The Russian Academy Of Arts

On February 22, 2009 the Russian Academy of Arts congratulated Andrei Mylnikov, People’s Artist of USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Winner of USSR State Prizes and I. Repin State Prize of the Russian Federation, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor on his 90th anniversary. 

Andrei Mylnikov is a recognized master of easel and monumental painting. The artist has implemented his creative ideas in various types and genres of fine arts: he created a number of profound monumental works, numerous theme and genre canvases, a huge gallery of portraits of his contemporaries and poetic landscapes revealing the originality of his talent and perfect craftsmanship. Well-known are his monumental paintings and mosaic panels in St. Petersburg adorning the city’s state and public buildings, interiors of the Theatre of Young Spectators and subway stations. In Moscow he has painted a rigid curtain for the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. 

Drawings by Andrei Mylnikov can be considered as an independent area of his creative work.  They are diverse in stylistics. The artist works in various graphic techniques and materials, he is a brilliant master of the graphite pencil and charcoal, sanguine, pen and brush, gouache and water color.

For more than 50 years Andrei Mylnikov has been teaching at I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and has been an unchallenged head of the Studio of Monumental Painting as well as a Chair of Painting and Composition in the Faculty of Painting. An artist of versatile talent, a public figure, a man of high moral principles and encyclopedic knowledge, he has made a significant contribution to the improvement of the home art education.

Andrei Mylnikov’s work is represented in many public and private collections including the State Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery and others. In 1996, in his home city of Engels was opened a museum devoted to Mylnikov’s creative work. 

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