One of the means of reflecting reality is oral folk art. Each nation has its own unique spiritual personality, arising from the instinctive-spiritual originality of perception of the surrounding world. “The spiritual identity of the people is manifested in language, songs, poetry, prayer, and fairy tales.”

The fairy tale, as the most valuable type of folk art, combines mythical, adventure, and everyday storytelling.

Fairy tales are divided into tales about animals, magic and everyday life.

The most ancient type of fairy tales that have come down to us is tales about animals. By summarizing typical characters in the images of animals, people derived from the fairy tale a moral, a moral example for subsequent generations. This type includes fairy tales “The Wolf and the Fox”, “The Cat and the Fox”, “The Cat, the Rooster and the Fox”, “The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats”, as well as mixed genres of fairy tales, where, along with intelligent animals, people also participate. The best example of such interaction is the fairy tale “Turnip” (by the way, note how often a wolf and a fox take part in such fairy tales as carriers of a pronounced character).

Tales about animals remind us of the connection of the primitive race with animals, whose descendants people considered themselves to be. “A person who has preserved spiritual purity and kindness towards everything in nature speaks its language, which is why so often in fairy tales animals help the hero, give various objects to search for the truth, even fall in love with animals - and through the highest feeling of love the animal turns into a beautiful person.”

Everyday tales (anecdotal and novelistic).

The most recent genre of folklore fairy tales. The anecdotal tale developed from animal tales. What distinguishes it from the actual anecdote is a detailed narrative (not just one or two paragraphs) and a more stable storyline. An example is the lesser-known fairy tales about stupid wives, village fools and greedy priests and merchants. (slide 4)

A novelistic fairy tale is distinguished by the fact that it features a human hero who fights not against evil forces, fate, but most often against the injustice of the social system in the person of its individual representatives (for example, the already mentioned today “The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda”). The novelistic fairy tale as a genre has its written sources since about the 17th century, and in subsequent centuries it is usually authored (P. Ershov, A. Pushkin, V. Odoevsky, P. Bazhov, N. Leskov).

Through a fairy tale, the world around us was comprehended: the luminaries, the Milky Way, the stars, the seasons became close and understandable. Remember the heroes’ appeal to the Sun, Mesyats Mesyatsovich, Vetr Vetrovich, to the River - the banks of jelly.

Fairy tales - p perhaps the most interesting and exciting genre of fairy tales. Such a fairy tale can be distinguished by many characteristics:

The hero of these fairy tales is brave, handsome and courageous (however, this is where his characteristics end, he is needed only to reveal the storyline).

Animals act as helpers, and not the main characters of the fairy tale (a gray wolf, a faithful heroic horse, suddenly speaking in a human voice).

- the most important difference between a fairy tale is its characteristic plots. The frog princess, the wise Vasilisa, who has the secret gift of magic, about princes who gain fame and brides in magical adventures, about the three kingdoms - copper, silver and gold, about Finist the clear falcon, about the firebird and many others, undoubtedly, represent are fairy tales.

Fairy tales are collectively created and collectively preserved by the people oral artistic epic narratives in prose, which use techniques of implausible depiction of reality, fantastic fiction, the diverse and traditional forms of which, not repeating themselves in any other genre of folklore, have evolved over the centuries, in close connections with the entire way of folk life, and were in the original connection with mythology.

Images of the animal world often personify human vices, weaknesses and shortcomings in fairy tales. Often a person is compared to a beast: “angry like a wolf”, “cunning like a fox”, “stomps like a bear”, “faithful like a dog”.

In Russian folk tales, animals have their own character and habits. The fox goes by a number of nicknames: godmother-fox, little fox-sister, fox-Patricheevna, Lizaveta Ivanovna etc. Wolf - Wolf gray tail, Wolf teeth click.

Based on the studied literature and Russian folk tales, we have identified the main characteristics of animals:

Bear- good-natured, simpleton, strong, clumsy, gourmet, slow-witted, gullible lump, smart.

Wolf– angry, greedy, stupid, simple-minded, gullible, strong.

Rooster- brave, beautiful, warlike.

Hare- cowardly, weak, cunning, boastful, harmless.

Fox- cunning, forged, greedy, pretender, deceiver, thief, elegant, beautiful, fashionista.

