THE ARTISTIC PATH OF EVDOKIA ANUFRIEVA: THE ORIGINS AND TRANSFORMATION OF DEVELOPMENT
The author examined the main parts of the professional activity of a representative of the Soviet arts and crafts, an artist on fabrics of the 1st category, the first head of the art workshop of the Shchelkovo cotton mill Evdokia Mikhailovna Anufrieva (1904-1981). To date, the activities of this outstanding master of artistic design in the scientific space are not represented in the proper volume, although the variety of her “appeals” to primary sources in different years of her life makes it possible to characterize Anufrieva as a bright practitioner who studied applied art in many ways, who was not afraid of using various styles and global experiments in her work. On the basis of her works from different periods, the author analyzed an individual artistic path. The article provides detailed biographical information about E. M. Anufrieva, in the context of which the concepts of some of her works are analyzed. The article is illustrated with works from Russian and foreign private collections, most of which are published for the first time and are of interest to both specialists and a wide range of readers.