Bidspirit auction | Shemyakin M.M.

Shemyakin M.M. - Metaphysical self-portrait. Head masks. Blood flows from the ears.. Year:  1979 Technique:  Paper, ink, colored pencils, watercolor. Size:  25x32.2. Descripton:  Signature and date lower right. Author's epigraph to the work at the top left: ”Head of the Mask of Blood Falling Through the Ears.” Shemyakin Mikhail Mikhailovich (born 1943, Moscow). Artist, sculptor. People's Artist of Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature. Honorary doctorate from universities in the USA, France, Russia, member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Awards: State Prize of the Russian Federation, gold medal “Worthy” of the Russian Academy of Arts, awards “Golden Sofit”, “Petropol”, “Golden Mask”, Order of Friendship, badge “For Contribution to Russian Culture”. He studied at the Secondary Art School at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Repina. Since 1962 he took part in exhibitions. In 1967 he founded the group of artists “Petersburg”. Personal exhibitions were held in Russia, the USA, France, Germany, Japan, etc. Famous works: monuments to Peter the Great, the pioneering architects of St. Petersburg, “Plato’s Dialogue with Socrates”, “The Tsar’s Walk”, Vladimir Vysotsky, victims of terror, the sculpture “Cybele”, tombstones on the graves of Savely Kramarov, Mikhail Manevich, Anatoly Sobchak, the monument “In Memory of the Forgotten War that Changed the Course of History”, sculptural compositions “Clock Man”, “Children – Victims of the Vices of Adults”, etc.