Hedgehog- smart, careful, resourceful.

Owl- wise.

Mouse- hardworking, kind.

To illustrate Russian folk tales, various artists used their own compositional solutions, artistic means and expressive techniques to convey the fabulousness of what was happening.

Let's get acquainted with Ivan Bilibin's illustrations for Russian folk tales

You can recognize Bilibin’s works from a large format thin notebook book with large color drawings. And the artist here is not just the author of the drawings, but also of all the decorative elements of the book - the cover, initials, fonts and ornaments.
Characteristic features of the Bilibin style: the beauty of patterned designs, exquisite decorative color combinations, a combination of bright fabulousness with a sense of folk humor. Bilibin emphasized the plane of the book page with a contour line

Illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov for Russian folk tales

Style: The artist was inspired by the elegant Dymkovo dolls and bright roosters; the traditions of lubok and folk fantasy had a noticeable influence on the illustrator’s work.

Illustrations by E. M. Rachev for Russian folk tales

Russians still attract children folk tales. Who in childhood was not told about the adventures of Kolobok or the stubborn turnip! And then the fairy tales began. And if there were illustrations for them, then the book was reread and considered many times. The artist colorfully designed folk tales Ivan Bilibin, which placed the plot drawing in a beautiful, ornamented frame.

Inimitable paintings Viktor Vasnetsov Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf, Alyonushka, inspired by the Russian folk tale Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka, Kashchei the Immortal.

Among the artists who illustrated the plots of Russian folk tales, three artists can be especially highlighted:

• Victor Vasnetsov and his illustrations for the fairy tales Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf Little Humpbacked Horse, Three Heroes.

• Ivan Bilibin, who illustrated a lot of folk tales

  We also need to remember the artists Boris Zvorykin and Evgeny Rachev.

The literary life of any child begins with fairy tales. And first of all, what the baby looks at is the illustrations for fairy tales. The child cannot read letters, but he reads a fairy tale from pictures. Therefore, it is very important which artist illustrates the fairy tale.

Famous domestic children's illustrators are: Ivan Bilibin (for example, he illustrated the fairy tale The Frog Princess), Viktor Vasnetsov (drew for such wonderful fairy tales as the Little Humpbacked Horse and the Firebird), Yuri Vasnetsov (Teremok).

First of all, I want to remind you of a person like Ivan Bilibin - he made a huge number of illustrations for folk tales and Pushkin’s fairy tales.

Boris Zvorykin was also involved in creating illustrations specifically for fairy tales.

Evgeny Rachv is also an illustrator of fairy tales.

A very famous artist Ivan Bilibin, his illustrations adorned collections of Russian folk tales. The illustrations were drawn for children, half text and half pictures. This made it clearer for the little ones.

And this is one of the illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.

Artists who painted various fairy tale characters in their paintings. Ivan Bilibin, for example, painted beautiful pictures. Viktor Vasnetsov also drew fairy tale characters, for example from the fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse.



Folk tales are one of the favorite genres of folklore. They reflect the life of the people, their traditions and rituals, and usually have an instructive and educational meaning.

Children love folk tales very much. After all, this type of creativity is very easy and accessible for them to understand.

Illustrators made a huge contribution to conveying the plot of the tale to the reader. We imagine many fairy tale heroes exactly as they were seen in the pictures.

Among the famous illustrators should be named

Ivan Bilibina (The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, The Frog Princess, Vasilisa the Beautiful),

Viktor Vasnetsova (Humpbacked Horse, Firebird, Ivan Tsarevich on a gray wolf)

Yuri Vasnetsov (Three Bears, Little Humpbacked Horse).

Evgenia Rachva (created many illustrations for Russian folk tales).

A distinction should be made between artists who painted fairy-tale scenes and artists who painted illustrations for printed editions of Russian fairy tales. Of the first, one should name, first of all, Viktor Vasnetsov, who in his work turned specifically to fairy-tale plots - these are Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf and the Bogatyrs. Vasnetsov also worked on illustrations of books, for example, The Little Humpbacked Horse by Ershov, but this is not exactly a folk tale.

