Mermaid. Andersen G. Kh.

You are the fairy tale G. Kh. Andersen “The Little Mermaid”, the illustrations for which was performed by the Russian artist Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876 -1942). Bilibin’s fascination with old Russian art was reflected in his illustrations for Pushkin's fairy tales: “The Tale of King Saltan”, “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel”, “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish.”

In 1925, the artist arrived in France, Where he continued to develop his style, which has become famous abroad as a “russian style”. The French publishing house "Flammarion" has released several fairy tales with its illustrations, where color and black and white drawings are harmoniously combined. Bilibin hoped that “... finally the new Russian style would be created, quite individual and not tinsel.”

Children's books issued by the artist had a huge impact on the design culture of their time, and for many years the perception of Russian fairy tale It became largely Bilibinsky.

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