. S.G. Stroganova, teaches the disciplines “Project” and “Ergonomics in Furniture”, lectures on the history of furniture design of the 20th century. Elenaengages in interior design for kindergartens, develops unique furniture for kindergartens, which is at the same time a means of development and entertainment for the child. You can draw on its tables, and the play area easily turns into a child's bedroom.

"Thank you so much to my loving husband, to my patient children, mom and dad. Mom, dad, thank you for raising me like this. Perhaps, at least now you will stop calling me a little pig,” Elena Cheburashkina said in her speech.

kremlin.ru

On March 25, on Cultural Worker's Day, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin presented Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova, a graduate of the Moscow State University named after Ivan Fedorov, with a prize for her contribution to the development of the Russian art of illustration.

It is very difficult to describe the feeling of joy, comfort, restored childhood that arises when looking at Evgenia’s work. “They smell of the field wind and damp earth, the beasts speak their own languages, everything in them is fun, absurd and strong; like in a real animal game, everything is imbued with healthy animal humor.” She didn’t have to invent her childhood, climb into the abandoned attic of memory for it. It’s right next to her, just stretch out your hand. (I’ll tell you a secret: Zhenya also plays with dolls - in the sense that she makes toys, and you can see them at exhibitions.)

(works are clickable)

A fragile girl works with weighted lithographic plates, improving dozens of times what as a result has become completely weightless - true art classic book illustration. The result is masterpieces - shimmering, magic pictures, which you can look at for hours and read and re-read, like real fairy tales.

This sorceress is “the bird from Diodorov’s nest.” Her name is Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova. I think you'll remember this name."

Evgenia speaks very warmly about her beloved teacher Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov: “He helped me believe in myself, helped me make a life choice in favor of sincere art, sincere creativity - the kind of creativity that my soul asks for.”

Butterflies. "The Magic Hill" by H.H. Andersen

Little Waterman. "Magic Hill"

Evgenia Lotsmanova was born on January 14, 1985 in Kolomna, Moscow region. She graduated from a children's art school and chose the profession of an illustrator. It is no coincidence that drawing was a favorite pastime from early childhood; Evgenia’s maternal relatives were icon painters in the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow province. In 2007, Evgenia graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts. Winner of a diploma from the Union of Artists of Russia (2010), winner of the competition in the category “Best Children's Edition” at the Great Book Fair (Perm, 2013). Member of the Moscow Union of Artists.

Author of illustrations for the books “Tales of 1001 Nights” (2007), “Magpie Tales” by A.N. Tolstoy (2013), “The Magic Hill” by H.H. Andersen (2014), “Little Forest Tale” by N. Maksimova (2015) . She also created a series of illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels, The Chronicles of Narnia, Tartuffe, and a series of lithographs dedicated to historical places in Russia. Participant in numerous illustration exhibitions, including number of three personal.

Ball. "Magic Hill" (clickable, but better viewed in parts)

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Firebird. "Magic Hill"

Forest maidens. "Magic Hill"

Feast. "Magic Hill"Snow house. Magic Hill"

Mouse. "Magic Hill"

Cloud. "Magic Hill"Elves. "Magic Hill"

Harp. "Magic Hill"

Maximilian Voloshin, a hundred years ago, said this about “Magpie Tales”: “Genuine poetry, like true painting, like true feminine charm, are not accessible to words and definitions, because they themselves are already the final definitions of complex systems of feelings and states..."