Of the fairy tale illustrators, of course, we should remember Ivan Bilibin, who made the most famous illustrations of Pushkin’s fairy tales and many folk tales:





And of course, we cannot forget the genius of fairy-tale illustration, my favorite artist of this genre, Evgeny Rachev, who illustrated a great sea of ​​folk tales:



Since childhood, I have kept wonderful books of Russian folk tales, the illustrations of which are probably more interesting than the fairy tales themselves. First of all, the luxurious paintings of the Vasnetsov brothers come to mind. I remember reproductions of paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov, Ivan the Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf, which hung on the wall of my great-grandmother’s house and Knights at the Crossroads, known as the Three Heroes

I still love looking at illustrations for Ivan Bilibin’s fairy tales, and I’m very proud that I have a rare edition of Bilibin’s drawings at home - a large colorful album with sketches and finished illustrations.

Among the works of female artists, I really like the illustrations for fairy tales by Elena Almazova and Inna Anfilofyeva and the magical, precise micro-details in the drawings of Elena Polenova (who, by the way, is the sister of the famous artist Vasily Polenov).

And the drawings for Boris Zvorykin’s fairy tales are reminiscent of illustrations for real historical events: the details of costumes and household items are very accurately conveyed...

There are many illustrators of fairy tales and epics. I only remembered my loved ones.

The book The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights of Pushkin with illustrations by Boris Zvorykin immediately appeared in my mind’s eye - such a bright ornamental decorativeness, a sensitive Russian harmonious tradition. Few people know that Boris Zvorykin, in addition to book illustration, was also involved in icon painting and was a translator. He was born in Moscow, in the Russian Empire in 1897, and died in 1942 in Paris, where he emigrated in 1921.

His illustrations cannot be confused with others



The sister of the famous painter Vasily Polenov, Elena Polenova, a watercolor artist, also belongs to the same Russian tradition, she was born on November 27, 1850, in St. Petersburg, then women were not allowed to study at universities, but she studied with the best Russian artists: P.P. Chistyakov, I.N. Kramskoy and in Paris with Ch. Chaplin, her illustrations are less decorative, softer



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Children's book illustrators. Who are the authors of the most favorite pictures?


What's the use of a book, thought Alice.
– if there are no pictures or conversations in it?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"


Surprisingly, children's illustrations in Russia (USSR)
There is an exact year of birth - 1925. This year
a children's literature department was created in Leningradsky
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations were not published specifically for children.

Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have remained in our memory since childhood and are liked by our children?
Find out, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using stories from parents of current children and reviews of books on online bookstore websites.




Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev(1903-1993, Moscow) - children's writer, illustrator and animator. His kind, cheerful pictures look like stills from a cartoon. Suteev’s drawings turned many fairy tales into masterpieces.
For example, not all parents consider the works of Korney Chukovsky to be necessary classics, and most of them do not consider his works talented. But I want to hold Chukovsky’s fairy tales, illustrated by Vladimir Suteev, in my hands and read them to children.



Boris Aleksandrovich Dekhterev (1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) – people’s artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the “Dekhterev School” determined the development of book graphics in the country), illustrator. He worked primarily in pencil drawing and watercolor techniques. Dekhterev’s good old illustrations are a whole era in the history of children’s illustration; many illustrators call Boris Alexandrovich their teacher.

Dekhterev illustrated children's fairy tales by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen. As well as works of other Russian writers and world classics, for example, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, William Shakespeare.



Nikolai Alexandrovich Ustinov(b. 1937, Moscow), his teacher was Dekhterev, and many modern illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.

Nikolai Ustinov is a national artist and illustrator. Fairy tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Almost three hundred works were illustrated by the famous artist for publishing houses: “Children’s Literature”, “Malysh”, “Artist of the RSFSR”, publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. Worked in the magazine Murzilka.
Ustinov's illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most beloved for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Little Fox Sister, The Frog Princess, Geese and Swans and many others.



Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973, Vyatka, Leningrad) - people's artist and illustrator. All kids like his pictures for folk songs, nursery rhymes and jokes (Ladushki, Rainbow-arc). He illustrated folk tales, tales of Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianki and other classics of Russian literature.

When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the pictures are clear and moderately bright. Using the name of a famous artist, books have recently often been published with unclear scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.



Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(born 1920, Moscow) is a Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about Buratino by A. N. Tolstoy and about the Emerald City by A. M. Volkov, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. Painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky’s illustrations that many recognize as classic among Volkov’s works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which several generations of children have known and loved him is undoubtedly his merit.



Victor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(born 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. Illustrator for the magazines “Crocodile”, “Funny Pictures”, “Murzilka”, drew for many years for the magazine “Around the World”.
Chizhikov illustrated the works of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov (Vitya Maleev at school and at home), Irina Tokmakova (Alya, Klyaksich and the letter “A”), Alexander Volkov (The Wizard of the Emerald City), poems by Andrei Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .

To be fair, it is worth noting that Chizhikov’s illustrations are quite specific and cartoonish. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations if there is an alternative. For example, many people prefer the books “The Wizard of the Emerald City” with illustrations by Leonid Vladimirsky.



Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov(1889-1942, St. Petersburg) - Russian artist, art critic, teacher. Illustrator of children's books: Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Volkov. Radlov drew with great pleasure for children. His most famous book is comics for kids “Stories in Pictures.” This is a book-album with funny stories about animals and birds. Years have passed, but the collection is still very popular. The stories in pictures were repeatedly republished not only in Russia, but also in other countries. At the international children's book competition in America in 1938, the book received second prize.



Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev (1905-1965, Moscow) - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. The artist’s works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Illustrated “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” by Nikolai Nosov, “Fables” by Ivan Krylov, and the magazine “Funny Pictures”. The book with his poems and pictures “Peak, pak, pok” is already very loved by more than one generation of children and parents (Briff, the greedy bear, the foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty bunnies and others)



Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942, Leningrad) - Russian artist, book illustrator and theater designer. Bilibin illustrated a large number of fairy tales, including those of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. He developed his own style - “Bilibinsky” - a graphic representation taking into account the traditions of ancient Russian and folk art, a carefully drawn and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.

For many, fairy tales, epics, and images of ancient Rus' have long been inextricably linked with Bilibin’s illustrations.



Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich(1888-1963, Novocherkassk, Leningrad) - Russian artist, graphic artist, illustrator. I started illustrating children's books by accident. In 1918, his daughter was three years old. Konashevich drew pictures for her for each letter of the alphabet. One of my friends saw these drawings and liked them. This is how “The ABC in Pictures” was published - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
Since the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main work of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, and drew pictures in his favorite specific technique - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.

The main works of Vladimir Konashevich:
- illustration of fairy tales and songs of different peoples, some of which were illustrated several times;
- fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault;
- “The Old Man of the Year” by V. I. Dahl;
- works by Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak.
The artist’s last work was illustrating all the fairy tales of A. S. Pushkin.



Anatoly Mikhailovich Savchenko (1924-2011, Novocherkassk, Moscow) - animator and illustrator of children's books. Anatoly Savchenko was the production designer for the cartoons “Kid and Carlson” and “Carlson is Back” and the author of illustrations for Astrid Lindgren’s books. The most famous cartoon works with his direct participation: Moidodyr, the adventures of Murzilka, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom, The Nutcracker, Tsokotukha the Fly, Kesha the Parrot and others.
Children are familiar with Savchenko’s illustrations from the books: “Piggy Gets Offended” by Vladimir Orlov, “Little Brownie Kuzya” by Tatyana Alexandrova, “Fairy Tales for the Little Ones” by Gennady Tsyferov, “Little Baba Yaga” Proysler Otfried, as well as books with works similar to cartoons.



Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev (b. 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 60s, for more than thirty years he has been designing children's books in collaboration with Eric Vladimirovich Bulatov(born 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for the fairy tales of Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, the poems of Valentin Berestov and the fairy tales of Gennady Tsyferov.



Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov(born 1934, Moscow) - People's Artist. Favorite technique is color etching. Author of illustrations for many works of Russian and foreign classics. His most famous illustrations for fairy tales are:

Jan Ekholm “Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and Others”;
- Selma Lagerlöf "Nils's Amazing Journey with the Wild Geese";
- Sergey Aksakov “The Scarlet Flower”;
- works of Hans Christian Andersen.

Diodorov illustrated more than 300 books. His works were published in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature".



Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's animal writer. Most of the illustrations are done in the style of free watercolor drawings, with a little humor. Children like it, even toddlers. He is known for the illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: “About Tomka”, “Wolf and Others”, “Nikitka and His Friends” and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianchi. The most famous book with his illustrations is “Children in a Cage” by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.



Evgeniy Mikhailovich Rachev(1906-1997, Tomsk) – animal artist, graphic artist, illustrator. He illustrated mainly Russian folk tales, fables and tales of classics of Russian literature. He mainly illustrated works in which the main characters are animals: Russian fairy tales about animals, fables.



Ivan Maksimovich Semenov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - people's artist, graphic artist, caricaturist. Semenov worked in the newspapers “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Pionerskaya Pravda”, magazines “Smena”, “Crocodile” and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine in the USSR for young children, “Funny Pictures,” was created.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov’s stories about Kolya and Mishka (Fantasers, Living Hat and others) and drawings “Bobik visiting Barbos.”



The names of some other famous contemporary Russian illustrators of children's books:

- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(b. 1941, Moscow) – production designer of dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mother for a Baby Mammoth, Bazhov’s fairy tales and illustrator of books of the same name.

- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of kind, beautiful illustrations for many children's books: Poems and songs of Mother Goose, poems by Boris Zakhoder, works by Sergei Mikhalkov, works by Daniil Kharms, stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lindgren and others.

- Igor Egunov(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - a contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for books: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Rudolf Raspe, “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, tales of Russian heroes.



- Evgeniy Antonenkov(born 1956, Moscow) - illustrator, favorite technique is watercolor, pen and paper, mixed media. The illustrations are modern, unusual, and stand out among others. Some look at them with indifference, others fall in love with the funny pictures at first sight.
The most famous illustrations: for fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne), “Russian children's fairy tales”, poems and fairy tales by Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Gianni Rodari, Yunna Moritz. “The Stupid Horse” by Vladimir Levin (English ancient folk ballads), illustrated by Antonenkov, is one of the most popular books of 2011.
Evgeniy Antonenkov collaborates with publishing houses in Germany, France, Belgium, the USA, Korea, Japan, is a regular participant in prestigious international exhibitions, laureate of the White Crow competition (Bologna, 2004), winner of the Book of the Year diploma (2008).



- Igor Yulievich Oleynikov(b. 1953, Moscow) – artist-animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleinikov is known for the films: “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Sherlock Holmes and I” and others. Worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleynikov collaborates with publishing houses in Canada, the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, and participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The artist’s most famous illustrations for books: “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” by John Tolkien, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Erich Raspe, “The Adventures of Despereaux the Mouse” by Kate DiCamillo, “Peter Pan” by James Barrie. Latest books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Usachev.

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Children's book illustrators. Who are the authors of the most favorite pictures?


What's the use of a book, thought Alice.
– if there are no pictures or conversations in it?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Surprisingly, children's illustrations in Russia (USSR)
There is an exact year of birth - 1925. This year
a children's literature department was created in Leningradsky
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations were not published specifically for children.

Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have remained in our memory since childhood and are liked by our children?
Find out, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using stories from parents of current children and reviews of books on online bookstore websites.

Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev(1903-1993, Moscow) - children's writer, illustrator and animator. His kind, cheerful pictures look like stills from a cartoon. Suteev’s drawings turned many fairy tales into masterpieces.
For example, not all parents consider the works of Korney Chukovsky to be necessary classics, and most of them do not consider his works talented. But I want to hold Chukovsky’s fairy tales, illustrated by Vladimir Suteev, in my hands and read them to children.




Boris Aleksandrovich Dekhterev(1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) – people’s artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the “Dekhterev School” determined the development of book graphics in the country), illustrator. He worked primarily in pencil drawing and watercolor techniques. Dekhterev’s good old illustrations are a whole era in the history of children’s illustration; many illustrators call Boris Alexandrovich their teacher.

Dekhterev illustrated children's fairy tales by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen. As well as works of other Russian writers and world classics, for example, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, William Shakespeare.



Nikolai Alexandrovich Ustinov(b. 1937, Moscow), his teacher was Dekhterev, and many modern illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.

Nikolai Ustinov is a national artist and illustrator. Fairy tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Almost three hundred works were illustrated by the famous artist for publishing houses: “Children’s Literature”, “Malysh”, “Artist of the RSFSR”, publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. Worked in the magazine Murzilka.
Ustinov's illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most beloved for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Little Fox Sister, The Frog Princess, Geese and Swans and many others.



Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973, Vyatka, Leningrad) - people's artist and illustrator. All kids like his pictures for folk songs, nursery rhymes and jokes (Ladushki, Rainbow-arc). He illustrated folk tales, tales of Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianki and other classics of Russian literature.

When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the pictures are clear and moderately bright. Using the name of a famous artist, books have recently often been published with unclear scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.



Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(born 1920, Moscow) is a Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about Buratino by A. N. Tolstoy and about the Emerald City by A. M. Volkov, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. Painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky’s illustrations that many recognize as classic among Volkov’s works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which several generations of children have known and loved him is undoubtedly his merit.



Victor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(born 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. Illustrator for the magazines “Crocodile”, “Funny Pictures”, “Murzilka”, drew for many years for the magazine “Around the World”.
Chizhikov illustrated the works of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov (Vitya Maleev at school and at home), Irina Tokmakova (Alya, Klyaksich and the letter “A”), Alexander Volkov (The Wizard of the Emerald City), poems by Andrei Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .

To be fair, it is worth noting that Chizhikov’s illustrations are quite specific and cartoonish. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations if there is an alternative. For example, many people prefer the books “The Wizard of Oz” with illustrations Leonid Vladimirsky.



Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov(1889-1942, St. Petersburg) - Russian artist, art critic, teacher. Illustrator of children's books: Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Volkov. Radlov drew with great pleasure for children. His most famous book is comics for kids “Stories in Pictures.” This is a book-album with funny stories about animals and birds. Years have passed, but the collection is still very popular. The stories in pictures were repeatedly republished not only in Russia, but also in other countries. At the international children's book competition in America in 1938, the book received second prize.




Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev(1905-1965, Moscow) - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. The artist’s works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Illustrated “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” by Nikolai Nosov, “Fables” by Ivan Krylov, and the magazine “Funny Pictures”. The book with his poems and pictures “Peak, pak, pok” is already very loved by more than one generation of children and parents (Briff, the greedy bear, the foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty bunnies and others)




Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin(1876-1942, Leningrad) - Russian artist, book illustrator and theater designer. Bilibin illustrated a large number of fairy tales, including those of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. He developed his own style - “Bilibinsky” - a graphic representation taking into account the traditions of ancient Russian and folk art, a carefully drawn and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.

For many, fairy tales, epics, and images of ancient Rus' have long been inextricably linked with Bilibin’s illustrations.




Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich(1888-1963, Novocherkassk, Leningrad) - Russian artist, graphic artist, illustrator. I started illustrating children's books by accident. In 1918, his daughter was three years old. Konashevich drew pictures for her for each letter of the alphabet. One of my friends saw these drawings and liked them. This is how “The ABC in Pictures” was published - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
Since the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main work of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, and drew pictures in his favorite specific technique - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.

The main works of Vladimir Konashevich:
- illustration of fairy tales and songs of different peoples, some of which were illustrated several times;
- fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault;
- “The Old Man of the Year” by V. I. Dahl;
- works by Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak.
The artist’s last work was illustrating all the fairy tales of A. S. Pushkin.



Anatoly Mikhailovich Savchenko(1924-2011, Novocherkassk, Moscow) - animator and illustrator of children's books. Anatoly Savchenko was the production designer for the cartoons “Kid and Carlson” and “Carlson is Back” and the author of illustrations for Astrid Lindgren’s books. The most famous cartoon works with his direct participation: Moidodyr, the adventures of Murzilka, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom, The Nutcracker, Tsokotukha the Fly, Kesha the Parrot and others.
Children are familiar with Savchenko’s illustrations from the books: “Piggy Gets Offended” by Vladimir Orlov, “Little Brownie Kuzya” by Tatyana Alexandrova, “Fairy Tales for the Little Ones” by Gennady Tsyferov, “Little Baba Yaga” by Otfried Preussler, as well as books with works similar to cartoons.

Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev(b. 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 60s, for more than thirty years he has been engaged in the design of children's books in collaboration with Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov (born 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for the fairy tales of Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, the poems of Valentin Berestov and the fairy tales of Gennady Tsyferov.



Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov(born 1934, Moscow) - People's Artist. Favorite technique is color etching. Author of illustrations for many works of Russian and foreign classics. His most famous illustrations for fairy tales are:

- Jan Ekholm “Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and Others”;
- Selma Lagerlöf "Nils's Amazing Journey with the Wild Geese";
- Sergey Aksakov “The Scarlet Flower”;
- works of Hans Christian Andersen.

Diodorov illustrated more than 300 books. His works were published in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature".



Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin(1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's animal writer. Most of the illustrations are done in the style of free watercolor drawings, with a little humor. Children like it, even toddlers. He is known for the illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: “About Tomka”, “Wolf and Others”, “Nikitka and His Friends” and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianchi. The most famous book with his illustrations is “Children in a Cage” by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.




Evgeniy Mikhailovich Rachev(1906-1997, Tomsk) – animal artist, graphic artist, illustrator. He illustrated mainly Russian folk tales, fables and tales of classics of Russian literature. He mainly illustrated works in which the main characters are animals: Russian fairy tales about animals, fables.



Ivan Maksimovich Semenov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - people's artist, graphic artist, caricaturist. Semenov worked in the newspapers “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Pionerskaya Pravda”, magazines “Smena”, “Crocodile” and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine in the USSR for young children, “Funny Pictures,” was created.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov’s stories about Kolya and Mishka (Fantasers, Living Hat and others) and drawings “Bobik visiting Barbos.”






The names of some other famous contemporary Russian illustrators of children's books:

- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(b. 1941, Moscow) – production designer of dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mother for a Baby Mammoth, Bazhov’s fairy tales and illustrator of books of the same name.

- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of kind, beautiful illustrations for many children's books: Poems and songs of Mother Goose, poems by Boris Zakhoder, works by Sergei Mikhalkov, works by Daniil Kharms, stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lindgren and others.

- Igor Egunov (the author of the article did not find biographical information) is a contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for books: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Rudolf Raspe, “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, tales of Russian heroes




- Evgeniy Antonenkov(born 1956, Moscow) - illustrator, favorite technique is watercolor, pen and paper, mixed media. The illustrations are modern, unusual, and stand out among others. Some look at them with indifference, others fall in love with the funny pictures at first sight.
The most famous illustrations: for fairy tales about Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne), “Russian children's fairy tales”, poems and fairy tales by Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Gianni Rodari, Yunna Moritz. “The Stupid Horse” by Vladimir Levin (English ancient folk ballads), illustrated by Antonenkov, is one of the most popular books of 2011.
Evgeniy Antonenkov collaborates with publishing houses in Germany, France, Belgium, the USA, Korea, Japan, is a regular participant in prestigious international exhibitions, laureate of the White Crow competition (Bologna, 2004), winner of the Book of the Year diploma (2008).



- Igor Yulievich Oleynikov (b. 1953, Moscow) – artist-animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleinikov is known for the films: “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Sherlock Holmes and I” and others. Worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleynikov collaborates with publishing houses in Canada, the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, and participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The artist’s most famous illustrations for books: “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” by John Tolkien, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Erich Raspe, “The Adventures of Despereaux the Mouse” by Kate DiCamillo, “Peter Pan” by James Barrie. Latest books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Usachev.
A m I didn’t really want to introduce you to illustrators, remember our childhood and recommend them to young parents.

(text) Anna Agrova

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I took "Flint" with illustrations to my grandchildren Yerko , and brought it back. It seems that real art is done by children's illustrators, but "artists" are idiots for whom society has found something to do where they can do the least harm.

In Real Art, that is, children's illustration, a major event occurred. In the late 1980s, Gennady Spirin left for the USA and became Best of the Best there. He still lives in Princeton, with his family, without learning a word of English. It’s a blessing not to understand what they’re saying.

Well, at the end of the 1980s we had perestroika. And there was even football.

But the time has come for Ukraine - and now there is football there, and Number One. Vladislav Erko. That is, the king has changed.

Why didn't I part with Ogniv? Take a closer look:

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This is basically the back of the cover. There are a dozen cats, dogs, horses, birds and fifty people in the picture, but take an interest in the houses. At the top in the right corner is a tower with a figured roof, with a vase on top. There is only one like it in the world, but this is not a repetition, but a development of that architectural concept.

