Mikhail Bogdanov is an outstanding film artist in feature films and theater. The honored art worker is a professor at VGIK and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, people's artist of the country. He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.
Born in Vyborg on November 17, 1914, Bogdanov, from the moment he was born, seems to be confident in his destiny. He graduated from the 1905 memory art school in the capital. To continue his studies at the art faculty of VGIKA in the studio of Dubrovsky-Eshke, Mikhail Alexandrovich was recalled from the militia in 1943.
Becoming
The training of the profession started with a recruitment in 1939 at the film institute. The release took place in Alma-Ata, where cinematography was evacuated. The famous director Eisenstein, who shot "Ivan the Terrible" in Alma-Ata, presented diplomas to the graduates.
Creative activity started in the mid-forties. Cinema then mastered the possibilities of editing, new poetics and sound. The development of plot construction, dramatic constructions began. The interconnection of the effective atmosphere and the actions of the heroes was of crucial importance. It acquired a previously uncharacteristic narrative and image. The tasks of film artists have changed.
The scenery turned into a material continuation of the biography of the characters. The leading place in the work of the master was given to the narrative realistic nature. The basis of the work was the desire to achieve the reliability of the screen image both in field and in pavilion filming based on the scenery built by the artist.
At that time, the difference between man-made and full-scale decorations was felt quite sharply. Often this is why filmmakers preferred the composed frame of the film. The nature was selected mainly by the artists themselves. Otherwise, a complete reconstruction was required from the scenery. Since the late fifties, the main focus has been on the contemporary theme of paintings.
The environment was assigned the role of one of the characters. Development and improvement Bogdanov in his work sought to combine both tendencies, without bringing symbiosis to the extreme. In the selection of nature and the construction of the scenery, the artist strove for the maximum reliability of the image on the screen.
Nature was transformed in full accordance with the idea, and the hand-made decorations combined all the signs of true reality. In the paintings "Virgin Lands", "Old Men-Robbers" this aspiration became a guarantee of success in the implementation of the plan.
Significant works
Naturally, the documentary aesthetics led the master to work on television films. He worked on "Dove", "Putin". The environment in the projects was given almost chronicle accuracy. He has worked on nearly thirty paintings.
The first was the 1948 film Michurin, where Bogdanov acted as a director. At that time, preference was given to pavilion and heavy decorations. There was a certain amount of theatricality in them. This is noticeable in the first works of the future painter.
In 1973 he worked on a film about the incredible adventures of Italians in Russia. The importance of the scenery in this project was of the utmost importance. The master did an excellent job. All the frames have acquired great laconicism, giving the film dynamism and lightness.
In the sketches drawn, the chalk contradiction with the drawn static and dynamic cinematography has disappeared. In hand-made decorations for "Stone Flower", "Walking the Three Seas", "War and Peace". In the last project, the work was carried out jointly with the artist Myasnikov. In the success of coexistence with nature, great importance was attached to color solutions.
The figure was able to pick up such interesting options that the images were filled with poetry and deep meaning. The visual world has become inimitable and unique. The master worked on several projects with masters from Bulgaria and India. The director's creativity is an example of the harmony of the implementation of his capabilities.
Many graduates call Bogdanov their teacher. He pioneered a tradition in the study of motion picture art. The originality of the worldview has become the reason for the merging of life with creativity. Merits and works of the master The artist felt an inner closeness with Bazhenov, Krymov, Dovzhenko. The area of interest was also largely determined by the main teachers.
Merit
From the earliest days, the artist's attention was focused on color. The most interesting achievements are associated with the new expressive means of cinematography. The teacher of the future filmmaker was Bogorodsky, one of the founders of the Soviet school of cinema artists. Thanks to him, all students knew that it was painters who were one of the main participants in the making of the film.
These ideas were developed and defended later by Bogdanov himself during his teaching career. In one of his works, the master wrote that painters in cinema create not only the background, following the instructions of the operator and director. Thanks to the excellent professional training immediately after receiving his education, the painter was able to actively join the rhythm of life at Mosfilm and began teaching at VGIK in 1944.
For forty years of work, the master has gone from an assistant to the head of the department of mastery of film and television artists. It is easy to feel the significance of the artist's creative contribution due to the fact that his creation always appears not in a direct, but in an indirect form. The meaning and significance of art, according to Bogdanov, is that the main thing is to comprehend and reveal the essence of the surrounding life.
The final work of the painter was the film 1990 "Purification". In the film based on the work of Andreev, about the life of the village priest Vasily, it is told about the acquisition of the true faith after many trials. The artist died in 1995, on September 20. His best sketches are filled with dynamics and sharpness, the fundamental incompleteness of the image form is noticeable. Bogdanov managed to overcome the border between static and dynamic, achieving his goal only by improving the non-pictorial elements of the form.
