Avant-garde artist Alexander Vasilyevich Shevchenko (1883 - 1948) was a Russian and Soviet painter and graphic artist, art theorist, avant—gardist.

Being in the thick of the struggle for new forms in art in the 1910s, Shevchenko was the most traditional among other artists. Larionov, assessing Shevchenko's painting, wrote that his "cubist, futurist and radiant forms are introduced into a picture strictly academically constructed." The new forms attracted Shevchenko not only and not so much as an artist-practitioner, but as a researcher and experimenter. Most of all, he was passionate about neo-primitivism. In search of the plastic unity of form in the early 1920s, Shevchenko turned to the work of Paul Cezanne.

In his works of this time, one can find direct analogies with the works of the French master. In painting and graphics of the 1930s, especially those related to the Caucasian theme, there are tendencies towards greater monumentality with simplicity of motive, greater emotionality of color, lyricism, romantic interpretation of the landscape. In the 1940s he created landscapes and genres in the spirit of "quiet art".The artist's work is represented in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

Date of birth: May 26 (June 7), 1883
City: Kharkiv
Students: Ivan Akhremchik, Rostislav Barto, Boris Gololosov, etc.
Biography: In 1899 - 1909 he studied at the Stroganov School, at the MUZHVZ with A.E. Arkhipov and K. A. Korovin, then in Paris at the Academy of R. Julien and in the workshop of E. Carriere. Participated in the exhibitions "World of Art", "Donkey's tail", "Union of Youth", "Makovets", "Society of Moscow Artists", "Target" and "y 4". In 1918-1921 he was in charge of the literary and artistic sub-department of the College for the Arts of the People's Commissariat of Education, in 1918-1929 he taught at Vkhutemas, took an active part in the work of the Russian Academy of Art Sciences and the creation of the Museum of Pictorial Culture. In the 1930s. He made a creative trip to the East: to Adjara, Dagestan, Azerbaijan. The artist's works are in the GTG, GRM, in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.