I wouldn't be interested in Yerko. Here is a fragment of my drawing:



The façade ends with a “trumpeting triton” with two serpentine legs. There is a similar detail on Yerko's "Flint" under the word "Erko" - St. Michael slaying Satan.

Someone will say: what kind of artist is Yerko? This is the architect. No! He is an artist in the sense of art that existed before Mannerism. Those artists were interested in the world itself, and it was ignorant of “how” - but today’s Picasse is only interested in the shadow that they cast on this world.



This is page 5 of the book, a soldier is walking along the road. Like Bruegel? No. Neither Bruegel, nor de Momper, nor Leytens knew such rocks and branches. This is further. Yerko picked up where they left off. In fact, today Bruegel would have to be called a children's illustrator. But children have nothing to do with it. Just art.

And now let’s see how figures of “true” art also “paint” Flint:



Joel Stewart

How I hated such drawings in my books as a child! I remember it very well.

Spirina soon 70.





Olga and Andrey Dugin everything is also taught in Munich. I hope that nothing happened to them, and someday Dugin will still finish Hamlet.



In general, the celebrity workshop has aged noticeably. Robert Ingpen ...



(to "Tom Sawyer", obviously)



(to "Mowgli")



It is interesting to compare Ingpen's "Pinocchio" with Yerko. Ingpen is a realist, everything is found and copied, unlike Vladislav, who strives to discover something new in the world. I'm interested in Yerko, but Ingpen is not. The illustrations for Tom Sawyer are too natural, I would say. Too heavy for Mark Twain's light tongue.



Nice drawing, but again the children have nothing to do with it.

The illustrator has aged Sandy Nightingall , Terry Pratchett’s interpretation of which is even immortalized in the stamp:





I will note that I never liked Pratchett’s illustrations because they were colorful. Here she is just a “children’s” artist, only Pratchett is not exactly a children’s reader.

Yvonne Gilbert has aged...





Ivonne Gilbert

If the last picture is the Princess and the Pea, It is an exceptionally brave princess. I definitely wouldn't sleep here because of the altitude.

What about the youth?



John Vernon Lord . Kill yourself if the book is not from the 1930s! But no, a thin fake - 2013. So what, do children appreciate this subtlety?



Illustrations Levy Pinfold definitely have a metaphysically dark undertone. His world is unfriendly:

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Actually, before Juan Wijngaard he is far away. Here's who to scare children:



To lighten the mood, I brought in a random picture about Viking gods from Devianart.

Rhineville

It would seem that there is a sea of ​​children's artists, and it is impossible to embrace the immensity. But the vast majority of them are bright, colorful, and... empty. Not very informative. Let's take another Alice...



Justin Todd

What would I have learned from it when I was 10 years old? Why does the girl have pants that look like gears? But in my 60-year-old Justin Todd I am much more attracted, especially by drawing what is more decent for her:



Works the same way Lisbeth Zwerger beautiful with their purity and freshness of color...



But at 10 years old I wouldn’t have even looked at them.

He released an excellent series of books (“The Biggest Nasties of the Sea”) Kellie Strom . The man knows what a modern child needs. Nothing other than the “o” in the surname crossed out obliquely:



His drawings are really what you need. They are bright, informative, and at the same time simplified.



Fortunately, I am spared the need to mention a thousand more artists here. It is in children's illustration that everyone is terribly concerned about copyrights, and everyone (for example - Maggie Knee) with dire warnings I omitted. Let's move on to the joyful stuff. To those who draw so well that they don’t knock down their rights. Nobody can do that anyway.

These are two girly artists. Inga Moore :









You know, for a long time I was looking for a large painting for the wall. The second Inga Moore is just that.

She achieved special heights in girlhood. IMHO, Angela Barrett :







And to round off the period, as Cyrano de Bergerac put it, j, I will turn to a new rising star - Bagram Ibatoulline , who studied, as you guess, in Moscow, but lives, as you understand, in Pennsylvania:



(Snow Queen, there was such a moment!)



And to the Bulgarian artist Jan (Jassen) Ghiuselev, widely known for his gothic "Alice".



But they say his best illustrations are for “The Queen of Spades”: