The original layout of the drawing from the magazine "Crocodile". Artist Yuri Fedorov.

The original layout of the drawing from the magazine "Crocodile". Artist Yuri Fedorov.
Size: 35, 5x28, 5 cm.

Soviet graphic artist, cartoonist, Illustrator. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR. As a young man, Yuri Fedorov left home: his father was killed in the war, and his mother worked at one of the Voronezh enterprises. Arrived from Voronezh to Moscow and entered the Moscow polygraphic Institute. The nineteen-year-old artist, one of the youngest at that time, began his career in great satire, but not anywhere, and in the famous "Crocodile" his first drawing was printed (#1,1949).

After graduating from the Institute, he moved to creative work: he was published in many Metropolitan publications, decorated dozens of books with his drawings in the publishing houses "Pravda" and "Soviet writer", and participated in major art exhibitions. I measured myself against unsettled life, lived where I had to, renting rooms according to ads.

The young artist immediately drew attention to his inventiveness, ability not only to come up with themes of satirical drawings, but also to find original forms, a lot of personnel compositions United by a common thought. In 1960, he drew on the cover of "Crocodile", hitting targets with arrows. They depict bureaucrats, bribe-takers, four-flusher, gossips, drunkards and thieves.

Fyodorov's drawings are always permeated with irony, their success is greatly facilitated by an equally ironic, elegant touch. His drawing is clear, finished, but never slick, does not carry the features of naturalism. The artist also managed to make drawings for children's books and, in particular, for the magazine "Funny pictures". For many years, he was a member of the editorial Board of this magazine.

Yuri Fedorov's creative path is illuminated by the popularity that has quickly come. The artist rose rapidly in the satirical sky, but, while still at the Zenith, unfortunately died early.