ART of TAMBOV

Aleksey Anatolyevich Haritonov was born in 1949 in the city of Tambov, Tambov regin.
 

The artist graduated from the Serov Art College
in 1975 in Leningrad.

What is more, Aleksey Haritonov graduted from the famous Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (I.E. Repin)
in 1982 year.

 

The year of joining the Union of Artists of Russia is 1989.

 

The artist has mostly been working in Genre art. 

 

Genre painting, also called genre scene or petit genre, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached either individually or collectively—thus distinguishing petit genre from history paintings (also called grand genre) and portraits. A work would often be considered as a genre work even if it could be shown that the artist had used a known person—a member of his family, say—as a model. In this case it would depend on whether the work was likely to have been intended by the artist to be perceived as a portrait—sometimes a subjective question. The depictions can be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Because of their familiar and frequently sentimental subject matter, genre paintings have often proven popular with the bourgeoisie, or middle class.