The theme of India in the creative work of Semyon Chuikov
The article is devoted to the work of the Soviet painter Semyon Chuikov, people's artist, academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. The author focuses on paintings by the artist dedicated to India. Unlike the most studied works on Kyrgyzstan, its people and nature, the Indian theme still has plenty of opportunities to explore the means of artistic expression and the development of a creative method of S.A. Chuikov. As a result of the analysis of works of different years in the context of the artist’s biography and worldview, the author of the article reveals the features of the picturesque-plastic structure of paintings, especially images and color. Particular attention is paid to the images of Indian people , their everyday life, as well as the motives of woman and mother, the parallelism of topics of motherhood and equality, and the democratism of the artist. Characteristic decisions in composition, plastic, as well as the artist’s desire for a large form, for a monumental generalized image are noted.