Reshetnikov Fedor Pavlovich (1906-1988) was born in 1906 into the family of an icon painter. At the age of 3 he was left an orphan and raised in his brother’s family. He studied at the workers' faculty of arts in Moscow, at the Higher Art and Technical Workshops. Following a Komsomol call, he went to the Arctic on the Chelyuskin, where he was a full-time artist. Reshetnikov had two periods of creativity. The first - youthful - is associated with the same Arctic campaign, with humorous cartoons. The second is with the children's genre and work in the open air.
On the painting “A two again,” a family meets a boy who has brought yet another setback. The child’s appearance reveals what he does instead of homework: yard battles, ice skating, running around. The boy is happily greeted by the dog and his younger brother, who want to play. A little further away, my mother is sitting at the table, my brother is on a bicycle. And even further - a sister in a pioneer tie.The boy's gaze moves to his sister, then to his mother and, following her gaze, returns to the boy. The center of the composition is not a specific object, but an impending feeling of disappointment and melancholy.
Yakupov Kharis Abdrakhmanovich (1919-2010) was born on December 23, 1919 in Kazan into a working-class family. He graduated from the Kazan Art School in 1939.
From 1948 to 1952 he taught at the Kazan Art School.
From 1951 to 1975 he served as chairman of the board of the Union of Artists of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He devoted a lot of time to literary creativity and is the author of 7 books.
The artist’s works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Oriental Art, the State Historical Museum in Moscow, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Naberezhnye Chelny Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts of the Buryat SSR, the Chuvash State Art Museum, the Pyongyang Museum of Fine Arts (North Korea) and etc.In 2005, the Khazine National Art Gallery (Kazan) opened a hall for the permanent exhibition of works by the outstanding artist.In the painting “Portrait of a Mother,” the artist reveals his personal feelings towards close people: respect for his mother, tenderness for his little sons, one of whom is nestled on his grandmother’s lap, clutching a teddy bear in his hands, the other is sitting at the table. All this is expressed quite emotionally.
