Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov (January 17 (29), 1870, Istobensk village, Vyatka province — June 22, 1939, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet landscape painter, graphic artist, and teacher.
Member of the Mir iskusstva, Union of Russian artists, AHRR, founding member of the Leningrad Union of artists, Professor of the Leningrad Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture of the all-Russian Academy of arts, honored artist of the RSFSR (1935).
Arkady Alexandrovich Rylov grew up in the family of his stepfather, a notary (his own father was mentally ill). Brother of German Alexandrovich Rylov - music teacher, pianist and founder of the First proletarian music school in Vyatka (now the first children's music school in Kirov).
He studied in Saint Petersburg, first at the Central school of technical drawing of Baron A. L. Stieglitz (1888-1891) and under Konstantin Kryzhitsky. He studied at the Higher art school of the Imperial Academy of arts under A. I. Kuindzhi (1894-1897). Participated in the creation of the Mir iskusstva and the Union of Russian artists associations. Since 1915-academician of painting.
In the vicinity of St. Petersburg and in Finland, he created dozens of paintings and sketches in his characteristic color scheme. In addition, A. A. Rylov successfully worked as an Illustrator and wrote essays about nature.
A. A. Rylov was the Chairman Of the society of artists named after A. I. Kuindzhi.
Since 1902, he led the "class of drawing animals" in the Drawing school at the society for the encouragement of arts, since 1917 he taught at the Academy of arts (Professor since 1918). Collaborated in the magazine "Chizh".
After the revolution, Rylov continued to actively engage in creative and pedagogical work. A. A. Fedorov-Davydov called Rylov "an outstanding Soviet landscape painter", and considered his painting "in the blue expanse" (1918, GTG) among "those works with which it is usually accepted to begin the history of Soviet painting". After its formation in 1932, lossh Rylov participated in all of ITS major exhibitions, starting with the first exhibition of Leningrad artists in 1935. His works largely determined the multi-faceted appearance of Leningrad landscape painting in the 1920s and 1930s.
As a Professor of lizhs, Rylov made a great contribution to the training of new generations of artists, directly or indirectly influencing the state and development of Soviet landscape painting in the following decades. Suffice it to say that among his students were such famous masters of this genre as a.m. Gritsay, B. V. Shcherbakov, N. E. Timkov. Rylov is called his" teacher "and" favorite artist " by the famous Leningrad and St. Petersburg artist N. N. Galakhov, whose studies at lizhsa and subsequent work in the landscape genre took place in the post-war decades.
